1920 High Commission Sir Cox reported that many sheikhs of
large confederations
supported Mandate and didn't want
an Iraqi govt
1980 Attacks upon Iranian oil facilities and ports cost it
$6 bil in 1980 Attacks on Iraqi oil facilities
and ports cost $4 bil
1981 End of 1st yr of Iran-Iraq War 22,000 Iraqi
38,000 Iranian dead
(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)
2002 UN inspector told press they were finding no evidence
of Iraq’s WMD and Western intel
providing nothing substantive
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2003 Bush said couldn’t tell whether Iraq had a nuclear
weapon or not
2003 3 dead 20 wounded after Arabs and Turkemn stormed PUK
office in Kirkuk
2007 Deadline to hold referendum on future of disputed
territories under Constitution’s Article 140
passed
2007 Deadline for committee to revise Iraqi constitution
missed Was 4th time delayed Never finished
job
(Musings
On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s
constitution)
2011 US withdrew forces from Iraq under Status of Forces
Agreement
2011 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq and Sadrists got into gunfight in Sadr
City and Kadhimiya Baghdad
2013 Anbar council negotiated withdrawal of 2 ISF units from
Ramadi to try to control protests and
fighting
2013 Maliki said he would withdraw ISF from cities in Anbar
after closed protest sites led to fighting
2013 Speaker Nujafi announced Mutahidun withdrawing from
govt to protest Maliki shutting down
Ramadi protest site
(Musings
On Iraq article on PM Maliki crackdown on Anbar protests)
2013 10 houses in Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhr blown up by ISI
forcing 84 families to flee
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