INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
1916 British tried and failed to take the Dujaila Redoubt
from Ottomans losing 4,000 men
1920 Hundreds of ex-Ottoman soldiers including many Iraqis
petitioned Prince Faisal about how Arab
revolt didn’t workout during WWI
Went to Iraq to fight British
1950 105,000 Iraqi Jews registered to immigrate to Israel
Almost 40,000 had already immigrated under
new govt law allowing immigration
1959 Fighting continued in Mosul between Communist backers
of Gen Qasim and his opponents
(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)
1959 Coup leader Col Shawaf sent two planes to bomb Baghdad
radio station but failed
1959 Gen Qasim bombed Col Shawaf’s HQ in Mosul Afterward one
of Shawaf’s soldiers killed him
thinking coup failed Ended Mosul
Revolt
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1963 Baath seized power in Syria opening door to unification
with Baath led Iraq
1980 Iran withdrew its ambassador from Iraq Prelude to
Iran-Iraq War
1984 UN sent team to Iraq to investigate Baghdad’s use of
chemical weapons against Iran
(Musings
On Iraq article on the origins of Iraq’s WMD programs)
1986 Iraqi counterattacks ended Iran Op Wa al-Fajr 9 in
Sulaymaniya
(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 Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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 Peshmerga captured Sulaymaniya from govt forces
Executing 700 Baathists and
security
officials
1991 Turkish Pres Ozal changed policy and held talks with
KDP and PUK for first time
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1991 Iranian Pres Rafsanjani called on Saddam to step down
from power
(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)
1998 UN inspectors went to old and new Defense Ministry
buildings and found nothing
1998 Iraqis told UN inspectors they knew Clinton admin
wanted to provoke a confrontation to strike Iraq
(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 article on how US manipulated UN inspections)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iraq In The
Eye of the Storm)
2002 Iraq options paper given to PM Blair Said UK could
strengthen containment or regime change
using military Said invasion only
way to ensure removal of Saddam
2002 UK cabinet meeting said US no longer wanted to contain
Iraq Said only way to remove
Saddam was through invasion but no
justification for it
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 CIA report on Fmr Amb Wilson’s trip to Niger to
investigate Iraq trying to buy uranium Niger
denied any deal Said June 1999
Iraqi delegation met with Niger PM about business which PM thought was buying
uranium CIA analysts believed FmrAmb Wilson confirmed Iraq was interested in
buying uranium from Niger
2002 State Dept believed Wilson’s trip confirmed that Iraq
had not tried to buy uranium from Niger
2002 Wilson would later claim that he talked about docs
alleging Iraq-Niger uranium deal but he
didn’t know about them until later
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Bush made radio address saying he was doing everything
to avoid war but if Saddam didn’t disarm
he would be made to Bush already
decided on war
(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 PM Blair’s final attempt to get UN Security Council to
pass 2nd resolution supporting force against
Iraq failed
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 PM Blair’s foreign policy adviser Manning told Natl Sec
Adv Rice PM Blair willing to lose his govt
in order to fight Iraq war
2003 DIA report to Sec Def Rumsfeld said that IAEA was
dismissing Iraq-Niger uranium story because
based upon questionable docs Said
that Wilson’s trip found evidence that Iraq was interested in buying uranium
from Niger Was Navy report uranium was in Benin warehouse Said Somali
businessmen talked about shipment that was similar to Iraq-Niger uranium deal
even though didn’t mention Iraq Niger or uranium
2003 US official said administration had been duped by fake
docs claiming Iraq tried to buy uranium
from Niger
2003 Fmr Amb Wilson told CNN US govt should and did know
that Iraq-Niger uranium story was false
(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 Army Corps of Engineers gave KBR $7 bil contract to repair
Iraq’s infrastructure after war
2004 Transitional Administrative Law signed into effect as
temporary constitution Shiites on Iraqi
Governing Council who had objected
to TAL finally signed it Sistani said it was illegitimate and any further laws
must be passed by an elected Iraqi parliament
(Musings
On Iraq book review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam
Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the
Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2004 Natl Sec Adv Rice said that UN rep Brahimi had to
return to Iraq to complete work on new Iraqi
govt
2008 5000 protested in Basra against army and police over
deteriorating security and rising crime
2008 Mahdi Army and army got into shoot out in Sadr City 18
soldiers taken prisoner
2009 Suicide bombing in Baghdad killed 28 outside police
academy
2015 ISF turned over Dour, Salahaddin to Hashd who started
destroying property
2018 Report 2018 budget only had $344 mil for reconstruction
out of $20 bil capital budget IMF and Iraq
planned on roughly $10 bil per year
for rebuilding over 5 years
2018 Hundreds protested in Baghdad over sewage and lack of
electricity Demanded PM Abadi form a
committee to deal with issues
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