Iraq research

Iraq

4500 BC – Ancient Sumarian texts. Mesopotamia Iraq. Sumerians. Care2 news.

4100-3200 BC – In Sumer, Mesopotamia now southern Iraq. Betweeen the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. History's first books appeared. 100,000 books were destroyed in Sumer. Military conflict. Ancient books were revealed by archeology. Wars and fires. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

2500 BC – Iraq 3500 to 2500 BC. The Sumerians Mesopotamia. The land of Assyria, the bronze age. Timemaps. History atlas.

2100-1781 BC - 3^rd millenium BC a temple at Nippur in south east Iraq. Filled with clay tablets under the third Dynasty of Ur. 2100 BC Sumer and Akkad. Archives on clay tablets. Archives at Mari on the Euphrates river 20,000 tablets of the Assyrian rule 1813-1781 BC. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).

1792-1750 BC – Iraqi library of Babylonia. King Hammurabi looted the archives and took them to his palace library. Ancient Akkadian .. in Cuneifern. Sumerian language learning. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

1500 BC – The Kingdom of Elam, the Bronze age. Mesopotamia. Timemaps. History atlas.

880 BC – Nimrud rises to power as the capital of Assyria. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK)

732 BC – Assyrians in Iraq were terrorists. Temple of Nineveh. Assyrians spoke a language called Akkadian, its extinct, but similar to Arabic. The Assyrians attacked Israel in 732 BC. (The harbinger. Jonathan Cahn (c)2011 US).

717-706 BC – Khorsabad is an ancient Assyrian capital, near Mosul. Palace built in 717 and 706 BC. Asyrian King Sargon II. French excavations in the mid 1800s. Chicago US excavations in the 1930s. Iraq Baghdad, The US, France and ISIS. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).

700 BC – Nineveh was established as the Assyrian capital. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

700 BC – Ninevah ancient Assyria. 900 to 600 BC Assyrian Kings. Assyrian emperor Sennacherib 700 BC. At one point Ninevah was the largest city in the world. (National geogaphic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).

689-612 BC – 689 BC Sennacherib troops seized Baghdad. His grandson, Asurbanigal founded a library which was destroyed in 612 BC. Thousands of tablets were stolen or destroyed. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

645 BC – Assyrian. Ashurbanipal palace Nineveh. Pinterest. 7 Nov 2015.

0000 Jesus Christ was born and lived.

4^th century – Mar Behnan monastery and a Christian saint, a holy site. 1800s. Catholic monks, it fell to ISIS in March. (Natonal geographiuc. Andrew Curry 5 oct 2015).

1258 – Some books can be found on the shelves of used bookstores. The Mongoli arrived during their conquest of cental Asia. Followers of Genghis Khan destroyed Islamic book repositories in 1258 the Mongols burned all 36 public libraries in the city of Baghdad. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).

1801 – The Saud Wahhabi armies destroyed the shrine of Hussein in Karbula Iraq. Shiites were massacred by the thousands. The destruction of venerated tombs and saint shrines. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

1840 – Nimrod was the first Assyrian capital founded 3,200 years ago. It was excavated in 1840 by the UK. They took stone sculptures to New York and London. Some of the city in underground and near Mosul. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 oct 2015).

1921 – Mosul was built over Ninevah. ISIS destroyed it in 2014. Mosul museum. Nineveh and the ancient Nirgal gate. Mosul library was looted. Centuries old manusciups were stolen and sold on the black market. Mosul was burned in Dec 2014 by ISIS. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).

1927 – Oil was discovered in Iraq by American geologists. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

1937-2006 – Iraqi archeologist Muzahim Mahmud in 1988. Royal tomnbs. Iraq of Saddam Hussein ran from 1937 to 2006. Saddam fell and the national museum was looted. Nimrud treasures were stolen. 2003. Iraq's missing antiquities, museum boxes with seals intact. Nimrud treasures in Iraq. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

28 April 1937 – Saddam Hussein was born. Iraq timeline. History timelines.

1943 – Baath party, the movement of Arab resistance was formed in Damascus Syria by Michel Aflaq and Sala al Din Bitar. They supported the Rashid Ali pro German regime in Iraq, which set up a fascist background to the party.

