1935 Govt arrested cleric Asadallah follower of Ayatollah
Ghita who had been demanding
concessions from govt Led to revolt
by Abu Hassan Bani Zurayij and Zawalim tribes against monarchy
1941 UK Foreign Min Eden told parliament if Iraq withdrew
forces from Habaniya and fighting stopped
London willing to talk Policy was
to remove PM Gaylani
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Iraq launched largest air attack on Habaniya air base
Iraqis then began to withdraw from outside
base due to lack of water and
rations 409 Iraqi soldiers captured Iraqis suffered 1,000 casualties
1941 Iraq launched 2nd air raid on Habaniya later
that day Iraqis lost initiative in Anglo-Iraq War when
gave up in Habaniya Had no plan or
leadership to do more than lay siege to base
1941 British and Assyrian forces took Sin al-Dhiban, Anbar
captured 300 Iraqi soldiers
1941 British planes destroyed Iraqi column heading for
Habaniya inflicting over 1,000 casualties and
prisoners taken
1941 PM Gaylani told Mufti of Jerusalem to contact Germans
and ask them for immediate aid
1941 German deal with Vichy France allowed military
equipment to be moved from Syria to Iraq to fight
British
1941 German air unit sent to Syria bound for Mosul to
confront British
1941 More British troops landed in Basra
(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)
1963 Soviet Union said it supported Mustafa Barzani and his
KDP
1991 Saddam held rally with crowds chanting “Bush listen
carefully We all love Saddam Hussein”
1991 Iraq letter to UN accused US of sending in counterfeit
dinars to undermine economy
1991 2nd round of Baghdad-Kurd talks started
Barzani led delegation
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1998 100 US peace activists led by former Attn Gen Ramsey
Clark arrived in Iraq with $4 mil in
medicine to protest sanctions
2003 Bush speech said building democracy in Iraq would be
like what US did in post WWII Germany
and Japan
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The
aftermath of regime change)
(Musings
On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the
Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings
On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2003 Bush announced Paul Bremer as head of new CPA to run
postwar Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5
ORHA In Baghdad)
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 Bush told Bremer he had whatever time he needed to put
Iraq back together
2003 ORHA agreed to allow Baath members to return to
government jobs and police
2003 NY Times Kristof OpEd used Fmr Amb Wilson as unnamed
source on Iraq-Niger uranium deal Said
Wilson went to Niger in 2002 and
told CIA and State Dept that uranium story based upon fake docs Wilson accused
US intel of covering up his findings and decieving world Said White House and
State Dept kept using story despite denial Wilson never saw docs and went to
Niger 8 months before US got them
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
2004 NSC meeting on how to frame and publicize the coming
return of sovereignty to Iraq
2004 First large scale fight broke out between US forces and
Mahdi Army in Najaf
(Musings
On Iraq review Battle For The City Of
The Dead)
2004 Wash Post published new pictures of Abu Ghraib prisoner
abuse
2004 Gen Taguba who investigated Abu Ghraib abuse briefed
Def Sec Rumsfeld Dep Sec Def Wolfowitz
others after scandal broke in press
All said they knew nothing of case Taguba said torture took place Rumsfeld
denied he knew anything even though Taguba had briefed Pentagon and military
Rumsfeld’s office and Pentagon had received pictures of abuse in January 04
Appeared to have ignored them
2006 British helicopter shot down over Basra killing 5
soldiers When British moved to secure wreckage
were attacked by 300 Mahdi Army
militiamen
2008 ISF raided hospital and police stations in Baghdad
accusing officers and staff of being Mahdi Army
members
2008 ISF raided Sadr offices in Kut
2009 Sahwa in Ghaziliya Baghdad complained about his men
leaving because not getting paid by govt
(Musings
On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
2009 Dawa MP said new offensive in Diyala would fail because
insurgents had fled to Kurdistan
(Musings
On Iraq article on Op Promise of Good II)
2010 Maliki govt announced start of 5 year anti-corruption
plan
(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)
2013 Report said politicians manipulating Central Bank of
Iraq dollar auctions
2015 Barzani met with Obama in Washington Asked for heavy
weapons Said Kurds would help in Battle
of Mosul Said wouldn’t fight in
Arab areas and didn’t covet territory
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