Difficult Situations In Postwar Areas Of Iraq

As of March 2019 4,188,780 displaced (IDPs) Iraqis had returned home. That is a priority of the government, but it has no rebuilding or reconciliation policy to help these people. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) did a survey of the areas people are going back to. It surveyed 1,547 locations across eight provinces in February 2019. The situation in home areas is important because the more difficulties there the less likely IDPs are to go back.

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This Day In Iraqi History - May 22

1915 City of Najaf rose up for 3 days against Ottomans in middle of British invasion of Iraq

1919 Sheikh Mohmoud Barzanji started rebellion against British in Sulaymaniya

1941 Iraq attempt to recapture Fallujah failed

(Musings On Iraq article on 1941 Battle of Fallujah)

1941 Regent of Iraq along with Nuri al-Said arrived at British base at Habaniya, Anbar Said sent letter to

Iraqi commander in Ramadi who agreed to switch sides

(Musings On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

1948 Iraqi army defeated in Battle of Gesher and retreated to West Bank in 1^st Arab-Israeli War

1975 PUK formed when Maosit Komala led by Nirshurwan Mustafa social democratic Bezutnawa

led by Ali Askari and KDP’s Talabani joined

(Musings On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1979 Start of 9 days of protests against Bakr govt led by Dawa

1981 Iraq counterattack against Iran Op Imam Ali in Susangard Khuzistan failed

1984 Reagan briefed on study that said there should be a military embargo on both Iran and Iraq Reagan

agreed to policy

1986 US Amb to Iraq asked Eximbank to open up new lines of credit to Iraq to help it through Iran-Iraq

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 book review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Saddam Tapes)

2003 UN Res 1483 made US and England occupying powers of Iraq and ended sanctions on Iraq Also

created Development Fund for Iraq to help pay for rebuilding using oil revenue

2003 Bremer told Bush Iraq needed new constitution then elections then sovereignty returned

2003 CPA and official from Def Sec Rumsfeld’s office drafted CPA Order 2 to disband Iraq’s military

2003 Bremer told Bush about CPA’s plan to disband Iraqi military

2003 Story CIA started internal review of its pre-war Iraq intelligence

2004 Neocon supporters of INC’s Chalabi told NatlSecAdv Rice that US needed to stop harassing him

Came after US forces raided Chalabi’s house claiming he had passed intel to Iran

(Musings On Iraq book review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)

(Musings On Iraq book review America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)

2004 INC met with Nat Sec Adv Rice complaining US had abandoned Chalabi

2005 Joint US-Iraqi operation started to clear Abu Ghraib in west Baghdad

2005 Sadr sent delegation to meet Sunni clerics in an attempt to stop sectarian violence

2006 Bush said Iraq at a turning point and heading in right direction towards democracy Said PM Maliki

govt turning point for Middle East

(Musings On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)

2006 Report US failure to adequately plan for Iraqi police led to militia and criminal take over 2004

US military took over police training and still inadequate Gen Eaton put in charge of effort in March 2004 and his budget was cut 20% Said that showed not priority in Washington Summer 2005 Gen Petraeus took over program and claimed he began meaningful reforms Audit found 5,000 Iraqi police had criminal records including taking part in insurgency Pre-war Bush admin thought Iraqi police not an issue and rejected Justice Dept plan to use 1000s of police advisers US initially hoped Basra police would be early success because back on duty in 03 and no insurgency but quickly taken over by gangs political parties militias Politicians appointed police chiefs in Basra who hired friends relatives tribesmen Came to be dominated by Badr and Mahdi Army Basra police carrying out sectarian violence and enforcing religious rules of militias Demanding kickbacks to join force Helping smugglers Summer 05 Basra police chief Gen Sawadi said he didn’t trust his own force and couldn’t control them Interior Ministry tried to reform Basra police but failed Started with Internal Affairs which turned into crime ring Trials failed against corrupt officers British Gen Mackay warned that unless Coalition regulated Iraqi police commandos they would become personal army for Interior Ministry Former Interior Minister Nakib warned Sec Def Rumsfeld in April 2005 that Shiite parties were going to take over commandos with their militias Former Interior Minister Jabr denied any abuses by police and blamed other ministries Jabr let his Badr Brigade take over police and commandos US military played down sectarian killings and abuses by commandos