14 Aug 1951 – Zagros in northern Iraq, the Shanider cave. Kurdish in 1951. Shanider cave, artifacts and bones, a graveyard with 28 modern humans. 8 neanderthal skeletons were unearthed, a few neanderthal graveswere inside the cave. Northern Iraq, some people were killed by falling rocks from the cave roof. Ceiling collapse, rockfall. An earthquake. Also on 14 Aug 1951 another earthquake happened there. (Apocalypse. Amos Nur. (c)2008 US).

1964 – Pres Abdul Salam Aref of Iraq asked Nasser of Egypt to pardon Qutb and invited him to Iraq. Qutb declined. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

July 1972 – Sadat expelled the Russians from Egypt. Moscow was still able to strengthen ties with Syria and Iraq. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

8 Aug 1979 – Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executed 22 political opponents. (HistoryOrb.com).

22 Sept 1980 – Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran. The war lasted for eight years. There were dozens of suicide attacks. More than one million people died on each side. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

15 March 1981 – The Iraqi nuclear plant was reduced to rubble. French construction staff. Nine people were killed. It was attacked by Israel. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

1982 – Four Arab countries account for more than 70% of Soviet arms exports to the Middle East region. With Iraq and Syria far in the lead.

1985 - 3^rd century BC it was on the outskirts of the Roman empire. Hatra became a UNESCO world heritage site in 1985. Destruction of Hatra by ISIS in Iraq. Irana Bokova. In 2014 Hatra was invaded by ISIS. April 2015 the destruction of Hatra Iraq. (5 Oct 2015. National geographic. Andrew Curry).

April 1988 – Arms dealers gathered at the Palestine Meridian hotel in Baghdad Iraq. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

2 Aug 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait. So the US sent troops to Saudi Arabia. The Gulf war. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

2 Aug 1990 – Iraq’s Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

27 Feb 1991 – The Gulf war ends after Iraqi troops, Kuwait is retaken by the US. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 27 Feb 2015).

20 Aug 2002 – Abu Nidal died in mysterious circumstances in Iraq. Guardian UK 20 Aug 2002.

2003 – Iraqi oil production nearly ceased after its conquest in 2003. The market for foreign imports contracted.

2003-2004 – There were between 10,000 to 100,000 civilian casualties in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of US troops, contractors and bureaucrats. (Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Edward Miguel (c)2008 US).

March 2003 – The US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Violent looting of cultural treasures. Destruction of artifacts and documents in Iraqi museums in Baghdad. Only a few days after US troops invaded Iraq, almost all major academic libraries had been torched and pillaged. Nearly every archeolological site in the southern desert was systematically plundered. (Archives power. Randall C Jimeson (c)2009 US)

April 2003 – US troops entered the Iraqi city of Mosul for the Iraq war. The ancient city of Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Assyria as Iraq. In 732 BC Assyrians invaded Israel. See Isaiah. (The Harbinger. Jonathan Cahn (c)2011 US).

April 2003 – In Iraq most cultural sites were looted and burned. In mid April 2003 the National library and archives, was a national disaster. Looting and destruction of cultural property. Archives and ancient manuscipts at cultural sites. Loss of irreplacable cultural materials. The cultural heritage of the people of Iraq. Archeological theft in Baghdad. Looting of archival treasures. (Archives power. Randall C Jimeson (c)2009 US).

April 2003 – Trafficking in archeological artifacts from archeological sites in Iraq. Private collectors were buying them. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

April 2003 – Mosul Iraq. The ancient city of Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire in Iraq. Mosul. Tigris and Khosr rivers. Kouyunjik and Nabi Yunus. Ninevah. (the Harbinger. Jonathan Cahn (c)2011 US).

