1917 Battle of the Boot at Band-i-Adhaim between British and
Ottomans
1924 Baghdad said willing to
give land to Assyrians
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Tragedy of the
Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review State and Society in
Iraq)
1941 PM Gaylani refused
permission for British troops to land in Basra
1941 2 brigades of Iraqi soldiers surrounded UK Habaniya
base ordered UK to cease operations
there Iraq had 9000 troops UK 2250
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Iraqi forces surrounded UK embassy in Baghdad
1941 PM Gaylani hoped to pressure UK to leave Iraq without a
fight
1941 UK memo to Chiefs of Staff discussed destroying Iraq’s
oil wells to deny them to Germany
(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 Jewish forces took Jaffa, and 7 other towns held by
Iraqi volunteers in 1st Arab Israeli War
1959 Qasim banned political organizing within army Was aimed
at Communists to curb their power
(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 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad
1980 By end of April around 20 Iraqi officials had been
killed in bombings by Shiite opposition parties
1980 Arab Iranians seized Iranian embassy in London
demanding sovereignty for Khuzistan province
Were trained and armed by Iraq
1982 Iran launched Op Bait al-Moqaddas to recapture
Khorramshahr across from Basra and liberate
Khuzistan province Iran had 12
divisions 200,000 soldiers vs 5 Iraqi divisions and 65,000 men Iran would gain
300 sq mi Iranian paratroopers dropped on Karun River near Darkhovin while
engineers built bridge over river
(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
1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(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)
1985 Sec State Shultz asked Def Sec Weinberger to speed up
approval of technology exports to Iraq Much
of that would go to weapons
programs
1985 State Dept intel reported no evidence Iraq had started
on a nuclear weapons program It had
1990 Jordanian prosecutor report detailed fake bank accounts
Ahmed Chalabi ran with his Petra Bank
1996 Turkey began bombing campaign along border against PKK
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
1997 Fighting broke out between PUK and Kurdish Islamic
Movement
2001 NSC meeting on Al Qaeda threat DepDefSec Wolfowitz
asked why US should focus on bin Laden
when Iraq terrorism real threat
2001 NSC meeting Dep CIA Dir McLaughlin told DepDefSec
Wolfowitz no evidence of Iraq terrorist threat
to US
2001 NSC meeting DepSecState Armitage told DepDefSec
Wolfowitz Al Qaeda was the main threat to US
2003 US forces ran into protesters that led to shooting for
2nd time in 2 days in Fallujah 2 killed
(Musings
On Iraq review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld visited Iraq Realized rebuilding
country would take years which was not his plan
2004 Marines withdrew from Fallujah turning over security to
Fallujah Brigade
(Musings
On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah,
Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 Daily Mirror published what turned out to be fake
pictures of UK forces abusing Iraqi prisoners
2004 Poll 71% of Iraqis saw US as occupiers 46% said
invasion more harmful then good
2004 New Yorker published photos of Abu Ghraib prison abuse
scandal
2005 Mass grave with up to 1,500 Kurds killed by Saddam
during Anfal campaign found outside Samawa
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
2006 Fmr Sec State Powell told UK TV he advised CENTCOM cmdr
Gen Franks US needed more troops
before invasion but advise ignored
2006 Pres Talabani said 7 insurgent groups might be able to
be talked into joining political process
2006 US Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction report
said attacks still retarding rebuilding
projects but real progress being
made Said attacks on infrastructure down 60%
2006 Audit found effort to protect power and oil
infrastructure largely failed Questioned 2 foreign security
companies contracted to train
guards
2006 Class of new police recruits from Fallujah graduated
Told they would serve outside Anbar 600
refused to do so
2007 Parliament voted to keep US troops away from Khadmiya
shrine Baghdad after US got into gun
battle with Mahdi Army and Iraqi
soldiers in district PM Maliki didn’t sign bill
2007 Anbar Awakening claimed to have killed ISI War Minister
Masri Didn’t happen
2007 Report PM Maliki and ministers used Article 136B of
Criminal Code to block corruption
investigations
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen
on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption
in Iraq)
2007 Report Maliki using PM and Commander in Chief offices
to remove and arrest army and National
Police commanders for going after
Mahdi Army or being Sunni US officers complained Maliki politicizing officer
corps
2008 PM Maliki said Mahdi Army had to be disbanded because
couldn’t have militias and state
2008 Sadr spokesman said Iranian weapons in Iraq was normal
because Tehran would sell to anyone
2008 Turkey said it would resume diplomatic relations with
Kurdistan
2008 Study said Surge didn’t achieve political goals
Reconciliation has been between insurgents and US not
with Iraqi govt Still threat of
violence if no political accommodation
2009 ISF started 2nd Operation Promise of Good in
Diyala
2009 Muthanna last to name new govt after Jan provincial
elections PM Maliki’s State of Law won in 9 of
14 provinces Got ruling coalitions
in Babil Baghdad Basra Dhi Qar Qadisiya Wasit Maysan Najaf Karbala
(Musings
On Iraq article on new provincial govts)
(Musings
On Iraq article breaking down new provincial govts)
2010 Def Min said that ISI had lost its direction after 2
leaders Masri and Baghdadi killed
2010 PM Maliki claimed foreign countries were plotting coup
against him
(Musings
On Iraq review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq)
2010 Iraqiya threatened boycott after courts banned winning
candidates for Baathist past
2011 Hundreds demonstrated in Kut for better services and against
corruption
2011 Asayesh arrested four protest organizers trying to
start demonstration in Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2011 US said Iranian investment projects in Karbala and
Najaf were fronts for supporting Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq and Kataib Hezbollah
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
(Musings
On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
2012 KRG said Baghdad should pay foreign oil companies
working in Kurdistan
2012 Allawi said he wouldn’t go to national conference to
resolve differences with PM Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
2012 4 bodyguards of fmr Speaker Mashadani arrested for
terrorism
2013 Kurdish ministers ended boycott of govt
2013 Islamic Army met with Kirkuk tribes to form armed group
after ISF attacked Hawija protest site
2013 Sheikh Sulaiman said that protesters would go to war
with govt after crackdown on Hawija protest
site
2013 Dep PM Mutlaq criticized ISF attack on Hawija protest
site
2013 Insurgents attacked Wasit municipal council building
2014 KRG parliamentary elections 1st in 8 years
2014 Anbar tribes claimed Baghdad agreed to some of
protesters’ demands to end fighting Didn’t happen
2014 ISIS ideologue Binali said that group didn't have to
hold territory for Muslims to pledge allegiance to
it Was setting stage for
declaration of Islamic State
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2015 Head of Salahaddin council said Hashd were looting and
burning buildings in Tikrit
2015 City worker in Tikrit said 300 buildings in northern
section of city had been destroyed including 2
mosques after city liberated
2015 IS seized half of Baiji refinery
2015 Head of Anbar Operations Command said Hashd were needed
to fight IS in province
2016 Parliament refused to meet over PM Abadi’s technocratic
govt Sadr called for popular revolution as
followers stormed Green Zone
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms)
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