1915 Lord Curzon asked why British should promise Basra and
Baghdad vilyats to Arabs if they were
fighting on Ottoman side
1916 British attacked Sannaiyat but Ottomans turned them
back British suffered 1,200 casualties
1923 British troops occupied Rowanduz in military campaign
to subdue Kurds opposed to being included
in new Iraq Mandate
1969 After Shah ended 1937 border treaty with Iraq Iran
sailed ship down Shatt al Arab waterway in
violation of treaty
1969 Iraq retaliated by expelling 10,000 Iranians for Shah
ending 1937 border treaty over Shatt al-Arab
waterway
1980 Khomeini revealed that Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr had been
executed and called for overthrow of
Saddam
1991 Report that Iranian intel and Revolutionary Guard
working in Iraq to help revolts
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam,
Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
1991 Report Bush decided on maintaining sanctions hoping
they would lead to overthrow of
Saddam
1991 Report Saudis were holding Iraqi POWs form Gulf War to
try to create opposition group out of them
1998 Tariq Aziz letter to UN Said inspectors ignored last 7
yrs of progress Said intrusive inspections work
of US to create justification for
US military strike
(Musings
On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
(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 ORHA head Garner went to KRG to talk with Barzani and
Talabani about interim Iraqi govt
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 Barzani and Talabani suggested group of Iraqi advisers
to help Garner rather than interim Iraqi govt
2003 UnderSecDef Feith wrote that idea of creating a
transitional Iraqi authority was not going well
2003 Sadrists held second day of protests after its cleric
Fartusi was arrested by US
2003 Only 10% of Baghdad’s electricity restored since city
fell to US forces
2003 US sent 1000 more experts to look for Iraq’s WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Chief UN inspector Blix told BBC US tried to discredit
inspections at the Security Council
(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 UK general warned that British military not trained for
postwar operations called for in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 NYTimes’ Miller told PBS NewsHour US found info on
Iraq’s WMD Had destroyed stocks right
before invasion Fooled UN
inspectors False story
2004 Bremer said some Baathist officials would be able to
return to their jobs
2004 After no real weapons turned over by insurgents in
Fallujah Gen Conway said militants had days to
do so or city would be attacked
again
(Musings
On Iraq review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2006 Pres Talabani Asked Maliki to form new govt
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reuters’ Parker on Maliki’s biography)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Inside Iraqi Politics’ Sowell on whether Maliki
became a dictator)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Maliki with MP
Said)
2007 ISI stopped bus and took 23 Yazidis off and executed
them in Bashiqa, Ninewa
2008 PM Maliki promised $150 mil to rebuild Sadr City after
fighting Mahdi Army was over Money was
mostly stolen by Dawa members or
given out in patronage networks to win support for Maliki
2008 Female suicide bomber attacked Baquba police station
(Musings
On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)
2009 16 Kurdish towns in Ninewa threatened to not cooperate
with new Hadbaa run Ninewa council
calling it Baathist
(Musings
On Iraq article on Kurd-Al Hadbaa dispute in Ninewa)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Al-Hadbaa taking over Ninewa council)
2010 Parliamentary election results were supposed to be
certified but political disputes delayed that
2011 Protests in Baghdad, Mosul and other cities calling for
release of prisoners better services fighting
corruption
2011 Sadr announced new social organizing project Munasiroon
in Basra
2012 Attack on Najaf offices of Ayatollah Fayadh in wave of
attacks against Iraq’s top clerics
2012 Turkey’s Erdogan compared PM Maliki to Saddam
2013 Tigris Ops Command stopped parliamentary delegation
from visiting Hawija protest site after
checkpoint attacked
2014 Pres Barzani threatened independence of Kurdistan if
oil dispute with Baghdad continued
2015 Day after IS attacked Sahl al-Malih, Ninewa Peshmerga
expelled Arab residents, looted and burned
village
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