1920 British took Fallujah during 1920 Revolt
(Musings On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1978 In Iran-Iraq deal Iraqi troops surrounded Imam Khomeini’s house in Najaf Told he could only stay
in Iraq if abandoned politics
1979 Iraq warned Iran to not to interfere in Bahrain after Ayatollah Rohani called on Shiites to rise up
against their Sunni rulers
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1980 Iraq headed towards Zagros Mountains in slow advance destroying timeline for invasion which was
supposed to be a blitzkrieg Took Mehran in central front
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1980 Iranian planes attacked 6 Iraqi bases to try to destroy Iraqi air force in the air Iraq didn’t respond
relying upon air defenses 4 Iranian planes shot down 2 others lost Destroyed 3 Iraqi planes on the ground Also bombed 2 refineries in Baghdad and Basra Damaged Iraq-Turkey pipeline
1980 Iraq bombed Iran’s Bandar Khomeini petrochemical complex and Ahwaz fuel depot
1980 Iranian Navy attacked Basra and Faw Peninsula Basra Destroyed 2 oil terminals limited Iraq’s exports
1980 Iran started naval blockade of Shatt al-Arab, Basra
(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 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1990 Kurd Shiite and Communist opposition parties claimed united front against Saddam
(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)
1990 Joint Chiefs head Gen Powell briefed Bush arguing for sanctions over war with Iraq Bush said he had
to take action
(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)
1991 UN Inspectors found over 53,000 documents on Iraq’s nuclear program at Atheer facility but were
held for 4 days by Iraqis until they could leave During standoff US IAEA member Galluci sent important info about seized documents to State Dept
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
1991 Talabani accused Iraqi army of stopping 300,000 displaced Kurds from returning to their homes
1992 Report Sec State Baker told before Gulf War Iraq importing tech for its arms programs Officials were
trying to get Baker to put export restrictions on Iraq 1985-90 Reagan and Bush admins okayed $1.5 bil in dual use equipment to Iraq Baker did nothing and didn’t change policy of improving relations with Saddam
2001 William Safire OpEd said clear link between Iraq-Al Qaeda via Ansar al-Islam
(Musings On Iraq Why Didn’t Bush Strike Zarqawi And Ansar al-Islam In 2002?)
2002 UK dossier on Iraq WMD released PM Blair told parliament that Iraq had WMD and it was producing
them Dossier said that Iraq could use WMD in 45 minutes That Iraq could build a nuclear bomb in 2 years Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa Said no definitive intelligence that aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for nuke program
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 UK ForSec Cook was surprised dossier on Iraq was mostly old WMD material
2002 CIA Dir Tenet briefed Senate Foreign Relations Committee on intel on Iraq’s WMD Told comm Iraq
rebuilding its nuclear program Proof bought aluminum tubes Mentioned Niger uranium deal Sen Biden asked CIA Dir Tenet what technical evidence did CIA have of Iraqi WMD Tenet said none but had good human source
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
2002 State and Energy Dept intel analysts testified to Senate Foreign Relations Comm that they did not
believe aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges
2003 Bremer met Bush said he was optimistic about Iraq but concerned about growing attacks Bremer
complained about Congress number of US troops quality of intel training new Iraqi forces Bush told Bremer he was too controlling and doing too much Bremer said he would work on it
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2003 CPA Governor of Anbar Mines warned that attacks and public anger at US growing
2004 Bush and PM Blair talked about staying course in Iraq and PM Allawi needing a professional staff
2004 Report Defense Science Board review found US didn’t have enough troops to stabilize Iraq
2004 US forces claimed Tal Afar cleared of insurgents
2006 Report National Intel Estimate said that Iraq war led to new generation of Islamic radicalism Said Iraq
war made terrorism worse
2008 Provincial Election Law passed allowing vote on Jan 31, 2009 by not including
Kirkuk and KRG
(Musings On Iraq Election Law Passed, Now To Get People To Vote)
2008 Natl Command Center said 2000 Diyala Sahwa had been hired into police since July
and looking to recruit 4000 more Def Min said 3000 Diyala Sahwa joined army Came after arrest of Sahwa leaders in May who wanted to run in elections and raids upon Islamic Party aligned with Sahwa Part of Maliki’s attempt to divide and conquer Sahwa in Diyala
(Musings On Iraq Carrot and the Stick With Diyala’s Sons of Iraq, Or Just The Sticks?)
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 Report more than half of Sahwa in Smarra unpaid by govt Out of 3000 only 730 had gotten jobs in
ISF
2008 Wasit council refused to allow PM Maliki to create Tribal Support Councils there which were part of
his patronage network
(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)
(Musings On Iraq Disputes Over Tribal Support Councils)
2019 Iraq Human Rights Comm reported 3 mil Iraqis living in slums Baghdad had most slum areas of
any province with 3,000 followed by 700 slum ares in Basra
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