April May 2003 – Baghdad in May 2003 after US troops seized the city, a form of cultural destruction. Vandals and looters. Museums and libraries were linked to the Baghdad power structue. They burned to the ground. On 12 April 2003 looting of Baghdad's archeological museum. 30 objects of great value and 14,000 lesser objects were stolen. The gallery was destroyed. (A universal history of the destuction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

14 April 2003 – A million books in Iraq's National library were burned. The national archives with ten million registries from the Republican and Ottoman periods were also burned. The library of the university of Baghdad and the Awqaf library. University's all over Iraq. In Basra the museum of natural history was burned, the central public library and Islamic library. In Mosul the museum library, manuscripts and texts. In Tikrit the museum was looted. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

14 May 2003 – Iraq appealed for archeologists to excavate mass graves. Michael Jansen. The Irish Times Dublin.

17 Sept 2003 – Scott Peterson. How Wahhabis fan Iraqi insurgency. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke (c)2011).

14 Dec 2003 – Saddam Hussein in Tikrit. Iraq timeline. History timelines.

14 Dec 2003 – Saddam Hussein was pulled from a small hiding place in the village of al Auda. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

2004 – The highest numbers of foreign militants in Iraq, up to two thirds, came from Saudi Arabia, most entered Iraq through Syria. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

31 March 2004 – Four private contractors working for American company were ambushed in Falluja, lynched, dragged through the streets and mutilated. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

22 Oct 2004 – Mass graves in Iraq. Eamon Delaney. The Irish Times Dublin.

7 Nov 2004 – The US offensive into Falluja Iraq began. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011)

17 Dec 2004 – Thomas E Ricks. General, Iraqi insurgents directed from Syria. Washington Post.

8 June 2005 – Christopher Drew. Tresha Mabile. In the desert, evidence for case against Saddam, at burial site US team aids Iraqi court. Int Herald Tribune.

2006 – Thomas E Ricks. Fiasco. The American military adventure in Iraq. The Praeger press New York.

2006 – Robert D Kaplan. Imperial grunt. On the ground with the American military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and beyond. Vintage books New York.

30 Nov 2006 – Saddam’s forces filled mass graves with children. MG.CO.ZA Iraqi troops shot mothers and children in the head, then dumped them into mass graves by the score.

1 Dec 2006 – Saddam’s forces filled mass graves with children. Kurdish. Iraqi troops gunned down mothers and children then bulldozed them into mass graves.

5 Dec 2006 – John F Burns. Accounts of atrocities aired at Saddam’s trial. Children were herded into mass graves. Int Herald tribune.

17 July 2007 – Iraqi morgues resort to mass graves as bodies pile up in Diyala. Ali Ahmed. Global Info Network New York.

10 Sept 2007 – The Iraqi foreign ministry said that starting on 10 Sept 2007 Syria will require visas for Iraqi’s coming to Syria for economic trade or education. AP. Syrian foreign minister Walid al Moualem told Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari by phone on 30 Aug 2007. (Stratfor intel summary 31 Aug 2007).

2008 – A universal history of the destruction of books. Northern Iraq. Fernando Baez.

20 Feb 2010 – Mass graves contain the remains of 272 Kurdish children. Soma Digest Suleimanieh Iraq. Anfal campaign.

20 Feb 2010 – Mass graves, children. Soma digest Iraq. Three mass graves contain the remains of 272 Kurdish children. Dubiz town Kirkuk. Children were victims of genocide. The Anfal campaign in 1988.

28 Feb 2010 – Dinosaur media anvol. Hundreds of children. Three mass graves in Dibuz Kirkuk. Hundreds of bodies of innocent children.

2011 – Fuel on fire. Oil and politics in occupied Iraq. Greg Muttit.

16 Feb 2013 – Mass graves of ISIL victims. Discovered in Iraq Mawtani. Two mass graves with 50 victims, Yazidi missing.

15 May 2013 – An upsurge in violence in Iraq left 389 people dead over 3 days. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).

30 Sept 2013 – 54 people were killed by a series of car bombs in Baghdad Iraq. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 30 Sept 2015).

2014 – More than 3.2 million people displaced in Iraq since 2014. UN. (Twitter. Press TV. 17 Oct 2015).

