1946 Police tried breaking Communist oil worker strike in
Kirkuk Fired on workers Killed 8
wounded 50 Killings condemned in
press PM Umari shut down papers in response Helped lead to fall of govt in Nov
1958 Communist party members were warned that something big
was going to happen in anticipation
of Free
Officers’ Coup that overthrew monarchy
(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)
1968 PM Yahya threatened to resign over divisions within
military that would lead to 1968 coup
1979 Saddam elected new president and head of Regional
Command Council of the Baath Party Dhuri
elected VP
1979 Rev Command Council Secretary General Muhyi Hussein
Mashadi objected to Bakr stepping down
saying he should have been
convinced to stay in office
1982 UN Res 514 called for end to war Iraq accepted it
Khomeini rejected it and called on Iraqis to rise up
against Saddam
1983 Reagan signed NSDD 99 to review US policy in Middle
East Led to tilt towards Iraq
1988 Iraq Op Tawakalna ala Allah 3 began towards Dehloran in
center Recaptured Muhsen border
region Goal was to destroy Iranian
forces to prevent postwar threat
1988 Iran withdrew from Halabja district Kurdistan
1988 Iraq started withdrawing from 2,260 sq mi of Iranian
territory
(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)
1991 Saddam carried out new wave of executions of Baath
members and army officers
2001 Iraqi Military Alliance opposition group met in London
made up of 60 former officers Called for
democratic Iraq Foreign aid Iraqi
soldiers to work with it
2003 British officially took control of Basra Maysan Dhi Qar
and Muthanna with no strategy on how to run
them
2003 VP Cheney chief of staff Libby spoke 3rd time
with NY Times reporter Miller telling her fmr Amb
Wilson’s wife worked for CIA Was to
discredit Wilson
2003 VP Cheney chief of staff Libby talked with Time
reporter Cooper who said fmr Amb Wilson’s wife
might’ve sent him on Niger trip
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uraniuam story)
2005 Zarqawi responded to Maqdisi who criticized Al Qaeda in
Iraq’s tactics of attacking civilians and
Shiites and suicide bombings
Zarqawi said more important to attack Shiites than non-Muslims Accused Shiites
of starting sectarian violence Cited Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir who supported
suicide missions
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2006 20 people from bus station abducted and executed in
Muqtadiya
2007 Bush claimed US making progress on 8 of 18
congressional benchmarks set for Surge Created
constitutional review committee but
it had taken no action Passed regions law but no implementation Election
Commission formed Supported Surge Reduced sectarian violence Were more ISF
Passed budget No progress on reconciliation or relations with Iran and Syria or
economic growth No reforming deBaathification No energy law No provincial
election law or provincial powers law No amnesty law No disarmament of militias
Hadn’t stopped political interference in ISF Not enforced law and order Not
taken on militia influence in ISF
2009 VP Hashemi said Baghdad would fight PKK and would form
special units to do so Never happened
Meant to appease Turkey
2014 Naqshibandi leader Izzat al-Dhur welcomed and praised
IS’s role in fighting against Maliki govt
2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq members arrested in Musayib Babil for
kidnapping 28 Sunnis and killing 20
of them
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
2018 South Oil Company offices stormed and road to airport
blocked in Basra City 1 killed by police Protest
at Rumaila and West Qurna oil
fields and 2 other parts of Basra Marches in Baghdad and Wasit
2018 Oil Min Luaibi said govt had come up with response to
protests promising 10,000 jobs in oil sector
and investment in water electricity
and health care
(Musings
On Iraq article on govt response to protests)
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