1916 Battle of Sheikh Saad ended
with British beating the Ottomans
1917 Battle of Mohammed Abdul Hassan between Ottomans and
British
1917 British began assault upon Khadairi Bend fort
1960 Communists applied for govt recognition Qasim accepted
party with exact same name to shut
Communists out Communists didn’t
know Qasim behind move and blamed other party
(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)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1987 Iran Op Karbala 5 began
attacking Fish Lake defensive line before Basra City
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The
Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1990 Iraq opened 2nd oil pipeline with Saudi
Arabia
1991 Sec of State Baker met with Iraq For Min Aziz and
failed to end Kuwait crisis
1991 Bush sent Baker to Baghdad to convince people he was
trying all options to resolve Kuwait
crisis
1991 Baker warned Iraq not use to use WMD in upcoming Gulf
War
1991 Baker tried to give Aziz a letter from Bushto Saddam
but Aziz refused to take it
1991 Iraq said that if it was attacked it would strike
Israel
1991 Bush sent request to Congress to use force against Iraq
in Kuwait
2002 CENTCOM commander Gen Franks briefed Rumsfeld on latest
war plan
2002 Powell called Gen Franks concerned that Rumsfeld was
trying to push as small an Iraq
invasion force as possible
2003 Head UN weapons inspector Blix said no smoking gun
found in Iraq but didn’t mean there
were no WMD Said Iraq’s Dec weapons
declaration was incomplete
2003 IAEA head El Baradei said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to
buy were probably for rockets not
nuclear program
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 White House responded to IAEA saying Iraq spinning it
over aluminum tubes Said knew for a
fact that Iraq had WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2003 Pentagon asked Jay Garner to head ORHA to run postwar
Iraq 2 months before invasion He
initially said no
2003 Gen Franks briefed Bush on war plan Talked about
Turkey’s refusal to allow in US troops
Franks worried about Jordan and
Saudi Arabia staying on board for war Franks said he’d be ready for invasion by
Feb 03 but March would be better
2004 Maysan governor’s security fired into crowd protesting
job program Killed 3 British army took
over security and killed 2 more
Govt building looted
2006 Foreign Min Zebari told Amb Khalilzad Ayatollah Sistani
and Iran’s Gen Suleimani would
likely pick next candidate for premier
after 05 vote
2011 Parliament passed VP law taking away their power
(Musings
On Iraq article on VP law)
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