[ 8 January 1925 ]
On 8 January 1925, RAF headquarters in Baghdad, ordered No 30 Squadron RAF to bomb and machine gun the grazing sheep flocks of the nomadic Jaff who inhabited the Kurdish areas of Iraq and Iran.
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