1927 Iraqi cabinet resolution said Assyrians would be
settled in the country
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Tragedy of the
Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review State and Society in
Iraq)
1941 British Arab Legion left Palestine to take back Fort
Rutba, Anbar from Iraqi police
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Arab Legion attacked by German aircraft and one regiment
refused to cross Transjordan border into
Iraq
1941 British Royal Air Force reported Iraqi air force combat
ineffective Lost 25 planes Another 20-30
heavily damaged
1941 Vichy France agreed to transfer weapons from Syria to
Iraq to use its air fields and okayed
landing of German planes
1941 Iraq Def Min Shawkat went to Turkey for talks Ankara
offered end of fighting permission for UK to
use bases in Iraq In return UK
would recognize Gayalani’s govt
1941 Iraq Finance Min Suwaidi went to Saudi Arabia to
explain conflict with UK and ask for
mediation Ibn Saud said Iraq should
end war
1941 UK Mideast Cmdr Gen Wavell said not enough troops to
take Baghdad and fight Iraqi and Axis forces
(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)
1982 Iran announced it had reached pre-war border with Iraq
Iran-Iraq War
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1982 Saddam ordered retreating Iraqi forces to rally in
Khorramshahr in south dubbing it a Stalingrad
(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 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
1988 138 Kurdish villages in southern and central
Sulaymaniya abandoned due to Anfal campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anfal campaign)
1990 Saddam claimed Iraq could build high tech capacitors
for use in nuclear triggers
2002 UK Foreign Sec Straw told Sec State Powell if Bush
decided on military action against Iraq PM Blair
would back him
(Musings
On Iraq article Chilcot Report Volume 2 Sec 3.3 Development of UK Iraq
Strategy and Options April to July 2002)
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Sec State Powell said US and UK would go to UN to
authorize occupation of Iraq
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told staff rebuilding Iraq would not
be fast or easy and needed time
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 UK parliament announced review of pre-war intelligence
on Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 ORHA met with ex-Iraqi army officers 2nd
time Said they could bring back 137,000 soldiers
2003 Def Min memo called for Iraqi soldiers to return to
duty and cooperate with ORHA
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld gave Bremer memo on DeBaathification
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings
On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
2004 Bush said US goal was to build a free and peaceful Iraq
that was not a threat to its neighbors
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
(Musings
On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2004 Sec Def Rumsfeld told Congress that Iraqi victims of
Abu Ghraib prison abuse should be
compensated
2004 Pentagon est by end of 2005 Iraq war would cost US $150
bil 3 times higher than White House
prediction before war
2004 Mahdi Army fought with British troops in downtown Basra
2004 US forces moved into Karbala and Amarah setting off
clashes with Mahdi Army US forces seized a
govt complex in Najaf fighting
Mahdi Army
2005 Battle of Qaim began
2009 Ninewa Gov Nujafi stopped by Peshmerga from going to
hot air balloon festival in Bashiqa Part of
Kurd-Hadbaa List dispute
(Musings
On Iraq article on Kurd-Al Hadbaa dispute in Ninewa)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Al-Hadbaa taking over Ninewa council)
2009 KRG said they would start exporting oil from Taq Taq
and Tawke fields after Oil Min okayed
connecting them to Turkish pipeline
Oil Min said it wouldn’t pay oil companies however
(Musings
On Iraq article on Oil Ministry offer to KRG over oil exports)
(Musings
On Iraq Companies Exporting Oil From Kurdistan Without Getting Paid)
2010 Pres Barzani set up investigation into murder of
journalist Zardasht Osman KDP was accused of
involvement
2011 Anbar councilman complained that ISF continued arrest
of former ISF members after PM Maliki
promised to end them
2011 ISI members staged a prison revolt in Baghdad killing 6
police and 11 prisoners
2012 PM Maliki held cabinet meeting in Kirkuk to highlight
problems between Arabs and Kurds
2012 Allawi said PM Maliki was becoming an autocrat
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Inside Iraqi Politics’ Sowell on whether Maliki
became a dictator)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Maliki with MP
Said)
2013 Iraqiya said PM Maliki was allowing militias to operate
in country
2014 US restarted training for Iraqi Counter Terrorism
Service in Jordan
2014 Anbar council again denied stories that ISF launched
operation to free Fallujah
2015 IS broke out 30 prisoners from facility in Diyala
posing as inspectors
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