1920 Gertrude Bell said 1920
Revolt was result of British not fulfilling promises
to
give Iraqis their own govt
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell
And Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq,
The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1925 Turks went to Permanent
Court of Intl Justice to try to keep Mosul province after
League
of Nations said it should go to Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
1929 Abd Sadoun became premier
for 4th time
1936 UK officials met Nuri
al-Said in Paris to discuss him mediating Palestine dispute
Turned
out he just wanted to promote Iraq
1980 Iran began heavy shelling of Shatt al-Arab, Basra and
attacked ships in waterway
1983 Iran said if major powers kept backing Iraq they would
have oil cut off to them
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones 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)
1991 UN Resolution 712 offered oil for food program rejected
by Iraq 2nd time
1996 CIA Dir Deutch told Senate Intel Comm that after Saddam
sent troops into
Kurdistan he
was in stronger position and unlikely to be deposed
2001 Iraq intel paper said Afghan source claimed bin Laden
Taliban and Iraq worked
together to
target America Never confirmed
2001 Bush asked CIA Dir Tenet to look into Iraq-Al Qaeda
ties and said VP Cheney
had info on
links
2001 Dep Sec of Def Wolfowitz sent ex-CIA Dir Woolsey to
England to look into Iraq
9/11 and
1993 World Trade Center connections
2001 Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board held meeting on 9/11
Bernard Lewis and Ahmad
Chalabi
presented at meeting Chalabi said US should invade Iraq not Afghanistan
2001 Rumsfeld told Bush routine air strikes on Iraq about to
happen as part of No Fly
Zone Bush said had to make sure
they were not perceived to be in response to 9/11
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Bush admin went from 9/11 to Iraq invasion)
2002 Pentagon’s Def Policy Board met Argued for removing
Saddam
2002 Saddam sent letter to UN saying it had no WMD or
nuclear weapons
2002 Rumsfeld told Senate that UN weapons inspections were
weak and weren’t going
to find
anything
2002 CIA released report on Iraq’s ties to terrorism
2002 New intel said Iraq might have offered training to Al
Qaeda and safe haven to bin
Laden in
1990s Later proved false
2002 Bush met with 11 Congressmen to lobby them on Iraq
policy Said war on terror
going well
but real threat was Iraq and WMD
2002 White House released language it would use in
Congressional resolution to use
force vs
Iraq
2002 Institute for Science and Intl Sec said Bush admin was
suppressing dissent on
aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy
Institute said tubes not proof of centrifuge program by Iraq
2003 CPA issued new rules for banking in Iraq to reform
finances and to open up
country to
foreign investment
2003 Saddam’s Def Min Gen Hashim Ahmad surrendered to US in
Kirkuk after
negotiations
2004 Blair said Iraq was center of global war on terror
2004 Sadr faction said it kidnapped 15 Iraqi Naitonal Guardsmen
Threatened to kill them
if Sadr
aide not released by US Sadrists denounced kidnapping
2005 Militia controlled police arrested 2 UK soldiers
disguised as Arabs in Basra When
police refused to release them British
stormed station Mahid Army went to police station leading to 9 hour gun battle 4-9
killed, 44 injured
2005 Bremer denied knowing Ziyad Cattan who he asked to stay
on as procurement officer
at Defense Min when Allawi became
interim PM Cattan involved in $1.2 bil in missing funds in Defense Ministry
contracts
2006 US commander in Ramadi got Marine division commander in
Anbar to back
Awakening
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Confronting Al
Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Marines Take
Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Illusions of
Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2006 Fmr Vice Army chief of staff Ret Gen Keane told
Rumsfeld US close to strategic
failure in Iraq Keane said US
strategy was to withdraw not defeat insurgency Said US needed more troops in
Iraq to protect population otherwise change impossible
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2006 Pres Talabani told Bush security problem was US not
arming ISF sufficiently and
needed less
US troops in Iraq
2008 Sadrist cleric Sheikh Ajrish assassinated in Basra Had
been wave of assassinations
of Sadrist
officials since start of year
(Musings
On Iraq article on Sheikh Arjish’s assassination)
2012 Irbil and Baghdad made agreement for KRG to deliver
200,000 bar/day of oil
by end of
2012 for Oil Ministry
2014 France carried out first air strikes against IS hitting
Zummar, Ninewa
2017 Rihana in Ana district in northwest Anbar freed
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