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1918 UK Foreign Sec Balfour War in Mespotamia should be
justified by securing water that would also
give it control of oil Balfour’s
statement prompted PM Lloyd George to call for UK to seize Ottoman Mosul
province
(Musings
On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern
Studies)
(Musings
On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1920 British force sent to put down 1920 Revolt in Diyala
1920 UK Cmdr in Iraq Gen Haldane ordered arrest of 4 leaders
of 1920 Revolt in Baghdad Word got out
Crowd gathered to protect them
leading to clashes with police and deaths 1 leader arrested Others escaped to
Karbala and Najaf
(Musings
On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The
1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
(Musings
On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1933 Interior Min Suleiman arrived in Mosul on news of
Assyrian massacres Had planes drop flyers
telling Assyrians nothing would
happen to them if they gave up to authorities
1933 Assyrians in Zakho and Sumail were attacked by Iraqi
army led by Gen Sidqi Fired on village then
divided women and children from men
and executed the men Found some men hiding amongst women Killed everyone Local
Kurds looted Sumail after massacre Police later called back army to kill
stragglers that had returned to Sumail 315 killed Iraqi govt considered
Assyrians foreigners and tools of British imperialism for their service in the
British Levies
(Musings
On Iraq review Imagining The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and
Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern
Studies)
1933 Arab Kurd Yazidi tribes looted Assyrian villages in
Alqosh
(Musings
On Iraq review The Tragedy of the
Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review State and Society in
Iraq)
1937 Army Chief of Staff Gen Sidqi leader of 1933 Assyrian
massacre and head of 1936 coup assassinated
in Mosul by pan-Arab rivals in
military PM Sulaiman ordered Mosul garrison cmdr Gen Umari to arrest officers
responsible but he refused
(Musings
On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Role of the
Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
(Musings
On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani,
The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
1987 Iran told UN that Resolution 598 only included Iraq’s
view of war
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military
Conflict)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle
for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes
back, June 1982-December 1986)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s
Triumph)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten
Fronts)
1990 Saddam ordered Republican Guard to plan for seizing
eastern Saudi Arabia
1991 US flew U2 spy plane over Iraq claiming it was for UN
inspectors
1992 U.N. Iraq Rapporteur went to Security Council about
Iraq draining southern marshes and new
counterinsurgency campaign against
rebels in south
(Musings
On Iraq How Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern
Marshes Of Iraq)
1992 UK France US condemned Iraq campaign to clear southern
marshes and warned of possible
consequences
1995 Saddam gave speech denouncing son-in-law Hussein Kamil
for defecting to Jordan Said he stole
millions and spied for the CIA
1995 Ali Hassan al-Majid issued statement saying Hussein Kamil
was a traitor for defecting to Jordan
1995 US brokered KDP-PUK ceasefire during civil war
(Musings
On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern
History)
2003 Gas and electricity shortages led to riots in Basra
city
2003 Association of Muslim Scholars condemned US violations
of mosques comparing them to Mongols
(Musings
On Iraq Spiritual Leader To Iraq’s Insurgency Harith Dhari Dies In Exile)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into
Occupied Iraq)
2003 CIA Dir Tenet issued statement that CIA stood by 2002
National Intel Estimate on Iraq
saying CIA
had solid intelligence on Iraq’s WMD and nuclear programs
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s
False Premise for War)
2004 Allawi govt announced ceasefire in 2nd
Battle of Najaf to open talks with Sadr
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings
On Iraq review Battle For The City Of
The Dead)
(Musings
