1922 Sir Herbert Samuel proposed UK create Arab state of
Iraq Hijaz Palestine Trans-Jordan
maybe Najd Samuel believed Arab state
would contain pan-Arabism and contain fears of increased Jewish presence in
Palestine
1932 Shiite leaders told Yasin
Hashemi they would back him for PM if they got majority of cabinet
posts
1973 Govt offered new autonomy plan for Kurds but rejected
by Mustafa Barzani and KDP
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1981 Iranian Op Matla al-Fajar attacked Qasr e-Shirin area
in center across from Diyala Took Geilan
Zarb and Sar e-Pol e-Zahab
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1983 Iraq fired missiles at 6 Iranian cities killing 24 and
wounding 283
(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)
1983 Dawa members including Abu Muhandis working for Iran
set off 5 bombs at US and French
embassies and other targets in
Kuwait killing 6 wounding 80 Was retaliation for US and French air attacks in
Lebanon
1996 Uday Hussein seriously injured in assassination attempt
in Baghdad by Nahdah opposition group
2001 Gen Franks briefed Def Sec Rumsfeld on invasion
preparations and estimated costs with start time in
spring 2002
(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)
2003 US Special Forces captured Mohammed Musslit who led
them to Saddam
2003 CPA adv Diamond told Natl Sec Adv Rice that US should
include UN in CPA’s plans to create
new Iraqi
govt Could alleviate Sistani’s demands for elections
(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 Pentagon audit found Halliburton overcharged $61 mil
for delivering fuel to Iraq
2003 US guards at Abu Ghraib prison took pictures of
themselves abusing Iraqi prisoners
2005 DIA report Insurgents recruiting networking training in
Iraqi prisons Could be more dangerous
after release
2005 Def Sec Rumsfeld told US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey and US
Iraq Amb Khalizad insurgents networking in
Iraqi jails
2005 Report early 05 Islamist insurgents met with Al Qaeda
in Iraq asking for a joint command Al
Qaeda in Iraq said no wanting
control
2005 2nd meeting of Anbar Gov Alwani sheikhs and
US Focused upon how to secure province
Decided creating police would be
foundation of effort
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar Gov Alwani)
2005 Anbar security council met with Gen Casey and Def Min
Dulaimi Council rejected Al Qaeda in Iraq
agreed to work with Baghdad and US
Agreed to recruiting tribesmen into ISF
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Confronting Al
Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Marines
Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Illusions of
Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2006 Report US pushing for new ruling coalition that would
exclude Sadr Would include Kurds
Accordance Front SIIC PM Maliki was
standoffish because Sadr put him in office and was afraid new coalition would
replace him as PM
2006 Bush told NSC he was not going to announce Surge until
Jan 07 Wanted new Def Sec Gates in
office
2006 American Enterprise Institute released report on war by
Frederick Kagan, Kenneth Pollack,
Gen. Keane Called for troop surge
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the
Surge)
2006 Out going US ground forces cmdr Gen Chiarelli said Iraq
couldn’t be won militarily Was frustrated
that was only thing US focusing on
Said Iraqi police infiltrated more by militias then he thought and would take
longer to remove them Said bringing down unemployment in Iraq should have been
a US priority
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2006 Car bomb in central Iraq targeted day laborers killed
71 and wounded 236
2007 3 car bombs in Amara killed 42 and wounded 125
Sadrist-ISCI rivalry suspected cause
2009 Iraq ended 2nd auction for international
energy companies to invest in oil fields 4 more bids
accepted for total of 7 Oil Min
Shahristani claimed Iraq could reach 12 mil/bar/day in capacity in 6 yrs Would
reach a quarter of that mark
(Musings
On Iraq Will New Oil Deals Provide Jobs For Iraqis?)
(Musings
On Iraq 2nd Round of Bidding On Iraq’s Oil Fields Ends As A
Success)
2009 PM Blair said he would still have removed Saddam
without WMD and that Saddam was a threat to
world no matter what
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings
On Iraq Hangs Blix Replies To Tony Blair)
2009 PM Maliki questioned by parliament over Baghdad
bombings starting in August MPs complained
about lack of coordination by ISF
2011 Nat Sec Adv Fayad announced NATO training mission would
end close of 2011 because govt
would not grant trainers immunity
(Musings
On Iraq article on ending NATO training mission)
2012 Diyala council voted to hold a referendum on turning
province into a region
2013 Iraq signed $1.1 bil deal to buy 24 FA-50 light fighter
jets from South Korea
2013 Parliamentarian called on govt to stop blockading
Tarmiya Baghdad Said town had been on
lockdown for over a week
2013 Sheikh Dulaimi assassinated north of Ramadi in spate of
attacks against Anbar notables
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar violence)
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