1941 London ordered India to send forces to Shaiba air base
in Basra and Basra City
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance
Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1941 British expeditionary force put together in India to be
sent to Iraq to deal with PM Gaylani
1941 PM Gayalni convened parliament and asked it to pick new
Regent Selected Sharif Sharaf
veteran of Arab revolt and relative
of Hashemite family
1941 PM Gaylani gave speech at parliament that his govt
would honor Anglo-Iraq Treaty of 1930 to
stall British action against him
1941 Hitler decided to give military aid to Iraq
1941 Italian ambassador to Iraq said Golden Square coup sign
Iraq believed Axis was winning WW2
and would soon be in Middle East
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(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 Iraq 1941, The
Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria
1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1968 Arif said Iraqi National Oil Company would develop
North Rumaila oil field without the Iraqi
Petroleum Company
1969 1st Spring Festival held in Mosul to
highlight ancient Iraqi history as part of Baath campaign to
create unified national identity
(Musings
On Iraq book review The
Ba’thification of Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s Totalitarianism)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Culture, History & Ideology in the Formation of
Ba’thist Iraq, 1968-89)
1982 Syria closed Iraqi pipeline to Mediterranean to help
Iran in war Cut Iraq oil exports to just 600,000
bar/day
1982 Syria closing pipeline led Iraq to settle border
disputes with Jordan Turkey Saudi Arabia to build
land routes for its oil
1983 Iran launched Op Wa al-Fajr 1 Attacked Fakkeh and Ain
al-Qaws with goal of cutting Baghdad-
Basra highway in Maysan using human
waves Captured 69 sq mi of Iranian territory
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1986 Iraq counterattack to retake Fao failed
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1987 Iran deployed
reinforcements in Op Karbala 8 in Basra to expand bridgehead at Fish Lake
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1988 Iran started Op Bait al-Moqaddas 5 in Panjwin,
Kurdistan Meant to draw Iraqi forces away from
south Didn't work
(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)
1988 Iraqi forces took Qadir Karam Kurdistan from PUK during
Anfal campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1990 UK seized parts for Iraq’s supergun
1990 US canceled trade mission to Iraq
1991 US ordered Iraq to end all military action in northern
Iraq above 38th parallel Northern no fly zone
created
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings
On Iraq Review The United States And Iraq Since 1990, A Brief History
With Documents)
2001 1st CIA report that Iraq tried to buy
aluminum tubes for centrifuges and sign Iraq renewed nuclear
program Didn’t provide any analysis
for claim
2001 CIA report said aluminum tubes were step backwards from
centrifuge designs Iraq working on
before Gulf War
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2002 PM Blair told parliament Saddam was threat to his
people and region and was working on WMD
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 CENTCOM told Coalition ground forces to set up local
govts in Iraq’s provinces
2003 Saudis called on Saddam to step down to end war
2003 Iraq’s 5th Corps surrendered to US Special
Forces as they entered Mosul Special Forces then moved
to block KDP from taking over city
2003 After Kirkuk fell Kurds Arabs and Turkmen carried out
attacks on each other for 2 days 40 killed
Looting also started in city
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations
in Kirkuk)
2003 Talabani announced PUK setting up interim govt to run
Kirkuk city
2003 Bush administration told Turkey that US forces would
take control of Kirkuk city
(Musings
On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City
In
2003)
2003 Sec State Powell told Turkey that US stood for
territorial integrity of Iraq meaning wouldn’t
support Kurds separating
2003 PUK told Turkey that it would withdraw its Peshmerga
from Kirkuk city
2003 Sadr’s followers killed Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Khoei in
Najaf Surrounded Ayatollah Sistani’s house
but driven off by tribesmen
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2003 US moved 2,000 Peshmerga backed by US Special Forces to
Diyala’s Khanaqin to try to block Badr
Brigade moving in from Iran Badr
wanted to threaten MEK camp in province and had hit lists of 1000s of opponents
to assassinate in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran using Badr in post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said that it was important for US to
find Iraq’s WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a
War)
2003 Sec State Powell said he was sure US would find Iraq’s
WMD
2003 Def Policy Board’s Adelman OpEd in Washington Post
Reminded readers 14 months before he said
war would be a cakewalk
2003 Def Policy Board’s Adelman said Iraqis would start
coming forward telling US where Iraq’s WMD
were hidden
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Suicide bomber hit Marine checkpoint in Baghdad
wounding 4
2003 White House said it wanted to name some of ORHA staff
after they’d already arrived in Kuwait
ready to go into Iraq
2003 White House spokesman Fleischer said Iraq’s WMD would
be found
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq kidnapped American Nick Berg and took
him to Fallujah Would later be beheaded
by Zarqawi
2004 Fallujah medical officials claimed 450 civilians killed
1,000 wounded 70,000 displaced during 1st
Battle of Fallujah
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2005 Report Iraqi officials couldn’t manage scores of water
sewage electrical plants rebuilt by US and
turned over
to Baghdad
2006 Report US failed to provide police trainers as called
for to rebuild Iraqi police after 03 invasion
CPA pushed number of new police not
quality and Interior Ministry lacked capacity to deal with them US officials
withdrawn from Interior Ministry which facilitated Badr’s take over of ministry
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
(Musings
On Iraq interview w/fmr police adv Jerry Burke on failure to plan for
security postwar Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2007 Islamic Army accused ISI of killing 30 of its members
and members of Mujahadeen Army and
Ansar al-Sunna
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
2008 Bush said US would only leave Iraq when it became a
democracy
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
2008 Interior Min said it would start confiscating weapons
in Basra as amnesty period ended
2008 Sadr said he would disarm Mahdi Army if all the other
militias disarmed
2010 Iranian Amb said next Iraqi govt should be national
unity one with Sunnis implying that Allawi’s
Iraqiya should be included
2010 Insurgents like 1920 Revolution Brigades held meeting
in Istanbul to discuss Iraq after US military
withdrawal
2011 Sadr said that he still had a militia which continued
to attack US forces
2012 PM Maliki said that if Assad deposed in Syria would
cause greater problems in Middle East
2012 Sadrist MP said no confidence vote against PM Maliki
would not be good move Pushed for national
conference instead to work out
differences
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
2013 Gorran Islamic Union Islamic Group all said opposed to
Barzani extending his term as president of
KRG
2014 Mutahidun accused militias of attacking civilians
throughout central Diyala
2015 IS captured Albu Faraj north of Ramadi Executed 33
people afterward
2017 Around 100 MPs signed petition to have parliament
dismiss Kirkuk Governor Karim over raising
Kurdish flag in province
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