1916 British took Beit Asia from Ottomans and pushed Turks
out of Edheim River in Diyala
1921 UK High Comm in Iraq Sir Cox exiled Sayid Talib to
Ceylon because he aspired to be king and
opposed Faisal for position
1941 PM Gaylani asked Germany for military aid in case of
war with British
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 British naval convoy moved towards Shatt al-Arab
waterway in Basra
1941 British battalion from India started arriving at Shaiba
air base in Basra
(Musings
On Iraq review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles
for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941,
The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1963 Iraq made initial agreement for union with Egypt
1966 Abd Rahman Arif elected president to replace his
brother who died in helicopter crash
1983 Iran’s Op Wa al-Fajr 1 to cut Basra-Baghdad road in
Maysan failed Iran lost 15,000 casualties
Iraq lost
6,000-8,000
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1983 Saddam invited Ayatollah Khomeini to Baghdad for
Islamic conference to try to end Iran-Iraq
War
1988 Iraq launched Op Ramadan al-Mubarak to recapture Fao
Peninsula Started with chemical
attack but wind blew it back
towards Iraqi lines killing 200 Iraq gained 20 miles
(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 review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1991 British intel report said Iraq had around 600 ballistic
missiles left after Gulf War
1991 US forces began moving into Kurdistan to set up camps for
displaced
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
(Musings
On Iraq Review The United States And Iraq Since 1990, A Brief History
With Documents)
1991 Germany agreed to $262 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds
1993 During military operation against Kurds Iraqi army
arrested 7,000 people including members of
Kurdistan parliament
2001 US Dept of Energy report said didn’t have enough info
to tell whether Iraq had restarted its nuclear
program
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
2003 Chief UN inspector Blix cited Iraqi scientist who said
Iraq had no WMD
(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)
2003 CENTCOM head Gen Abizaid said no organized military
left in Iraq Plan was for Iraqi military to
impose order after invasion
2003 CENCTOM head Gen Abizaid suggested US create 3
divisions of interim Iraqi army from soldiers
and opposition groups
2003 US signed deal with Bechtel to repair Iraq’s electrical
grid after instead of before invasion
(Musings
On Iraq article Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in
Kuwait)
(Musings
On Iraq Only 3 of 13 Reconstruction Contracts Were Signed Before War)
2003 ORHA head Garner got into argument with Gen Franks who
didn’t want Garner going to Baghdad
Garner said vacuum in country
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside
The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5
ORHA In Baghdad)
2003 US forces called for people to return to work in Kirkuk
City after days of unrest after invasion
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations
in Kirkuk)
(Musings
On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City
In
2003)
2003 US forces captured Saddam’s half brother Barzan Ibrahim
al-Tikriti
2004 3,000 police abandoned posts during insurgent and
Sadrist uprisings
2006 Ret Gen Newbold former Director of Ops at Joint Chiefs
wrote Time OpEd saying Iraq war
unnecessary
2006 Over 100 insurgents attacked 12 US and Iraqi positions
from west Ramadi to Khaldiiya at 1pm Led
by Al Qaeda in Iraq cmdr Abu
Khattab
2007 Report Islamic Army complained ISI was trying to take
over Diyala by threats and killings
2007 ISI head Abu Omar Baghdadi issued message calling for
unity amongst insurgents Said ISI
would remain despite any criticism
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on ISI leader Abu
Omar al-Baghdadi)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2007 3rd day of protests against Basra governor
over lack of services and corruption Set up tent city
outside of governor’s office
2007 UN Report 70% of Iraqis lacked clean water 80% lacked
toilets with clean water Diarrhea and
respiratory infections accounted
for 2/3 of children under 5 deaths 70% of critically injured patients died in
hospitals due to lack of staff equipment drugs Violence driving away nurses and
doctors
2007 Saudis agreed to forgive 80% of Iraq’s $15 bil debt
Most came from Iran-Iraq War
2007 Interview ISCI head Hakim said Badr turned into a civil
organization in 2003 and no longer a militia
Said Iran gave ISCI political
support but no money Said fmr Interior Min Jabr had nothing to do with police
abuses and Badr didn't run secret Jadriya prison discovered by US forces in
Baghdad Said Baathists not Badr controlled police Denied that Badr head Amiri
said militias would exist until ISF could protect public All these claims were
false
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
Badr took over Interior Ministry)
(Musings
On Iraq history of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq)
2008 Report Army officer said Mahdi Army constantly called
him and threatened him during Charge of
Knights Said senior officers were
pro-Sadr and gave intel to Mahdi Army Complained Mahdi Army often outgunned
army units in Basra
2008 Badr’s Hadi Amiri said that only Al Qaeda and Mahdi
Army were fighting govt
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2008 Suicide bomber at funeral of 2 Sahwa members in Albu
Mohammed killed 50
2008 Report by US House Comm said US had no reconstruction
strategy in Iraq Many projects ad hoc
uncoordinated with others and
result of individuals rather than overall plan Also meant couldn’t measure
whether rebuilding working or not
2011 Ninewa Gov Nujafi joined anti-govt protests in Mosul
and broke curfew imposed by Ninewa Ops
Command to try to stop
demonstration
2011 Around 90 injured in clashes between Kurdish security
forces and protesters in Sulaymaniya 7 shot
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2011 Sadrist MP said ISF was capable of defending country
without US help and blamed US for all of
Iraq’s problems
2012 Sadrists accused Sate of Law of trying to cancel
elections so it could stay in power Said was why
Election Comm head was arrested
2012 PM Maliki’s adviser on Kurdish Affairs Adel Barwari
removed from post
2012 PM Maliki accused Kurds of smuggling oil to Iran
2013 KRG said it was ready to export oil to Turkey directly
when it finished its pipeline
2014 IS attacked Al Qaeda saying that it was no longer
leader of jihad
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2014 Insurgents blew up pipeline in Baiji leading to large
oil spill contaminating water all the way to
Baghdad
2014 KDP and Gorran said they had agreement to form new
government in KRG
2015 Police and councilman in Ramadi said IS had almost
taken center of city IS began attacking
Ramadi city center Albu Alwan
sheikh said city could fall any time
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
2016 Sadrists restarted protests in Baghdad demanding new
cabinet to be voted on
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms)
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