1914 Ottomans agreed to oil concessions for British and
Germans in Mosul and Baghdad provinces
Never happened because WWI
1920 Was meeting in Mishkhab Najaf to plan for revolt
against British
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Reclaiming
Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1940 Italian Amb told Iraq it wanted an independent Syria
Lebanon and Iraq as well Ambassador
didn’t check with foreign office beforehand
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria
1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1969 Baath created Dohuk province as part of 1966 June
Declaration on Kurdish rights
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1981 Iraq offered Ramadan ceasefire but rejected by Iran
1982 Saddam dismissed all the members of the Revolutionary
Command Council
1985 Iran Op Al Quds 1 north of Majnoon Islands Basra ended
with nothing gained
1986 Iraqi planes attacked Sardasht Iran using mustard gas 1st
civilian town attacked by WMD 133 killed
1988 Iraq gained bridgehead in Iranian territory for 2nd
time that year 3,000 Iranians dead 8,000
wounded 4,000 captured Defeat at
Fao and Majnoon led to collapse of morale in Iran Revolutionary Guard asked
govt to end war
(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)
1987 Iran accused Iraq of killing and wounding 650 Kurdish
civilians in mustard gas attack in northwest
Iran
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1991 UN inspectors denied access to Fallujah nuclear site
while trucks took equipment out
(Musings
On Iraq article UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD
and 2003 Invasion)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
2004 CPA disbanded, Iraqi sovereignty returned to interim
govt led by Premier Allawi
2004 Bremer said CPA accomplished almost everything it set
out to do including a peaceful democratic and
pluralistic society
2004 US created Multi National Security Transition Command
Iraq to train Iraqi forces
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2004 Sistani fatwa said no guarantee US process would create
constitutional convention that represented
the Iraqi people
2005 Bush speech War in Iraq about fighting terrorism
creating democracy advancing freedom in Mid East
Rejected timetable for withdrawal
Said when Iraqi forces stood up US forces would stand down which was a
withdrawal plan
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
2008 Accountability and Justice law amended to stop former
ISF officers for being fired for Baathist past
and those that quit could now get
jobs with govt
(Musings
On Iraq article on amending Accountability and Justice law)
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