(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)  

(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)

(Musings On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)

2006 Report corruption endemic in Iraq Transportation Min bought planes 2 for $3 mil each that should

have been less than $1 mil

(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen on corruption in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)

2006 Defense Min made $1 bil in questionable arms purchases Interior Min had at least 1100 ghost

employees costing $1.3 mil a month

2006 Report of 3000 corruption cases only 780 went to court only few dozen got verdict

2006 Of 40 corruption cases against high ranking Iraqi officials only 1 got verdict for Interior Ministry

official

2011 Red Cross interviewed people tortured by ISF at Camp Honor in Baghdad

2013 Pres Barzani attacked PYD for arresting KDP affiliated group in Syria

2014 KRG provincial election results released Gorran won most seats in Sulaymaniya

2014 Oil Ministry warned potential buyers not to buy 1^st shipment of independent KRG oil

2014 Mutahidun and Sadrists rejected 3^rd term for PM Maliki

2015 Joint Chiefs Head Gen Dempsey said would take 3 years or more to defeat IS

2016 PM Abadi announced start of attack upon Fallujah

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Postwar Business Situation In Mosul

(Mosul Eye)

Mosul was one of the most heavily damaged cities in Iraq after it was liberated in 2017. The business sector is trying to revive itself but facing major difficulties. That includes the aftermath of the fighting, spotty services, high costs, the lack of credit, and trying to rebuild markets.

This Day In Iraqi History - May 21

1847 Treaty of Arzurum tried to set border between Ottoman Empire and Persia Gave Sulaymaniya

to Ottomans Shatt al-Arab to Persia Set up commission to demarcate border between Ottomans and Persia but never finished

(Musings On Iraq book review An Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq)

1919 UK PM George abrogated Long-Berenger UK-French oil deal due to disagreement

with France over Iraq-Syrian border George wanted Iraq to extend to Mediterranean

(Musings On Iraq book review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)

1924 Turkey told Constantinople Conference Assyrians should return to Turkey

(Musings On Iraq book review of The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review State and Society in Iraq)

1928 British official said Iraqi provincial administrators picked who would be elected to parliament

1941 Iraqis launched counterattack attempting to retake Fallujah from British Entered town

(Musings On Iraq article on 1941 Battle of Fallujah)

1941 German planes bombed UK air base at Habaniya for a second day

1941 Iraq launched raids into Basra city suburbs but failed

(Musings On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

1970 Pres Bakr issued Agrarian Reform Law to increase living conditions for peasants and increase farm

production

1974 UN Sec Gen said Iran and Iraq agreed to withdraw forces and open talks over border disputes

1981 Iran Op Imam Ali launched to eliminate Iraqi threat to Susangard in Khuzistan

1982 Iranian Op Bait al-Moqaddas Broke through Iraqi defenses around Khorramshahr Iraqi forces

panicked and started to flee Only 40% made it back to Iraq Iran captured 12,000 prisoners 2000 prisoners summarily executed by Iran

(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 book review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)

Musings On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982

1987 2^nd phase of govt collectivization program started to destroy Kurdish towns and force people

into govt run villages

(Musings On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1991 Kuwait asked for half of Iraq’s oil earnings as reparation for invasion

1999 UN Res 1242 renewed Oil For Food Program for 6^th months

2002 Gen Franks lied to press saying he had no Iraq war plans and had not been asked to make any Franks

had been working on war plans since Nov 2001

(Musings On Iraq book review of Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)

