1933 Assyrian leader Mar Shimun wrote letter to Interior
Minister saying he was being detained He
would help settle Assyrians but if
govt did nothing he would go to League of Nations and advocate for Assyrians to
leave Iraq Letter sent to ambassadors in Iraq embarrassing govt
(Musings
On Iraq review The Tragedy of the
Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review State and Society in
Iraq)
1968 Baath had Def Min Daud visit Jordan so that party could
take control of military while he was gone
Daud arrested when he arrived in
Jordan Sent into exile as ambassador to Saudi Arabia
1988 Mujahedeen e-Khalq forced to withdraw from 2 Iranian
towns ending hopes of Iraq backed revolt
against Khomeini
(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)
1990 OPEC agreed to raise prices 20% that year under
pressure from Iraq that wanted to boost revenues to
rebuild after Iran-Iraq War
1990 Mukhabarat placed 30 agents at Kuwait oil fields and
Kuwait city to help with invasion
1991 Talabani said that without another major international
relief effort Kurds would face another disaster
1992 Sec State Baker met with Iraqi opposition Bush wanted
to increase pressure on Iraq during presidential
campaign
2002 PM Blair’s foreign policy adv Manning told Rice UK with
US against Iraq but had to go through UN
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Volume 2 Sec 3.3 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and
Options April to July 2002)
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.4 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and
Options, Late July to 14 September 2002)
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 NYTimes article on Iraq war plans Mentioned Gen Franks
ideas for dealing with defense of Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq How Arguments Over Iraq Invasion Plan Were Fought Through Press
Leaks)
2003 US intel report Hezbollah attempted to reach out to
Sadr and his Mahdi Army
(Musings
On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)
2003 Report US held Iraqi detainees incommunicado and
without access to lawyers
2003 Saddam recording said his sons Uday and Qusay died as
martyrs for Iraq and US would be defeated
2007 Report PM Maliki said he couldn’t work with Gen
Petraeus Said that if US kept using sahwa he
would arm militias Maliki ally
Askari said Petraeus biased against Shiites
(Musings
On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the
Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 Op Omens of Prosperity in Diyala began Most insurgents
fled beforehand because announced days
before ISF targeted Sahwa in Baquba
instead
(Musings
On Iraq Diyala Offensive Begins)
(Musings
On Iraq Recent Government And Sons of Iraq Relations)
(Musings
On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the
Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 Report after anti-Sadr op in Maysan Maliki govt
promised to purge provincial ISF of Mahdi
Army Pro-ISCI tribes told to sign
up for ISF
2008 Report PM Maliki and Dawa officials handed out cash to
people in Baghdad to build patronage
network
2008 Report govt arresting Sadrist officials as well as
Mahdi Army members Sadr’s rivals taking advantage
of situation to assassinate leaders
in Sadr movement
2009 Results of KRG election Barzani re-elected president
with 69% of vote KDP-PUK list won 57% of
parliamentary vote Change 23%
(Musings
On Iraq Kurdish Election Results And Implications)
(Musings
On Iraq Full Kurdish Election Results)
2013 ISI started new car bomb wave as part of Soldiers’
Harvest campaign
2018 PM Abadi dismissed Electricity Minister Fahadawi until
investigation into poor services finished
Was in response to protests
2018 Protests in West Qurna 1 and Burjisiya oil fields in
Basra Basra City Samawa Baghdad Nasiriya
2018 Member of European Civil Protection and Humanitarian
Aid Operations said 14,000 civilians were
wounded during Battle of Mosul 32%
were children 4,000 still needed care
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