1919 Churchill wrote Gen MacMunn commander in Mesopotamia
that his plan to reduce
troop by 120,000 by spring of 1920
needed to be vastly sped up and keeping that many troops would crush the
finances of Mesopotamia
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia)
1921 Gertrude Bell wrote King Faisal was unpopular and
resented for being installed by the British
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell
And Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Gertrude Bell,
Explorer of the Middle East)
1931 Iraqi newspaper called for one party rule under an
autocrat King Faisal
1967 Arif govt sent delegation to France to buy weapons
after defeat in 1967 Arab-Israeli War and
inability
to bring Kurdish revolt under control
1973 Baathist Naim Haddad named head of Progressive National
Patriotic Front with Communists
KDP and Baath
(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)
1980 Iraq began attacking Dezful Ahvaz Khorramshahr in
Khuzistan province
1980 Iraq shelled Abadan refinery largest in world Iran
retaliated with air raids on Iraqi oil facilities in Basra
Zubayr Mosul Kirkuk
1980 Iranian airstrike on Um Qasr driven off Iraq attacked
Bushehr sinking 4 Iranian navy ships Also
bombed some tankers trapped in
Shatt al-Arab
(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 Barzani and Talabani went to Baghdad to negotiate with
Saddam over governance in Kurdistan after
uprising
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1997 Op Dawn Turkey invaded Kurdistan to attack PKK
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
1997 UN inspectors found Iraqi Food and Drug Examination Lab
in Baghdad worked on gangrene since
1980s
1997 UN inspectors attempted to inspect Special Security
Office but denied
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Saddam Tapes)
(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 article Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N.
Inspections)
2002 Bush said couldn't distinguish between Al Qaeda and
Saddam in war on terror because they were
equally evil
(Musings
On Iraq book review Wanting War: Why
the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2002 Natl Sec Adv Rice told PBS NewsHour Iraq provided
chemical weapons training to Al Qaeda Came
from Al Qaeda cmdr Libi who made up
story under torture in Egypt
2002 DefSec Rumsfeld and CIA DepDir McLaughlin briefed NATO
defense ministers on Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2002 US and UK worked on draft UN resolution demanding
inspectors return to Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(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)
2002 National Intelligence Office for Strategic and Nuclear
Programs had analyst meeting to draft Natl Intel
Estimate on Iraq CIA and DIA
analysts at Natl Intel Estimate meeting said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy
were for centrifuges and that Iraq reconstitution nuclear program Energy and
State Dept analysts at Natl Intel Estimate meeting said tubes were for rockets
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
2003 Bush said 9/11 changed how he viewed Iraq as a threat
to US
2003 Sec State Powell announced 6 month deadline for Iraqis
to draft new constitution
2003 House Intel Comm wrote letter to CIA Dir Tenet
criticizing pre-war intel on Iraq’s WMD and Iraq-Al
Qaeda ties after review
2003 Baghdad hotel used as base for NBC News bombed 1 guard
killed
2003 UK intel report Said attacks increasing against
Coalition mostly aimed at US Attacks evolving
Getting more sophisticated Iraqis
working for Coalition being targeted Militias carrying out illegal arrests and
murders Al Qaeda in Iraq forming long term strategy to go after infrastructure
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2005 Ayatollah Sistani condemned violence in Iraq
2006 U.S. Joint Chiefs started review of Iraq strategy
2006 Report Iraq had replaced Afghanistan as main training
ground for terrorists Insurgents
from Iraq had gone to Afghanistan
and Pakistan and imported tactics such as car bombs
2006 Report ruling parties agreed to deal to delay
autonomous southern region plan for 18 months
2006 Report DIA found 2005 elections increased sectarian
tensions in Iraq Assessment by 50
counterinsurgency experts in August
found US forces relied too much on force alienating Iraqis
2006 Mujahadeen Shura Council issued statement saying it
could fight the Hamza battalions organized
by Albu Mahal tribe in Qaim because
they were enemies of Islam
2007 ISI bombed meeting of police sheikhs and leaders of
Hamas of Iraq and 1920 Revolution Brigades in
Baquba
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2007 PM Maliki told Council on Foreign Relations he had
stopped sectarian war in Iraq Said reconciliation
needed time Wanted long term US
military presence Said Iraq and Syria no longer interfering in Iraq and all
Iranian support for militias had ended Said Anbar Awakening were sons of Iraq
2007 2nd class of Sahwa in Abu Ghraib graduated
from police training Now 1,550 new police 1 policeman
complained Shiite Muthanna Brigade
in district were blocking sahwa from operating there
2007 US and ISF arrested 59 soldiers at Defense Ministry’s
military academy in Baghdad for carrying out
bombings kidnappings murders Dean
led gang at academy Killed academy’s director in 2005 New director was
kidnapped by group Received EFPs from Iran
2009 Report Sadr was attempting to reconcile with Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq before 2010 elections AAH was to
send delegation to Iran to meet
with Sadr
(Musings
On Iraq Sadr Tries To Reconcile With Breakaway Legue Of The Righteous)
2017 Kurds held independence referendum in three Kurdish
provinces and disputed areas they occupied in
2014
(Musings
On Iraq article on KRG referendum)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Great
Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
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