1919 War Min Churchill wrote PM
George that British army was overstretched with new
additions like
Mesopotamia
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia/Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How
Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The
Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
(Musings
On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil,
Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1938 Iraqi constitution Article
89a criminalized communism
(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)
1941 British decided on pre-emptive attack to move Iraqi
army away from Habaniya base in Anbar
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
(Musings
On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A
Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1941 PM Gaylani went to Turkish Amb to Iraq saying UK
violating 1930 treaty and expected UK air
strikes any time Asked Turkish
ambassador to contract UK and try to stop conflict Message was passed to UK
ambassador to Iraq
1941 Iraqi police opened fire on UK workers in Rutba Anbar
England responded by sending forces from
Transjordan to town
1941 British bombers sent from Egypt to Shaiba air base in
Basra
1941 1st Battalion of Iraq’s 11th Inf
Brigade sent from Baghdad to Fallujah to confront 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)
1948 Iraqi volunteers defeated by Jewish forces in Battle of
Katamon in 1st Arab Israeli War
1959 Communists organized 1 mil in May Day parade aimed at
showing power of party so Qasim
would agree to share 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 Iraq became 1st Arab country to recognize
East Germany as part of alliance with Soviet Union
1982 Iranian Op Bait al-Moqaddas Iranian Rev Guard attack
across Karun River Played chants on
loudspeakers to make it seem like
larger force Caused Iraqis to flee Iran launched diversionary attacks on Fakkeh
in central front and in Susangard in norther Kuzistan province in south
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam,
Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
1983 Iraqi navy attacked Iran’s Nowruz oil rig in northern
Gulf to little to no effect Iraq lost one
ship and called off all attacks in
the area on Iranian infrastructure as a result
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(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)
1989 Talabani and PKK’s Ocalan signed cooperation agreement
in Damascus
1991 Saddam said that fighting spirit of Iraqis led Bush to
call a cease-fire in Gulf War
1991 Report 68,000 displaced caused by uprising following
Gulf War
1994 Land dispute in Qala Dizel began civil war between PUK
and KDP 400 killed in fighting over next
month
1997 Turkey with support of KDP started new campaign against
PKK in northern Kurdistan Claimed
killed over 2000 PKK fighters KDP
lost 200
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
2002 FBI and CIA told media 9/11 hijacker Atta did not meet
Iraqi intel in Prague April 2001
2002 Bush told Press Sec Fleischer he didn’t like
“motherfuckers” like Saddam who gassed their own
people and “assholes” who lied to
the world Said he was going to kick Saddam’s ass
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on
Conflict)
2003 Bush gave Mission Accomplished speech declaring victory
against Iraq Linked invasion to 9/11
Said war eliminated ally of Al
Qaeda Now terrorists could not get WMD from Iraq
2003 White House officials gave briefings that they thought
Saddam had been killed during start of
invasion
2003 UK memo said it supported ORHA but that organization
was not delivering in Iraq and lacked
strategy
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Grenades thrown into US base in Fallujah wounding 7
soldiers
(Musings
On Iraq review The Battle for
Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2003 US military created Combined Joint Task Force 7 to run
Iraq Only lasted 15 days
2004 Bush announced that Bremer would select Iraqi
transitional government
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
2004 Reports of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners in
south
2004 Secret report leaked that provided evidence of Abu
Ghraib prisoner abuse and US military
leadership didn’t stop it
2005 Memo leaked that PM Blair was looking for justification
for war in Jul 2002 which he denied it at the
time
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2006 Sen Biden and Council on For Rel head Gelb published
OpEd arguing for federalism in Iraq based
upon Sunnis Shiia Kurds regions
2007 Kurdish MPs said they opposed draft oil law because
most oil reserves would be under control of
National
Oil Company
2007 Fmr Def Sec Hoon said UK disagreed with US decision to
disband Iraqi military and deBaathification
Said UK too
optimistic about aftermath of invasion Said neglected Sunnis
2007 Iraq claimed it killed ISI’s Minister of War Masri
Wasn’t true
2008 PM Maliki created committee to investigate Iranian
weapons shipments to Iraq after Charge of
Nights
Nothing came of it
2009 Op Promise of Good II started by ISF in Diyala Like
previous op in 2008 ISF would go after Sunni
politicians and Sahwa
(Musings
On Iraq article on Op Promise of Good II)
(Musings
On Iraq article on political crackdown in Diyala during Op Promise of Good
II)
2011 KRG Dep Inter Min Karim said govt would not allow any
protests without permission after
crackdown in Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2013 PM Maliki said he would take on armed protesters in
Anbar
2013 Kurdish alliance said new deal with PM Maliki would end
their boycott of cabinet Maliki didn’t
follow through Included dealing
with disputed areas amending budget paying peshmerga distributing revenues
2019 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq fired rockets at U.S. advisers at Taji
base in Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
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