1958 Nuri al-Said became premier
8th time
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Said with PM
Maliki)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of ‘Independent
Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958 on Said govt)
1970 Committee created for economic cooperation between Iraq
and Soviet Union
1973 Iraq offered trade agreement to Kuwait then withdrew it
when Kuwait demanded no changes in
territory Bakr wanted Warbah and
Bubiyan Islands
1981 Islamic Conf Organization went back to Tehran to
present its peace plan
1983 Iraq claimed it destroyed several Iranian oil rigs and
5 Iranian ships in Persian Gulf
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service
With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1984 US stopped company from selling products to Iraq that
could be used for chemical weapons
(Musings
On Iraq article on the origins of Iraq’s WMD programs)
1987 Iran attacked Iraqi lines
in Basra Gained 3km
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1987 Iran Op Karbala 7 in Haj Omran Kurdistan KDP took part
Gained 10 miles heading towards
Rawandaz Turkey told Iran it would
not allow it to take Kirkuk or Mosul Was diversionary attack from main
operation in Basra
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1987 Gulf Cooperation Council condemned Iran’s occupation of
Fao Peninsula Basra
(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 Iraq signed ceasefire with US to end Gulf War
1991 Demonstrations against Saddam started in Najaf
following Gulf War Fired upon by security forces
(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)
1995 CIA told its team in Irbil not to support INC uprising
plan
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iraq In The
Eye of the Storm)
1999 Pres Clinton told Congress that Iraq violated UN
sanctions by smuggling oil
1999 SCIRI’s Hakim claimed it attacked govt buildings in
Karbala in revenge for murder of Ayatollah
Sadr
2003 Russia threatened to use veto power in UN to stop any
resolution authorizing war vs Iraq
2003 US and UK planes hit five targets in Wasit and Basra as
part of no fly zone Were trying to weaken
Iraq’s air defenses before invasion
2003 IAEA told US that docs alleging Iraq-Niger uranium deal
were forgeries
(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 ORHA head Garner went to UN to try to get support for
postwar Iraq UN said no because White
House said it was opposed to any UN
role
2003 UndersecDef Feith briefed Bush on Pentagon’s postwar
plans Included creating democracy winning
intl support destroying WMD
(Musings
On Iraq book review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
2003 Pentagon postwar Iraq plans only outlined goals not how
to accomplish them
(Musings
On Iraq article on Part I Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
Hard Lessons Planning for Postwar
Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
2003 US memo on setting up an Iraqi interim govt after
invasion Said that Iraqi govt had to promise
equal rights to citizens ban Baath
party deBaathify security forces
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2004 Gen Taguba’s investigation into abuses at Abu Ghraib
prison sent to military
2005 Kurds said parties had agreed on Talabani being Iraq’s
president and Jaafari prime minister in new
govt
2008 Court dropped charges against Sadrist fmr Dep Health
Min Zamili and fmr head of Health Min
Facility Protection Force Shammari
for lack of evidence Several witnesses did not appear after death threats
Charged with allowing Mahdi Army to use Health Min vehicles and kidnapping and
killing Sunnis at hospitals Stealing from contracts
2008 Report Some estimated up to 30,000 Iranian operatives
in Iraq Up to 1/3 of Iranian religious
students to Iraq were intel agents
2011 Gorran and 2 Islamic parties boycotted Kurdish
parliament in support of protests
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2014 ISIS released statement telling people in Kirkuk not to
vote
2018 Parliament voted on provincial election law including
Kirkuk for first time since 2005
(Musings
On Iraq article on provincial elections date set)
2018 2018 budget passed for $88 bil with $10.6 bil deficit
Kurds boycotted session because KRG didn’t
have usual 17% allotment
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq’s 2018 budget)
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