1925 League of Nations Commission on Mosul arrived in
province to protests Was to
determine who would get Mosul Iraq
or Turkey Commission interviewed hundreds of locals and mapped economy, land,
trade routes, ethnicities
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
1948 Communists called for more protests against Anglo-Iraq
Treaty to topple govt
(Musings
On Iraq book review Red Star
Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview
with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
1948 Mass demonstration against Anglo-Iraq treaty led to
clashes with police in Baghdad 77 killed
Hundreds wounded
1969 14 hung in Baghdad after show trial over alleged
Israeli spy ring uncovered by Saddam 9
were Jews Bakr govt declared
execution day a national holiday and bused in people from around the country to
watch After executions Bakr and other Baath leaders gave speeches to crowd
against Zionist threat
1983 Saddam rejected offer by Iran to discuss 7 disputed
areas but said was ready to talk about
ceasefire in war
1985 Iraq launched 1st large offensive in 2 yrs
to try to take back Majnoon Islands Deployed 2
corps Iraq gained bridgehead on
island but Iranian reinforcements defeated operation
(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)
1998 Head UN inspector Butler quoted in NYTimes saying Iraq
had enough biological weapons
and missiles to “blow away” Tel
Aviv
1998 UN chief Annan demanded head UN inspector Butler
apologize for NYTimes interview
which he did
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2002 Gen Franks briefed Rumsfeld on latest war plan Said
Iraqi military degraded by sanctions
Wanted info campaign vs Iraq to
start Franks claimed the more the U.S. got involved against Saddam the less Iraqi
people would support regime Franks had cut war plan to 150 days down from 7
months and 245,000 troops Franks wanted to cut timeline for war down to even
less time
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Shaping
the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence
Assessment)
2003 Head UN inspector Blix told Security Council that Iraq
cooperating with inspections but had
not accepted disarmament Blix asked
what undeclared WMD items did Iraq have Asked did it illegally produce anything
after 98 Blix said Iraq’s Dec WMD declaration had provided no new info and not
answered questions Said were questions about Iraq’s production of anthrax VX
gas and WMD bombs from Iran-Iraq War
2003 IAEA head El Baradei told Security Council IAEA had
found no evidence of an active
nuclear program in Iraq Said
aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were probably for rockets not nuclear program
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt
its nuclear weapons program)
2003 Powell said Iraq was hiding its WMD
2003 US intelligence said Blix would back off next
declaration to UN on inspections because didn't
want to start war
2003 Some in White House believed Blix lying about
inspections and could not be trusted
2003 Bush believed US stuck in inspection process and pushed
him towards war
2003 CIA report said Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger in
1999 Said was uranium in warehouse
in Benin but was going to France
not Iraq
2003 CIA Dir Tenet given copy of Bush’s State of the Union
address that included claim that Iraq
tried to buy uranium from Niger
Tenet didn’t read speech
(Musings
On Iraq article on Ira-Niger uranium story)
2003 CIA Berlin chief said that Iraqi defector CURVEBALL was
considered a problem by Germans
and they hadn’t confirmed any of
his stories of mobile WMD labs
(Musings
On Iraq article on how CURVEBALL influenced US intel on Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 ORHA began contracting for supplies and personnel for
post-war Iraq 2 months before
invasion
2003 William Safire NYTimes piece said Zarqawi went to
Baghdad Then to Kurdistan to Ansar al-
Islam proving Iraq-Al Qaeda link
2004 Ex-IraqSurveyGroup head Kay Iraq told UN in 1995 it had
destroyed WMD and nuke
program but no one believed them
2006 Report shifting US reconstruction money to security
meant 60% of water and 125 electricity
projects would not be finished
2007 Report more than 800 had volunteered for Anbar police
due to Awakening in Dec 2006 Fmr
Anbar Gov Gaood MP Salah al-Mutlaq
both said they opposed Awakening
(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)
2012 Bombing of Shiite funeral left over 90 casualties
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