1982 Saddam ordered increased attacks upon Iranian cities 3
SCUD missiles fired at Dezful
(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)
1984 Iraq restored diplomatic relations with US which ended
in Oct 1967
1992 Report before Gulf War Bush admin approved sale of
computers and software to Iraq that were
used on missile and supergun
programs
1992 Opposition meeting in Salahaddin Kurdistan called for
democratic and federal Iraq Made INC
umbrella organization with ethnosectarian
quotas
(Musings
On Iraq article on 1992 Salahaddin meeting)
1992 PUK KDP PKK signed ceasefire after PUK and KDP helped
Turks attack PKK
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
2002 US intel complained to press Pentagon using own intel
on Iraq and relying upon INC too
much
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Bremer returned to DC to discuss his long term plan for
Iraq which White House had turned
against
(Musings
On Iraq book review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the
Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld told Bremer of plan to return Iraq
sovereignty by Apr 04 Bremer said needed new
Iraqi govt and constitution 1st
2003 Bush at NSC meeting said US had to stay the course in
Iraq Gen Abizaid said US had to bring
back ex-Iraqi soldiers to rebuild
army Bremer said too risky Natl Sec Adv Rice said insurgency desperate and not
going to succeed
2003 Zarqawi bombed Red Cross HQ and 4 police stations in
Baghdad Sixth attack foiled 35 dead
and 244 injured at start of Ramadan
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2003 Saddam called on insurgents to attack Iraqi security
forces rather than US led coalition
2003 U.S.
military blamed foreign fighters for spate of Baghdad bombings Day before
denied foreign
fighters important in capital Said
insurgents were paying 10 times as much for people to carry out attacks against
US forces
2003 UnderSecDef Feith provided evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda
ties his office had collected to Senate
Intel Comm Feith told comm Iraqi
govt knew Zarqawi entered Iraq in 2002
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Bush told press that violence in Iraq desperate act and
sign that US was making progress
2004 Report number of IEDs being planted in Iraq went from
500 per months in May and June 04 to
1,000 by Oct 04
2005 Baghdad insurgent leader told Guardian he supported
voting on Constitution and opposed Al
Qaeda in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
2007 Gen Petraeus said ISI no longer had any strongholds in
central Baghdad Said ops in Baghdad Belt
responsible Said harder to root out
militias
2007 Report Winter 06 Sadiya Baghdad was being cleansed of
Sunnis by Mahdi Army and Interior Min’s
Wolf Brigade Half population fled
US troops arrived during Surge Were attacked by police US hired Sunnis into
police PM Maliki govt objected
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq
Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2008 Iranian agent arrested attempting to infiltrate into
eastern Basra 3rd such incident in Oct
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iranian infiltration into Iraq)
2011 Salahaddin council voted to start process to become a
federal region Maliki blocked move
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
2015 60 members of State of Law sent letter to PM Abadi
demanding answers about his reforms organized
by VP Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2017 Ceasefire announced between federal and Kurdish forces
to allow for talks 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)
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