1943 Iraq declared war on Axis
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
1948 Communists led protests against new Anglo-Iraq Treaty
Fired upon by police 4 killed Led to
large sectors of country to turn
against treaty
(Musings
On Iraq book review Red Star Over
Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview
with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
1981 UN Envoy Palme visited Iran and Iraq to try to
negotiate ceasefire in war
1987 Iran seized Bovarian Island Basra and caused 3000 Iraqi
casualties
(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 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1991 Operation Desert Storm-Gulf War started to expel Iraq
from Kuwait Coalition began air
campaign against Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq book review from storm to Freedom,
America’s Long War with Iraq)
1995 UN asked Iran to relocate 4,000 Shiite refugees away
from border which Iraq had claimed was
being used for base for attacks
1997 During peace talks PUK and KDP agreed to stop
displacing rivals from towns and allow
displaced to return home
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
2003 UN inspectors found 12 missile warheads that could
carry WMD not included in Iraq’s 2002
weapons declaration
(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 PM Blair told cabinet 2nd UN resolution was
not necessary for military action against Iraq even
though he was told it was
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Future ORHA head Garner met with Sec Def Rumsfeld and
UnderSecDef Feith Rumsfeld said no
coordination on postwar planning
and Garner had to work that out Garner said in WWII US spent years planning for
postwar and he was only given a few weeks for Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq and Back,
Inside The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of
Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq Only 3 of 13 Reconstruction Contracts Were Signed Before War)
2003 CIA received docs claiming Iraq-Niger uranium deal Sent
to State Dept to be translated
Turned out to be fakes
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 UnderSecDef Feith memo to Sec Def Rumsfeld said
Iraq-Syria pipeline should be kept open after
invasion to see whether Syria would
cooperate with US
2004 US military spokesman Gen Kimmit talked about
allegations and investigations into Abu
Ghraib prison abuse
2004 30,000 Protested in Basra against U.S. installing an
unelected provincial govt
2004 Report Shiite religious leaders on Iraqi Governing
Council wanted to end Saddam family laws
that protected women’s rights and
replace them with Sharia based ones Women protested move
(Musings
On Iraq Iraqi Women Before And After The 2003 Invasion Interview With Prof
Nadje Al-Ali Univ of London)
2006 Sheikh Fahadawi of Albu Fahd in Ramadi assassinated by
Al Qaeda in Iraq for talking with US
(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)
2007 Bush said that his Iraq policy was heading for slow
failure and that’s why he chose new
policy with Surge
2012 Baghdad complained to Turkey’s ambassador about Ankara
accusing PM Maliki of spreading
sectarianism Turkey did same to
Iraq’s ambassador to Ankara
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