June 2014 – AEI. ISIS seized $400 million from Mosul bank. ISIS smuggles its oil to market in southern Turkey. Black market oil trading.

June 2014 – ISIS captured Mosul. $US429 million was looted from Mosul’s central bank. Bank robbery. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are accused of funding ISIS.

15 June 2014 – ISIS claims massacre of 1,700 Iraqi soldiers. Time. Mass graves.

19 June 2014 – Who finances ISIS? Business Mosul. ISIS is the richest terrorist organisation in the world.

10 Aug 2014 – Report. ISIS terrorists bury women and children alive in mass graves. Yazidi. Getty images.

10 Aug 2014 – Sinjar, hundreds of Yazidi found in ISIS mass graves. Zero hedge.com Victims, women and children buried alive in scattered mass graves.

10 Aug 2014 – Iraqi militia execute 500 people, some are buried alive. Sky news. Jihadists bury women and children alive im scattered mass graves.

10 Aug 2014 – Yazidi women and children were buried alive in mass graves in Sinjar by ISIS. Independent Sentinel.

11 Aug 2014 – Yazidi mass graves found in northern Iraq. Al Arabiya. Buried alive in Sinjar.

12 Aug 2014 – ISIS world’s scariest terorist group, also its richest.Yahoo finance.

14 Aug 2014 – Daily Star beirut Lebanon. ISIS seize control of new weapon, wheat.

19 Aug 2014 – ISIS atrocities against Yazisi’s mass graves. Inquisitr.com Women and Children ISIS was targeting for the mass graves being dug.

24 Aug 2014 - $2 million day in oil smuggled out of Iraq and Syria by ISIL. Gulf news UAE.

28 Sept 2014 – ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Andreas Bicker. ISIS is the richest terrorist group in the world. Charles Lister. Gunter Meyer. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and UAE. Oil fields in northern Syria. Looting the central bank of Mosul. Cathy Burke. (Bizshifts).

28 Sept 2014 – ISIS is the richest, $2 billion terror based financial, rivals Wall street. Islamic state of Iraq and Levant. Extortion, crime and oil. Martin Chulov. $2 billion Jihadist in Iraq and Syria. Michael Knight. Oil refineries and trafficking. Howard J Shatz. Oil fields in Iraq and Syria. (Bizshifts).

2 Oct 2014 – Scott Bennett. CIA, Swiss banks fund ISIS. Shell game.

17 Oct 2014 – Avi Lipkin. Saudi Arabia finances ISIS. YouTube. The Manning report.

24 Oct 2014 – Cutting off ISIS cash flows. Brookings institute. ISIS main source of finance is derived from its control of oil.

25 Oct 2014 – ISIL, Islamic State oil fuels war for $1 million a day. The Australian. John Lyons. Jerusalem Israel.

27 Oct 2014 – US plans to attack ISIS finances. KGNS.

5 Nov 2014 – Iran’s leader raps Turkey for looting Iraqs oil by buying oil from ISIL. Fars news agency.

13 Nov 2014 – SNC LAVALIN KENTZ corp inks 3 year $110 million oil contract in Iraq.

16 Dec 2014 – 150 women were executed after refusing to marrry ISIS militants. Anadolu agency. Fallujah. Bodies found in mass graves.

22 Dec 2014 – Girls dragged into sex slavery and sold for $25. Rape and brutality suffered by Yazidi’s, jihadists. Anthony Loyd. Shariya Iraq. The Times London UK. Amnesty int. Escape from hell. Sex slavery and Islam in Iraq.

23 Dec 2014 – Teen avoids ISIS sex slavery. The Times London UK. Amnesty int. 12 years old, sold and raped into sex slavery.

23 Dec 2014 – Sex slavery ISIL. FARS news agency Tehran. Iraqi women and girls raped into sex slavery by the ISIL terrorists.

23 Dec 2014 – Yazidi women are tortured in sex slavery and ISIS captivity. Amnesty int. Daily news Egypt.

23 Dec 2014 – Sex slavery ISIL. Al jazeera America. Women and girls from Iraq’s Yazidi minority are raped into sex slavery by the Islamic state.

