LESSONS ENCOUNTERED

Iraq Timeline
2005 June Massoud Barzani is selected as the president of the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
2005 August The draft version of the new constitution is accepted by
Shiite and Kurdish negotiators. Sunni representatives refuse.
2005 October 15 Iraqi citizens vote for new constitution that will create
Islamic federal democracy. The new constitution is approved.
2005 December First government and parliamentary elections take place
since allied invasion.
Civil Unrest
2006 January– UN estimates that more than 34,000 civilians killed in
December violence in 2006, more than three times official Iraqi
death toll estimates.
2006 February 22 Al-Askari Mosque in Samarra, one of the most important
Shiite mosques in the world, is bombed. That event
unleashes a wave of civil unrest and violence throughout
the country.
2006 April 22 President Talabani forms new government with Shiite
compromise candidate Nouri al-Maliki to end political
stalemate. Maliki becomes prime minister.
2006 May and June UN reports that more than 100 civilians are killed each
day.
2006 June 7 U.S. airstrike kills al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi.
2006 November Iraq and Syria reestablish full diplomatic relations. Car
bombings in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in
Baghdad result in one of the deadliest attacks in Baghdad
since 2003.
2006 November 5 Saddam is sentenced to death by hanging.
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