1917 Start of Battle of Hai
salient between British and Ottomans
1928 Abdul Sadoun become premier for 3rd time
Replaced Askari who was forced to resign over
opposition to his conscription plan
for army
1972 Kurds started rebellion against govt with support of
US, Iran, Israel
(Musings
On Iraq book review Killing Hope,
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)
(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)
1999 Newsweek report Iraq and Al Qaeda had meetings
2003 UK naval task force left for Persian Gulf for Iraq invasion
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers met
Saudi Amb to US Bandar to get Saudi
support for invasion Bandar told
Rumsfeld and Gen Myers he needed Bush’s word to get Saudi support
2003 CIA report Iraqi missile brigade outside Baghdad given
missiles to hide from UN inspectors
some with WMD agents Report used in
Sec State Powell’s Feb 03 UN speech
2004 Ayatollah Sistani rejected CPA’s plans for transition
to Iraqi sovereignty and constitution
(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)
2004 PM Blair told BBC he didn’t know whether he was wrong
or not about Iraq’s WMD
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2004 Kurdish party headquarters
bombed in Kirkuk city
2004 Fmr Treasury Sec O’Neill
said Bush admin was focused upon Saddam from when it entered
office Jan 2001
2006 Supreme Council head Hakim ruled out any substantive
changes to Iraqi constitution
Blamed US and Sunni parties for
insurgency claiming they encouraged terrorism
(Musings
On Iraq history of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq)
2006 Spanish police broke up recruiting network that raised
money and sent fighters to Iraq in
coordination with Al Qaeda in Iraq
2007 Sec State Rice announced provincial reconstruction
teams to head new US civilian effort to
rebuild Iraq’s govt economy and
civil society to aid Surge
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Savage on US reconstruction effort in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Reconstructing
Iraq’s Budgetary Institutions)
2007 US arrested 5 Iranian Rev Guard Quds Force operatives
in Irbil as part of new US crackdown
on Iranians Were trying to arrest
Jafari deputy head of Iran’s NSC and Gen Frouzanda head of IRGC intelligence Sec
State Rice warned Iran and Syria to stop destabilizing Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
(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 KRG complained about raid Jafari and Frouzanda had
invitations from Pres Talabani and
were to meet Pres Barzani
2007 Joint Chief head Gen Pace accused Iran of sending
weapons to Iraq that were killing US
soldiers
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
2007 Dawa and ISCI MPs voiced opposition to US troop Surge
2008 Report Unpublished UN paper said 1000s detained in KRG
for political crimes Govt contracts given
to political allies and friends in
patronage networks
2010 US general said 10,000 Sahwa had gotten jobs in ISF and
30,000 were employed in ministries
Left 78,000 unintegrated
(Musings
On Iraq More Sons of Iraq Integrated While Others Walk Off The Job In
Diyala)
2011 State of Law head of Baghdad council wrote law banning
alcohol sales in province under
Islamic Law Police started raiding
bars and clubs selling alcohol including Iraqi Writers Union
2016 After suicide bombing at café Hashd killed Sunnis
burned mosques shops and homes in
Muqdadiya for several days
(Musings
On Iraq article on Hashd revenge attacks in Muqdadiya)
2018 Alliances for 2018 parliamentary elections announced
Nishtiman 3 Kurdish opposition
parties Abadi Nasr list with ISCI
Sunni alliances Speaker Jabouri VP Allawi Mutlaq lead one VP Nujafi Jamal
Karbuli Khamis Khanjar the other 20 pro-Iran Hashd led by Badr’s Amiri formed
Fatah Hakim’s Hikmat and Sadr along with Communists running separately
(Musings
On Iraq article on alliances in 2018 elecitons)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with IRIS-Chatham House’s Mansour on 2018 elections)
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