This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 13

1973 Continued fighting between Israeli and Iraqi forces in Syria

1996 PUK counterattacked Recaptured Sulaymaniya from KDP with Iranian support Baghdad made deal

with Iran to allow PUK back into Kurdistan to counter KDP

1997 Heavy fighting restarted between KDP and PUK during civil war

(Musings On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A Modern History)

2000 Iran’s Foreign Minister Kharrazi visited Iraq for 3 days Highest ranking Iranian official to visit

Iraq since 1979 Revolution After Karrazi’s trip Iran announced Iran and Iraq would re-open discussion on border and POW issue largely ended

2004 PM Blair told parliament that Iraq Study Group proved Saddam wanted WMD and violated UN

resolutions

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

2004 Mass grave with hundreds of Kurds killed by Saddam in 1987-88 discovered in Hatra Ninewa

2004 PM Allawi said that if Fallujah didn't turn over Zarqawi would be major operation to take city

City council refused to do so

(Musings On Iraq book review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq book review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)

2006 Mujahedeen Shura Council became ISI Announced Islamic State in Baghdad Anbar Diyala

Kirkuk Salahaddin Ninewa Babil

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

2006 New ISI announced Abu Omar al-Baghdadi emir of Islamic State

(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on who was Abu Omar al-Baghdadi)

2006 Report splits within ISI between Zarqawi’s lieutenants and followers of military chief Masri

2006 Interior Min Bolani said he had PM Maliki’s backing to purge ministry of sectarian actors Same time

denied its forces were involved in sectarian killings Blamed Facilities Protection Service and imposters using police uniforms

2006 Report Talk of PM Maliki stepping down and 5 man council ruling Iraq and declaring martial

law

2006 Report Sadr complained about Shiite death squads using the name of Mahdi Army and backed

by Iranian Rev Guard and Hezbollah

2006 Insurgents kidnapped 26 Shiite workers from Balad Bodies were found decapitated in neighboring

Dhuluiya Was retaliation for ISI commander being killed in Balad Shiite elders in Balad called on Mahdi Army in Baghdad to send fighters to take revenge

2015 PM Abadi cabinet approved new pay scale for govt workers to cut costs pushed as reform move Led

to protests by civil workers

(Musings On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)

2015 KRG PM Barzani removed four Gorran ministers from KRG cabinet

2017 PUK Peshmerga withdrew from areas of Bashir and Taza in south Kirkuk ceding territory to Iraqi

forces

(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)

2017 PM Abadi gave Kurds 48 hours to vacate territory military bases oil fields occupied in 2014 by

Peshmerga

2017 Fighting broke out between Peshmerga and Hashd in Tuz Kharmato again

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

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