1916 Battle of Sheikh Saad ended
with British beating the Ottomans
1917 Battle of Mohammed Abdul Hassan between Ottomans and
British
1917 British began assault upon Khadairi Bend fort
1921 Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon wrote Churchill
supporting Feisal for Iraq’s monarch
(Musings
On Iraq book review Inventing Iraq:
The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
1960 Communists applied for govt recognition Qasim accepted
party with exact same name to
shut Communists out Communists
didn’t know Qasim behind move and blamed other party
(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)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1987 Iran Op Karbala 5 began
attacking Fish Lake defensive line before Basra City
(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 The Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1990 Iraq opened 2nd oil pipeline with Saudi
Arabia
1991 Sec of State Baker met with Iraq For Min Aziz and
failed to end Kuwait crisis Bush sent
Baker to Baghdad to convince people
he was trying all options to resolve Kuwait crisis Baker warned Iraq not use to
use WMD in upcoming Gulf War Baker tried to give Aziz a letter from Bush to
Saddam but Aziz refused to take it
1991 Iraq said that if it was attacked it would strike
Israel
1991 Bush sent request to Congress to use force against Iraq
in Kuwait
(Musings
On Iraq book review from storm to
Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq)
2002 CENTCOM commander Gen Franks briefed Sec Def Rumsfeld
on latest war plan
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Shaping the
Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
2002 Sec State Powell called Gen Franks concerned that Sec
Def Rumsfeld was trying to push as small an Iraq
invasion force as possible
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Head UN weapons inspector Blix said no smoking gun
found in Iraq but didn’t mean there
were no WMD Said Iraq’s Dec weapons
declaration was incomplete
(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 IAEA head El Baradei said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to
buy were probably for rockets not
nuclear program
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 White House responded to IAEA Said Iraq spinning it
over aluminum tubes Said knew for
a fact that Iraq had WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Pentagon asked Jay Garner to head ORHA to run postwar
Iraq 2 months before invasion He
initially said no
2003 Gen Franks briefed Bush on war plan Talked about
Turkey’s refusal to allow in US troops
Franks worried about Jordan and
Saudi Arabia staying on board for war Franks said he’d be ready for invasion by
Feb 03 but March would be better
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Shaping the
Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2004 Maysan governor’s security fired into crowd protesting
job program Killed 3 British army
took over security and killed 2
more Govt building looted
2006 Foreign Min Zebari told Amb Khalilzad Ayatollah Sistani
and Iran’s Gen Suleimani would
likely pick next candidate for
premier after 05 vote
(Musings
On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His
Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2008 World Health Org released study on est deaths in Iraq
Found 151,000 deaths from Mar 03-Jun 06
Compared to Lancet study that had
600,000 deaths Mar 03-Jul 06 WHO study had larger sample size than Lancet which
was widely criticized for being inaccurate
(Musings
On Iraq article Major Flaws in Lancet Report Pt 1)
(Musings
On Iraq article Major Flaws in Lancet Report Pt 11)
(Musings
On Iraq article New Study Refutes Lancet Reports)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Mark Van Der Laan on Lancet Reports)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Michael Spagat on Lancet reports)
2011 Parliament passed VP law taking away their power
(Musings
On Iraq article on VP law)
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