1940 Report to UK cabinet said PM Gaylani had to be dealt
with because of contacts with
Germany and refusal to sever ties
with Italy
1940 UK Chiefs of Staff recommended removing Gaylani via
diplomatic moves
(Musings
On Iraq book review Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria
1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1956 Iraq filed complaint with England over Suez Crisis and
imposed martial law to try to stop
protests
1963 Wandawi head of Baathist National Guard dismissed in
fallout between nationalist and
Baathist coup members
1978 Iraq hosted anti-Sadat conference to oppose
Egypt-Israel peace treaty
1982 Iranian Op Holy Muharram attacked Maysan Iranians
changed strategy from human wave
attacks to infiltration Iranian Rev
Guard division and extra battalions snuck through Iraqi lines at border
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Vanguard of the
Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1983 Sec of State Schultz told Iraq using chemical weapons
almost every day in Iran-Iraq War
(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 article on the origins of Iraq’s WMD programs)
(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)
1990 Bush authorized offensive planning and preparations for
Gulf War
(Musings
On Iraq book review from storm to
Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein,
Deciding on Conflict)
2000 UK intel report said Saddam had no reason to work with
UN because felt US would never end
sanctions as long as he was in
power
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 1.2 UK Iraq strategy September 2000 To
September 2001)
2002 UnderSec State Bolton told conference if Iraq got
fissile material it could have a nuclear bomb
in a year
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
2002 UN Head inspectors Blix and El Baradei visited Bush and
VP Cheney at White House Bush said
inspections had full US backing
(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)
2003 UN withdrew most of its staff after Zarqawi bombing
2003 Asst Cmdr 1st Armored Div Gen Hertling said
that the insurgency was faltering
2003 Zarqawi truck bomb hit Italian Carabinieri HQ in
Nasiriya killing 14
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2003 Bush said former regime members and foreigners behind
insurgency but US would not quit
2005 Bush and PM Blair agreed Sunni outreach before Dec
election main priority
2007 Report Baghdad’s Rasheed used to be majority Sunni Now
70% Shiite Hurriya home to many Shiites
driven out of Adil by insurgents
Sunnis expelled from Hurriya Sunni cleansing of Ghazaliya largely ended due to
US presence
(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 PM Maliki govt took over control of Baghdad Sahwa Said
would pay and integrate them Same
time cut paycheck
(Musings
On Iraq article on Maliki govt taking over Sahwa)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Maliki govt integration of Sahwa)
(Musings
On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
2008 Intl Org for Migration report Before Feb 06 Samarra
bombing 1.2 mil displaced Afterward another 1.5
displaced
(Musings
On Iraq article on IOM displacement report)
2013 Iraq said it supported Geneva II meeting to arrange
political transition in Syria for Assad to
step down
2016 Mosul entered by Iraqi forces for first time starting
with eastern neighborhoods
2017 Pres Barzani stepped down from office he held since
2005 due to failed independence referendum
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Great
Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2017 Iraq Joint Ops Command accused Kurds of walking out on
talks over borders and border crossings
2018 Protests restarted in Basra over water crisis jobs and
better governance
(Musings
On Iraq article on renewed Basra protests)
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