1933 French forbid anymore Assyrians entering Syria
1933 Iraq asked French to impose treaty between two to
remove Assyrians from Iraq-Syrian border and
disarm them for 2nd time
(Musings
On Iraq review The Tragedy of the
Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review State and Society in
Iraq)
1958 Provisional constitution gave Kurds recognition as
equal to Arabs
1959 Gen Qasim passed deal promising Arab-Kurdish
partnership after talks with Mullah Mustafa
Barzani
(Musings
On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1968 Communists issued demands to new Baath govt calling for
National Front and coalition govt
1973 Communists said Bakr govt’s policies leading Iraq
towards socialism
(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)
1982 US official sent to Baghdad to share CIA satellite
imagery of Iranian troop movements
1983 Iraq announced it would increase attacks on Iran’s oil
facilities
1983 Iraqi forces regained control of Rayat and Mount Kerman
from Iranians in Kurdistan
Iran turned
over Haj Omran to ISCI
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1987 US asked Iraq to stop attacks on shipping in Persian
Gulf in hopes that Iran would follow suit
(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 Congress voted to impose sanctions on Iraq for threats
against Kuwait Israel nuke and WMD
programs and human rights
violations White House opposed
(Musings
On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on
Conflict)
1990 Israel Science Minister threatened retaliation with chemical
weapons if Iraq attacked
(Musings
On Iraq Why Did Saddam Threaten Israel Before The 1990 Invasion of Kuwait?)
1993 Iran asked for aid for 4,000 Iraqi refugees that
entered country as southern marshes were drained
2001 Pentagon memo said that sanctions were falling apart
Meant US could face a nuclear armed
Saddam
Advocated for regime change without saying how to achieve it
2003 DepSecDef Wolfowitz claimed that Iraq’s insurgency had
no support in Iraq or in region
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
2003 Iraq Survey Group head Kay briefed Bush VP Cheney Def
Sec Rumsfeld Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz CIA
Dir Tenet Natl Sec Adv Rice Chief
of Staff Card on WMD hunt Said Iraq probably only had surge capacity to quickly
restart WMD programs but no stockpiles Said trailers found were probably not
mobile WMD labs Said Bush seemed unphased by fact that no WMD found
(Musings
On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq
Had WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Kay separately briefed VP Cheney who asked Kay to look
into whether Iraq sent its WMD to Syria or
Bekka Valley Lebanon
2005 Saddam’s trial ended
2006 Iraq and UN announced International Compact to help
develop country
2006 UK Amb to Iraq Patey said that de facto division of
Iraq and civil war more likely than transition to
democracy
2007 KDP and PUK renewed strategic power sharing agreement
2007 Report Jan 07 Saudis told US Amb to Iraq Khalilzad that
PM Maliki an Iranian agent and helped
Sadr Bush officials said Saudis not
helping with Iraq Financing Sunni groups Half foreign fighters to Iraq Saudis
Majority of suicide bombers Saudis 40% of foreign fighters in Iraq Saudis
Saudis asked Gulf States to help it finance Sunni groups opposed to Maliki US didn’t
publicly criticized Saudis because of alliance
(Musings
On Iraq The Saudi Role In The Iraqi Insurgency)
2008 Report Mahdi Army took protection money from gas
stations minibus service power stations markets
ice factories and squatters in Sadr
City 4 main gas stations in district used to pay $13,000/a day Controlled 12
trucks that delivered gas canisters
2015 Protests in Rania KRG over project being stopped that
led to clash with police
2018 Protests in Basra Babil Dhi Qar Karbala Baghdad Najaf
Maysan Muthanna Qadisiya for jobs services
(Musings
On Iraq Activists Focusing Upon Fridays For National Protests In Iraq)
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