1920 US protested to UK about
San Remo agreement that divided up Iraq’s oil
between
UK and France saying London promised open door policy in region
1941 Soviet Union recognized PM Gaylani’s
govt
1941 British reinforcements from Palestine and Transjordan
attacked by a German
bomber
1941 German air force liaison officer killed while trying to
land in Baghdad during dog
fight
between Iraqi and British fighter planes
1941 PM Gaylani told German ambassador to Turkey made offer
to be middleman with
England
Gaylani feared Ankara would intervene in Iraq
1948 Railway strike against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1969 Dispute over Shatt al-Arab discussed at UN after Iran
protested Iraq expelling
10,000
Iranians
1982 Iran drove Iraqi forces out of Susangerd area,
Iran-Iraq War
1986 Iraq launched operation to seize Mehran, Iran 1st
offensive since 1983 Was in
response to
losing Fao Peninsula
1986 US intel report Iraq was talking with China to build a
covert nuclear power plant
1990 Italy said it seized parts headed for Iraq to make a
130 ft long supergun
1990 Iraqi govt extended amnesty for Iraqi fighters until
June
1991 Baghdad took journalists to mass grave with 100 bodies
it claims were killed
by Iranians
and Shiite rebels in southern Iraq
1996 Sec of State Albright interviewed on 60 Minutes Was
asked whether 500,000
Iraqi
children dying as a result of sanctions was worth it Albright said yes
2003 Paul Bremer arrived in Iraq to take over new CPA
2003 Only 4000 Iraqi police on duty in Baghdad to cover 7
mil inhabitants
2003 UK ForSec Straw said that Coalition failed to restore
order in Baghdad
2003 Report on INC defector ex-nuke scientist Hamza Saddam’s
son-in-law Kamal
called Hamza
a liar
2003 Report 1998 ex-nuke scientist Hamza and former UN
inspector Albright tried to get
book published on Iraq’s nuke
program Said Iraq failed to build bomb Not published
2003 Report 2000 ex-nuke scientist Hamza got book published
Saddam’s Bombmaker
claiming
Iraq was closer to building a bomb than anyone knew
2004 1800 new pictures of prison abuse at Abu Ghraib
released
2004 Rumsfeld told Senate US interrogation methods used in
Iraq were legal and
cleared by
Pentagon lawyers
2006 Bush invited 10 former Secretaries of State and Defense
to ask them opinions
about Iraq
war
2008 Sadr issued another ceasefire to try to stop govt
offensive against Mahdi Army
2008 United Iraqi Alliance and Sadrists agreed not to attack
each other politically after
ceasefire
announced
2009 Presidential council vetoed 2009 budget
2009 Tribal march in Mosul for Hadbaa list and against
Peshmerga and Asayesh
presence in province
2009 Mass grave in Qadisiyah found with 100 Kurds killed
during Anfal campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
2010 US general warned Sadrists carrying out attacks
extortion intimidation in southern
Iraq
2011 Parliament elected 3 VPs after 2010 elections Mahdi
Hashemi and Khuzai
2013 Iraqi paper got memo showing Maliki okayed purchase of
fake bomb detectors
2013 Supreme Council and Fadhila agreed to form coalition in
7 new provincial
govts in
south
2015 ISCI accused Kataib Hezbollah of attacking its offices
in Basra Baghdad and
other
provinces
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