This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 17

1927 Lord Cecil said British public opinion was overwhelmingly against staying in Iraq

1954 PM Umari resigned so he could go on annual vacation to Turkey to escape summer heat in Iraq

1981 Col Qaddafi announced he would go to Tehran and Baghdad to try to negotiate

            ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Libya supported Iran 

1987 Iran Op Fath 7 Iranian Rev Guard and PUK attacked Iraqi 27^th Div supplylines in Kurdistan

(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 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1996 UN said Iraq smuggling oil through Iranian waters breaking sanctions

2003 CIA report to Dir Tenet said that Niger-Iraq uranium story was dropped because based upon fake docs

(Musings On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)

2003 CIA report that it found docs at Iraqi scientist’s home that proved Saddam had nuke program Proved

false

2004 PM Allawi promised reprisals against insurgents after suicide bombing of Iraqi army base

2004 Natl Sec Adv Rice told Bremer Bush supported early end to CPA

2004 Bush refuted 9/11 Comm Said Iraq-Al Qaeda had connections and that was why Iraq was a threat

2004 Cheney said 9/11 Comm didn’t look at the overwhelming evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda connections

Claimed he had intel on Iraq-Al Qaeda ties that 9/11 Comm didn’t That intel later proved false

2005 Constitutional Committee agreed to expand number of Sunnis from 2 to 17 with another 10 as

advisers under heavy US and UK pressure

(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2007 Report PM Maliki complained to US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Petraeus about Sahwa program

2008 Truck bomb by Mahdi Army or Special Group in Baghdad killed 63 wounded 70 US forces claimed

bombing meant to stop return of displaced Sunnis and provoke sectarian fighting

(Musings On Iraq article on Hurriya bombing)

2009 US held talks with Syria to try to stop foreign fighters travelling through country to Iraq

2011 ISI took responsibility for killing deputy head of deBaathification Comm Lami

2011 Anbar councilman said Syria still supported insurgency

2011 PM Maliki organized second march for his government in Baghdad and Karbala

2011 Protests held in Baghdad and Dhi Qar against corruption Baghdad protesters attacked by PM Maliki

supporters 2^nd time

2012 Sadr said he would not accept a 3^rd term for PM Maliki

2012 PUK’s MP Othman said that KDP wanted PM Maliki out while PUK didn’t

2013 Kataib Hezbollah attacked Mujahedeen e-Khalq camp with rockets

2013 Badr said one of its men died fighting in Syria before its presence officially announced

(Musings On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)

2013 Exxon signed 3^rd contract with KRG to explore for oil in Sulaymaniya

2013 Sadrists maintained control of Maysan governorship in new govt

2013 State of Law-SIIC-Sadr alliance formed new govt in Qadisiyah SIIC got governorship 

2014 Security operation to clear Qaim, Anbar began

2014 Tuz Kharmato declared freed

2014 Rawa Ana Saqlawiya Amiriya Fallujah Ramadi Khalidiya in Anbar all declared freed half of them

weren’t

(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq’s Anbar Shows Battle Against Insurgents Will Be Long And Often Futile)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)

2014 Insurgents attacked 3 neighborhoods in Baquba, Diyala along with Hit and Garma in Anbar

2014 Prisoner that was wounded when Hashd executed 43 prisoners in Baquba was taken from hospital by

police and killed

2014 PM Maliki dismissed Gen Gharawi head of Ninewa Ops Command for fall of Mosul

2014 Hezbollah’s Nasrallah said that Shiite shrines in Iraq needed to be protected from insurgents Said that

Hezbollah would send men to fight in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Iran And Its Shiite Militias Mobilize In Iraq Interview With Phillip Smyth)

2015 Sadr blamed PM Maliki’s authoritarianism for return of insurgency

2016 PM Abadi prematurely announced liberation of Fallujah

2017 KRG Pres Barzani held meeting and announced that Kurdish independence referendum would happen

9/25/17

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