1921 Govt passed law allowing for enlistment to new Iraqi
army
1941 2nd trainload of German military aid arrived
from Syria Stored in Mosul but never used
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 12 Italian planes landed in Kirkuk from Syria to
operate under Germans Immediately attacked
British forces in Anbar
1941 Mussolini met with German military attache and
expressed concern about Iraq Asked whether
Berlin would give substantive or
symbolic support to Iraq
1941 Mussolini told German military attache Iraq could turn
tide in Mediterranean Attache said Berlin
serious about Iraq
(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)
1964 Pres Arif established Joint Presidency Council with
Egypt in failed attempt to unite 2 countries
under pan-Arabism
1981 Iraqis forced to withdraw from around Susangard
Khuzistan due to Iran Op Imam Ali
1983 French Pres Mitterand agreed to rent 6 Super Etendard
jets to Iraq for 2 years Iraqi pilots went to
France for training
1986 Iran launched 2nd counterattack in Faw
Peninsula Basra
1988 Iraq Op Tawakalna ala Allah reached Iranian border in
Basra Also forced Iranians out of southern
marshes north of Basra city 6,000
Iranian casualties 3,000 Iraqi casualties
1988 Saddam had meeting with military staff Decided next
offensive would be to recapture Majnoon
Islands in Basra
(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
3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(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)
2002 During trip to France Bush said he had no Iraq war
plans Part of strategy to work on war plans
while publicly denying it
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on
Conflict)
(Musings
On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To
Invade Iraq)
2003 Ex-Iraqi general addressed protesters outside Green
Zone saying Iraqi govt needed to be formed
security established salaries paid
to soldiers or would be resistance to US occupation
2004 NYTimes said some of its reporting on Iraq before war
was questionable and not sufficiently vetted
2005 PM Jaafari said govt would crackdown on those taking
law into their own hands in response to
reports of Shiite death squads
2006 Pentagon report to Congress on Iraq said insurgency had
not started civil war Said violence only in
4 provinces Said insurgency would
decline in early 2007
2006 Sec State Rice said 48 US govt workers signed up to
work in Iraq Gen Casey said not enough Rice
told him he was out of line
2006 Report PM Maliki wanted to increase number of Iraqi
forces from 250,000 to 325,000 by end of
year Was trying to purge militias
from Iraqi forces
2006 Report PM Maliki wanted Iraqi forces to control all of
Iraq’s provinces except Baghdad and Anbar
by end of 2006
2008 US military reported attacks in Iraq at lowest level
since May 2004
2008 ISI elements that that fled Mosul during govt crackdown
began attacking Yazidis
in Sinjar
Ninewa
2008 Pentagon report Couldn’t account for $15 bil spent in
Iraq Of $8.2 bil in contracts reviewed $7.7 bil
didn’t follow accounting rules
Distributed $1.8 bil in Iraqi money with no accounting
2009 Integrity Comm head attacked PM Maliki for allowing
Trade Min Sudani to resign Said it helped
him escape questioning for
corruption Sudani had used stolen money to pay for Maliki’s 2009 and 2010
election campaigns
(Musings
On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption
in Iraq)
2011 Inter Min Explosive head Gen Jabri released after
arrested for involvement in buying fake bomb
detectors
2011 ISI killed Accountability and Justice Comm head Ali
al-Lami in east Mosul
2011 Sadr told BBC that his militia was attacking US forces
as they were withdrawing from Iraq
2011 Sadrists held rally in Baghdad against US occupation
2014 Jihadist intellectual Maqdisi said talks to heal
ISIS-Al Qaeda rift had failed Said Abu Bakr al-
Bahgdad and his followers were
deviants and called on ISIS members to join Jabhat Al-Nusra
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2015 IS executed Iraqi soldiers from Sadr City in Fallujah
Hung him from bridge Hashd used it to justify
attacking city in July
2015 Report over 400 buildings in Dour district in Tikrit
destroyed by Hashd after city freed
2016 PM Abadi called on reform protests to stop due to Fallujah
operation
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