1917 British captured Ottoman fort at Khadairi Bend in
campaign to recapture Kut
1948 PM Jabr forced to resign over protests over Anglo-Iraq
treaty organized by Communists
Regent also against Jabr
(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)
1948 Sayid Mohammed al-Sadr replaced Jabr as PM
1953 Jamil al-Midfai became PM for 5th time
1982 King Hussein said Jordanian troops would be sent to
Iraq to help in Iran-Iraq War
1987 Iran Op Karbala 5 crossed Jassim Canal in Basra with 3
days of human wave attacks
(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 Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(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 Iraq launched probing attack upon Saudi city of Khafji
occupying it
2002 Bush State of Union called Iraq part of Axis of Evil
Said it still had WMD programs Iran and
North Korea added to Axis of Evil
speech because Bush admin didn’t want to be seen as focusing upon Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Future The
aftermath of regime change)
(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 UN Amb Negroponte said Iraq bought aluminum tubes for
nuke program
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said Iraq had a nuke weapons program
and tried to buy uranium from Africa
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Sec State Powell Chief of Staff Wilkerson went over
info to be used in Powell speech to UN at CIA
HQ
2003 State’s Wilkerson rejected using Cheney Chief of
Staff’s briefing as basis for Sec Sate Powell’s UN
speech CIA Dir Tenet said NIE on
Iraq should be used instead
2003 Aid groups warned that if Pentagon ran postwar Iraq
many international donors would be
reluctant to give relief
(Musings
On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco
by David Phillips)
2004 NatlSecAdv Rice said what US predicted about Iraq WMD
before war not what found
afterward Rice said Saddam deceived
US and world about his WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a
War)
2004 State Dept said failure to find out about Iraq’s WMD
was not US failure but international
one
2004 Ex-Iraq Survey Group head Kay told Bush Saddam wanted
Iraqis to believe country had
WMD when it didn't Kay said he
thought Saddam destroyed his WMD stocks because too easy to find Bush asked Kay
why Saddam didn’t admit he had no WMD
Kay said Saddam wanted fear to stop revolts by Shiites and Kurds
2005 RAND Corp Iraq became center for jihadist cause and
cause of terrorism in rest of world
2005 Human Rights Watch US Abu Ghraib prison scandal became
recruitment tool for terrorists
2006 Al Qaeda sent 2nd letter to Ansar al-Sunnah
saying it sent representative to Iraq to work out
issues with Al Qaeda in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2006 Sharia Committee for the Army of the Followers of the
Sunnah and the Collective joined
Mujahedeen Shura Council Emir of
group was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s group
2006 Report after US made deal with sheikhs in Ramadi
against Al Qaeda in Iraq in mid-Jan 3
sheikhs assassinated leading tribes
to retaliate against AQI
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq article on change in perceptions that led to Awakening)
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Sheriff of
Ramadi, Nvy SEALS and the Winning of Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
2006 Report 3 Islamist insurgent groups once aligned with Al
Qaeda in Iraq in Ramadi broke with it
2006 National Security Adviser Rubaie said Al Qaeda in Iraq
feuding with Islamic Army and
Mujahedeen Army
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
2007 Report US officials skeptical whether PM Maliki would
back Surge and go after Sadr US didn't tell
Maliki about raids on Sadrists
because he would try to stop them Maliki got US to release arrested Sadrists US
intelligence tapped Maliki’s conversation and confirmed he was telling his
advisers he would back Surge
2008 PM Maliki refused to have officials close to him be
investigated for corruption
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
Stuart Bowen on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with anti-graft US official Vincent Foulk)
2008 Suspicious fires at Central Bank of Iraq and Labor
Ministry Some MPs claimed this was to destroy
documents implicating officials in
corruption
2008 Iraqi Red Crescent reported 46,000 refugees returned to
Iraq Driving up housing prices in Baghdad
Many couldn’t return to their homes
because demographics changed during civil war and militia control
(Musings
On Iraq book review Children of War, Voices
Of Iraqi Refugees)
(Musings On Iraq
Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2010 PM Blair testified to Chilcot Inquiry that Saddam was a
threat to the world that had to be dealt
with That if Iraq wasn’t invaded in
2003 world would have to deal with Saddam later and could have been more
difficult Said 9/11 changed perceptions of Iraq in both US and England
(Musings
On Iraq Was Iraq An Imminent Threat To The West?)
2018 Parliament voted to end sanctions on banks doing
business in Kurdistan and sent $210 mil in
salaries for KRG’s Health and
Education Ministry workers
(Musings
On Iraq article on Baghdad-Irbil reconciliation moves)
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