1949 Communist Party Chairman
Fahad and 2 politburo members convicted and sentenced
to death for
leading party
1963 estimated 5,000 Communists executed by Baath since coup
against Gen. Qasim
(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)
1964 Pres Arif agreed to ceasefire with Mulla Mustafa
Barzani
1972 Saddam visited Moscow to push for strategic agreement
with Iraq
1974 Border dispute between Iran-Iraq led to gunfight
killing 23 Iraqis 30 Iranians
1988 Iraq restarted attacks on Iranian shipping Iran
retaliated in kind
(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 Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultant said Saudis would
not allow air strikes against Iraq as US Def
Sec Cohen was about to visit
2002 CIA presented covert action plan against Iraq
2003 Australian Premier Howard met Bush Bush Said Saddam
would leave power or US would remove him
2003 France Germany Russia statement called for more time
for inspections Doused US hopes France
would back 2nd UN Res on
Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2003 UK intel report said attack on Iraq would increase
threat of terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda
2003 New Yorker article reported UnderSecDef Feith’s office claim
that Iraq connected to Al Qaeda and
supporting Zarqawi
2003 German officials investigating Zarqawi said found no
evidence he was linked to Iraqi govt
2003 US defense attache report that he looked at Benin
warehouse and found no uranium headed for Iraq
Inspection done in Dec 2002
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2004 CPA Order 57 created Inspector Generals in each Iraqi
ministry to fight corruption
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction
Bowen on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on
corruption in Iraq)
2004 Car bomb hit Iskandiriya Babil police station killed 50
2004 Report almost all of SecState Powell’s 03 UN speech on
Iraq WMD and ties to terrorism proved wrong
2005 NSC staffer Zelikow told Sec State Rice Iraq failed
state stuck in violence
2006 Report 1920 Revolution Brigades Amman Brigades
Mujahadeen Army working to expel Al Qaeda in
Iraq from Ramadi after it killed
head of Albu Fahad tribe
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
2006 Fmr CIA Natl Intel officer for Near East Pillar said
intel on Iraq was cherry picked by White House to
justify war
2007 Gen Petraeus replaced Gen Casey as US commander in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On
Reassessing the Surge)
2007 Report US intel said Iran and Hezbollah providing
weapons and training to Iraqi militias Mehran
border crossing major conduit US
trying to crackdown on Iranian cells operating in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian
arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Hezbollah presence in Iraq)
2009 Sen Kerry went to Syria to try to improve relations as
part of Obama’s new Iraq policy of including
neighbors in strategy
2016 PM Abadi said he wanted technocrats to replace existing
ministers
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
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