1922 Karbala conference led to call for war against Wahabis
unless compensation paid for raid in
southern Iraq and Ibn Saud didn’t
punish them
1922 Ikhwan invasion of south Iraq resolved by letters
between Iraq and Saudis Ibn Saud apologized
1941 German Foreign Min Ribbentrop was told Gaylani govt was
pro-Axis and Germany working on
getting it arms from region
Ribbentrop okayed arms shipments to Iraq and sabotage in Iraq and region
against UK
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Germany and Italy made joint statement of support for
PM Gaylani promising military and
financial aid Statement to PM
Gaylani encouraged him to confront UK
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq 1941, The
Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria
1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1972 Pres Bakr signed 15 yr treaty of friendship with Soviet
Union
1980 Saddam deported 9,700 Shiites claiming they were
Iranians Later deported another 16,000
1985 UN Sec Gen deCuellar left Baghdad saying he had not
been able to bridge divide between Iraq and
Iran
1986 Iraq made another attempt to re-capture Fao Peninsula
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1987 Iran started Op Karbala 9 attacking Qasr e-Shirin central
Iran to try to draw Iraqi forces away
from Basra but Iraq didn’t
respond
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1987 Iran broke through Iraqi defenses west of Fish Lake
Basra Iraq counterattack failed Used
chemical weapons
(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 book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War,
The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)
1987 Dawa attacked Saddam’s motorcade outside of Mosul to
commemorate execution of Ayatollah
Baqir al-Sadr
1990 Saudi Amb to US Bandar told Pres Bush Saddam would not
attack Israel but wanted guarantee that
Israel would not attack Iraq
1990 Bush told Saudi Amb Bandar that he didn’t understand
Saddam’s threats unless he intended to
attack Israel Saddam wanted to make
sure his western flank was protected from any Israeli action before he decided
to invade Kuwait
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s motivation for threatening Israel before the
Kuwait invasion)
1990 Report Bush admin told Congress against sanctioning
Iraq for WMD and nuclear bomb programs
2002 State Dept started Future of Iraq project bringing
together 240 Iraqi exiles to chart out post-Saddam
Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Part I Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
Hard Lessons Planning for Postwar
Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
2003 Abu Dhabi TV showed Saddam at Adhamiya Baghdad urging
crowd to fight invasion Saddam
Qusay Uday left city that day
2003 Baghdad fell ending U.S. invasion
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2003 Iraqis in Firdos Square pulled down Saddam statue with
help of US Marines
(Musings
On Iraq article on pulling down Saddam’s statue)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s
War on Iraq)
2003 Kurdish Peshmerga seized Kirkuk
(Musings
On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City
In
2003)
2003 Gen Franks told Bush war going according to plan Bush
wanted to collect info on life under Saddam
to compare with life after
2003 CENTCOM said war reached tipping point Iraqis realized
Saddam was done
2003 VP Cheney said Iraqi govt collapsing showing criticism
of war was wrong
2003 VP Cheney said with a little investment Iraq could
produce 2-3 mil/bar/day of oil by end of 2003
2003 US intel report Baathists Fedayeen Iraqi forces
operating independently of orders Would continue to
fight until eliminated
2003 Sadrists held first Friday prayers reviving tradition
of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr
2003 US forces ordered Badr Brigade to disband but didn't
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran using Badr in post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2004 Human Rights Minister Abdul Turki resigned saying
Battle of Fallujah was a violation of human
rights
2004 1 member of Iraqi Governing Council boycotted and two
others threatened to resign over Battle of
Fallujah
2004 Bremer ordered end to 1st Battle of Fallujah
because of negative publicly and complaints by Iraqi
politicians
