1960 Cleric Muhsin al-Hakim issued fatwa against joining the
Communist Party
1963 Communists in Basra gave up to Baath led military
forces after fighting against coup that overthrow
Gen Qasim
(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)
1974 Iran-Iraq border dispute discussed at UN after
firefight killed more than 50 UN got Iran and Iraq to
agree to talks to resolve border
dispute
1979 Iraq recognized the new revolutionary government in
Iran
1984 1st War of Cities began Iraq fired SCUD
missiles at Dezful killing 40 wounding 200 Iran retaliated by
bombing Basra Fao Qurna Mandali
Kahanqin in Basra and Diyala
1984 Iranian Op Tahrir al-Quds began Was deception campaign
before main attack into Wasit Gained 9
miles in Halabja and 3 main passes
into Kurdistan Backed by KDP
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1985 Iraq attacked Mehran Iran in south Entered 4 miles into
Iran but operation failed
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1986 Iraq counter attacked to retake Fao from Iranians
Retook Um al-Rassas island Failed at recapturing
Fao
1986 Saudi King Fahd called Saddam about Iran taking Fao
Peninsula
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1987 Iran started Op Fatah 4 attacking Kurdistan
(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 Russian diplomat Primakov went to Baghdad to try to
arrange withdrawal from Kuwait Saddam
demanded end of sanctions in return
1995 Iraqi army brigade attacked and suffered heavy losses
at hands of Badr Brigade in Qurna
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2001 Sec Def Rumsfeld said Iraq was probably not a nuclear
threat at this time
2002 Sec State Powell told Senate that regime change in Iraq
was US policy since Clinton Said no plans
for invasion though
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2002 DIA report Iraq tried to buy 500 tons of yellowcake
uranium from Niger
2003 IAEA interviewed Iraq’s ex-amb to Vatican Zahawie who
was named in Iraq-Niger uranium deal
docs Denied story
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 UN inspectors announce Iraq’s Samoud 2 missiles
violated range limits set by UN
(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 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate Iraq had larger WMD program
then before Gulf War Said Iraq would get
a nuclear weapon sooner or later
and would have missiles to deliver it
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate US had briefed UN on all
suspected WMD sites Didn’t give info on 21 of
105 sites Said there were Iraq-Al
Qaeda contacts but no command and control
2004 CENTCOM commander Gen Abizaid’s convoy attacked in
Fallujah
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 UN rep to Iraq Brahimi met with Ayatollah Sistani about
why early elections not possible Brahimi
said Iraq had to go through process
to organize vote
(Musings
On Iraq book review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam
Iraq)
2006 PM Jaafari won re-nomination of United Iraqi Alliance
for premiership with support of Sadr
2006 Pres Talabani said Kurdish list refused demands to
exclude Allawi’s Iraqiya from govt coming from
Sadr
2007 Gen Petraeus went to Anbar and endorsed Awakening and
said model should be copied in rest
of Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq article on change in perceptions that led to Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the
Surge)
(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 Iranian Revolutionary Guard media source suggested
militia attack on Karbala operations
command revenge for arrest of
Iranians in Irbil in Jan 07
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Vanguard of the
Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
2008 Report Sahwa in north Baghdad’s Tarmiya wanted to be
integrated into police but Inter Min refused
Police arrested head of Sahwa on no
charges
2010 Election Commission banned 458 candidates for Baath
ties from vote after court had unbanned them
Commission under pressure from PM Maliki
to ban candidates
2019 Report PM Maliki might have received kickbacks for
contract to service Balad Air Base in
Salahaddin
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