1914 British troops landed at Fao, Basra starting war against
Ottomans in Mesopotamia
1979 Iraq’s consulates in Iran’s Kermanshah and Khorramshahr
were occupied
1982 Iranian Op Muharram Iran seized several border
crossings Abu Shirib and Bayat oil fields in
Maysan Iraq counterattacked to try
to take back oil fields but failed Rain ended Iranian offensive Iran lost 4,000
dead Iraq lost 3,000 dead 3,500 prisoners
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1983 Iranian Op Wa al-Farj 4 Made 2nd major
attack Seized Penjwin KDPI HQ and moved towards
Sulaymaniya Was stopped by Iraqi
counterattack using mustard gas 1st use of chemical weapons in 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 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)
1990 SecState Baker convinced China to abstain on UN
resolution to allow use of force against
Iraq for Kuwait invasion
1994 Iran fired SCUD missiles at Mujahadeen e-Khalq camp in
Iraq
1998 Clinton admin sent letter to Congress saying US would
support Kurds as long as they
remained united
2002 UN told that Iraq cut back on oil smuggling but still
continuing in violation of UN sanctions
2002 Sec State Powell got ok from Natl Sec Adv Rice to make
deal with France on UN resolution
to allow UN inspections in Iraq
(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 Congress authorized $18.4 bil for Iraq reconstruction
2003 Bush speech If democracy failed in Iraq would be win
for terrorism and bad for Middle East
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Future The
aftermath of regime change)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Wanting War: Why
the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
2003 Report Saddam offered to allow US troops to search
country for WMD before invasion
2003 UK Foreign Sec Straw told cabinet that CPA’s political
plan needed changes and that British
should talk with US about it
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Bremer said that after meeting with Iraqi Governing
Council he realized that his long
term
political plan was dead Was actually due to White House
(Musings
On Iraq book review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the
Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2004 Fallujah police collapsed after night attack by
insurgents
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2005 Report Feb 2002 DIA said Al Qaeda captive Ibn al-Shaykh
al-Libi was misleading in
statements about Iraq-Al Qaeda
cooperation Libi continued to be source of Bush admin statements about Iraq-Al
Qaeda ties after it was believed he was making things up
2005 Report Italian intel SISMI appeared to be source for
both US and UK claim that Iraq tried to
buy uranium from Niger/Africa SISMI
got fake docs from informer Rocco Martino on alleged Iraq-Niger uranium deal
and then passed intel to other countries
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
2006 Def Sec Rumsfeld memo to White House Iraq not working
and needed change Said US should set
benchmarks for Iraqi govt Increases
trainers Imbed US forces with ISF Start closing US bases and slow US withdrawal
Only help Iraqi provinces that cooperate with US Stop rewarding Iraqis for bad
behavior Position US forces along Syrian and Iranian borders to stop
infiltrations
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2006 Report insurgent intimidation campaign against ISF and
officials in Fallujah U.S. officers
said not enough forces to secure
city
2007 US said it would release 9 Iranian Rev guard members it
captured in Iraq Said number of Iranian
weapons flowing to Iraq were down
due to US raids
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
(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)
2007 100,000 more Iraqis became displaced 16% increase according
to Iraq Red Crescent Displacement
up since
Surge Dep head of Red Crescent said PM Maliki had not given aid to displaced as
promised
(Musings On Iraq
Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2012 Pres Barzani called on Democratic Union Party and
Kurdish National Council to stop
fighting each other in Syria
2015 Friday sermon Ayatollah Sistani rep said Abadi’s
reforms should not be blocked
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2016 Iraqi forces freed Hamam al-Alil Ninewa
2017 Iraq Federal Court ruled no province could secede in
lawsuit against Kurdish independence
referendum
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Great
Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
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