2003 Dep Sec Def Wolfowitz ordered army to help CPA with staff and contracting because CPA

undermanned

2003 Report CIA believed 3 trailers found in Iraq were mobile WMD labs Sec State Powell talked about in

UN speech

2003 Report that US showed picture of trailers to Iraqi in Germany known as CURVEBALL who confirmed

they were WMD labs

(Musings On Iraq article on how CURVEBALL influenced US intel on Iraq’s WMD)

(Musings On Iraq articles on the CURVEBALL story)

2004 CPA set up group to integrate militias into ISF Never happened

2006 Report Iran thought to have trained 40,000 militia in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)

2006 Report US failed to adequately plan to rebuild Iraqi police After invasion went through 3 failed plans

By 2004 only sent 500 police advisers for all of Iraq

(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)  

(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)

2008 CENTCOM commander Gen Dempsey said ISI at its weakest point in Iraq

2008 US commander for northern Iraq said attacks in Mosul down 85% after Mother of Two Springs op

there

2008 Pres Talabani said Iraq would be able to handle its own security without help of US after 2008

2008 Female suicide bomber hit Sahwa HQ in Anbar

(Musings On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)

2010 Reports that both Iran and US supported 2^nd term for PM Maliki

2012 KRG announced energy deals with Turkey Baghdad warned KRG it could not sign independent oil            deals with Turkey

2012 Oil Min Shahristani ordered ministry to stop petrol deliveries to KRG Would later deny he gave order

2013 Sheikh Hayes threatened to tear down protest tents in Ramadi if didn’t disperse after attacks on ISF

and kidnappings

2013 KRG said it wanted to build a second independent oil pipeline to Turkey

2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq blamed US and PM Abadi for fall of Ramadi Claimed US had kept Hashd out Hashd

had been in Anbar for months

(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)

(Musings On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq) 

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Did The US Detect A Credible Threat From Iran Or React To Iran Preparing For US Attack?

President Trump and National Security Adviser Bolton (Getty Images)

Tensions in Iraq dramatically increased on May 15 when the State Department announced it was pulling out all non-essential personnel from its embassy in Baghdad and consulate in Irbil and the U.S. military was going on high alert in response to what it called a credible threat from Iran. That led Germany, Holland and Slovenia to suspend its training of the Iraqi and Kurdish forces, and Exxon to begin pulling out its staff from Basra. This came after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an unexpected visit to Baghdad where he told Prime Minister Adil Mahdi that Iran was making dangerous moves in the region. The U.S. then sent an aircraft carrier group and a B-52 bomber squadron to the Persian Gulf.

This Day In Iraqi History - May 20

1941 German planes attacked British Habaniya air base in Anbar

(Musings On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

1950 1^st flight of Near East Air Transport Took Iraqi Jews to Israel Airline was owned by Jewish Agency

            who worked to get Jews to move to Israel

1950 When Israel created Iraqi govt banned immigration Mar 1950 govt allowed temporary immigration for

            one year Stripped Jews of Iraqi citizenship and govt confiscated their property

1950 Note from Lebanese Amb in Baghdad to Syrian Foreign Minister Bey said Iraq wanted to seize Syria

(Musings On Iraq book review of Ropes Of Sand that includes Iraq plots against Syria)

1982 Iranian Op Bait al-Moqaddas Entered Khorramshahr and destroyed bridge over Shatt al-Arab waterway

Musings On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982

1984 Iraq sank Panamanian oil tanker in Persian Gulf in tanker war

1985 Iranian offensive into Iraqi southern marshes to seize Basra-Baghdad highway ended in failure

1985 Saudis offered peace deal while Prince Faisal visited Iran Rejected by Tehran

1986 Iran ended Op Al Fajr 9 in Kurdistan

(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 book review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)

1987 Iraq ended 1^st phase of attacks upon Kurdish villages

(Musings On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1991 Bush said he would oppose lifting sanctions on Iraq as long as Saddam was in power

(Musings On Iraq book review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

