1921 Gertrude Bell wrote that
British officers in Mosul province thought they could
convince Kurds
to vote for Feisal as king in referendum They didn’t
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell
And Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Gertrude Bell,
Explorer of the Middle East)
1970 3 coup plotters executed by
Pres Bakr govt
1970 Iraq expelled Iranian ambassador accusing Tehran of
backing 1970 failed coup
1991 Iraqi SCUD missile and 2 U.S. Patriot missiles landed
on Israeli city of Ramat Gan
1991 Iraqi forces set fire to 700 Kuwaiti oil wells
2002 Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz memo to Undersec Def Feith that
Pentagon was not finding intel on Iraq-Al
Qaeda links and said Sec Def
Rumsfeld should get some analysis on issue
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 2nd meeting of US UK Australia on postwar
Iraq Little came of meeting
2003 CIA sent its report on Iraq WMD to White House to help
make case for war
2003 CIA analyst told IAEA aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy
were for centrifuges IAEA said they
were for rockets IAEA proved right
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2004 VP Cheney said Iraq had mobile labs and WMD programs
Inspections found no mobile labs
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2004 VP Cheney said overwhelming evidence Saddam linked to
Al Qaeda Said Iraq behind 1993 World
Trade Center bombing Based upon
Laurie Mylroie conspiracy theories
(Musings
On Iraq article on Mylroie’s Iraq conspiracy theories)
2005 Report $300 mil for arms deal for Iraqi army went
missing after put on plane for Lebanon
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen
on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption
in Iraq)
2005 INC’s Chalabi accused Defense Min Shaalan of stealing
the $300 mil Shaalan threatened to
arrest Chalabi for the charge
2006 Report 34,131 attacks in 2005 up from 26,496 in 2004
Car bombs went from 420 in 2004 to
873 in 2005 IEDs went from 5,607 in
2004 to 10,953 in 2005
2007 PM Maliki announced he would no longer protect the
Mahdi Army from US raids Didn’t happen
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2007 Mayor of Sadr City Daraji had 2nd of 2
meetings with UK Gen Lamb on working out
understanding with militias to
prevent confrontations in district Militias were afraid of major US operation
in Sadr City as part of Surge Sadrists backed Daraji’s effort
2008 Mahdi Army tried to kidnap PM Maliki’s national
security adviser Mowafaq Rubaie in Baghdad
2008 Oil Min blacklisted companies that signed oil deals
with Kurdistan
2011 Kirkuk made deal with Electricity Min that province
would get larger power quota Would
still not meet demand Governor had
cut off power line to Baghdad and kept electricity for province
(Musings
On Iraq article on Kirkuk-Electricity Min deal)
(Musings
On Iraq article on power problems in Kirkuk)
2012 Iraq voted in Arab League for a transition of power in
Syria away from Assad
2015 Coalition air strike killed Abu Ans Samarraie IS’s
governor for Anbar He was responsible for
executing
hundreds of members of the Albu Nimr tribe
(Musings
On Iraq article on death of IS leaders)
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