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 200,000 Sadrists and Sunnis rallied at Um al-Qura
mosque run by Association of Muslim Scholars in
Baghdad against US occupation and
in solidarity with Fallujah
2004 Bush called leaders of Poland, Italy and El Salvador to
make sure they would keep troops in Iraq
2004 US contractor fuel convoy attacked in Abu Ghraib
leading Brown & Root to suspend all its convoys
in Iraq
2006 Babil police chief said if US troops left province
would be civil war next day Said police not strong
enough to intervene between warring
militias
2006 Gen Newbold wrote in Time problems in Iraq due to
“casualness and swagger” by Bush
administration
2007 1920 Revolution Brigades said ISI was killing civilians
and other insurgents
2007 Islamic Army commander killed in Salahaddin for talking
with govt ISI blamed
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2007 40 religious scholars formed Council of Ulema of Iraq
in Jordan to be religious body for insurgents
2007 Abu Wael declared his Sharia Council was breaking away
from Ansar al-Sunnah
2007 Pres Barzani said Kurds main reason Iraq stayed unified
2007 Report militias burned Sunni neighborhoods in Babil
Insurgents burned Sunni and Shiite homes
in Diyala
2008 Fmr Under Sec Def Feith said Bush had good war plan but
got bad advice from CIA State NSC that
caused all the problems in Iraq
Claimed CIA and State opposed Chalabi which screwed up postwar Iraq Justified
setting up intel unit in Pentagon because CIA was “politicized” and ignored
Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2008 Fmr UK Amb to US Greenstock said US had no real plans
for postwar Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2008 Oil Minister claimed Charge of Knights cleared militias
and gangs out of Basra waterway New oil
police in Basra created to replace
Fadhila controlled one
2008 Report Fadhila Gov of Basra Waeli under house arrest
after Charge of Knights Head of Basra
council from Dawa was now running
Basra
2008 Iraqi general complained Iran interfering in Basra by
supporting Mahdi Army
during
Charge of Knights op
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2008 Sadr claimed he consulted with clerics who said he
didn’t have to disarm Mahdi Army
2008 Ayatollah Sistani said he supported govt’s demand to
disarm Mahdi Army
2009 Sadr had mass rally in Baghdad to mark fall of Saddam
in 03 and called for US withdrawal
(Musings
On Iraq Anbar Sheikhs Reach Out To Shiites)
2009 Baghdad said it was committed to Sahwa but it would
purge all those who were Baathist and ISI
infiltrators
(Musings
On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
2010 Sadrists held demonstration in Najaf to mark fall of
Saddam and protested US occupation
2011 Protests started in Mosul calling on govt to release
prisoners
2011 Protests in Babil and Fallujah started demanding
provincial councils disband and better services
2011 Sadr held anti-US demonstration in Baghdad threatened
to bring back Mahdi Army if US forces
didn’t leave at end of year
2011 Dep PM Mutlaq compared PM Maliki to Saddam
2011 Speaker Nujafi said there was no power sharing in Iraq
and PM Maliki concentrating authority in his
hands
2012 KRG cabinet said that KDP and PUK Interior Ministries
were going to unite
2012 ISF attacked nightclubs and alcohol shops in Baghdad
and shut them down
2012 Pres Barzani said that Baghdad was marginalizing Kurds
within ISF and that F-16s could be used
against KRG
2012 Iraqiya complained PM Maliki centralizing power
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
2012 Parliament committee created to investigate mass
arrests in Baghdad before Arab Summit Never
made report
2012 Parliament economic committee chairman accused foreign
countries of pumping in counterfeit dinars
into Iraq
2013 Iran delivered bodies of Iraqi militiamen killed
fighting for it in Syria
2013 Gorran rejected extending Pres Barzani’s term
2013 Turkey said it was ready to build a pipeline for
Kurdish oil exports
2015 Hashd spokesman denied stories Hashd looting in Tikrit
Blamed tribes and individuals
2015 Dep head of Anbar council said Kataib Hezbollah and
Peace Brigades had deployed to Shjariya,
Anbar Hashd would later claim they
were not in Anbar because of PM Abadi and US
(Musings
On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
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