1941 Regent of Iraq arrived at UK airbase at Habaniya Anbar
after Golden Square officers tried to
arrest him after coup Regent tried
and failed to organize resistance to coup in Basra Then fled to Jordan
(Musings
On Iraq article on 1941 coup)
(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 of Rashid Ali al-Gailani,
The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Role of the
Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1946 National Democratic Party and Istiqlal/Independence
Party licensed Became major opposition parties
during monarchy
1975 Iraq army sealed border with Iran and declared Kurdish
revolt over Mustafa Barzani and 150,000
Kurds fled to Iran 1972-75 some
17,000 killed and 280,000 displaced during Kurdish rebellion
(Musings
On Iraq book review Killing Hope,
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Great
Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Nixon admin support for Kurdish revolt)
1980 Saddam said those killed in attack on Mustansiriya Univ
Baghdad bombing would not be forgotten
1982 Dep Cmdr of Iran’s armed forces claimed end of
Iran-Iraq War was near
1986 Khomeini called for all able bodied men to join armed
forces to overthrow Saddam
(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 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)
1990 Report Iraq wanted to double oil exports by end of yr
to pay debts and rebuild after Iran-Iraq war
Analysts doubted capable because so
oil dependent Lacked foreign exchange having spent most of it on war Paid
little of its debt Inflation at 40% Imported most of its food Still spent large
sums on military and nuclear bomb program
1990 Report personal typewriters were no longer illegal in
Iraq but had to be registered with the govt
1990 Saddam threatened to use WMD against Israel if it was
attacked
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s motivation for threatening Israel before the
Kuwait invasion)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings
On Iraq review the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait)
1991 State Dept U.S. never said that it was for removing
Saddam
(Musings
On Iraq Review The United States And Iraq Since 1990, A Brief History
With Documents)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
(Musings
On Iraq article on how US encouraged 1991 uprising)
1991 Turkey said that 30,000 Kurds had entered country and
220,00 more coming as Saddam put down
Kurdish revolt
1991 Iran and Turkey went to UN about Iraq’s suppression of
Kurd and Shiite revolts and refugee crisis it
was creating
1991 Kurds began fleeing Sulaymaniya in face of govt
offensive to retake it from Peshmerga
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
2003 US forces took Karbala
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2003 Emergency meeting of Iraqi commanders Gen Hamdani asked
to move Nida and Medina Divs south
to protect routes to Baghdad Qusay
Hussein and Def Min Gen Hashim told Hamdani Saddam wanted to keep current
position protecting Baghdad from main US attack coming from Jordan Saddam got
that idea from Russian intel
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Russia provided Iraq with intel on US invasion plans
before war)
2003 1st
Marine Division crossed Tigris River at Numaniya and destroyed Baghdad
Republican Guard Div and moved north to destroy Nida Republican Guard Div
2003 US raid freed US POW Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi
hospital
2003 Talabani said Peshmerga would not attack Kirkuk city to
stave off criticism from US and Turkey
Kurds ended up taking city
(Musings
On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City
In
2003)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld sent memo to military to cooperate
with ORHA because wasn’t helping it
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq and Back,
Inside The War To Win The Peace)
2003 State Dept leaked complaints to LA Times about
Pentagon’s postwar plans to exclude UN and
support Chalabi and INC
2004 Sadr gave angry speech against US occupation after CPA
closed his newspaper
2004 Sadrists protested outside Green Zone demanding
movement paper be re-opened
2004 Mahdi Army began marching in Sadr City as tensions with
US grew
2004 Some Friday prayers in Fallujah condemned attack on
Blackwater contractors in city
2004 Sec State Powell criticized US intel for giving him
faulty claims about Iraq’s WMD for his Feb 03 UN
speech
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2005 Al Qaeda in Iraq launched suicide attack on Abu Ghraib
prison starting battle for town
2006 Sec State Rice UK ForSec Straw told PM Jaafari he didnt
have support and should step down Jaafari
said no
2006 US military reported 1313 Iraqi civilians killed in
sectarian murders in March 2006 173 killed in
suicide bombings as civil war took
off after Feb Samarra bombing
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2006 US Amb Khalilzad said militias should be disarmed Iraqi
officials said that would create more
violence
2006 PM Jaafari said he would integrate militias into
security forces to control them
2006 Fmr CENTCOM cmdr Gen
Zinni on Meet the Press said Iraq failure of strategic planning by US
(Musings
On Iraq book review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The
Decision To Invade Iraq)
2007 Ayatollah Sistani said he opposed US plan to reform
deBaathification and allow former Baathists
back into govt Came after Sistani
met with deBaathification Comm head Chalabi
2008 Retired Gen McCaffrey said ISI’s urban insurgency was
defeated but that the war was unsustainable
for US
2008 Council on Foreign Relations’ Biddle told Senate US
would have to stay in Iraq for a very long time
to maintain
stability
2008 Revenue Watch’s Said told Senate Iraq wasn’t using
improved security to carry out any political
reforms Said ruling parties
consolidating power and incapable of providing for public
2008 Center for a New American Security’s Flournoy told
Senate couldn’t have any more security gains
without political reforms Surge
made Iraqis believe in US not Baghdad Iraqi govt unwilling to make any changes
and US didn’t have strategy to get Baghdad to change
2009 Arab Jabour Baghdad Sahwa leader arrested for killing
ISI fighters as part of PM Maliki’s crackdown
on Sahwa
(Musings
On Iraq Problems With Integrating Sons of Iraq Continue)
2010 PM Maliki said he was going to form alliance with Kurds
and backed Talabani to remain as president
to form new govt
2010 Sadrists began referendum amongst followers to see who
they wanted to be new premier
2010 PM Maliki talk with National Alliance failed as SIIC
Hakim’s opposed Maliki’s 2nd term
2011 56 wounded in clashes between police and protesters in
Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2012 Over 300 followers of Mahmoud Sarkhi arrested in
Nasiriya
2012 Oil Min Luaibi claimed Exxon was halting work in KRG so
that it could continue working with
central govt on oil industry Wasn't
true
2012 Dep PM Shahristani accused Kurds of smuggling oil to
Iran
2013 Insurgents attacked Akkas gas field in Anbar
2013 Gunmen in army uniforms attacked 4 independent
newspaper offices in Baghdad Mahmoud Sarkhi
blamed
2013 Election Commission said provincial vote in Anbar and
Ninewa would be delayed until May
2013 Sadrists said they would end cabinet boycott
2015 PM Abadi arrived in Tikrit after its liberation to make
victory tour in city
2015 Sadr said brazen militias should be removed from Tikrit
by ISF after stories of looting and burning
homes
2015 Hashd leader Muhandis said that any looting and abuses
in Tikrit were done by locals not Hashd
2015 Guard in Tikrit said he counted more than 200 homes in
Qadisiyah district destroyed after city’s
liberation
2016 Kurdish Alliance said it would not vote on Abadi’s new
cabinet unless it got its quota of ministers
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