1978 Pres Assad visited Baghdad 1st time to talk
about unifying Iraq and Syria Issued
unification declaration
1980 Iraq took city center in Khorramshahr and declared it
taken Fighting continued for four more
days
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1984 US Info Service reopened office in Baghdad Closed since
1958 in first step to reestablish formal
relations between US and Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Saddam Tapes)
1986 Iraq-Saudi pipeline opened
1997 KDP launched offensive against PUK ending last
ceasefire in civil war
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
2002 Pentagon’s Policy Counterterrorism Group briefed
Rumsfeld on Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2002 Rumsfeld told press Policy Counterterrorism Group was
not an intel unit
2002 Intel officials complained to press that Pentagon
politicizing intel on Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 US secured $13 bil in aid and loans from allies for
Iraq at Madrid conference
2003 Maysan police chief assassinated by a local political
faction
2005 Palestine Hotel and Sheraton Ishtar Hotel in Baghdad
hit by truck bombs
2006 US Cmdr Gen Casey and Amb Khalilzad announced new
timetable for US goals in Iraq Said
ISF should take over security in
12-18 months Govt had to demobilize and integrate Shiite militias, Draft bill
to divide oil revenues End deBaathification Hold provincial elections Revise
constitute Set no date for when goals had to be achieved or any consequences
for not meeting them
2006 SCIRI head Hakim gave sermon in Baghdad calling for 8-9
province federal region in south
Said would not mean partitioning of
Iraq Condemned a strong central govt Said southern region supported by history
when south was Basra province in Ottoman era
(Musings
On Iraq history of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq)
2006 US forces cordoned off Sadr City after US soldier went
missing there Violence dropped 50% in
district as
a result
2007 Fighting broke out between Mahdi Army and Badr in
Karbala despite Sadr’s freeze on his militia
and peace deal between Sadr and
Hakim signed Oct 6 City was shut off to try to keep militias out Each accused
the other of being an Iranian tool
2008 2 Iranian agents intercepted attempting to infiltrate
into Wasit One killed one arrested Were
allegedly planning military
operations in Iraq 2nd such incident in Oct
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iranian infiltration into Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2014 Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhr finally cleared after a dozen
attempts All civilians forced out of city and
not allowed to return Turned into
Hashd base
2017 2 clashes between ISF and Hashd vs Peshmerga in
Fishkhabur Dohuk Kurds afraid Baghdad was
attempting to seize its pipeline to
Turkey after independence referendum
(Musings
On Iraq Baghdad Ups Ante Attempting To Seize Control Of Kurds’ Oil
Pipeline)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Great
Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2018 Parliament voted on 14 of PM Abdul Mahdi’s 22
candidates for cabinet
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