1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement broke up Ottoman Empire into
British and French spheres Basra and
Baghdad to England Mosul to French
France was to be buffer with Russia
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation
of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq
1914-1921)
1941 While British planes bombed Iraqi column outside Rutba,
Anbar English ground forces were attacked
by German planes
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 German commander in Iraq agreed with Baghdad’s plan to
retake Habaniya but didn’t have forces to
do it
1941 German planes attacked Habaniya base British destroyed
10 German planes in Irbil and Mosul
1941 Mullah Mustafa Barzani escaped Baghdad and headed for
Sulaymaniya
(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)
1977 Saddam interview with US News & World Report said
Iraq would never accept Israel’s right to exist
1984 US offered to provide air cover to any Arab country’s
oil tankers in Persian Gulf to protect them from
Iranian attack
1986 Iraq launched operation to seize Mehran Iran 1st
offensive since 1983 Saddam wanted to seize
Iranian territory and swap it for
Faw Peninsula Basra
1988 Iran Op Bait al-Moqaddas 6 Gained 25 sq km in Kurdistan
Turkey worried about Iranian offensives
in Kurdistan Threatened
intervention if continued
(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)
2003 CPA Order 1 disbanded Baath Party Came from Undersec of
Def Feith He would later deny
responsibility
(Musings
On Iraq article on deBaathification)
(Musings
On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 ORHA Head Garner met with Iraqi Leadership Group exiles
and Iraqi notables put together by
Barzani and Talabani Bremer told
Leadership Group he was in charge not them
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 Bremer announced that interim Iraqi govt would not be
formed and that CPA would govern Iraq
2003 CPA picked Phillip Carroll to be top US adviser to Oil
Ministry Said he was against privatizing
industry
2003 Sadrists attacked movie theater in Baghdad for showing
indecent movies
2003 Arabs claimed they were beaten by Kurds at a market and
bridge in Kirkuk Started 3 days of
fighting in
city
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations
in Kirkuk)
(Musings
On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City
In
2003)
2003 Combined Joint Task Force 7 US military command in
charge of Iraq sent back to Iraq
2004 Sec State Powell some sources on Iraq WMD were
inaccurate wrong and sometimes deliberately
misleading
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2004 Maysan chief of police Kabir assassinated by members of
governor’s tribe Many claimed governor
had chief assassinated because
believed he tipped off British about ambush planned by tribe
2005 US issued order unless US forces directly involved in
abuse of Iraqis should report incident and do
nothing else
2007 200 insurgents attacked prison in Mosul with 6 suicide
car bombs and IEDs laid on surrounding
streets to block ISF response units
Also attacked house of Ninewa police chief and deputy governor
2007 Iraqi army security sweep through Diwaniya looking for
militiamen led to 7 hr battle with Mahdi
Army Also fighting between Mahdi
Army and ISF in Nasiriya
2008 PM Maliki gave insurgents 10 days to hand in weapons in
Mosul as part of Mother of Two Rivers
offensive
2009 PM Maliki promised major crackdown on corruption
(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)
2008 Parliament’s integrity committee said PM Maliki’s arms
deal with Serbia was illegal Called on Def
Minister to testify He refused Was
$236 mil no bid deal
2009 Kurds deployed Peshmerga to Zummar, Ninewa in response
to ISF move there Part of tension with
Hadbaa running Ninewa govt
(Musings
On Iraq article on Kurd-Al Hadbaa dispute in Ninewa)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Al-Hadbaa taking over Ninewa council)
2009 Head of British Army Gen Dannatt said UK’s participation
in Iraq damaged its military reputation
with US
2010 Abu Bakr al-Bahgdadi named new leader of ISI after Abu
Omar al-Baghdadi killed April 2010
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on ISI leader Abu
Omar al-Baghdadi)
2011 Gulf Cooperation Council rejected Iraq’s bid to join
2011 Senior Iraqi Air Force official said Iran tried to
block Iraq buying F-16s from US using friendly
political parties
2011 Security official blamed militias for wave of
assassinations and sticky bombs in Baghdad
2011 Qadisiyah council voted to make province a federal
region to protest neglect by Baghdad
2011 Investigation into IS prison break in Basra caught in
political controversy with ruling parties
interfering 2 members of Maliki’s
office implicated
2011 Sadrists rejected any talk of extending US troop
presence in Iraq past end of year
2012 End of deadline set by Sadrists for PM Maliki to
implement Irbil power sharing agreement Maliki did
not respond
2012 Pres Barzani said he was fed up with PM Maliki and
could not work with him anymore
2012 PM Maliki allowed Dep PM Mutlaq back to work after
dismissing him as political threat during no
confidence move
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
2013 Gov Nujafi of Ninewa escaped IED attack on his convoy
2013 ISF raided Sheikh Suleiman’s farm in Anbar leading to
shootout with guards
2014 Reports of barrel bombs and indiscriminate shelling of
Fallujah by ISF leading to large displacement
of civilians
2015 IS leader Baghdadi issued speech saying Anbari
displaced being mistreated by Baghdad for sectarian
reasons
2015 Ramadi fell to IS after months of fighting Report IS went
through city executing government workers
and Sahwa members
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
2019 Report Iran’s Quds Force Cmdr Gen Suleimani met with Tehran’s
allies in Baghdad telling
them to mobilize for a possible
confrontation with US
(Musings
On Iraq Tehran And Its Allies Respond Asymmetrically To Trump Admin’s Iran
Policy)
(Musings
On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His
Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
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