This Day In Iraqi History - May 9

 

1935 Iraqi air force dropped flyers telling tribes to end revolt in Diwaniya or govt would punish

them Tribes refused Govt started bombing area Martial law declared Rumaitha Gen Sidqi put in command of putting down revolt

(Musings On Iraq review Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970)

1941 Germany announced aid package for Iraq

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)

1941 German diplomat arrived in Syria to organize arms shipments to Iraq

1941 Start of 100 German and 20 Italian airplanes landing in Syrian bases to fight British in Iraq British

intel found out about planes being flown from Greece to Syria and that Vichy France sending trains full of military aid to Iraq

1941 British planes bombed Iraqi police holding Fort Rutba, Anbar while Iraqi

            reinforcements arrived Bombed air bases in Mosul and Rashid

1941 British cmdr in India Gen Auchinleck told Chiefs of Staff British had to deal with Iraq

1941 PM Churchill told MidEast commander Gen Wavell he had to take bold military action against Iraq

and wouldn’t negotiation with PM Gaylani

1941 Jordanian soldiers under UK command mutinied and refused to cross over into Iraq 240 men left

unit not wanting to fight fellow Arabs

(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)

1954 Iraq and Syria met to discuss unification Never happened

1982 Iran cut off 2 Iraqi divisions and regained 116 sq mi in Khuzistan province in south

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)

1984 State Dept memo said that new pro-Iraq policy could lead to export of dual use equipment for

Baghdad’s nuclear program

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1991 US forces withdrew from southern Iraq after Gulf War

1991 Iraq rejected proposal to have intl police force to divide Iraqi forces from Kurds in north

1992 Saddam discussed assassinating Mubarak and King Fahd because they backed US in Gulf War

2001 US Energy Dept said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy fit specifications for rocket launchers IAEA

found similar tubes during inspections in Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

2002 Gen Franks ordered commanders to plan for including Turkey in Iraq invasion plans Franks didn’t

believe Ankara would agree to allow US troops to use country for invasion but needed to plan for it

(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)

2002 Pentagon memo to Rumsfeld said that US had to pick who would fill vacuum after Saddam Said

Iraqi opposition would help

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)

2003 US and UK draft resolution to UN to make them occupying powers in Iraq

2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld US would keep as many troops as necessary in Iraq and would take more than

year to build Iraqi govt

2003 1^st joint US-Iraqi patrols started in Baghdad

2003 UK Cmdr in Basra said 900 unarmed poice had been reconstituted

2003 Sadrist cleric called for revenge attacks upon Baathists

2003 US general met with Iraqi officers about getting Iraqi soldiers back to their units and to stop looting

and impose order

(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Ch 5 ORHA In Baghdad)

2003 Bush signed memo officially making Bremer presidential envoy to Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)

2003 Bremer met Bush and mentioned RAND study that said US needed 500,000 troops to occupy Iraq

Bush asked Rumsfeld who said there were enough troops

2003 Bremer cancelled Khalilzad Zalimay’s return trip to Iraq to work on an interim Iraqi authority

2003 Under Sec Def Feith gave Bremer draft of deBaathification and disbanding Iraqi military Feith would

later deny he drafted orders Feith said he was going to give order to Garner but Bremer wanted to issue it

(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)

2003 CPA sent draft order to disband Iraqi military and build a new one to Sec Def Rumsfeld

2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz in Vanity Fair Bush admin all agreed on WMD as way to justify Iraq war

2003 US announced it found mobile WMD labs Story proved false

(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)

2004 Think tank estimated that Iraq would could cost $300 bil in ten years when Bush admin was

pushing low numbers

2004 Report some US officers worried winning militarily in Iraq but losing support of Iraqi public

2008 Government and Sadr signed ceasefire to end Charge of Knights Allowed ISF to conduct arrests and

raids in Sadr City

2008 Baghdad Operations Command said they found Iranian weapons with Mahdi Army in capital

(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias) 

2009 US said Iran continued to train Iraqi militias but at lower levels than before

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)

2009 PM Maliki called for anti-corruption campaign Did nothing afterward

(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption) 

(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)

2010 Protests in front of KRG parliament over murder of journalist Zardasht Osman

2011 PM Maliki released insulting letter to Allawi

2011 Former Health Minister warned that Iraq had become part of drug trafficking networks between

Middle East and Europe

2011 ISI was said to give allegiance to Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri and promised revenge for bin Laden’s death

2012 Report that $5 mil being stolen a month from contract for Turkish ships to provide electricity to

Basra

2012 PM Maliki said Peshmerga should leave Kirkuk while Kurds criticized PMs visit to city

2012 Turkey said it would not arrest former VP Hashemi who was residing there after Interpol notice for

him

2013 Pres Barzani said KRG was training Kurds to fight in Syrian war

2014 Govt claimed 90% of Ramadi cleared of ISIS when insurgents still occupied large areas of city

2015 Tribal fighters began training in Anbar with approval by PM Abadi

2018 Board of Supreme Audit warned Iraq Election Comm that Korean voting machines had problems

and Commission had not responded to its concerns earlier

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