This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 12

1920 Tribes lost Rwairij to British during 1920 Revolt Led to clerics in Karbala to begin to surrender

(Musings On Iraq book review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)

1957 Meeting at Ayatollah Muhsin Hakim’s house founding Dawa Party

(Musings On Iraq Interview with Lowy Institution’s Shanahan on history of the Dawa Party)

1958 Gen Qasim sent Arif to Germany as Iraq’s ambassador to eliminate him as opponent

1973 Israeli 210^th Div attacked Iraqi forces in Syria Destroyed 20 Iraqi tanks and forced withdrawal

Later in day Israeli and Iraqi tanks re-engaged forcing Israelis to withdraw 3^rd engagement between Israelis and Iraqis forced Iraqis to withdraw

1973 Israel sent in paratroops 250km into Syria to disrupt Iraqi reinforcements moving to front and

stopped their advance

1984 Saddam told Arabic newspaper he was ready to reestablish diplomatic relations with U.S.

1994 SCIRI claimed clashes between Iraqi forces and opposition in Diwaniya

2001 Jim Hoagland Wash Post OpEd quoted INC defector Khodada that Iraq training terrorists on

            hijacking airplanes at Salman Pak implying 9/11 connection

2002 Report questioned Bush’s claim Iraq still working on nuke program based upon ex-nuke scientist

Hamza Former UN inspector Albright said Hamza exaggerated Albright said he talked with nuclear experts at Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore who didn’t believe aluminum tubes were for Iraq’s nuclear program

(Musings On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its nuclear weapons program)

(Musings On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)

2003 Zarqawi hit Baghdad Hotel with suicide car bomb 8 dead 32 wounded

(Musings On Iraq book review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2004 Ayatollah Sistani fatwa called on followers to register to vote Aides to set up offices to help

people with process

2004 4 Sadr leaders including Qais Khazali and Hadi al-Darraji refused to follow ceasefire ending 2^nd

Battle of Najaf

2005 Report Iraq army’s 1^st Bgd 6^th Div carrying out sectarian raids and attacks on Sunnis in WBaghdad

2005 UK paper said draft constitution put off major issues that would risk a weak Iraqi govt

(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)

2006 Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace said Iraq forces increasing but violence going up Contradicted US

strategy for Iraq

2006 US military said attacks on Coalition up from 14 per day at start of Aug 06 to 36 per day

            in mid-Sep 06

2006 New UK Army Chief Gen Dannatt said England should withdraw its forces because only

            causing problems in Iraq Called PM Blair’s Iraq policies “naïve”

(Musings On Iraq Book Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq’s Mujahedeen Shura Council joined 6 tribes to create Mutayibeen Coalition

2006 Special Insp Gen for Iraq Recon found major problems with construction of Mosul Police HQ

Didn’t have number of contracted facilities like toilets Tree was cemented over and included in foundation

2006 Sunni parties criticized passage of federalism law SCIRI’s Hakim attacked them as Baathists

Saddamists and Takfiris

(Musings On Iraq book review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

2006 Men in police uniforms attacked Shaabiya TV station Executed 11 workers

2010 Turkey opened consulate in Irbil as part of improved relations with KRG

2014 IS magazine Dabiq article justified enslavement of Yazidis

2017 Iraqi joint forces crossed Kurdish lines in southern Kirkuk Told Peshmerga to vacate their

positions Disputed reports over whether Iraqi forces and Peshmerga shot at each other in southern Kirkuk

(Musings On Iraq article on Kurds withdrawal from disputed areas)

(Musings On Iraq Escalation In Iraq Continues After KRG Referendum, The Kirkuk Challenge)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

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