1913 Constantinople Protocol set new border between Ottomans
and Persia Ottomans kept
Shatt al-Arab waterway
1958 When rumors spread of a coup against Qasim Col Arif
returned to Iraq from Germany
1980 Saddam told parliament he knew war was bad but he had
no other choice
(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 review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1991 Iraqi army blocked all roads into Kurdistan starting
economic blockade
1992 Saddam told top Baath officials that election of Pres
Clinton might usher in better Iraq-US
relations
1998 NY indictment claimed Al Qaeda-Iraq had agreement not
to work vs Saddamand to cooperate
on weapons Indictment based on
intel that Al Qaeda and Iraq were working on weapons together in Sudan Charges
of Al Qaeda-Iraq cooperation were later dropped in indictment
1998 NSC counterterror dir Clarke sent memo to NalSecAdv
Berger saying Iraq WMD experts
were at Sudan factory probably
working with Al Qaeda
2001 Badr met with Shiite tribes loyal to SIIC Talked about
taking over government in southern Iraq after
a US invasion
2003 CPA meeting US military said unhappy with
deBaathification because driving Iraqis away
from US and free market reforms
that were laying off Iraqis that could be recruited into insurgency
2003 CPA officials suggested Transitional Admin Law as
interim constitution to bridge differences
between Bremer and Ayatollah
Sistani Sistani wanted Iraqis to elect body to write constitution Bremer wanted
indirect method
(Musings
On Iraq book review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam
Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the
Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2003 Iraqi prisoner was hooded placed on box wires attached
to him and told he would be
electrocuted by US jailers Abu
Ghraib
2003 Report Saddam made various overtures to US before war
but ignored by US as fakes or to
stall for time
2003 CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Abizaid told Blair’s foreign policy
adv Sir Sheinwald that insurgency
was growing in Sunni areas based
around former regime members backed by foreign fighters Said insurgency still
at low level and lacked support amongst Sunnis Abizaid said solution was to
increase Iraqi security forces reconciliation and passing sovereignty to Iraqis
2007 Court issued arrest warrants for Sadrist leaders in
Karbala blaming them for clash with Badr controlled
police in
city in Aug 07 Sadrists blamed SIIC saying they controlled the provincial govt
2007 Report 3100 families returned to Baghdad in 3 months
due to decreasing violence Some were
displaced, some came from Syria Numbers
were being inflated by govt
(Musings
On Iraq book review Children of War,
Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2007 60 Minutes found identity of CURVEBALL who claimed pre-03
that Iraq had mobile WMD labs Was
Rafid Ahmed Alwan who sought asylum
in Germany in 1998
(Musings
On Iraq article on how CURVEBALL influenced US intel on Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2009 2 Hezbollah members captured in Baghdad Hezbollah used
by Iran to support militias
(Musings
On Iraq Iranian Parliamentary Speaker’s Visit Raises Questions About
Tehran’s Influence In Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Hezbollah presence in Iraq)
2009 BP and CNPC singed deal to develop Rumaila oil field in
Basra
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq Moves Ahead With Oil Deals)
2017 Rawa in west Anbar freed
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