1920 Iraq-Syria border set with Deir Ezzour going to latter
(Musings On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation of Iraq)
1929 General Taha al-Hashemi made Chief of General Staff
1983 Jordan gave Iraq $125 mil line of credit to help Baghdad in Iran-Iraq War
1986 Iran Op Karbala 4 Crossed Shatt al-Arab to attack Fish Lake defensive line before Basra city
Iraq warned beforehand by intel
(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 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(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 Report 1980 Iraq began setting up network of front companies to buy equipment for nuclear bomb
program Main focus building centrifuges to produce uranium Program suffered setbacks
1998 Russia and China called for Chief UN inspector Butler to be removed for working with US
2004 UK intel did review of its 2002 reporting on Iraq’s WMD and said its assessments were all wrong
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2004 Fallujah was reopened to displaced to return after 2nd battle for city
2004 UK intel report 2005 elections would happen on time Assassinations and intimidation would likely
increase beforehand Hardline Sunnis would reject any new govt and continue with insurgency
2005 IMF approved $685 mil loan for Iraq
2006 Report Baladiyat Zayun Ghadir Nariya neighborhoods in Baghdad almost all Shiite now 400
Shiite families fleeing Baquba settled in Nariya and New Baghdad Iraqi army helped Shiite families move into Adil Mahdi Army moved into Sabi al-Bour northern Baghdad town to secure it Public Works Ministry proposed land grants to victims of Saddam and insurgents in 6 Sunni towns known for being insurgent bases Was believed to be move by Maliki govt to move Shiites into those areas
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2007 Shootout in Baghdad’s Dora between Sahwa and Mahdi Army
2007 Dep Natl Sec Adv Hussein said that if Sahwa continued would lead to civil war with militias Said
half of Sahwa were insurgents and contacting Baathists
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 El Salvador announced it would withdraw its troops by end of 08 Had been deployed since 03
2008 Outgoing Speaker Mashadani praised reporter for throwing shoe at Pres Bush and PM Maliki
2008 Sadr said he would not support any party during 09 elections but back independent candidates
2008 Iraq signed $80 mil contracts to survey and improve Basra ports Wanted to increase oil production
to 6 mil/bar/day and oil exports to 5 mil/bar/day by 2018 By 2018 Iraq would only avg 3.4 mil/bar/day in exports
2008 Report With violence down Maliki govt was trying to get professionals to return 200,000 had left
Iraq since 03 30,000 medical professionals fled after 05 Less than 1,000 had come back
2008 Report VP Cheney threatened to destroy reputation of head UN weapons inspector Blix and head of
Intl Atomic Energy Agency El Baradei if they didn’t find WMD
(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)
2009 Protest in Pirmargrun Sulaymaniya turned into a riot after mayor said population didn't
appreciate his improvements to the community People complained about corruption and lack of services Asayesh and riot police called out
(Musings On Iraq Anti-Government Protests In Both Southern and Northern Iraq)
2009 Protests in Karbala and Anbar against Iranian troops occupying Well No 4 in Fauqi oil field in Maysan
(Musings On Iraq More Questions Than Answers On Iran-Iraq Oil Field Dispute)
2011 PM Maliki adviser said that Fin Min Issawi suspected of connections to terrorism Sadrists would
not go along with his removal
(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Finance Minister Next On Maliki’s Hit List?)
2012 Iraqiya boycotted parliament over arrest warrant for Fin Min Issawi
(Musings On Iraq Prime Minister Maliki Targets Another Member Of The Iraqi National Movement In An Act Of Political Intimidation)
2013 Sheikh Sulaiman said tribes would protect Ramadi protest site against Maliki govt
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s PM Maliki Goes From Offensive Against Al Qaeda To Crackdown On Anbar Protestors)
2013 Anbar Ops Command outside Ramadi hit by mortars in new insurgent offensive
(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq’s Anbar Province December 2013)
2017 PKK said it was creating its own region in Qadil northern Kurdistan
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