On Iraq review US Marines in Battle An-Najaf August 20014)
2005 SCIRI’s Hakim announced idea for southern federal
region in Iraq SCIRI held march in Najaf
calling for federal region in
southern Iraq Had posters of Ayatolah Khomeini
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq
After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
(Musings
On Iraq history of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq)
2005 Salah al-Mutlaq said SCIRI’s call for a southern region
would turn Iraq over to Iran
2005 Dawa rejected SCIRI’s call for a southern federal
region in Iraq
2005 Bush said US had to stay the course in Iraq Said free
democratic Iraq in center of Middle East
would be blow to terrorism
(Musings
On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings
On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings
On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings
On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and
Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2005 Board of Supreme Audit found $1.27 bil in waste and
fraud in Defense Min contracts Deals made
without bids or approval from PM’s
office Ministry didn’t keep records of deals Were paid upfront in cash Went
through middlemen instead of buying directly from companies 43 of 89 contracts
went to Nair Jumaili who didn’t appear in contracts He got $759 mil Most of the
contracts were not for real deals but just to steal money Deals were brokered
by Ziad Qattan who had no experience with weapons deals He signed deal with
company with no military experience to provide equipment for Rapid Deployment
units Company owned by secretary of VP and adviser to Defense Minister
(Musings
On Iraq Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector
General for Iraq Reconstruction)
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk
Former US Anti-Graft Official)
2007 Police chief and ISCI governor of Qadisiya killed by an
EFP laid by Mahdi Army Sadr vs Hakim
rivalry
2007 Sahwa leader in Adhamiya wounded in IED attack by ISI 1st
Sahwa leader in Baghdad targeted
(Musings
On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)
2008 Diyala govt fired police chief for tensions with Sahwa Accused
police of sectarian attacks Fired
4,000 police from Sahwa Replaced
them with Badr men Arrested Sahwa leaders and got into gun battles with them
Sahwa went on strike in Feb PM Maliki refused to remove him
(Musings
On Iraq Another Female Bomber Strikes in Baquba as Controversies Emerge
During Diyala Security Crackdown)
(Musings
On Iraq Diyala Province Backgrounder)
2008 During Op Omens of Prosperity PM Maliki sent ISF into
Khanaqin dist Diyala Told Peshmerga
they had to withdraw Kurds refused
Maliki attempted to pressure Kurds and establish control over disputed areas
(Musings
On Iraq Cold War Between Baghdad and Kurds Turns Hot)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq
After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2008 PM Maliki’s private jet brought back 236 Iraqi refugees
from Egypt Part of Maliki’s
new refugee
policy to encourage people to return with improved security
(Musings
On Iraq Déjà Vu? Government Returns Refugees)
(Musings
On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)
(Musings
On Iraq January 2009 U.N. Report On Iraq Refugee Returns)
(Musings
On Iraq review Children of War,
Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2008 Defense Min said Iraqi forces could operate independently
by mid-09 without any US support
Didn’t happen
2008 Jordan’s King Abdullah II visited Baghdad 1st
Arab leader to come to Iraq since 03 invasion
2008 Report Sheikh Hayes of Awakening Said ISI demanded
goats be covered Claimed cucumbers were
male vegetables and women couldn’t
buy them Banned buying and selling ice cream because didn’t exist during time
of prophet Attacked and bombed places that sold women’s make-up
2009 PM Maliki claimed VP Abdul Mahdi turned over $6.8 mi
his bodyguards stole from bank
Supposed to turn over robbers
Didn’t happen
2010 Report State Dept struggled to get money for expanded
role after US military withdrawal
end of 2011 Sep supposed to take
over police training Consolidated 16 provincial reconstruction teams to 5
Needed $400 mil more than planned Never filled vacuum left by withdrawal
2010 Iraqi Chief of Staff Gen Zebari said ISF wouldn’t be
ready to defend Iraq until 2020
