1917 British Samarra Offensive ended in victory over
Ottomans British suffered 18,000
casualties
1920 Ataturk gave speech demanding Turkey’s southern
territories include Mosul and Sulaymaniya
(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 for German military intervention in
case of war with England
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 London decided to land an entire division from India 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)
1948 Kirkuk oil workers protested against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1981 Iran began attack to retake Qasr e-Shirin central front
1986 Iran Op Al Fajr 9 in Kurdistan Overran Rawanduz Included
KDP
(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 Iran-Iraq War Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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)
1989 Ali Hassan al-Majid’s special powers over northern Iraq
for Anfal ended
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1990 Report Iraq increased arms spending after Iran-Iraq War
Largest arms importer in world since 1985
Accounted for 9% of world’s arms
purchases
1991 Barzani said that guarantees would be needed for any
deal with Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
2002 Pentagon memo said UN would hold a postwar conference
to pick Iraqi leaders like what happened
in Afghanistan Said Iraqi exiles
would be put in charge of POW camps for former regime members and would take
over Iraqi military Said provisional govt would be set up as quickly as
possible so US could withdraw
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Iraq oil started flowing for fist time since US
invasion Iraq shut down oil flow Mar 20
(Musings
On Iraq Review Iraq and the Politics
of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
2003 USAID official told Nightline rebuilding Iraq could
cost US $1.7 bil and Iraqi oil and donors would
pay for rest
(Musings
On Iraq article Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in
Kuwait)
2003 ORHA head Garner came up with list of 9 objectives to
accomplish for postwar Iraq including paying
salaries return police and
ministries etc
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside
The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 White House said confident Iraq’s WMD would be found
2003 NY Times article Iraqi scientists told US Iraq
destroyed all its WMD equipment before invasion US
now looking for programs rather
than WMD stocks Said US would be getting info on Iraq’s WMD from Chalabi and INC
Was false
2003 Up to 3 mil participated in Arbaeen ceremony that had
been banned under Saddam
2003 Protest in Kut Wasit blocked US convoy for 4 hours
2003 Report thousands of Arabs were being evicted from
Kirkuk by Kurds and forming militias to protect
themselves
(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 1st US troops arrived in Fallujah 2 weeks
after end of invasion
(Musings
On Iraq review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 Bremer TV speech said CPA had made mistakes Welcomed
back ex-soldiers into army Said
complaints about deBaathification
were legitimate US streamlining how it dealt with prisoners
2004 PM Blair and foreign policy adv Manning told Bush and
Natl Sec Adv Rice to delay another attack
upon Fallujah
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2004 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Sanchez ordered investigation into
military intel practices due to Abu Ghraib
prison scandal
2005 UN Sec Gen Annan blamed US and UK for Iraq smuggling
under Oil For Food program in 90s rather
than UN
2007 Report KRG starting nationwide ad campaign in US to
promote Kurdistan as the “Other Iraq”
2008 Female suicide bomber attacked police station in Diyala
killing 18
(Musings
On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)
2009 KRG Premier Barzani criticized Hadbaa party for
monopolizing all the seats on Ninewa council
(Musings
On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings
On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
(Musings
On Iraq Ninewa Struggles Between Arabs and Kurds Continue)
(Musings
On Iraq Troubles Continue In Ninewa Over Results Of Provincial Elections)
2009 Iraq claimed it captured IS leader Abu Omar Baghdadi
Didn’t happen Coincided with new wave of
bombings in Baghdad Might have been
PM Maliki’s attempt to claim his govt was doing something about new violence
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq’s claim to have arrested Baghdadi)
(Musings
On Iraq on false story of arresting Baghdadi)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on ISI leader Abu
Omar al-Baghdadi)
2009 AP est that 110,600 Iraqis died since 2003 invasion
Said actual numbers might be 10-20% higher
59,957 were killed during 2006-07
civil war
(Musings
On Iraq article on AP Iraqi death estimate)
2010 5 car bombs hit Shiite mosques in Baghdad 72 dead
(Musings
On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State
Movement)
2011 Karbala governor said province should think about
becoming a federal region
2011 5,000 protested in Mosul demanding release of prisoners
2011 Sadrists marched in Baghdad against US occupation
2012 Iran tried to work out deal between PM Maliki and Sadr
but failed Sadr moved into growing critic of
Maliki’s rule
2012 Iraq’s Foreign Ministry called in Turkey’s ambassador
complaining about Ankara’s interference in
Iraqi politics
2013 PM Maliki ordered raid on Hawija protest camp run by
Naqshibandi leading to over 40 dead and 70
wounded Violence spiked in Iraq
after Hawija raid and helped mark return of insurgency
2013 Mohammed Abu Risha called for protesters to arm
themselves after ISF attack upon Hawija protest
site
2013 Clash between protesters and ISF in Ramadi 6 soldiers
killed
2013 Fighting broke out between ISF and insurgents in
Suleiman Beq Salahaddin
2013 British court found maker of fake bomb detectors guilty
of 3 counts of fraud Iraq govt continued to
use devices
2014 PM Maliki ordered Office of Commander in Chief to raise
a popular army using militias to help with
security
2016 Fighting broke out again between Hashd, Turkmen vs
Peshmerga Kurds in Tuz Kharmato Salahaddin
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