1918 UK PM George asked Fr PM Clemenceau to renegotiate
Sykes-Picot giving Mosul to British UK
got France to agree to give it most
of Mosul in return France got stake in Iraqi oil and Syria
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation
of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Creation of
Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Supremacy And
Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1971 Iraq broke relations with Iran and UK Expelled Iranian
nationals Turned to Soviet Union for
support Iraq argued with Iran over
Shatt al-Arab and Tehran funding and arming Kurds in alliance with US and
Israel
(Musings
On Iraq book review Killing Hope,
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Great
Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Nixon admin support for Kurdish revolt)
1987 Iran attacked Fakeh area north of Basra
(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)
1997 Weekly Standard special issue on removing Saddam
featured neoconservative writers like
Wolfowitz Khalilzad Kagan
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review America at the
Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)
2000 UK Intel report Iraq contained but if sanctions ended
Saddam would start rebuilding WMD
programs
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 1.2 UK Iraq strategy September 2000 To
September 2001)
2001 Def Sec Rumsfeld issued order to Joint Chiefs to begin
revising war planning for Iraq CENTCOM
cmdr Gen Franks was only given 3
days to revise Iraq war plan and present it to Rumsfeld
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Shaping the
Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The
Decision To
Invade Iraq)
2001 NY Times article quoted Dep Sec State Armitage saying
US was going to force Iraq to allow
UN inspectors to return Said White
House looking into options to support Iraqi opposition groups
2003 Iraq physicist book claimed Iraq never rebuilt nuclear
program after 90s and US exaggerated
threat Said Iraq never close to
building a nuclear bomb
2004 KDP and PUK announced Kurdistan Coalition for Jan 2005
elections
2004 Report US Army warned Dec 03 that military-CIA Task
Force 121 searching for WMD abused
Iraq prisoners
2004 US announced it would increase troops from 138,000 to
150,000 for Jan 2005 elections
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2005 Kurdistan Islamic Union sent letter to Dohuk govt
saying they wanted security for
planned KDP
demonstrations at their offices
2006 Report State Dept proposed dropping reconciliation
because not going to happen and US
should just focus upon Shiites and
Kurds Amb Khalilzad and US military opposed proposal Said bringing insurgents
into poltical process critical and US couldn’t be seen as taking sides in civil
war
2007 Iraqi Red Crescent 25,000-28,000 Iraqi refugees returned
from Syria since 9/15/07
(Musings
On Iraq book review Children of War,
Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2009 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq ended talks with PM Maliki over
running in 2010 elections because leader
Qais Khazali not released
(Musings
On Iraq League Of Righteous Breaks Off talks With Baghdad)
2013 Fallujah protest leader Sheikh Khalid Hamoud al-Juamili
assassinated
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar violence)
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