2010 KDP sued magazine for 500 mil dinars after editor
called for more press freedom
2014 IS attacked Jalawla, Diyala with suicide truck bomb and
12 suicide bombers
dressed in
Peshmerga uniforms Re-took area IS told workers at Mosul Dam to stay on their
job
(Musings
On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of
Martyrdom)
2014 US general said US air strike were limited and wouldn’t
change strategic situation in Iraq Said IS
would
probably move to areas where there were no airstrikes
(Musings
On Iraq review Airpower in the War Against ISIS)
2014 ISF claimed it took Wafa in Ramadi dist and Edheim in
Diyala
2014 Dawa’s Haidar Abadi named candidate for PM Premier
Maliki and State of Law members claimed
he wasn’t nominee
2015 Parliament approved PM Abadi’s reform program Included
corruption committee Ending
ethnosectarian quotas Dismissing
VPs and Dep PMs Pres Masum said reforms violated constitution
(Musings
On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With
Reidar Visser)
2015 MP on finance comm said 719 deputy ministers 6,000
director generals Cost 50-100
bil/dinars/month
2015 Baghdad Babil Dhi Qar Basra fired and retired hundreds
of officials as part of PM Abadi’s reforms
Were actually budget cuts
2015 Protesters stormed Babil council building demanding
better services
2015 KDP Yazidi leader Sesho said Yazidis wanted to be part
of KRG Said he trusted KDP and
Pres Barzani Said Sinjar should be
annexed so it could be protected KDP abandoned Sinjar in 2014 allowing IS
genocide of Yazidis
(Musings
On Iraq Kurdish Government Tries to Create New Narrative Of What Happened
To Iraq’s Yazidis)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with AUIS’s Christine van den Toorn on what happened to
Yazidis when IS invaded Sinjar)
2015 Report US didn’t have strategy or resources to defeat
IS in Iraq Obama unwilling to commit
resources Used conventional
military planning against IS insurgency US wanted to train and equip ISF Didn’t
have equipment for ISF Iraqis couldn’t absorb or maintain what it was given
because of lack of logistics Hadn’t used airstrikes effectively because of
strict rules of engagement and lack of ground targeters Only small group of
Iraqis could call in airstrikes Only deployed small force
2016 Report CENTCOM
official changed intel reports to make them more positive about war vs
IS Congress blamed senior intel officers
2016 Report Military
intel officer said IS laundered money and invested in regular businesses in
Iraq like car dealerships shopping malls farms hospitals Manipulated
Central Bank of Iraq dollar auction Bought and sold medicine Used middlemen who
are regular businessmen
2016 Report Jul-Aug
Iraq reached deals with BP Shell Lukoil to restart investments in oil fields
to boost oil production 2015 Iraq asked oil companies to cut investment
due to economic crisis caused by IS Couldn’t pay companies for work
2016 Report Dhuluiya
police in Salahaddin under orders from Samarra Ops Command started
exiling IS families 56 families deported for 7 yrs
2017 IS still smuggling oil and refined products Had 1600
makeshift refineries in north Iraq 2014
IS seized large oil fields in Iraq
and Syria US Op Tidal Wave II targeted IS oil industry Was largely successful
2014 IS exporting oil from Ajeel field Aug Coalition airstrikes hit pumping
station at field Limited use Mar 2015 Hashd took Ajeel field IS set fire to 9
wells as retreated Oct 2016 Peshmerga and ISF took Qayara oil field in Ninewa
IS set fire to 20 oil wells Burned for 8 months Aug 2016-Jul 2017 IS attacked
Bai Hassan field in Kirkuk and Ajeel to deny it to govt Airstrikes forced IS to
use small refineries and sell to locals
2017 Sec of State Tillerson called KRG Pres Barzani Asked
him to postpone KRG independence
referendum
2018 Women’s protest in support of demands of demonstrators
for jobs and services in Basra
2020 Report IS rebuilding in northern Diyala Southeastern
Salahaddin Southern Kirkuk Cut off
roads Set up camps Aimed to take
over rural areas 185-200 villages abandoned due to IS Has large weapons market
Includes disputed territory where conflicts over who has security authority
over them IS earned $2.5-$3 mil/mo from royalties from companies
2021 Daquq Mayor in Kirkuk said 45 villages empty after army
pushed Peshmerga out of area in
Oct 2017 Said being used by IS
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