1994 SCIRI claimed start of military campaign in Maysan marshes against Iraqi govt forces

1996 Iraq and UN signed memo allowing Oil for Food program

2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld asked Gen Franks to plan for a fortress Baghdad scenario

(Musings On Iraq book review of Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)

2003 Iraqis met with British rep to Iraq and demanded an interim govt

2003 US forces arrested Saddam’s Min of Industry Hwaish and VP Marouf

2004 CIA and US military raided Chalabi’s home in Baghdad Accused him of providing intel to Iran

Chalabi claimed it was retaliation for his criticism of US

2004 US had arrest warrant for INC intelligence head Habib but he’d fled

2004 US called off assault on Mahdi Army in old city Karbala

2004 NSC meeting asked what would happen if new sovereign Iraq asked US to leave

2004 Report US interrogators told guards at Abu Ghraib prison to strip prisoners make them wear women’s

close before questioning

2004 US army admitted lost Red Cross reports of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison due to bureaucracy

2005 US 1^st Cav Div collected more than 100 abuse cases by ISF over 6 months including beatings,

electrocutions, choking in Baghdad

2005 US 3^rd Inf Div collected 28 cases of abuse by Iraqi units in Baghdad

2006 1^st Maliki cabinet approved but with no Interior Defense or National Security Ministers Interior

Min Jabr switched to Finance Min in new cabinet because he allowed Badr Brigade to take over ministry and police under Jaafari govt

(Musings On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)

2006 PM Maliki laid out 33 point program with terrorism fighting corruption and services top 3

2006 Defense Min adviser said violence so bad in Basra murderers were running free

2007 Report Sadr set up reconciliation committee and held talks with Sunni politicians and insurgents

including 192 Revolution Brigades Also sent representative to Syria Egypt and Persian Gulf for talks

2008 Mother of Two Springs op ended in Mosul without success

2008 4,000-5,000 soldiers deployed to Sadr City after Sadr ceasefire finally took effect

2008 Female suicide bomber attacked Sahwa and police station in Rutba Anbar Another female suicide

bomber hit Sahwa leader in Mandali Diyala

(Musings On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)

2009 Report only 17,000 of 94,000 Sahwa given govt jobs so far

2010 Sadr said he was returning to Iraq after leaving for Iran in 07 over fear of US assassination during

Surge

2010 Sadr leader said that Sadrists opposed 2^nd term for PM Maliki

2010 US said Iran training and arming militiamen to destabilize Iraq

(Musings On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)

2010 KRG said it would start oil exports the next day and Baghdad okayed it Demanded Baghdad pay oil

companies in KRG

2011 5 Madhi Army commanders escaped Taji prison

2012 PUK and KDP Finance Ministries said they had merged

2012 KRG said it was building independent oil pipeline to Turkey Said it would reach 2 mil/bar/day in

production by 2014 Didn’t make that mark

2012 Meeting of political leaders decided to hold off on no confidence vote against PM Maliki

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2013 ISIS launched 11 car bombs leaving 137 dead

2013 PM Maliki said some of the fake bomb detectors worked 20-50% of the time

2013 Anbar councilman said foreign companies were fleeing province due to increasing violence

2013 Cabinet announced provincial elections in Anbar and Ninewa would occur Jun 20

2014 Iraqi intel warned army that large ISIS attack on Mosul coming in June

2014 Iraqi army said it was surrounding Fallujah

2014 KRG parliament voted Qubad Talabani Dep PM

2014 Electricity and Municipality depts in Sulaymaniya protested over not being paid salaries Part of

economic crisis in KRG

2014 KRG oil started being loaded on tanker in Turkey for first time

2015 Gorran said it would support extending Pres Barzani’s term if KRG switched to parliamentary system

2016 Sadrists took over Green Zone for second time Led to clash with ISF 4 protesters killed

(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)

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This Day In Iraqi History - May 19

1924 Sir Percy Cox told Constantinople Conference Assyrians would be settled in northern Iraq by

govt

(Musings On Iraq book review of The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review State and Society in Iraq)

