1925 UK Colonial Secretary wrote Arab elites knew Iraq was
being held together by British
1935 Iraq air force bombed rebel villages in Diwaniya held
by Abu Hassan Bani Zurayij and Zawalim
tribes
1941 British forces left Haifa, Palestine heading for
Habaniya, Anbar
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 More British planes landed as reinforcements at Habaniya
air base Anbar
1941 German military aid began arriving from Syria by train
Stored in Mosul but never used
1941 German diplomat Dr. Grobba arrived in Baghdad along
with 3 German planes and 20,000 Pounds
for PM Gaylani
(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 of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941,
The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings
On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A
Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1982 Iranian Op Bait al-Moqaddas Took Husseiniya and pushed
Iraqis to border in Khuzistan province
Saddam ordered retreat to
Khorramshahr across from Basra
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1985 Iran launched attack into southern Iraq marshes to
seize Basra-Baghdad highway
(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 UK PM Major said was against ending UN sanctions on Iraq
until Saddam overthrown
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
1991 CIA hired Rendon Group for propaganda ops in Iraq Would
help create Iraqi National Congress
2002 Gen Franks briefed Bush on war plans at Camp David Said
he would attack Iraq on 5 fronts: west
for special operations south would
be main invasion front from Kuwait north would be Turkey if it agreed to be involved
center would be Baghdad attacked by air strikes and last would be information
campaign
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence,
and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Shaping the Plan
for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
2003 UK envoy to Iraq said US had no leadership no strategy
for rebuilding Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Report US military team searching for Iraq’s WMD found
nothing
2003 UN report Iraq farming could collapse threatening
widespread hunger
2004 Zarqawi released video of himself beheading US hostage
Nick Berg Zarqawi claimed revenge for
Abu Ghraib abuses
2004 Bush put training of new Iraqi security forces under
CENTCOM
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2004 Bush signed NSPP 35 okayed 1st interagency
plan to rebuild Iraq Happened year after invasion
ended
2004 Bush signed NSPP 36 giving State Dept control of Iraq
after CPA closed
2004 Gen Taguba and Under Sec Def Cambone testified to
Senate Armed Services Comm on Abu
Ghraib abuse Asked if Gen Miller’s
visit to Iraq from Guantanamo Bay on interrogation techniques had led to abuse
Cambone said no Taguba said yes
2004 Conspiracy theorist Mylroie claimed 9/11 hijacker Atta
met with Iraqi intel in Prague in 2001 after
story discredited
(Musings
On Iraq article on Mylroie’s Iraq conspiracy theories)
(Musings
On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq Conspiracy Theory Was Debunked By Captured
Baath Documents)
2004 Report Red Cross pointed out only 600 out of 43,000
Iraqis arrested by US in 03 went to court
2005 Congress approved $5.3 bil to rebuild Iraqi security
forces
2010 US arrested Kataib Hezbollah commander accused of
attacking US and Iraq forces
(Musings
On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
2010 Report that Iran Rev Guards Quds Force’s Gen Suleimani
helped negotiate State of Law-
National Alliance merger into
National Coalition
(Musings
On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His
Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2011 PM Maliki said US forces could stay past end of year if
ruling parties agreed
2011 Tribes in Basra threatened revolt if US forces stayed
past end of year
2012 PM Maliki said Turkey was not respecting Iraq
2014 Gen Austin and US diplomats met PM Maliki who asked for
drones and air strikes Obama turned him
down
2014 Protest in Basra about lack of electricity
2014 ISIS spokesman Adnani released video saying ISIS was
following true path of Al Qaeda while
Zawahiri had split the jihadist
movement and only cared about promoting himself
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2015 Kataib Hezbollah attacked SIIC office in Basra accusing
official of corruption
(Musings
On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
2016 3 suicide car bombs in Baghdad killed 113 wounded 187
Deadliest day in years in Iraq
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