1920 War Min Churchill approved sending division to
Mesopotamia from India to put down 1920
Revolt
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Churchill’s
Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Reclaiming
Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1933 Report French disarmed many Assyrians who had tried to
get into Syria from Iraq
(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 Pres Bakr accused Def Min Daud and PM Naif of
attempting to take over govt PM Naif arrested and
became Ambassador to Morocco Baath
then purged govt of opponents
1968 Pres Bakr became prime minister and commander and chief
of armed forces consolidating his power
Appointed Saddam deputy secretary
general of Baath Party
1982 Iraq launched major counterattack against Iran’s Op
Ramadan in Basra Halted by Iranians
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1983 Iran ended Op Wa al-Fajr 2 in Kurdistan Retook 195 sq km
of Iranian territory Seized 220 sq
km of Iraqi land Cut KDPI supply
lines and forced it to withdraw west KDP given control of Haj Omran pass
1983 Iran started Op Wa al-Fajr 3 to free Mehran Iran and
then invade Wasit and cut Baghdad-Basra
highway Iraq discovered plan and
launched pre-emptive strike Iran launched night attack infiltrating behind
Iraqi lines
1983 Iraqi army began raids through villages and displaced
camps in Irbil arrested all Kurdish males
1988 Iran and Iraq started talks at UN for ceasefire
(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 Saddam offered to withdraw his troops from Iran and
settle Shatt al-Arab differences to prepare for
Kuwait invasion
1990 DIA analyst told DIA Dir Soyster Iraq could overrun
Kuwait and northern Saudi Arabia and US would
have no warning Said that Saddam
was going to use force vs Kuwait and Kuwait would make no concessions to Iraq
1990 DIA Dir Soyster disagreed with analyst about Iraq’s
intentions but passed assessment to Sec Def Cheney
and Gen Powell
1991 Iraq admitted to have four times as many chemical
munitions as it claimed before to UN weapons
inspectors
(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)
1992 Iraqi forces surrounded Shiite rebels in southern
marshes and bombed them
1996 CIA report head of Iraq intel met bin Laden in Sudan
and provided bomb making know how False
report bin Laden left Sudan May 96
and no reports he returned afterward
2002 PM Blair’s foreign policy adv Manning told Bush UK with
US against Iraq but had to go through UN
2002 UK attorney general Goldsmith told PM Blair without UN
resolution war against Iraq illegal
(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 French Pres Chirac said that Germany and France would
only support an invasion of Iraq if backed by
a UN resolution
2002 Fmr head UN inspector Ekeus said US manipulated 90s
inspections to spy on Iraqi security services
and find location of Saddam Said US
wanted to create crises to justify attacks on Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on how CIA used UN inspectors to spy and back coup in Iraq)
2003 Bush admitted Iraq-Africa uranium story should not have
been included in his State of Union speech
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice said Saddam was a threat and he had
WMD Said Iraq was buying all kinds of
equipment
for centrifuges including aluminum tubes
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2004 Sec State Powell in Iraq said US worried about Iran’s
influence in southern Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2007 Cabinet passed new draft energy bill Cabinet approved
another energy bill in February Neither made
it through parliament
2007 Oxfam found Maliki govt spent 22% of its development
budget and 99% of its salary allocation in
2006
2007 Report Interior Ministry split between Dawa Badr Kurds
Badr and Kurds fighting for control of intel
service Kurdish dep minister faced
death threats from Badr dep minister Almost all Sunnis purged from ministry
Interior Min trying to purge militias from ministry
2007 Fmr Amb to Iraq Khalilzad said that Saudis were
undermining US effort in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saudi role in insurgency)
2008 U.S. forces officially withdrew troops from Iraqi
cities
2008 Sadr said he was leading a nationalist movement against
the US and needed to restrain abuses and
violence of Mahdi Army
2015 Protests in Arbat and Darabandikhan, KRG and Nasiriya
and Amara over lack of services and
electricity
2018 Protest in Samawa and 2nd day of sit ins
outside of West Qurna 1 and Burjisiya oil fields in Basra
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