1941 British took Fallujah from Iraqi forces after heavy bombing Was necessary to cross Euphrates to

move onto Baghdad 300 Iraqis captured

(Musings On Iraq article on 1941 Battle of Fallujah)

1941 Iraqi command found out about loss of Fallujah and decided to launch counterattack

1941 Iraq Def Min Shawkat returned from Turkey Was accused of being a traitor by Golden Square

officers for talking about mediation with England Fled to Turkey

1941 Mullah Mustafa Barzani arrived in Sulaymaniya after escaping Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

1958 Ahmad Baban became premier Was a Kurd

1982 Iranian Op Bait al-Moqaddas Began shelling Khorramshahr

Musings On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982

1986 Iraq counterattack to retake Mangesh Repulsed by KDP 800 Iraqi prisoners taken

(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 book review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1992 Kurds held election for 105 seat regional parliament and leader 7 parties ran 4 candidates for

leader KDP won 51 seats PUK 49 in new Kurdish parliament Barzani gave 1 seat to PUK to maintain Kurdish unity

1997 KDP attacked PKK in Irbil with support of Turkey 53 KDP and 58 PKK killed

(Musings On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1999 Clinton admin sent letter to Congress saying US would support Kurds as long as they remained united

2003 ORHA head Garner told Congress ORHA was ad hoc and didn't have enough time to plan for postwar

Iraq

2003 10,000 Sadrists protested in Baghdad against US occupation

2003 500 Iraqis protested outside Green Zone over pending disbandment of army

2003 CPA head Bremer sent Sec Def Rumsfeld final draft of order to disband Iraqi military

2003 US intel paper to White House said captured Iraq trailers were mobile WMD labs

(Musings On Iraq article on mobile labs story)

2004 Dep Sec of Defense Wolfowitz told Congress no timeline for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq

2004 US soldiers involved in Abu Ghraib prison abuse sentenced one year in prison

2005 Report that US attempt to push ISF into lead in war failing because Iraqi forces  not ready yet

2007 US killed Asaibh Al Ahl-Haq’s Karbala commander Dulaimi in raid

(Musings On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)

2009 Pentagon said foreign fighters still coming to Iraq from Syria and Iranian weapons still being found

(Musings On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias) 

2009 US organized meeting between Sahwa and govt after 17 Sahwa leaders arrested

2010 Talks held between Hadbaa party and Kurds over Ninewa provincial council which Kurds had

boycotted since 09 elections

(Musings On Iraq article on Kurd-Al Hadbaa dispute in Ninewa)

2011 Twin bombs in Kirkuk left 120 casualties

2012 Sadr called conference with Kurds Speaker Nujafi Ahmed Chalabi about PM Maliki

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2012 Ayatollah Haeri called on Sadr to stop trying to divide Shiites showing Iran’s displeasure with moves

against Maliki

2012 France’s Total announced talks with KRG about oil deals there over objections of Baghdad

2012 Protest in Basra against Turkey hosting wanted ex-VP Hashemi

2013 Provincial election results finalized State of Law won 112 seats Down from 126 in 2009

2013 PM Maliki responded to protest movement Said provinces could become regions if followed

constitution Maliki was actively working to undermine attempts

2013 Sheikh Saadi religious leader in Anbar protests said he gave up on his initiative to hold talks with

Baghdad

2014 Election results announced with PM Maliki’s State of Law coming in first

2014 Sulaymaniya Educ dept went on strike over not getting paid and protests in 2 towns over lack of

services in KRG

2014 ISF went on rampage in Khalis, Diyala after checkpoint attacked burned mosque fields 2 houses

2015 State of Law MP said Iraq should rely on Iran not US for military aid Claimed fall of Ramadi proved

US helping IS

2015 Hashd spokesman claimed retaking Ramadi would be easier than Tikrit

(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)

2016 ISF freed Rutba, Anbar from IS opening road from Baghdad to Jordan

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