1915 British won Battle of Shaiba Ottomans had 4200
casualties 700 captured Ottoman
commander killed himself in
disgrace British 1200 casualties
1941 UK decided to go ahead with troop deployments to Iraq
(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)
1959 Gen Qasim made cover of Time magazine
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1966 Pres Arif died in helicopter crash
1987 Iran and KDP captured strategic mountains near
Sulaymaniya city
(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)
1987 Iraqi 5th Corps published plans for
collectivization in Kurdistan Would force people into govt
run villages
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1988 PUK decided its Peshmerga and civilian followers would
retreat north during Anfal campaign
1991 Pres Bush said US would send humanitarian aid to Iraq
and condemned Iraqi attacks on civilians but
would not get more involved
1992 Sec Def Cheney said US didn’t overthrow Saddam in Gulf
War because would be too difficult to
occupy Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Review The United States And Iraq Since 1990, A Brief History
With Documents)
1998 IAEA report to UN Iraq provided full and complete
record of its nuclear program and showed no
new activity
(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 Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
1999 CIA paper said 4 reports claimed Iraq offered safe
haven to bin Laden Were all false
2003 US forces captured Tikrit
2003 Bush criticized press for reporting on looting in Iraq
Blamed Saddam for postwar chaos
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said US would find Iraq’s WMD when
people started coming forward and
providing intelligence about where
they were hidden
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a
War)
2003 US forces found suspicious missile warheads that might
have contained WMD Didn’t
2003 Turkmen accused Kurds of killing a child Crowd called
for revenge and Turkish intervention in
Kirkuk
2003 Turkmen Front demanded that KDP leave its headquarters in
Kirkuk giving it eviction notice
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations
in Kirkuk)
2003 US Gen Hawkins flew into Baghdad to try to get power
grid up and working again since it went
down when city taken by US
2004 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizadi said that US needed 7000-10000
more troops in Iraq Bush agreed to
increase
2005 UK intel report on global Islamic terrorism Said Iraq
war increased threat of international terrorism
and would continue to do that in
the long term Said Al Qaeda in Iraq had benefited from the Iraqi jihad Used it
to network with other groups
2006 Gen Swannack fmr cmdr 82nd Airborne Div
became 5th retired general to call for Sec Def Rumsfeld
to resign over Iraq
2007 9 insurgent groups joined together to fight ISI
including Islamic Army Ansar al-Sunna 1920
Revolution Brigades Islamic Army
called on bin Laden to intervene
(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 PM Maliki signed $833 mil arms deal with Serbia
with no competitive bidding didn’t follow
anti-corruption rules Maliki
stopped audit Later reduced to $236 mil Most of the equipment was unusable
2008 1300 police and soldiers fired for not fighting Mahdi
Army in Kut and Basra
2008 PM Maliki ordered crack down on gas stations and oil
distribution centers controlled by Sadrists
2008 Cabinet approved bill that would ban political parties
that had militias from taking part in provincial
elections Never enforced
2008 US National Sec Adv Hadley said Iraq had agreed to
pressure Iran to stop arming militias
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2009 Sinjar and Makhmour said they would not cooperate with
Hadbaa led Ninewa council
(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa
Provincial Council)
(Musings
On Iraq Ninewa Struggles Between Arabs and Kurds Continue)
2009 PM Maliki signed technical military cooperation deal
while on visit to Russia Including fixing
equipment and opened door to buying
arms
2010 State of Law said it didn’t have any red lines with negotiations
with Iraqiya to form new govt but said
some members were tied to Baathists
2010 Basra announced free trade zone with Iran
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2010 KRG parliament passed regional budget Gorran and
Islamic Group dissented saying that no reforms
included in it
2011 ISF raided union and women’s organization to arrest
protest organizers in Baghdad
2011 Baghdad authorities tried to ban protests in Tahrir
Square
2011 Head of Oil Police Gen Ibrahim said his forces were
short 12,000 officers Led to signing 8,000
contractors
2011 Reported split within SIIC Wanted to remove Ammar Hakim
and Adel Abdul Mahdi and elect new
leadership
2011 Protesters in Sulaymaniya refused to meet with Pres
Barzani delegation Protesters called for Barzani
PM Salah and speaker to all step
down
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2011 Gulf states asked Arab League to cancel summit in
Baghdad due to Iraq criticizing crackdown in
Bahrain
2012 ISI said it was responsible for March prison break in
Kirkuk that freed 19 prisoners
2012 Head of Election Commission and another member were
arrested on corruption charges brought up
by PM Maliki to get rid of them
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
2013 Sadrists in Karbala and Iraqiya in Mosul claimed ISF
were being told to vote for State of Law in
provincial elections
2014 ISIS held parade in Baiji
2015 PM Abadi fired 300 army officers as part of reforming
ISF
2015 VP Maliki said Hashd had become 3rd military
force in country after army and police and said any
negative stories about them were
all lies
2015 Hashd arrived at Assad base in Anbar for Albu Faraj op
Would later claim they were not in Anbar
due to PM Abadi and US
2015 Kataib Hezbollah and Peace Brigades said they would
take part in Anbar offensive Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq Hezbollah Nujaba and Badr
said wouldn’t take part because of US airstrikes
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
(Musings
On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi and Hezbollah al-Nujaba)
2016 Fist fight broke out in parliament over PM Abadi’s
technocratic cabinet
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