23 Dec 2014 – Two mass graves have been found, victims executed by ISIS in Saadiya in Diyala. Iraqi news agency.

29 Dec 2014 – Yazidi women and sex slavery. The Kurdish globe. Erbil Iraq, northern Iraq and victims of sex slavery.

30 Dec 2014 – Mass graves of Ayezidein have been found in Sinjar. National Iraqi new agency. Bagdad. Nine mass graves of victims of Ayezidein victims of ISIS.

2015 – The rise of the Islamic state. ISIS and the Sunni. Patrick Cockburn.

5 Jan 2015 – The ISIS economy. FT.com Mosul.

23 Jan 2015 – UK warns of long battle with Daesh. Gulf news. London. US led coalition, will take two years to expel Daesh from Iraq.

28 Jan 2015 – Jordan will release an Iraqi prisoner, if ISIS returns a pilot from Jordan. Al Arabiya news.

31 Jan 2015 – IS militants seize 15 oil workers in northern Iraq. Xinhua news agency.

2 Feb 2015 – Mass graves of Yazidi have been found. Shot and slaughered by ISIS. Arutz sheva Israel.

2 Feb 2015 – ISIS Yazidi mass grave, with bodies of children, women and men. IBTimes UK. Kurdish forces foud yet another mass grave, with the remians of 25 Yazidis.

3 Feb 2015 – Another Yazidi mass grave found near Sinjar. Bas news. 20 Kurdish Yazidi children, youths and seniors, several mass graves found.

7 Feb 2015 – Yazidi mass graves found. Arutz Sheva Israel. Mass rapes and torture, mass executions by ISIS.

8 Feb 2015 – Yezidi mass graves found in Zumar following ISIS withdrawl. Aranews. Erbil Kurdish skulls of six children and the bodies of two women found.

15 Feb 2015 – Yazidi mass grave. Those who did this are not human. Al Jazeera America. Victims of ISIS have been found in a mass grave, 36 bodies.

18 Feb 2015 – ISIS are trafficking human organs. FARS news agency Tehran Iran. Mass graves with 10 to 20 bodies each, with incisions on their backs. Some of the bodies are mutilated and body parts are missing. Missing organs of bodies.

19 Feb 2015 – ISIS is selling the human organs of slain people to finance. Zee news. ISIS is the richest terorist organisaton ever. (I saw pictures of them harvesting organs of live people).

19 Feb 2015 – ISIS harvests body parts for money. Daily Mail Glasgow Scotland. Bodies have been found in mass graves, with surgical incisions and lacking body parts and organs missing.

27 Feb 2015 – Digital Journal. Brett Wilkins. A new UN report says Islamic State may be committing genocide.

28 June 2015 – Threat to Kiwis (New Zealand troops) in Iraq, after a Commander was killed. Commander at Camp Taji was killed in an ambush at his home. Stuff.co.nz.

24 July 2015 – The mosque of prophet Yunus in Mosul. Relates to Jonah. ISIS destroyed it. Iraqi site built on top of a Christian churc,h built on the Assyrian city of Nineveh. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).

17 Sept 2015 – SNC Lavalin group inc. Iraq contract worth $500 million. Exxon mobil corp. Exxon west Qurna oil field in Iraq. (Financial Post. Jonathan Ratner).

19 Sept 2015 – Turkish jets hit Kurdish camps in Iraq. More than 55 people were killed. (Reuters. Twitter. Anonymous uncensored).

Oct 2015 – WHO cholera outbreak in Iraq. Contaminated food and water. Biowatch.

7 Nov 2015 – Cholera outbreak spreads from Iraq to other countries, fears of a region wide epidemic. (RT. Twitter).

10 Nov 2015 – Disaster in Iraq and Iran. 70 people are dead from flooding. Fear of cholera worsening in Iraq. G+ Gary Walton. The bog wobble.

14 Nov 2015 – ISIS is funded by the US Federal reserve as $13 billion goes missing in Iraq. Examiner. G+. Griffin Walker.