1921 UK Cabinet approved Colonial Sec Churchill’s choice of Faisal
as new ruler in
Mesopotamia
(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 Inventing Iraq:
The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Imagining The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and
Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq)
1933 UK Amb to Iraq said that parliament full of politicians
who never meant what they said Institution
was a sham
1973 Kuwait demanded Iraq withdraw its troops from its territory
after gunfight on Mar 20 Iraq refused
1974 CIA memo said neither US nor Iran wanted a Kurdish govt
but didn't want its conflict with Iraq
resolved
1975 Iran ended military aid to KDP
(Musings
On Iraq book review Killing Hope,
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)
(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 The Great
Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Nixon admin support for Kurdish revolt)
1977 Baath Regional Command kicked out members who wanted
leniency after anti-govt riots during
Karbala pilgrimage
1981 Iraq fired missiles at Dezful and Ahvaz Iran in shift
in war as Iraq stopped major land attacks
1983 Helicopter crash revealed Italy providing advanced
electronic equipment to Iraq
1984 Soviet Union agreed to build a new nuclear power plant
in Iraq to replace Osirak facility destroyed
by Israel in 1981
1985 Iraqi counter attack forced Iranians back into
Maysan-Basra marshes
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1985 Tehran Tabriz Shiraz and Isfahan bombed by Iraqi air
force War of Cities
(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)
1988 Start of 2nd Anfal Campaign to destroy PUK
and DKP bases in Sulaymaniya and Kirkuk
1988 Qara Dagh, Sulaymaniya hit with chemical artillery
shells as start of 2nd Anfal Campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1990 Canadian Gerald Bull working on supergun for Iraq found
dead in Brussels Mossad believed to be
responsible
1991 US shot down another Iraqi fighter after warned it no
flights during uprisings
(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)
1991 Turkey held second meeting with KDP and PUK Talabani
said this marked a new page in Kurdish-
Turkish relations
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
2002 UK Foreign Office Pol Dir Ricketts memo to Foreign Sec
Straw said US scrambling to find Iraq-Al
Qaeda links and argument
unconvincing
2002 UK Foreign Office Pol Dir Ricketts memo to Foreign Sec
Straw said no signs Iraq working on its
WMD or nuke programs
2002 MI6 Dir Gieve letter to Home Office secretary said no
evidence Iraq involved in 9/11 Said Iraq not
involved in anti-west terrorism
since 93 attempt on ex-Pres Bush
2002 UK Def Min Hoon warned Blair if UK helped overthrow
Saddam it would have to stay in Iraq for
years
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 Bush said that Iraq had not allowed verification of its
destruction of its WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 British forces seized Rumaila oil field in Basra
(Musings
On Iraq book review Special Operations Forces in Iraq)
2003 US Marines thought no more resistance within Um Qasr
and moved towards port
2003 US forces reached Nasiriya and secured bridges across
the Euphrates
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2003 US intel saw
trucks full of Fedayeen moving through Karbala Gap 1st real reports
on this force which US knew little about forces
2003 US forces in
Samawa attacked for first time by Fedayeen
2003 Saddam received report large U.S. force attacking west
Iraq Led him to believe invasion coming
from Jordan not Kuwait
2003 CIA officials told Wash Post they were always skeptical
of Iraq-Niger uranium story that was used
in Bush State of Union
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld demanded that all Americans to run
Iraqi ministries be from Pentagon ORHA
head Garner said no time for
replacements
(Musings
On Iraq article on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of
Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings
On Iraq article Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in
Kuwait)
2003 International protests in several major cities against
Iraq war
2004 Unemployed protest in Basra turned violent Stones and
Molotov cocktails thrown at British forces
2004 Natl Sec Adv Rice Wash Post OpEd said would have been
irresponsible not to look for link between
Iraq and 9/11
2007 Mahdi Army and insurgents fought in 5 Baghdad
neighborhoods Came amidst many western
reports that Mahdi Army had
withdrawn from streets
(Musings On Iraq
Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2007 Lord Butler told UK parliament UK and US didn't have
conclusive intel on Iraq’s WMD UK intel
said in Aug 02 that it knew little
about Iraq’s WMD since 1988 yet Blair told govt intel was extensive and
authoritative
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2007 Spec Insp Gen for Iraq Recon issued review US
reconstruction Said Pentagon had no strategy
before and after invasion No unity
of effort Little oversight and coordination between US agencies
(Musings
On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
2007 Sadrists attacked Electricity Dist Dept and burned
Fadhila HQ in Basra Came after former director
of Electricity Dist Dept who was a
Sadrist was arrested by British Sadrists claimed Fadhila behind arrest Former
director accused of corruption and fraud Tribes and Sadrists accused Basra
governor from Fadhila of corruption nepotism running oil smuggling rings
2007 SCIRI HQ in Kut Wasit hit by mortars as SCIRI-Sadr
rivalry increased in city
2007 GAO Report Hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of
tons of munitions were left unguarded by
US after 2003 invasion Much of it
looted by insurgents US expected friendly environment after invasion which was
why left depots unguarded
2008 Basra Ops Command presented security plan to US and PM
Maliki Premier said pre-emptive action
had to be taken immediately and
didn’t want to wait for plan
2008 PM Maliki told Gen Petraeus of his plans to attack
Mahdi Army in Basra for 2nd time
2010 9 provinces from central and southern Iraq demanded
recount in election
2010 Iran got Shiite parties to agree to keep Talabani as
president
2011 Gorran told Pres Barzani had to make good on his
promises of reform after protests in Sulaymaniya
2011 When police tried to break up protest in Halabja
violence broke out with one policeman killed
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2013 ISI took over Buhriz, Kirkuk
2013 Anbar councilman filed lawsuit over provincial vote
being postponed in Anbar
2015 Badr head Amiri called Iraqi army weaklings for asking
for Coalition air strikes
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2016 Sadr said he had come up with 90 nominations for
Abadi’s new cabinet
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms)
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