1916 Ottomans retreated 10 mil up Tigris after defeat of
Battle of Sheikh Saad and were
beaten again by British at Battle
of Wadi
1968 6 ministers from Pres Arif’s govt resigned after
anti-govt protests demanded return to
democracy
1972 Bakr govt said it would take power away from Iraq
Petroleum Company
1983 Report China was supplying both Iraq and Iran with
weapons during Iran-Iraq War
1987 Iran Op Karbala 5 Used night attack to advance 2 miles
towards Basra city Caused 1000 Iraqi
casualties Iran accused Iraq of
using poison gas to repulse attack Iranian casualties so high called for
volunteers
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1987 Iran started Op Karbala 6 in Qasr-e-Shirin central Iran
to divert Iraqi forces from Basra Goal
was to seize Mandali Diyala Freed
100 sq mi of Iranian land
(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)
1991 UN Sec Gen deCuellar went to Baghdad to try to avert
Gulf War
1993 US UK and France carried out air and missile strikes on
Iraq for not cooperating with UN
inspectors
1998 Iraqis objected to UN inspectors having too many
Americans and British and refused
cooperation until team changed
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq article on how US used UN inspectors to spy on Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iraq In The
Eye of the Storm)
2003 Bush met Saudi Amb Bandar Gave assurance that US would
remove Saddam
2003 Bush told Sec State Powell he’d decided on war and
needed his support Powell said he would back
president Powell reminded Bush that
if US invaded Iraq it would have to run the country
(Musings
On Iraq book review Wanting War: Why
the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein,
Deciding on Conflict)
2003 Sec State Powell decided he had to play out diplomacy
with Iraq at UN despite Bush’s decision to go
to war
2003 NSA Dir Adm Hayden ordered decentralization of intel so
that it could be distributed to
combat units during Iraq invasion
2003 PM Blair TV speech said Iraq could give WMD to
terrorists and US and UK could act against Iraq
without 2nd UN
resolution
2003 Lord Goldsmith told PM Blair and Foreign Sec Straw that
there needed to be a 2nd UN resolution
against Iraq to go to war
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 State Dept intel analyst told other analysts Iraq-Niger
uranium docs were probably fake 2
CIA analysts said they saw problems
with docs but didn’t think they were fakes
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 UnderSecDef Feith called ex-Gen Jay Garner to run
postwar Iraq and he accepted 2 months
before invasion
(Musings
On Iraq article on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of
Defense Takes Charge)
2003 IAEA head El Baradei said inspectors needed a few
months to finish work 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)
2004 US soldier in 800th Military Police reported
abuse by his unit at Abu Ghraib prison and
handed over photos
2004 CPA meeting decided it had to push forward with its
sovereignty transition plan despite
Ayatollah Sistani’s objections
(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)
2005 Fmr Sec State Baker said US occupation of Iraq
undermined US support for war and made
US look imperialist in Middle East
2005 Ayatollah Sistani representative assassinated in
Baghdad
2005 US National Intelligence Council Iraq became new
terrorist training ground in world
replacing Afghanistan
2006 Report after US forces handed over Saddam palace in
Tikrit in Nov 2005 Iraqi forces and
Salahaddin officials looted facilities
2008 Sadrists Iraqiya, National Dialogue List signed
agreement to maintain national control of Iraq’s oil
and oppose independent Kurdish oil
contracts Nothing came of agreement
2009 Spec Insp Gen Iraq Recon report Found projects over
budget little oversight potential of
projects unfulfilled Warned Iraqis
not willing or capable of maintaining many US funded projects KBR worked on
$146 mil project to improve gas plants in south Brought rotors for gas
compressors but didn’t install them Iraqis had no plans to install rotors Plant
working at under capacity as a result Jan 05 Iraq ordered KBR to stop project
to improve loading arms at Basra Oil Terminal Didn't want project and didn’t
maintain improvements KBR made at facility US built power plant in Baghdad that
Iraqis abandoned because turbines broke because Iraqis couldn’t operate them
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraqis Unwilling Or Incapable Of Maintaining U.S.
Reconstruction Projects)
2010 Joint Iraq-Peshmerga-US checkpoints opened in Diyala’s
disputed territories to increase
cooperation amongst parties
(Musings
On Iraq article Joint Iraq-Peshmerga-U.S. Patrols Begin in Disputed
Territories)
2014 Tribal Military Council tried to unite all the
insurgent groups in Fallujah
2018 Dawa announced members could run separate in elections
PM Abadi formed Nasr VP Maliki
would run with State of Law
(Musings
On Iraq article on Dawa’s decision to allow PM Abadi and VP Maliki to run
separate in 2018 elections)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with IRIS-Chatham House’s Mansour on 2018 elections)
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