1916 Ottomans defeated the British at Battle of Kut after 4
months captured 13,000 prisoners
British lost 33,000 casualties One
of largest UK defeats in WWI
1941 More British troops from 20th Inf Brigade
arrived in Basra Iraq protested
1941 UK Ambassador told British women and children to leave
Baghdad because of expected war
with Iraq
1941 PM Gaylani sent Iraqi forces to UK air base at Habaniya
Anbar 11th Inf Brigade ordered to
Baghdad to later be deployed to
Anbar UK Emb in Baghdad informed UK forces in Habaniya Iraqi army heading their
way
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Iraqis flooded Habaniya area limiting movement of UK
troops there Occupied Kirkuk oil
fields Cut oil to Haifa and
restarted flow to Lebanon for Vichy France that could be used by Axis
(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 Battle of Katamon began between Jewish forces attacking
Iraqi volunteers and Arab Legion in 1st
Arab-Israeli War
1954 Arshad al-Umari became premier 2nd time
1959 Communist central committee demanded power sharing
within Qasim govt
(Musings
On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq,
Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview
with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1969 Iraq condemned Shah of Iran for unilaterally ending
1937 border treaty over Shatt al-Arab waterway
1981 Amnesty Intl report interviewed 15 Iraqis exiles
detailing torture methods used by govt
1986 Iraq launched counterattack to stop Iran Al Fajr 9
outside Rawanduz Kurdistan
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1986 Iran launched counterattack along 3 fronts in Basra
Advanced up road to Um Qasr and north along
Faw Peninsula Basra Caused 4000
Iraqi casualties
(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)
1991 Report Bush and Joint Chiefs head Gen Powell both
thought of Vietnam when Iraq revolt started
Didn’t want to get caught in civil
war and quagmire
(Musings
On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
1994 Iraqi army launched new military campaign to drive out
displaced and rebels from southern marshes
1994 Sec State Christopher said Iraq complying with UN Res
687 was not enough to end sanctions
Contradicted resolution
2002 Pentagon official said 9/11 hijacker met with Iraqi
intel officer in Prague Didn’t happen
2003 2nd anti-American protests in Fallujah Threw
rocks at US troops who fired into crowd killing 3
wounding 16
(Musings
On Iraq review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2003 ORHA head Garner told White House flying frozen Iraqi
assets to pay for salaries and pensions
helped stabilize Iraq
2004 US announced end of Battle of Fallujah Would withdraw
turn over security to Fallujah Brigade
2004 Sheikh Jabani’s brother and 3 kids kidnapped in
Fallujah for fighting insurgents
(Musings
On Iraq review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 50 former UK Ambassadors and officials wrote open letter
to PM Blair Said UK had no postwar plan
for Iraq Said experts predicted
that occupation of Iraq would garner resistance Said had to consider Iraqi
history Concluded that Coalition strategy in Iraq was doomed to fail
2005 Gen Vines issued order for US troops to stop and report
any cases of abuse by Iraqi forces
2007 US troops went to investigate torture cell run by Mahdi
Army in Khadimiya Baghdad Got into gun
battle with Mahdi Army and Iraqi
soldiers Afterward parliament voted to keep US forces 1 mile away from shrine
2007 Report Spec Insp Gen for Iraq Recon looked at 8 US
projects 7 were not operating or had major
problems Power station for Baghdad
airport had $11.8 mil spent on generators $8.6 mil worth not operating Hospital
in Irbil had incinerator for waste locked and key lost Dumped waste into sewage
system contaminating local water system Water purification system at hospital
broke Oxygen system not used by staff that didn’t know how it worked Special
Forces barracks in Baghdad had 4 generators broken due to no maintenance and
supply pipes had been stolen Spec Insp Gen had warned that US was leaving
projects for Iraqis that could not be maintained and were waste of money
2008 2nd ISCI and Dawa delegation went to Iran to
meet Sadr and Iran Rev Guards Quds Force’s Gen
Suleimani to negotiate ceasefire
Iraqis provided evidence Iran supported militias including names of people
locations of training camps and cells working with Tehran Iran denied
everything Accused Iraqis of selling out to US and ignoring help Iran gave
Shiite parties since 2003 Said it was wrong to go after Mahdi Army because they
were Iran’s allies Said Mahdi Army needed to counter Sahwa created by US Sadr
refused meeting
(Musings
On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His
Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2008 Report Iran Rev Guard Quds Force Cmdr Gen Suleimani
sent message to Gen Petraeus and Amb
Crocker that Iran not responsible
for fighting between Maliki govt and Mahdi Army Iran gave weapons to Mahdi Army
during fighting
2008 MPs found torture at Karbala prison overcrowding in
Babil ones
2008 Accordance Front sent list of candidates to replace
their vacant ministers in
cabinet PM
Maliki rejected some of them
2008 Turkey’s Foreign Minister said Ankara wanted better
relations with KRG
2008 Former Dep Sec Def Wolfowitz said Bush admin never
expected an insurgency in Iraq Said
there were enough US troops after
invasion but US failed to create enough ISF Admitted Bush admin was clueless
about counterinsurgency
2008 Female suicide bomber attacked bus stop in Muqtadiya
Another female suicide
bomber
attacked Sahwa in Abu Said both in Diyala
(Musings
On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)
2009 Police sent by Integrity Comm to arrest Trade Min
Sudani for corruption got into shootout with
guards in Baghdad
2009 Interior Ministry said ISI had successfully penetrated
ISF and used agents to carry out attacks
2010 PM Maliki said that there were no secret prisons in
Iraq after one at Muthanna Airport prison was
revealed Claimed that torture
victims at Muthanna prison gave themselves scars to fake abuse
2010 US accused Iran of using Hezbollah to carry out attacks
against its forces in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Hezbollah presence in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2010 Sadrists said PM Maliki could not get a second term as
premier
2011 Obama’s National Security Adviser suggested 10,000 US
troops stay in Iraq after withdrawal
2011 Sadr threatened to bring back Mahdi Army if US forces
stayed past end of year
2011 KRG security forces arrested one of top protest leaders
in Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2011 Anbar councilman Fallujah police chief and other
officials arrested in Anbar Anbar Ops Command
and PM Maliki blamed
2012 Pres Barzani told US he objected to selling F-16s to
Baghdad Said didn’t trust PM Maliki with them
2013 PM Maliki and Pres Barzani agreed on 7 point program to
repair relations between Baghdad and Irbil
2013 ISIS set off 2 car bombs in central Karbala 2 car bombs
in Amarah 1 car bomb in Diwaniya
2013 Turkmen in Kirkuk demanded peshmerga withdraw from
disputed areas
2014 ISIS took credit for suicide bombing of PUK rally in
Khanaqin, Diyala that killed 30
2014 Report that US intel believed Maliki getting re-elected
PM would divide Iraq more
2016 Protests in Baghdad Basra Najaf Qadisiya Maysan Karbala
Dhi Qar Muthanna against corruption and
sectarian quotas in govt
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