1922 Standard Oil told State Dept that it and other US
companies were interested in exploring in
Iraq
1922 Gertrude Bell wrote that Shiites were all under the pay
of leading cleric Sheikh Mahdi al-Khalisi who
she said wasn’t an Arab but a
Persian
(Musings
On Iraq review of Gertrude Bell And
Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Gertrude Bell,
Explorer of the Middle East)
(Musings
On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)
1963 Govt forces captured Saqsaq and Tobzawa from KDP
Peshmerga
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1982 Commander in chief of Iranian army said Iran-Iraq War
would continue until Saddam
overthrown
(Musings
On Iraq review of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1982 Saddam complained that Iran was defeated in 1980 but
didn’t give up
1983 Iraqi govt ordered all Kurds born from 1963-64 to be
drafted into army
(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)
1996 UN and Iraq agreed on terms for allowing UN inspectors
into Republican Guard Special Republican
Guard Special Security Organization
Mukhabarat sites
(Musings
On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003
Invasion)
1998 Grand Ayatollah Mirza Ali al-Gharawi assassinated by
Saddam who blamed foreign agents
2001 US decided to provide new aid to Iraqi opposition
against Saddam
2003 Bush blamed former regime elements for attacks in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
2003 Bush claimed other intel services said Iraq had WMD and
Iraq never proved it destroyed its WMD
arsenal
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a
War)
2003 Head weapons inspector Blix thought Iraq only had
“debris” of WMD program since none found
since invasion
2003 Blix said pre-war reports by Iraqis that WMD were
destroyed might prove true Cited Hussein Kamal
in 94 who said no WMD left
(Musings
On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003
Invasion)
2003 Report 2002 National Intelligence Estimate questioned
Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2003 2000 Ayatollah Sistani supporters protested outside
Green Zone demanding elections and
new Iraqi
govt
(Musings
On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the
Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2003 British searches in Maja al-Kabir, Maysan led to
shooting with locals 8 wounded
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq beheaded S Korean civilian Kim Sun-il
2004 UN audit on reconstruction in Iraq found spending and
contracts full of errors and open to fraud
2004 UN audit found State Organization for Marketing Oil had
no records on tenders contracts who won
bids etc
2004 Report White House claims Saddam Fedayeen members were
in Al Qaeda based upon confusion of
their names
2005 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey got report of prisoner abuse
by ISF Ordered US forces to stop any
abuses they saw
2006 US Cmdr in Iraq General Casey told press that Iran
giving weapons and training to militias
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
(Musings
On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2008 Iraqi offensive against Sadrists in Maysan expanded to
Dhi Qar and Wasit
2008 Report IEDs down 90% from 2007
2008 Female suicide bomber in Baquba killed 15 wounded 45
(Musings
On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)
2008 Report US reconstruction projects in Hit halted due to
corruption of mayor and police chief
2008 Baghdad Ops Command said PM Maliki issued order to
integrate all Sahwa in province
2009 US commander in Diyala said govt had not paid 1000
Sahwa in province nor integrated them into
govt
(Musings
On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
2009 US turned over security in Anbar to Iraqi forces
2010 Protests in Ramadi and Nasiriya over lack of
electricity
2010 Army arrested sons of protest organizer in Basra demanding
leader turn himself in Basra council
condemned Army’s move
2011 Report Asaib Ahl Al-Haq carried out recruiting program
to get people to attack US forces
before they withdrew from Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of
Iraq)
2011 Basra council voted to ban US military from operating
in province
2012 Def Sec Panetta asked Iraq to hold Hezbollah operative Daqduq
in prison Captured
by US and
turned over to Iraqis
(Musings
On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)
2012 Iraq’s national grid ran out of fuel shutting down
electricity across entire country for 24 hrs
2012 Sadr criticized Ayatollah Haeri and Iran for trying to
interfere with his followers during no
confidence move vs PM Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
2013 ISF launched operation in Rawa, Anbar
2013 Anbar governor claimed Iraqi Islamic Party cheated in provincial
elections paying off voters
2014 ISF withdrew from Qaim, Anbar ISIS seized Trebil and
Walid border crossings
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)
2014 ISF withdrew from Tal Afar, Ninewa turning it over to
ISIS
2014 Fighting between ISIS and pro-Naqshibandi tribes in
Hawija, Kirkuk for control
(Musings
On Iraq Precarious Relationship Between The Islamic State of Iraq And The
Baathist Naqshibandi)
2014 Human Rights Ministry report 480 Shiite prisoners were
executed by ISIS in Badush prison after
Mosul captured
(Musings
On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State
Movement)
2014 Iraqi forces again claimed Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil freed of
insurgents Wasn’t
2014 Report Iraq lost 60 of 243 Army battalions with all of
their equipment 5 of Iraq’s 14 Divisions
combat ineffective
2014 Iran objected to US sending military advisers to help
Iraq against insurgency Claimed US supporting
Baathists and ISIS
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