1802 Wahabi army from Arabia sacked Karbala 2,000-5,000
killed
1917 Battle of Istabulat in Diyala started between British
and Ottomans with the Turks being defeated
1926 Turks told British they no longer wanted Mosul just a
stake in the province’s oil
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation
of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq
1914-1921)
(Musings
On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil,
Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1941 PM Gaylani asked UK Amb that no more British troops
land in Iraq and they all had to leave
Iraq
1941 Hitler told military aid to Iraq could only be
delivered by air and that would require stop in
Syria which would need approval of
Vichy France Hitler got intel of large British forces in Iraq and more arriving
so was skeptical of providing aid to Gaylani govt
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1981 Kuwait gave Iraq $2 bil interest free loan to help pay
for Iran-Iraq War
1985 Saddam offered another ceasefire in war Iran continued
to demand Saddam step down and
repatriation of Shiites back to
Iraq
(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)
1987 Iraqi 5th Corps began 1st phase
of collectivizing in Kurdistan Destroyed towns and forced people
into govt run villages 661 villages
affected 200,000 displaced
1991 Iraqi govt forces began attack on southern marshes in
Maysan Basra and Dhi Qar to root out rebels
2002 Telegraph reported Iraq supported Ansar al-Islam Al
Qaeda affiliate in Kurdistan Story spread by PUK
(Musings
On Iraq Why Didn’t Bush Strike Zarqawi And Ansar al-Islam In 2002?)
2003 CPA created to take over running Iraq for US replacing
ORHA
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 ORHA staff and head Garner entered Baghdad Gen Franks
had kept them out He didn’t want civilians
to get in way of military
(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 Sec Def Rumsfeld took advice of Gen Franks and
cancelled sending 50,000 additional troops to Iraq
from 1st Cavalry Div
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5
ORHA In Baghdad)
2003 5,000 Sadrists protested arrest of its cleric Fartusi
by U.S.
2003 Report US officials said US would be out of Iraq soon
and that an Iraqi govt would be in place in
months
2003 NY Times article claimed Iraq had destroyed WMD right
before war and moved rest to Syria
Said Iraqi scientist told US Iraq
had been working on WMD for years and led US soldiers to banned precursors
Story proved false
2003 UK Foreign Sec Straw told PM Blair he was skeptical
evidence of Iraq’s WMD wound be found
Thought it might be destroyed
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 2 US congressmen went to Syria and got Assad’s promise
not to harbor any Baathists and expel those
that tried to flee there
2004 5 car bombs in Basra and Abu al-Khasib 68 killed
2004 CIA analyst told Congress no working relationship
between Iraq and Al Qaeda
2004 Report Mar 04 CPA memo said Iraqi Governing Council a
failure because corruption and nepotism
Called for removal of 4 corrupt
ministers Criticized Bremer for trying to centralize power in his hands Said
progress was made by Iraqis despite the CPA not because of it
(Musings
On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the
Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2006 United Iraqi Alliance nominated Dawa’s Nouri al-Maliki
as new PM Mahmoud Mashadani of
Accordance Front would become
Speaker of Parliament
2008 Oil Minister objected to Kurds’ independent oil deals
2008 US general said if Sadr didn’t hold back Mahdi Army US
would fight them
2009 Sahwa in Adhamiya put “X”s on houses of displaced
Shiites and told them not to come back
2010 State of Law said Sadr reason no new govt after
elections because Sadr opposed to PM Maliki 2nd term
2011 Human Rights Watch report Govt arrested and tortured
protesters in Baghdad and held some in secret
prison at Muthanna Airport
2011 Drive by shooting on opposition radio station that
supported protests in Sulaymaniya
2011 2 offices of Kurdistan Islamic Group attacked in
Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2011 Lawyers protested in Fallujah demanding US withdrawal
and release of prisoners
2011 Clash in Mosul as army tried to stop demonstration
2011 PM Maliki told US joint chiefs head Adm Mullen ISF
could handle security after US withdrawal
2011 5,000 Sadrists held march in Basra to commemorate
formation of Mahdi Army
2013 PM Maliki blamed anti-govt protests for increase in
violence in country
2013 Protest leader in Hawija said army arrested 114
demonstrators after checkpoint was attacked and 1
soldier killed
2015 Pres Barzani and other KRG politicians complained about
PKK being in Sinjar Claimed trying to
take over district
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