1916 British attempt to
re-supply besieged garrison at Kut failed
1920 UK gave France 25% of Turkish Petroleum Company in
return for agreeing to British mandate in
Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq
1914-1921)
1941 PM Gaylani and Mufti of Jerusalem met with Italian amb
Told him they were angry Axis had
done nothing to help Iraq vs
British
(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)
1970 Mar Eshai Shimun religious leader of Assyrians invited
back to Baghdad by Bakr Given back
citizenship Bakr promised cultural
rights to Assyrians but talks failed Bakr tried to create buffer with Kurds
using Assyrians and move them away from KDP
1974 Iraqi planes bombed Qala Diza during Kurdish rebellion
killing 130
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1991 Kurdish leaders announced tentative deal with Saddam
over autonomy and returning refugees who
fled during revolt
1999 Were clashes between Iraqi forces and Iraqi opposition
in south
2002 Gen Franks me with commanders in Qatar Said they needed
to start war preparations
(Musings
On Iraq review of Shaping the Plan
for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 Bush said Iraq might have destroyed its WMD before
invasion but US would find them
(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 NY Times article Iraqi scientists said Saddam expanded
WMD programs and secret facilities but
destroyed stocks Wasn’t true
2003 US seized warehouse in Baghdad thought to contain WMD
agents Proved false
2003 Trailer found near Mosul was suspected of being mobile
WMD labs Turned out not to be
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 Dep PM Tariq Aziz surrendered to US Said Iraq had no
WMD
2003 INC’s Zubeidi declared himself mayor of Baghdad
2003 ORHA head Garner met with 60 Iraqis in Kut to talk
about security and how city should pick city
council
2003 ORHA head Garner said INC’s Chalabi was not US’s choice
to run Iraq and Iraqis could pick their
own leaders
2003 Gen McKiernan ground commander in Iraq told ORHA’s
Garner security #1 priority for postwar
Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside
The War To Win The Peace)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld called Sec State Powell to propose
Paul Bremer as new presidential envoy to Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld called Garner and told him he would be
replaced by Bremer Garner said he
would quit Rumsfeld asked him to
stay
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said that Iraqis could form any govt
they wanted as long as it wasn’t a theocracy
like Iran’s
2003 UN Res 1476 extended Oil For Food Program past US
invasion
2003 Was anti-American march in Kut Wasit 2 drive by
shootings on US base in Kut ORHA head
Garner blamed Iran for
demonstration
2003 UK cabinet agreed to expand control from Basra and
Maysan to Dhi Qar and Muthanna despite
warnings might not have
capabilities to deal with them
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 UN SecGen Annan said US Coalition had to follow intl
law as occupying power in Iraq US rejected
occupier title
2004 US reported that 40% of Iraqi police deserted during
Sadrist uprising in Najaf and Kut
2004 Insurgents launched boat attack upon Basra oil terminal
killing 2 US sailors
2006 Sunni politicians accused ISCI of taking over Interior
Min and staffing it with Badr militiamen
and killing civilians
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2006 Zarqawi released video portraying himself as military
commander in Iraq
2006 Fmr CIA officer Drumheller said Iraq war was a policy
failure by White House not intel agencies Said
Bush committed to war no matter
what the intel Part of White House and CIA blaming each other for war
2006 Iraqiya MP said new Maliki govt wasn't national unity
one but just Shiite Kurdish and Sunni parties
dividing up ministries
2007 Report Anbar Salvation Front expanding from Ramadi to
Amiriya Fallujah with alliance with Albu
Issa tribe
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq article on change in perceptions that led to Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Confronting Al
Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Marines Take
Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings
On Iraq review Illusions of Victory,
The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2008 ISF gained full control of central Basra Phase 4 of
Charge of Knights began with sweeps through
5 Mile
Market
2008 Captured ISI letters showed complaints about War Min
Masri not consulting with others and didn't
take criticism Said ISI was passing
off old Zarqawi videos as new operations
2009 2 suicide bombers targeted Baghdad’s Khadmiya shrine
2011 Ayatollah Haeri in Iran issued fatwa against extending
US troop presence in Iraq past 2011
2011 Sadrists said they opposed any troops extension for US
past end of year
2011 Kurd opposition parties said KRG could either negotiate
with protesters or suppress them
2011 Press freedom group said 226 violations by KRG against
media trying to cover Sulaymaniya protests
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2011 Bomb at Sacred Heart church in Baghdad
2011 6,000 protested in Mosul demanding reform and releasing
prisoners
2012 Sound bomb at offices of Ayatollah Najafi in wave of
attacks upon leading ayatollahs
2012 Pres Barzani said that Exxon would follow through with
its contracts to work with KRG despite
threats from Baghdad
2013 PM Maliki called for dialogue with Sunni protests after
raided and killed protesters in Hawija Also
called for law and order
2013 Mutahidun complained PM Maliki allowing militias to
operate in Iraq
2013 Insurgents took control of Suleiman Beq Salahaddin
after ISF attacked Hawija protest site
2013 Hawija protest group announced that it was joining
Naqshibandi after ISF attacked protest site
2014 Was fighting between ISIS and Military Council in
Fallujah
2015 Report that ISF were charging displaced Anbaris money
to get into Baghdad
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