1941 German planes attacked British
Habaniya air base in Anbar
(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 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)
1950 1st flight of Near
East Air Transport Took Iraqi Jews to Israel Airline was owned by Jewish Agency
who
worked to get Jews to move to Israel
1950 When Israel created Iraqi govt
banned immigration Mar 1950 govt allowed temporary immigration
for
one year Stripped Jews of Iraqi citizenship and govt confiscated their property
1950 Note from Lebanese Amb in
Baghdad to Syrian Foreign Minister Bey said Iraq wanted to seize
Syria
(Musings
On Iraq review of Ropes Of Sand
that includes Iraq plots against Syria)
1982 Iranian Op Bait al-Moqaddas
Entered Khorramshahr and destroyed bridge over Shatt al-Arab
waterway
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1984 Iraq sank
Panamanian oil tanker in Persian Gulf in tanker war
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With
The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1985 Iranian offensive into Iraqi
southern marshes to seize Basra-Baghdad highway ended in failure
1985 Saudis offered peace deal
while Prince Faisal visited Iran Rejected by Tehran
1986 Iran ended Op Al Fajr 9 in
Kurdistan
(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 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)
1987 Iraq ended 1st
phase of attacks upon Kurdish villages
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1991 Bush said he would oppose
lifting sanctions on Iraq as long as Saddam was in power
(Musings
On Iraq Review The United States And Iraq Since 1990, A Brief History
With Documents)
(Musings
On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
1994 SCIRI claimed start of
military campaign in Maysan marshes against Iraqi govt forces
1996 Iraq and UN signed memo
allowing Oil for Food program
2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld asked Gen
Franks to plan for a fortress Baghdad scenario
(Musings
On Iraq review of Shaping the Plan
for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
2003 Bremer sent Bush letter saying
that deBaathification wasn’t enough to end Baath rule in Iraq Needed
to
disband military
(Musings
On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 Iraqis met with British rep to
Iraq and demanded an interim govt
2003 US forces arrested Saddam’s Min of Industry Hwaish and
VP Marouf
2004 CIA and US military raided Chalabi’s home in Baghdad Accused
him of providing intel to Iran
Chalabi claimed it was retaliation
for his criticism of US
2004 US had arrest warrant for INC intelligence head Habib
but he’d fled
2004 US called off assault on Mahdi Army in old city Karbala
2004 NSC meeting asked what would happen if new sovereign
Iraq asked US to leave
2004 Report US interrogators told guards at Abu Ghraib
prison to strip prisoners make them wear
women’s close before questioning
2004 US army admitted lost Red Cross reports of abuse at Abu
Ghraib prison due to bureaucracy
2005 US 1st Cav Div collected more than 100 abuse
cases by ISF over 6 months including beatings,
electrocutions, choking in Baghdad
2005 US 3rd Inf Div collected 28 cases of abuse
by Iraqi units in Baghdad
2006 1st Maliki cabinet approved but with no
Interior Defense or National Security Ministers Interior
Min Jabr switched to Finance Min in
new cabinet because he allowed Badr Brigade to take over ministry and police
under Jaafari govt
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2006 PM Maliki laid out 33 point program with terrorism
fighting corruption and services top 3
2006 Defense Min adviser said violence so bad in Basra
murderers were running free
2007 Report Sadr set up reconciliation committee and held
talks with Sunni politicians and insurgents
including 192 Revolution Brigades
Also sent representative to Syria Egypt and Persian Gulf for talks
2008 Mother of Two Springs op ended in Mosul without success
2008 10,000 ISF deployed to Sadr City after Sadr ceasefire
finally took effect
2008 Female suicide bomber attacked Sahwa and police station
in Rutba Anbar Another female suicide
bomber hit Sahwa leader in Mandali
Diyala
(Musings
On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)
2009 Report only 17,000 of 94,000 Sahwa given govt jobs so
far
2010 Sadr said he was returning to Iraq after leaving for
Iran in 07 over fear of US assassination during
Surge
2010 Sadr leader said that Sadrists opposed 2nd
term for PM Maliki
2010 US said Iran training and arming militiamen to
destabilize Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2010 KRG said it would start oil exports the next day and Baghdad
okayed it Demanded Baghdad pay oil
companies in KRG
2011 5 Madhi Army commanders escaped Taji prison
2012 PUK and KDP Finance Ministries said they had merged
2012 KRG said it was building independent oil pipeline to
Turkey Said it would reach 2 mil/bar/day in
production by 2014 Didn’t make that
mark
2012 Meeting of political leaders decided to hold off on no
confidence vote against PM Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
2013 ISIS launched 11 car bombs leaving 137 dead
2013 PM Maliki said fake bomb detectors worked 20-50% of the
time
2013 Anbar councilman said foreign companies were fleeing
province due to increasing violence
2013 Cabinet announced provincial elections in Anbar and
Ninewa would occur Jun 20
2014 Iraqi intel warned army that large ISIS attack on Mosul
coming in June
2014 Iraqi army said it was surrounding Fallujah Said it
controlled Saqlawiya but untrue
(Musings
On Iraq Security In Iraq’s Anbar Shows Battle Against Insurgents Will Be
Long And Often Futile)
2014 KRG parliament voted Qubad Talabani Dep PM
2014 Electricity and Municipality depts in Sulaymaniya
protested over not being paid salaries Part of
economic crisis in KRG
2014 KRG oil started being loaded on tanker in Turkey for
first time
2015 Gorran said it would support extending Pres Barzani’s
term if KRG switched to parliamentary
system
2016 Sadrists took over Green Zone for second time Led to
clash with ISF 4 protesters killed
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms)
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