1919 France and England signed Long-Berenger oil deal France
got 20% of Iraqi oil via Turkish
Petroleum Company
(Musings
On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq
1914-1921)
1919 France agreed to help build oil pipeline from Iraq to
Mediterranean
1941 UK landed 20th Infantry Brigade in Basra in
response to PM Gaylani and Golden Square
officers’ coup Basra dock workers
went on strike
1941 British battalion from India completed deployment to
Shaiba air base in Basra
1941 PM Gaylani asked Italian Amb if Axis would give Iraq
military aid against British and Axis air
power 1st time Iraq
asked for military intervention from Axis
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 PM Gaylani asked UK Amb that no more British troops
land in Iraq and they all had to leave
(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)
1980 Khomeini said Baath at war with Islam and called on
Iraqi army and people to overthrow Saddam
1984 Iraq escalated its attacks on tankers heading for Iran
1988 Iraq recaptured Fao Peninsula 5,000 Iranians died
10,000 captured Iraq lost 800 dead
(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 Report 500-1,000 displaced Kurds were dying a day along
Iraq-Turkey border
1991 First round of talks between Baghdad and Kurds started
with Talabani heading delegation
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1991 Saddam agreed to UN setting up offices in Iraq to help
displaced following Shiite and Kurdish
uprisings
1991 Iraq provided first disarmament declaration to UN Was
incomplete and hid lots of activities like nuke
and WMD programs
1996 State Dept official Deutsch went to Kurdistan to try to
broker ceasefire in PUK-KDP civil war
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
2002 CIA report said Iraq might have been able to make
chemical weapons since 1999
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Sadrists held demonstration in Sadr City to condemn
U.S. and western culture
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2003 Some American officials worried that Iraq had sent its
WMD to other countries That’s why wasn’t
found
2003 INC’s Chalabi said he expected an interim govt to be
formed soon to run most duties in Iraq
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said it would take time to find Iraq’s
WMD
(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 Arabs that were expelled from Daquq Kirkuk by Kurds
tried to retake town but driven off by Kurds
2004 Bremer admitted that Iraqi forces would not be able to
deal with insurgency on their own when
sovereignty returned in June 05
2004 Spain’s new PM Zapatero announced he would withdraw
1300 troops from Iraq
2004 British report said Coalition troops and Iraqi police
would soon restore law and order in Iraq
2006 Report CPA plan to disarm and integrate militias never
funded and followed through with
2007 5 car bombs in Bagdhad killed 171 wounded almost 200
(Musings
On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A
People’s History, 2003-2009)
2007 PM Maliki said ISF would take over security for entire
country by end of year Didn’t happen for
several
more years
2008 50 soldiers fled their posts in Sadr City rather than
fight Mahdi Army
2008 Sadrists refused to disband Mahdi Army after PM Maliki
threatened to ban any party with a militia
from elections
2008 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri speech said US had been defeated in
Iraq
2008 Sheikh Abu Risha of Anbar Awakening complained that
authorities were trying to stop his
organizing for 09 provincial
elections by shutting down offices
2008 Suicide truck bomb hit funeral for Sahwa members
killing 50 in Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A
People’s History, 2003-2009)
2008 US forces raided district in Muqtadiya Diyala to arrest
Iraqi police involved in death squads
(Musings
On Iraq article on Sahwa-police tensions in Diyala)
2009 US and British officials went to Jordan to talk with
ex-Gen Hamdani about reconciliation with
former regime members
2010 U.S. and Iraqi forces killed ISI leaders Abu Masri and
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi near Tikrit
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on who Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was)
2011 Parliament repealed Article 136(b) that allowed
ministers to stop corruption investigations
2011 Anbar anti-terror police arrested 12 officers involved
with insurgents Some were working with Syrian
intelligence
2011 Protest in Mosul Baghdad other areas calling for better
services Some said PM Maliki should step
down
2011 Kurdish security forces moved to evict protesters from
Sulaymaniya Police fired into crowd
wounding 6, 1 died, another 90 hurt
by beatings
2011 Kurdish court sentenced spokesman for Sulaymaniya
protests to one month in jail for defaming a
KRG MP
2011 Were first protests in Irbil Were beaten by police 22
wounded
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2012 Oil Min Shahristani said Exxon would not start working
in KRG until Baghdad approved contract
Exxon went ahead anyway
2014 ISIS commanders killed fighting Ansar al-Sunna in
Rashad, Kirkuk
2014 Al Qaeda’s Abu Qatada said ISIS was misguided liars and
ignorant
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2014 Anbar council asked if ISF were competent enough to
retake Fallujah
2014 Former Diyala governor and Mutahidun MP said militias
were trying to take over Mukhisa and force
people out of town
2014 PM Maliki gave speech in Babil calling for majority
govt after elections
2015 Khorasani Brigade pledged allegiance to Ayatollah
Khamenei and said it followed valayat al-faqih
Same time said didn’t take orders
from Iran
(Musings
On Iraq Khorasani Brigade Another Iraq Militia That Returned Home From
Syria To Fight The Insurgency)
2015 Govt claimed it fully controlled Baiji Refinery but IS
still held sizeable amount of complex
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