1959 Gen Qasim executed several
leaders of Mosul coup attempt
1980 Iran called up its military reserves
1980 Iraq’s Def Min Khairallah went to Iran-Iraq border to
give commanders orders for
Iran invasion
1983 Iran threatened to close Persian Gulf if West and Gulf
States continued to aid Iraq
(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)
1990 British intel report said lots of unknowns about Iraq’s
ballistic missile program
1998 British intel report said Iraq probably still had
biological weapons program
2001 During meeting on war on terror Blair asked Bush about
Iraq who said it was not an
immediate problem Blair told Bush
they should take time to build up case against Iraq
2001 Undersec of Def Feith told Rumsfeld war on terror
should be broad and Iraq should
be included Feith complained about
lack of good targets in Afghanistan and suggested bombing Iraq for 9/11
2001 Project for a New American Century in letter to Bush
said Iraq might have
supported
9/11 and Saddam had to be targeted in war on terror
2001 US intel officials told press they were looking into
Iraq’s connections to 9/11
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Bush admin went from 9/11 to Iraq invasion)
2001 Israeli intelligence said they thought Iraq connected
to 9/11 Claimed Al Qaeda
funded by
Iraqi Intel Service
2001 US and UK jets bombed missile batteries in southern
Iraq as part of No Fly Zones
2002 Pentagon set up planning group to deal with rebuilding
Iraq’s oil industry after
invasion
2002 UK Def Min said it could provide forces for military
action against Iraq
2002 Time article White House using unsubstantiated stories
to make case of Iraq-Al
Qaeda ties
2002 Powell testified to House International Relations Comm
to lobby for Congressional
use of force resolution vs Iraq Powell
said there was debate about Iraq’s intent on buying aluminum tubes but Saddam
trying to get nuke technology
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 Ansar al-Sunnah formed
2003 Governing Council member Aqila Hashemi shot outside her
home in Baghdad
Would die 3
days later
2003 Funeral for SCIRI head Ayatollah Baqir al-Hakim turned
into anti-US occupation
demonstration
in Najaf
2004 Zarqawi aired video of beheading American Eugene
Armstrong kidnapped in
Baghdad
2004 Sadr faction released 15 Iraqi National Guardsmen they
kidnapped
2004 US and Iraqi forces raided Sadr’s office in Najaf
arresting two aides
2006 US commander in Iraq Gen Casey gave his support to
Anbar Awakening
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar tribes turning on Al Qaeda in Iraq)
(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 Chief judge in Saddam’s trial removed by cabinet for
saying Saddam was not a
dictator
2006 Intel report to Rumsfeld Iraq breaking up more Iraqi
politicians stuck in
ethnosectarian
camps
2015 Human Rights Watch report on Hashd and Jabouri tribe
destroying buildings in Dour
Albu Ajeel Alam Ali an part of
Tikrit after Tikrit freed 400-600 buildings destroyed in Dour 75 in Albu Ajeel
45 in Alam 28 in Ali over 200 in Tikrit’s Qadisiyah
2017 Ana in west Anbar attacked by Iraqi forces
2017 Former Salahaddin Governor Jabouri released under
Amnesty Law Was convicted of
stealing
public funds
2017 2 former Diyala governors were found guilty of
manipulating contracts and
stealing funds
in absentia
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