1934 Iraqi Communist Party
founded
(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)
1941 Pan-Arab Golden Square officers decided to remove PM
Hashemi in coup
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance
Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1981 Egypt began selling military equipment to Iraq in
Iran-Iraq War
1985 Since Jan 1 in Tanker War Iraq hit 30 ships and Iran 7
in Persian Gulf
1985 UN Sec Gen arrived in Iran Told Iraqi air raids killed
1450 civilians and wounded 4000
1988 Iran claimed 44,000 of its troops suffered from Iraqi
chemical attacks
(Musings
On Iraq article on the origins of Iraq’s WMD programs)
(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)
1989 Iraq exported oil for 1st time from Basra
after Iran-Iraq War closed down ports
1989 Israel said Iraq embarked on crash course to build a
nuclear bomb and a missile to deliver it
1991 Govt op to retake Sulaymaniya from Peshemerga began
(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)
(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)
2000 UN Res 1293 doubled amount of spare parts Iraq could
import to maintain its oil industry under Oil
for Food program
2002 PM Blair offered a division and UK bases to US for
invasion
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Saddam didn’t give televised speech as expected Instead
Information Minister Sahaf did Called on
Iraqis to carry out suicide
missions against the invaders
2003 1st car bomb in Iraq hit US checkpoint north
of Najaf
2003 US forces engaged Fedayeen and Republican Guard south
of Baghdad
2003 US forces launched raid on Shatra Dhi Qar after
receiving information Chemical Ali Hassan al-
Majid was there
2003 British military believed it could start popular
uprising in Basra to take city rather than having to
attack it
2003 Sir David Manning told British would have huge shortage
of troops for postwar operations in Iraq
2003 UK Foreign Office official wrote For Sec Straw saying
Iraqis mistrusted US and US occupation
would be humiliation and untenable
2003 Israeli Infrastructure Min Paritzky said he wanted to
reopen Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline by end of 03
Based upon promises made by Chalabi
before war he would get Iraq to export oil to Israel
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review Iraq and the
Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld memo said important to create Iraqi
interim authority as quickly as possible so
Iraqis were in power Had to pick
pro-US Iraqis Said exiles could be core for new authority because they
supported US goals in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2004 Insurgents ambushed Blackwater convoy and killed 4
contractors in Fallujah 2 were strung up on
bridge
2004 Bush gave CPA 48 hours to resolve Blackwater attack in
Fallujah
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 Bush gave speech US would not give into violence in
Iraq and fighting terrorism
2004 Sadrists marched to Green Zone in Baghdad to protest US
occupation
2005 Silbermann-Robb report called US pre-war intel on Iraq
one of largest intel failures in US
history US data on Iraq was
worthless and analysis wrong US lacked significant new intel on Iraq WMD so
relied on Gulf War and 90s UN inspections and extrapolated from them Relied
upon Iraqi defectors that were lying and ignored problems with their stories Relied
upon satellite photos that showed nothing substantive US intel claimed Iraq
made WMD advances that were technically impossible US intel ignored reports
that Iraq no longer had any WMD UN inspectors disproved most of US case against
Iraq’s WMD but were ignored CIA had little on Iraq’s nuke program outside of aluminum
tubes but became basis for Oct 02 National Intel Est on Iraq’s WMD Aluminum
tubes Iraq tried to buy were for rockets not centrifuges Example of
misinterpretation by US Said aluminum tubes was a technical assessment which CIA
failed at Went with assumptions rather than facts CIA never looked at Iraqi
rockets to see whether they fit aluminum tubes CIA and DIA created theory on
tubes that rejected all criticism Report found British and Australian
intelligence didn’t believe aluminum tubes were for centrifuges
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2005 RAND study showed post-war planning for Iraq was
inadequate and never considered security of
Iraqi public
2006 100 insurgents attacked Muqtadiya police headquarters Killed
19 police and freed 33 prisoners
2007 PM Maliki made 1st trip to Anbar and met
with tribal leaders and provincial council who complained
about Baghdad’s neglect
2007 PM Maliki endorsed plan to relocate 1000s of Arabs
settled in Kirkuk province during Arabization
program Said would get money and
land for leaving Iraqiya opposed plan Never implemented
2007 1920 Revolution Brigades commander said ISI killed one
of its leaders leaving it to either fight ISI
or work with US
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2008 Report 103 bodies killed by ISI found around Zahamm in
Diyala River Valley When ISI first
entered village said they were
opposing occupation Set up training camp and weapons caches Then began
kidnapping and executing people who worked with ISF or didn’t follow rules like
banning music smoking wearing the veil breaking curfew Extorted money from
residents
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2008 PM Maliki said would continue to go after Mahdi Army in
Basra that didn’t follow
cease-fire
2008 Interior Min announced 1000s of police would be fired
for refusing to fight Mahdi Army in Basra
Baghdad and cities in the south 2
army regiments refused to fight Mahdi Army in Baghdad
2008 Report US special forces in Basra to help with air
strikes vs Mahdi Army
2009 British ended military mission in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2009 Deadline for power sharing and provincial elections in
Kirkuk passed with no progress
(Musings
On Iraq Kirkuk Remains In Political Limbo)
2010 VP Hashemi said an Arab should be president no longer a
Kurd
2010 Iraqiya said it would implement Art 140 on disputed
areas to try to get Kurdish backing for Allawi
as premier
2010 Sadr said there would be a referendum on who his
followers wanted as premier
2011 Pres Barzani said he would prosecute security members
who fired on demonstrators in Sulaymaniya
2011 Protests in Kalar, Sulaymaniya become violent with
rocks thrown at security forces
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2012 Oil Ministry paid oil companies in Kurdistan $650 mil
for exports
2014 ISIS released 2nd annual al-Naba report on
its operations
2014 ISIS held parade in Abu Ghraib
2014 Fmr Communications Min Allawi Fmr Fin Min Issawi and 8
general mangers charged with
corruption
2014 Mutahidun claimed 44 civilians killed by Hashd in
Buhriz, Diyala with complicity of ISF
2015 Tikrit freed from IS 1st stories emerged of
Hashd looting afterward
2015 Diyala council voted to remove confidence from Gov
Yacoub for stealing aid for displaced
2016 PM Abadi presented his list of technocratic ministers Sadr
called off his protests after Abadi
announced cabinet
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms)
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