1847 Treaty of Arzurum tried to set border between Ottoman
Empire and Persia Gave Sulaymaniya
to Ottomans Shatt al-Arab to Persia
Set up commission to demarcate border between Ottomans and Persia but never
finished
(Musings
On Iraq review An Analysis of Hanna
Batatu’s The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq)
1919 UK PM George abrogated Long-Berenger UK-French oil deal
due to disagreement
with France over Iraq-Syrian border
George wanted Iraq to extend to Mediterranean
(Musings
On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq
1914-1921)
1924 Turkey told Constantinople Conference Assyrians should
return to Turkey
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Tragedy of the
Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review State and Society in
Iraq)
1928 British official said Iraqi provincial administrators
picked who would be elected to parliament
1941 Iraqis launched counterattack attempting to retake
Fallujah from British Entered town
(Musings
On Iraq article on 1941 Battle of Fallujah)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 German planes bombed UK air base at Habaniya for a
second day
1941 Iraq launched raids into Basra city suburbs but failed
(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)
1970 Pres Bakr issued Agrarian Reform Law to increase living
conditions for peasants and increase farm
production
1974 UN Sec Gen said Iran and Iraq agreed to withdraw forces
and open talks over border disputes
1981 Iran Op Imam Ali launched to eliminate Iraqi threat to
Susangard in Khuzistan
1982 Iranian Op Bait al-Moqaddas Broke through Iraqi
defenses around Khorramshahr in south Iraqi forces
panicked and started to flee Only
40% made it back to Iraq Iran captured 12,000 prisoners 2000 prisoners
summarily executed by Iran
(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
1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(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 2nd phase of govt collectivization program
started to destroy Kurdish towns and force people
into govt run villages
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1991 Kuwait asked for half of Iraq’s oil earnings as
reparation for invasion
1999 UN Res 1242 renewed Oil For Food Program for 6th
months
2002 Gen Franks lied to press saying he had no Iraq war
plans and had not been asked to make any Franks
had been working on war plans since
Nov 2001
(Musings
On Iraq review of Shaping the Plan
for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 Dep Sec Def Wolfowitz ordered army to help CPA with
staff and contracting because CPA
undermanned
2003 Report CIA believed 3 trailers found in Iraq were
mobile WMD labs Sec State Powell talked about in
UN speech
2003 Report that US showed picture of trailers to Iraqi in
Germany known as CURVEBALL who confirmed
they were WMD labs
(Musings
On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq
Had WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings
On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
2004 CPA set up group to integrate militias into ISF Never
happened
2006 Report Iran thought to have trained 40,000 militia in
Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2006 Report US failed to adequately plan to rebuild Iraqi
police After invasion went through 3 failed plans
By 2004 only sent 500 police
advisers for all of Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law
and order in post-invasion Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2008 CENTCOM commander Gen Dempsey said ISI at its weakest
point in Iraq
2008 US commander for northern Iraq said attacks in Mosul
down 85% after Mother of Two Springs op
there
2008 Pres Talabani said Iraq would be able to handle its own
security without help
of US by
end of 2008 Didn’t happen
2008 Female suicide bomber hit Sahwa HQ in Anbar
(Musings
On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)
2010 Reports that both Iran and US supported 2nd
term for PM Maliki
2012 KRG announced energy deals with Turkey Baghdad warned
KRG it could not sign independent oil deals
with Turkey
2012 Oil Min Shahristani ordered ministry to stop petrol
deliveries to KRG Would later deny he gave order
2013 Sheikh Hayes threatened to tear down protest tents in
Ramadi if didn’t disperse after attacks on ISF
and kidnappings
2013 KRG said it wanted to build a second independent oil pipeline
to Turkey
2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq blamed US and PM Abadi for fall of
Ramadi Claimed US had kept Hashd out
Hashd had been in Anbar for months
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
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