Wednesday, December 12, 2018

This Day In Iraqi History - Dec 12


1922 Sir Herbert Samuel proposed UK create Arab state of Iraq Hijaz Palestine Trans-Jordan
maybe Najd Samuel believed Arab state would contain pan-Arabism and contain fears of increased Jewish presence in Palestine
1932 Shiite leaders told Yasin Hashemi they would back him for PM if they got majority of cabinet
posts
1973 Govt offered new autonomy plan for Kurds but rejected by Mustafa Barzani and KDP
(Musings On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1981 Iranian Op Matla al-Fajar attacked Qasr e-Shirin area in center across from Diyala Took Geilan
Zarb and Sar e-Pol e-Zahab
1983 Iraq fired missiles at 6 Iranian cities killing 24 and wounding 283
(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)
1983 Dawa members including Abu Muhandis working for Iran set off 5 bombs at US and French
embassies and other targets in Kuwait killing 6 wounding 80 Was retaliation for US and French air attacks in Lebanon
1996 Uday Hussein seriously injured in assassination attempt in Baghdad by Nahdah opposition
group
2001 Gen Franks briefed Rumsfeld on invasion preparations and estimated costs with start time in
spring 2002
2003 US Special Forces captured Mohammed Musslit who led them to Saddam
2003 CPA adv Diamond told Natl Sec Adv Rice that US should include UN in CPA’s plans to create
            new Iraqi govt Could alleviate Sistani’s demands for elections
2003 Pentagon audit found Halliburton overcharged $61 mil for delivering fuel to Iraq
2003 US guards at Abu Ghraib prison took pictures of themselves abusing Iraqi prisoners
2005 DIA report Insurgents recruiting networking training in Iraqi prisons Could be more dangerous
after release
2005 Rumsfeld told US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey and US Iraq Amb Khalizad insurgents networking in
Iraqi jails
2005 Report early 05 Islamist insurgents met with Al Qaeda in Iraq asking for a joint command Al
Qaeda in Iraq said no wanting control
2005 2nd meeting of Anbar Gov Mamoun sheikhs and US Focused upon how to secure province
Decided creating police would be foundation of effort
2005 Anbar security council met with Gen Casey and Def Min Dulaimi Council rejected Al
Qaeda in Iraq agreed to work with Baghdad and US Agreed to recruiting tribesmen into ISF
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian 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 Report US pushing for new ruling coalition that would exclude Sadr Would include Kurds
Accordance Front SIIC Maliki was standoffish because Sadr put him in office and was afraid new coalition would replace him as PM
2006 Bush told NSC he was not going to announce Surge until Jan 07 Wanted new DefSec Gates in
office
2006 American Enterprise Institute released report on war by Frederick Kagan, Kenneth Pollack,
Gen. Keane Called for troop surge
2006 Out going US ground forces cmdr Gen Chiarelli said Iraq couldn’t be won militarily Was
frustrated that was only thing US focusing upon Said Iraqi police infiltrated more by militias then he thought and would take longer to remove them Said bringing down unemployment in Iraq should have been a US priority
2006 Car bomb in central Iraq targeted day laborers killed 71 and wounded 236
2009 Iraq held second auction for international oil companies to bid on its oil fields
2009 Blair said he would still have removed Saddam without WMD and that Saddam was a threat to
world no matter what
2009 Maliki questioned by parliament over Baghdad bombings starting in August MPs complained
about lack of coordination by ISF
2012 Diyala council voted to hold a referendum on turning province into a region
2013 Iraq signed $1.1 bil deal to buy 24 FA-50 light fighter jets from South Korea

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