1935 Tribes seized Suq al-Shuyukh and cut railway between
Basra and Nasiriya during revolt
against govt
1941 German major arrived in Baghdad to lead Brandenburgers
Commandorecon unit in Iraq along with
squadron of bombers and squadron of
fighters Met with PM Gaylani Decided priority blocking Transjordan force from
reaching Habaniya base Was too late to do that
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Germany had total of 24 fighters and bombers in Iraq to
help Gaylani govt fight German planes
were painted in Iraqi colors to
hide their origin
1941 British received intel that German planes flying to
Iraq from Syria
1941 German plane bombed British force from Palestine
heading towards Habaniya Anbar
1941 British bomber attacked Iraqi column outside Rutba,
Anbar
1941 Kurds began discussing revolt against PM Gaylani to
take advantage of crisis with British
(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)
1948 Kirkuk oil workers protested against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1948 Iraq Egypt Jordan Syria armies entered into Palestine
to join in 1948 Arab-Israeli War Iraqi army
attacked Kibbutz Gesher in northern
Palestine
1948 Baghdad declared martial law due to war but was really
aimed at ending protests over new Anglo-
Iraq Treaty
1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad
1986 KDP Peshmerga and Iranian paratroopers took Mangesh
north of Mosul near Kirkuk pipeline
(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 Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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)
1988 Start of 5th Anfal Campaign aimed at
destroying last of PUK’s bastions in Balisan Valley,
Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1990 West Germany seized parts headed for Iraq suspected for
130ft long supergun
1991 International Atomic Energy Agency started first
weapons inspection in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD
and 2003 Invasion)
2001 Sec State Powell told Congress UN sanctions had
effectively contained Saddam
2003 2 most senior Iraqi biological scientists denied Iraq
was working on WMD before war
2003 UK Foreign Sec Straw Hard evidence of Iraq WMD may
never be found Not important Iraq
was in the wrong WMD was main
reason UK joined war
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Undersec of Def Feith told Congress US found evidence
of Iraq WMD and needed Iraqis to step
forward and tell them where it was
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a
War)
2003 Undersec of Def Feith told Congress US had commitment
to stay and to leave Iraq
Said CPA would create interim Iraqi
government
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 ORHA head Garner complained to Bremer about draft CPA
Order 2 disbanding Iraqi security forces
Garner talked Bremer out of
disbanding police and Interior Ministry
(Musings
On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 CPA security adv Slocolmb told Garner Iraqi army had
disbanded itself Colluded in Saddam’s crimes
and needed to go
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with CSU San Marco’s Prof Marashi Development And
Setbacks Of The Current Iraqi Military)
2003 Bremer and CPA advisers reviewed CPA Order 1
DeBaathification
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 CPA appropriated $2 bil for rebuilding Iraqi security
forces electricity oil
2003 US forces launched Operation Planet X to arrest
Baathists north of Tikrit
2003 Sadr cleric gave sermon in Baghdad accusing US forces
of being able to see through women’s
clothes and giving pornography to
children
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2005 Sec of State Rice told Pres Barzani and PM Jaafari they
had to include Sunnis in new govt
2005 Salah al-Mutlaq said couldn’t unite Iraq without
including the Baathists
2007 Sadr returned from Iran to give sermon in Kufa
Dismissed number of officials he felt were disloyal
Then went back to Iran
(Musings
On Iraq article on Sadr fleeing to Iran during Surge)
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2007 Constitutional Review Comm submitted draft of changes
with no major issues dealt with Told
political parties they had to do
rest Deadline for final draft to include all issues extended until 7/31/07 Nothing
done
2008 Sahwa in Mosul complained ISF were arresting them
instead of insurgents during Mother of Two
Rivers Operation
2009 Mass grave found in Najaf with 3,000 Kurds killed during
Anfal
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
2009 Oil Ministry said it wouldn’t pay oil companies
exporting oil from KRG because deals weren’t
approved by Baghdad
2009 PM Maliki called for majority government and ending
sectarian quota system
2009 PM Maliki claimed US releasing terrorists from prisons
resulting in increased in violence 2008
Maliki govt had negotiated quicker
release of prisoners by US
2011 Sheikh Sulaiman said that tribes and politicians would
make Anbar a federal region to protest PM
Maliki
2011 Salahaddin politicians met with Pres Barzani to discuss
making province a federal region to protest
PM Maliki
2012 Trial of ex-VP Hashemi began Bodyguard claimed Hashemi
implicated in 150 attacks from 2005-11
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
(Musings
On Iraq article on charges against VP Hashemi)
2015 IS seized govt center in Ramadi in final drive to take
city Reinforcements sent to Ramadi to stave
off IS offensive Never arrived
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
2018 Large demonstration by Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk city
claiming voter fraud
2018 6 Kurdish opposition parties claimed cheating in Irbil
election
(Musings
On Iraq article on election crisis in Kirkuk and Kurdistan)
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