1925 Abdul Sadoun became PM of
Iraq for 2nd time
1940 PM Gaylani asked Italy to become involved in Syria to
block Turkey occupying it Came after
Syria joined Vichy France
(Musings
On Iraq review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
1948 Muzahim al-Pachachi became premier
1988 Iraq recaptured Majnoon Islands from 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
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)
1989 Iraq said it was clearing all civilians from 20 mil
border area with Iran and Turkey in Kurdistan
relocated 200,000-5000,000 Kurds
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1993 Pres Clinton ordered cruise missile attack on Iraq’s
intel HQ in Baghdad for attempted assassination of
ex-Pres Bush in Kuwait
1996 Iraqi govt rounded up 120 coup plotters and executed
most of them in failed plot by CIA and Iraqi
National Accord Iraqi intel had
captured satellite phone from Iraqi National Accord agent in Iraq and uncovered
CIA-INA plot Iraqi intelligence used captured phone to call CIA and told them
to go home
(Musings
On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of
the Storm)
2002 Gen Franks met with commanders in Germany and told them
to switch from original war plan to new
Running Start Would begin war
before all forces in theater
(Musings
On Iraq review of Shaping the Plan
for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
2002 INC memo to Senate Approp Comm said group had led to
108 articles from Oct 01-May 02
and White House officials had
received those products
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 UN terrorism committee draft report found no Iraq-Al
Qaeda links
2003 Report quoted State Dept memo that too early to tell
whether captured Iraqi trailers were mobile
WMD labs
(Musings
On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq
Had WMD)
2005 Def Sec Rumsfeld said US conducting secret talks to try
to split Iraqis from foreign insurgents
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq robbed $7 mil from Rafidain bank
branch in Ramadi
2007 US general in charge of advisers warned ISF years away
from being able to handle security Warned
against early withdrawal of US
forces as a result
2008 ISI suicide bomber hit tribal council meeting Killed 26
including Garma mayor and Awakening
sheikhs
2016 Fallujah finally freed of insurgents
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