1917 UK War Cabinet created Mesopotamia administration
committee to decide on form of govt
in captured areas
1921 Churchill told Foreign Secretary Lloyd George there was
no longer a plan for a Kurdish state
Instead
Kurds would be included in new Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Churchill’s
Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1959 Gen Qasim signed economic agreement with Soviet Union
to move away from England and
west
1959 Nasser organized 50,000 for anti-Iraq protest in Cairo
1975 Iraqi forces launched new offensive against Kurds after
Iran stopped supporting them as part of
Algiers agreement
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Killing Hope,
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)
1982 Iraq’s Dep PM Yassin Ramadan said Iraq ready to
withdraw from Iran and would accept ceasefire in
Iran-Iraq War
1984 Iran fought off Iraqi effort to free Majnoon Islands in
Basra
1984 CIA Station Chief in Lebanon William Buckley kidnapped
by Islamic Jihad-Hezbollah and sent
to Iran Was retaliation for US
support for Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Buckley’s kidnapping)
1985 Republican Guard joined counterattack against Iran Op
Badr in south Iran threw in reserves Iraq
recaptured Ajrada Sabkha Beida
2,000 Iranians captured
(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 of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(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)
1988 Saddam accused residents in Halabja of working with
Iran Said “Kill them all” Ordered mustard
and nerve gas attack upon town
Killed 5,000 Kurds to recapture town
(Musings
On Iraq article on the attack upon Halabja)
1991 Saddam made 1st address since Gulf War
Blamed southern uprising on Iran Said Kurds worked
with foreigners and always defeated
(Musings
On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on 1st hand accounts of 1991 Uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s view of 1991 Uprising)
(Ahulbayt
Video on 1991 Uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on how US encouraged 1991 uprising)
1992 Baghdad set off car bomb in Irbil after warning Kurds
not to ally with foreign powers
2003 Azores summit with Bush PM Blair Portuguese PM Barroso
Bush said that Iraq war would start in
days not weeks Agreed to give 2nd
UN resolution 24 more hours
(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 Bush and PM Blair gave UN 24 hour ultimatum to enforce
its own resolutions on Iraq disarming or
they would invade
2003 PM Blair got transcript of 60 Minutes interview with
Pres Chirac who said he wanted 30 more days
for UN inspections
2003 PM Blair complained that US screwed up a 2nd
UN resolution on Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 VP Cheney told Meet The Press that Americans would be
greeted as liberators in Iraq Said that
Army Chief of Staff Gen Shinseki
was wrong that US would need more troops to occupy Iraq than invade Told NBC
that if world didn’t deal with Iraq it would go back to producing WMD Was
already reconstituting its nuclear weapons program Claimed UN inspectors were
wrong about Iraq’s weapons program in general citing Iraq buying aluminum tubes
which US claimed were for centrifuges Said Iraq had long standing relationship
with Al Qaeda
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
(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)
(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 book review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
2003 ORHA staff that was to run postwar Iraq began leaving
US for Kuwait
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq and Back,
Inside The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings
On Iraq article Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in
Kuwait)
2003 Report US and France sources for all of Iraq’s germ
samples for its biological weapons program in
the 1980s
2004 UK Parliament report said British forces had bad intel
on Iraq and govt limited them due to fears of
anti-war sentiment
2004 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said Iraq invasion proved US claims
about Iraq’s links to terrorism
2006 New Iraqi parliament seated after Dec 05 elections
2007 2 PM Maliki aides said premier told Sadr to stand down
Mahdi Army at start of Surge In return
Maliki would push US to focus upon
insurgency rather than militias
2007 ISI set off chlorine bombs in Amiriya Fallujah
Fallujahand Ramadi 2 Awakening sheikhs killed
(Musings
On Iraq article on tribes turning on Al Qaeda in Iraq)
(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 interview with author Green on Fallujah during the Surge)
(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 Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Sheriff of
Ramadi, Nvy SEALS and the Winning of Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq review Fallujah Redux The
Anbar Awakening and the Struggle With Al Qaeda)
2007 Sadr called on followers to resist U.S. occupation
1000s of Sadrists marched
2008 PM Maliki said he was going to take on security in
Basra and that he was going to lead effort
personally
2008 Mahdi Army fought police in 2 villages in Diyala
2008 Fmr head of Defense Policy Board Perle NYTimes OpEd
said plan to turn over Iraq to Iraqis right
after invasion stopped by Sec State
Powell Natl Sec Adv Rice and CIA Dir Tenet Said US thought it knew better than
Iraqis Said Iraqi opposition should have run Iraq Said underestimated how badly
Bush admin could mess things up
2008 CPA head Bremer NYTimes OpEd Said US didn’t have
postwar Iraq plan Didn’t have
counterinsurgency plan after
invasion Only sent half the troops necessary Regreted not pushing for better
military plan
(Musings
On Iraq book review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2008 Report 1/3 or more of fuel from Baiji refinery stolen in
07 believed worth $2bil ISI thought
to make up to $100,000/day from
refinery Feb 08 head of intel at refinery arrested for smuggling and supporting
insurgents
2008 Report PM Maliki advisor said would take years to
rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure Adv to Electricity
Min said budget for reconstruction
only half of what was needed Power plants only producing at 50% capacity
2015 PM Abadi asked US for airstrikes to help Tikrit
operation that was stalled Would put ISF backed by
Coalition airstrikes in lead in war
2015 Report Iran sent short range ballistic missiles to its
allies in the Hashd for Tikrit operation
(Musings
On Iraq News Of Iran Moving Missiles Into Iraq Continue)
2018 Turkey launched operation against PKK moving 15km into
Irbil province
2018 Hundreds protested in Baghdad over lack of services
Blocked a main road
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