1933 Assyrian leader Mar Shimun wrote letter to Interior
Minister saying he was being detained He
would help settle Assyrians but if
govt did nothing he would go to League of Nations and advocate for Assyrians to
leave Iraq Letter sent to ambassadors in Iraq embarrassing govt
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Tragedy of
the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review State and Society
in Iraq)
1968 Baath had Def Min Daud visit Jordan so that party could
take control of military while he was gone
Daud arrested when he arrived in
Jordan Sent into exile as ambassador to Saudi Arabia
1988 Mujahedeen e-Khalq forced to withdraw from 2 Iranian
towns ending hopes of Iraq backed revolt
against Khomeini
(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)
1990 OPEC agreed to raise prices 20% that year under
pressure from Iraq that wanted to boost revenues to
rebuild after Iran-Iraq War
1990 Mukhabarat placed 30 agents at Kuwait oil fields and
Kuwait city to help with invasion
1991 Talabani said that without another major international
relief effort Kurds would face another disaster
2002 PM Blair’s foreign policy adv Manning told Rice UK with
US against Iraq but had to go through UN
(Musings
On Iraq article Chilcot Report Volume 2 Sec 3.3 Development of UK Iraq
Strategy and Options April to July 2002)
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.4 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and
Options, Late July to 14 September 2002)
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 NYTimes article on Iraq war plans Mentioned Gen Franks
ideas for dealing with defense of Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq article on how arguments over Iraq invasion were fought through
press leaks)
2003 US intel report Hezbollah attempted to reach out to
Sadr and his Mahdi Army
(Musings
On Iraq article on Hezbollah presence in Iraq)
2003 Report US held Iraqi detainees incommunicado and
without access to lawyers
2003 Saddam recording said his sons Uday and Qusay died as
martyrs for Iraq and US would be defeated
2007 Report PM Maliki said he couldn’t work with Gen
Petraeus Said that if US kept using sahwa he would
arm militias Maliki ally Askari
said Petraeus biased against Shiites
2008 Op Augurs of Prosperity in Diyala began ISF targeted Sahwa
in Baquba
(Musings
On Iraq article on Augurs of Prosperity op)
(Musings
On Iraq article on govt crackdown on Sahwa)
2009 Results of KRG election Barzani re-elected president
with 69% of vote KDP-PUK list won 57% of
parliamentary vote Change 23%
(Musings
On Iraq Kurdish Election Results And Implications)
(Musings
On Iraq Full Kurdish Election Results)
2013 ISI started new car bomb wave as part of Soldiers’
Harvest campaign
2018 PM Abadi dismissed Electricity Minister Fahadawi until
investigation into poor services finished
Was in response to protests
2018 Protests in West Qurna 1 and Burjisiya oil fields in
Basra Basra City Samawa Baghdad Nasiriya
2018 Member of European Civil Protection and Humanitarian
Aid Operations said 14,000 civilians were
wounded during Battle of Mosul 32%
were children 4,000 still needed care
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