1941 Mufti of Jerusalem Pan-Arab Golden Square officers
Rashid al-Gaylani had secret
meeting Decided to remove PM
Hashemi if he insisted on ending relations with Italy Golden Square decided to
replace PM Hashemi with Gaylani if he would not change policy on Italy Agreed
on no concessions to UK Refused to break relations with Italy Would expel
pro-British politicians
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Role of the
Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq 1941, The
Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
1963 Mulla Mustafa Barzani said Kurds would go back to
fighting government if didn’t commit to
Kurdish autonomy
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1972 Iraq Petroleum Company came to terms with Baghdad over
nationalization including compensation
1979 Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr congratulated Ayatollah
Khomeini for the Iranian revolution
and said some tyrants hadn’t seen
their day of reckogning yet
1981 Iran told Islamic Conference Org that it wanted Iraq
found aggressor and punished for Iran-Iraq War
and withdrawal from territory
1981 Speaker Rafsanjani later told Islamic Conf Org Iran
sure it would win war so didn’t want to
negotiate
1984 Iraqi counterattack against Iranian Op Kheibar retook
Beida Iranian Revolutionary Guard
began retreating in disarray Iran
lost 3,000 dead
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(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)
1986 Iran Op Wa al-Fajr 9 in Penjwin and Halabja stopped by
Iraqi counterattack
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1987 Iraq ended 3rd War of Cities after Soviet appealed and
new arms deal
1987 During war of cities 1984-87 35 Iranian cities hit
3,000 dead 9,000 injured Baghdad and Basra
hit 300 dead 1,000 wounded
1987 Iran attacked and broke
through Iraqi lines Iraq counterattacks regained lost territory in 12 hrs
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1988 Iran fired SCUD missiles at Baghdad and Tikrit Tehran
was trying to lure Iraq into another war
of cities to decrease attacks upon
its economic infrastructure
(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)
1987 Ali Hassan al-Majid made governor of northern Iraq
provinces and told to end Kurdish insurgency
Would start Anfal Campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1990 Saddam warned of Israeli aggression backed by US at
Arab Cooperation Council meeting
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s motivation for threatening Israel before the
Kuwait invasion)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings
On Iraq review the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait)
1990 At Arab Cooperation Council Saddam demanded moratorium
on loans from Gulf States and $30 bil
investment by them to help Iraq
rebuild
1990 Saddam said that if Gulf States did not provide money
and help with debt he knew how to get it
1991 Bush announced that Kuwait was liberated and Iraq
defeated in Gulf War Started ceasefire in war
1991 Saddam said that Iraq had succeeded in defeating the
United States
1991 Jalal Talabani tried to tell State Dept of impending
Kurdish revolt but was turned away
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)
1992 Iraqi army attacked Peshmerga in Kalak
1999 General uprising in southern Iraq planned following
Saddam’s killing of Ayatollah Sadiq al-
Sadr
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah
Sadiq al-Sadr)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the
Present)
2002 PM Blair told Australian TV Iraq was a threat because
it had WMD
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 Gen Franks delivered target list for air strikes in
Iraq to Sec Def Rumsfeld
2003 Iraq agreed to destroy Samud II ballistic missiles that
violated UN restrictions
2003 US attacked Iraq agreement to destroy Samud II missiles
claiming it was just propaganda not real
disarmament
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said Iraq never cooperated with UN
inspectors
2003 UN said found no evidence of active WMD programs in
Iraq
2003 UN inspectors went to site CURVEBALL claimed was secret
WMD facility for second time for
samples Found nothing
(Musings
On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq
Had WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings
On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
2003 UN inspectors found small stock of mustard gas and some
old WMD warheads and Iraq built 2
banned missiles Inspectors said
Iraq had not provided any new information to answer questions from 90s
inspections
(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 State Dept said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for
its nuke program
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 UK Def Min report said Coalition had to prevent
security vacuum after invasion of Iraq and stop Al
Qaeda from expanding into country
2003 UK Def Min note to PM Blair’s office said UK failed to
influence US postwar Iraq planning and UK
would have to deal with US
decisions made for it
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 ORHA head Garner made 1st brief of postwar
Iraq plans to Bush 1 month before war
(Musings
On Iraq article on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of
Defense Takes Charge)
2003 Defense Policy Board warned by peacekeeping expert
Perito could be breakdown in law order right
after invasion if Iraqi police
didn’t go back to work Board told that US troops could not take over police
duties after invasion because not trained
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2004 Iraqi Governing Council said it would draft and approve
an interim constitution Couldn’t agree on
role of Islam
2004 Women’s delegation visited Iraqi Governing Council
demanding interim constitution protect
women’s rights
2005 Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide truck bomb on police and
National Guard recruits in Hillah killed 127
2005 Annual State Department human rights report accused
Iraqi security forces of rape torture and illegal
arrests
2006 Prosecution presented Saddam’s order to executed 148
people in Dujail in 1982 at his trial
2006 Report US warned about growing insurgency mid-03 and
was largely Iraqi not foreigners Ignored by
Bush admin
2006 DIA Dir Gen Maples told Senate Armed Services Comm as
long as Sunnis were disenfranchised
insurgency would continue
2008 Report attacks on Sahwa went from 26 in Oct 07 to 100
in Jan 08 as part of ISI campaign
2008 Report Interior Min investigation found 15-20% of
police or 11,000 officers didn’t exist Anbar 25%
of police didn’t exist
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