1922 UK cabinet adopted Colonial
Sec Churchill’s proposal to put Royal Air
Force
in charge of security in Iraq replacing army
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s words on Mesopotamia)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Churchill’s
Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
1963 Gen Qasim asked for safe passage out of Iraq Was
refused by coup leaders Qasim
captured
shot and body shown on TV
1963 Baathist Gen Ahmed al-Bakr became premier Col Abd Salam
Arif president
1981 Iran and Iraq agreed to visits by Islamic leaders who
wanted to try to negotiate
a ceasefire
in Iran-Iraq War
1983 Iranian Op Fajr al-Nasr Attacked again Iraqi
counterattack surrounded Iranians and
destroyed
division
1986 Iran Op Wa al-Fajr 8 Largest so far 50% of army 2/3 of
Revolutionary Guard attacked Fao
Peninsula Basra Started with
diversionary attack north of Basra At night Iranians crossed Shatt al-Arab in
two places Landed south end of Fao
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on
history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Vanguard
of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
(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 of Iran-Iraq
War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1991 US 1st Cavalry Division made reconnaissance
mission into Iraq to make sure
mechanized
units could operate in Kuwaiti and Iraqi desert
2003 France and Germany proposed tripling number of UN
inspectors in Iraq US
attacked
plan
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2003 Report UK intel didn’t think there was an Iraq-al Qaeda
connection
2003 Observer article disputed Iraqi defector Mohammed
Shahab used in March 02 New
Yorker
article who claimed Iraq connected to Al Qaeda via Ansar al-Islam
2004 US released Zarqawi letter to Al Qaeda Said goal to
start sectarian war by attacking Shiites to
rally Sunnis to its cause
(Musings
On Iraq interview with former CIA analyst Nada Bakos that tracked
Zarqawi)
2004 Report White House 03 paper on Iraq WMD dropped
qualifications and doubts
from 02
Natl Intel Est on Iraq
2007 Report Mahdi Army cleansing Sadiya Baghdad of Sunnis
and Shiites moving in PM Maliki protecting
Sadr’s forces
2007 1920 Revolution Brigades offered negotiation terms to
US Included cancelling constitution and govt
Releasing prisoners Recognition of
resistance Direct talks with US Disbanding militias Bringing back Saddam’s army
2007 Pentagon Inspector Gen found DepDefSec Feith’s Office
of Special Plans made its own intelligence
assessment that was inappropriate
differed from intelligence community and wasn’t fully supported by intelligence
Promoted story that 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in April
2001 Told White House intelligence community was wrong about Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2016 PM Abadi called for technocratic and non-partisan
cabinet
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2016 Ramadi finally freed from IS by Iraqi forces
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