1920 Tribal forces surrounded British garrison at Abu Skhair
during 1920 Revolt
(Musings
On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The
1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1958 Col Arif gained control of 20th Brigade and
began march towards Baghdad from Diyala to start
1958 coup
1959 Gen Qasim appointed several Communists to his cabinet
(Musings
On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq,
Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi
Communist Party)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1982 Iranian Op Ramadan invaded Iraq for 1st time
Advanced 10 miles across Shatt al-Arab into
Basra Consisted of 5 human wave
attacks by Iranian Revolutionary Guard with 100,000 troops against Iraqi lines
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam,
Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
1982 Iraq used tear gas to turn back Iranian attacks in
Basra
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1988 Iraq broke Iranian lines and moved into Iran Took
Dehloran Iran
1988 Saddam threatened to invade southern Iran if Tehran
didn’t withdraw from Halabja Kurdistan
(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
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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)
1992 Report Atlanta bank main financier of US exports to
Iraq using govt guaranteed loans Lent Iraq $5.2
bil Bank raided in Aug 89 Much of
money went to buy tech for weapons programs Oct 89 Agricultural Dept found most
credit to Iraq being used for weapons programs Found Iraq had front companies
in US to buy tech Justice Dept tried to block investigations into matter
2001 Deputy Secretary of State Armitage suggested that Bush
make Iraq the top foreign policy issue
2003 Iraqi Governing Council announced its formation and
held first session Mohammed al-Uloom
became premier Seats were divided
up using ethnosectarian quotas
(Musings
On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s Ethnosectarian Quota System)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice said that controversy over
Iraq-Africa uranium story in Bush’s State of the
Union was overblown Def Sec
Rumsfeld said intelligence was correct at time White House said no doubt Iraq
wanted a nuclear weapon before the war
2003 After White House blamed CIA for Bush using Iraq-Africa
uranium story CIA leaked it had
blocked story from being used
before
2003 PM Blair said he still believed story Iraq tried to buy
uranium from Africa CIA questioned its veracity
(Musings
On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
2005 UndersecDef Feith said US didn’t train enough Kurds and
Iraqi exiles to help with security before 03
invasion Said US officials
reluctant to end CPA early in 2003 Said US military not Pentagon determined
size of invasion force
2005 US army officers refuted Undersec Def Feith saying
Pentagon curtailed troop deployments to
Iraq before
and after invasion
2006 For the first time in Iraq US military turned over
security in a province to Iraqi forces Happened in
Muthanna
2007 Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace said more training of ISF
wasn’t needed Needed more US forces
embedded with ISF Response to White
House report that number of Iraqi battalions able to operate independently
dropped from 10 to 6 in first 6 months of 2007
2008 Islamic Party said Iraqi forces should not take control
of security in Anbar because Awakening was
not ready Sheikhs Sulaiman and Hayes
agreed
(Musings
On Iraq Anbar Dispute Between Sunnis Growing)
2009 IED on US Amb Hill’s convoy in Dhi Qar likely by a
militia
(Musings
On Iraq The Return Of The Special Groups)
2015 Campaign started to recapture Ramadi from IS
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
2018 PM Abadi went to Basra City over protests They refused
to meet with his deleagation saying it was
useless Took over courtyard of
hotel Abadi staying at
2018 Protests in 7 provinces Basra and Maysan council
building and party offices occupied some burned 1
person killed Um Qasr port shut
down Najaf council building and airport occupied 1 party office burned Marches
in Babil Muthanna Qadisiya Dhi Qar Karbala
(Musings
On Iraq Protests In Iraq Greatly Escalate And Spread Throughout South)
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