1935 PM Aiyubi gave resignation
to King Ghazi King asked Yashin al-Hashemi to form new
govt but
exclude Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and Hikmat Sulaiman because they were agitating
mid-Euphrates tribes
1946 Tawfiq Suwaidi became
premier for 2nd time Was supposed to carry out Regent’s reform
program
(Musings
On Iraq book review of ‘Independent
Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958 on Said govt)
1959 Communists called for march in Mosul to counter rumors
of military revolt against Gen Qasim
there
(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)
1980 Start of major military operation against Kurds
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1985 Iraqi military intel warned Iranian offensive would
happen in Basra’s Fish Lake Was wrong
1986 Iraq’s southern front to retake Fao stopped by Iranian
anti-tank missiles
1986 KDP launched preparatory attacks in Sulaymaniya to
support Iranian offensive starting next
day in area
(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 of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1988 1st Anfal Campaign targeted PUK HQ in Jafati
Valley, Sulaymaniya Yakhsamar Sergalou Bergalou
attacked
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1991 Iraq said it agreed to Soviet peace plan and would
withdraw from Kuwait unconditionally
1991 UN Security Council met Western countries said they
weren’t interested in Soviet
peace plan
1991 Bush ordered Gen Schwarzkopf to expel Iraq from Kuwait
1994 Saddam diverted Tigris into southern marshes to put
down rebels there
1996 Hussein and Saddam Kamal killed by uncle Ali Hassan
al-Majid and members of tribe after talked
into returning to Iraq
1998 UN negotiated Iraq working with UN inspectors again
including unrestricted visits but didn’t work
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq article Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N.
Inspections)
1998 Bin Laden issued fatwa against US sanctions on Iraq and
called for attacks against it
1999 State Dept denied that US was using UN inspectors to
spy on Iraq but it was
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
(Musings
On Iraq article on how US manipulated UN inspections)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iraq In The
Eye of the Storm)
2004 UN Rep Brahimi report said earliest Iraq could hold
elections was late 2004-early 2005
2004 US killed Nidhal Mohammed Arabiyat Al Qaeda in Iraq’s
top bombmaker Developed early car
bombs
2006 Iraqi govt ordered curfew in Baghdad Salahaddin Diyala
Babil after Samarra bombing
2006 US report Sadr changed order to kill all Sunnis in east
Baghdad Were to be taken to Sadr City to be
executed instead
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2006 US report Iraqi army and police assisting Mahdi Army to
kill Sunnis in east Baghdad
2006 Insurgents stopped vehicles in Baquba and executed 47
people who were heading to protest against
Samarra bombing
2006 Sunnis withdrew from talks with United Iraqi Alliance
over new govt saying authorities were not
preventing revenge attacks after
Samarra bombing
2006 Sec Gen of Iraqi National Dialogue Front Hayan said
revenge attacks after Samarra bombing were
how a civil war started
2006 Assoc of Muslim Scholars said 168 Sunni mosques
attacked 10 imams killed 15 abducted after
Samarra bombing
2006 Interior Min said 18 Sunnis mosques in Baghdad attacked
1 imam killed 1 kidnapped
2007 US Special Forces arrested Ammar Hakim on trip back
from Tehran Was only released upon protest
of Gen Petraeus
2008 Sadr said he failed because US still occupying Iraq and
many of his followers had left his movement
2008 2 suicide bombers killed Sheikh Mutairi of Anbar
Salvation Council in Fallujah Part of ISI campaign
against Awakening/Sahwa
2008 US general in charge of Baghdad said attacks down 75%
since June 07 90% drop in civilian deaths
85% drop in murders
2008 Report Basra beset by violence between militias
Professionals politicians officials all subjected to
assassinations and kidnappings Many
times police carry out murders Interior Min issued warrant for head of Basra
Serious Crime Unit connected o Sadrists accused of running death squads but
nothing done
2011 National Reconciliation Min announced that 5 insurgent
groups had agreed to join politics
2014 ISIS sent 2 suicide bombers to kill Al Qaeda
representative Abu Khald al-Suri who was supposed to
moderate differences between ISIS
and Al Nusra Front
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2016 Kurdish Alliance said they didn’t support Abadi’s
reform program and wanted their quota of
positions in his new cabinet
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2018 Pro-Iran Hashd criticized US Said it had no right to
demand that Abrams tanks Hashd had should be
turned back over to Iraqi army
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Hashd got Abrams tanks)
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