1920 Pro-Independence delegation of Iraqis met UK High Commissioner Wilson who invited 20
pro-British Iraqis Meeting went nowhere British later tried to arrest pro-independence delegates
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1920 British finally relieved army garrison at Rumaitha Evacuated them to Diwaniya leaving
rebels in control of town
1920 British garrison at Kufa came under fire from rebels
(Musings On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1933 Mosul province told many Assyrians had left for Syria from Dohuk area
(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)
1959 Gen Qasim put several Communists on trial for hand in Jul 14 fighting between Kurds and
Turkmen in Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq review The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology)
(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)
1961 Kuwait told Arab League Iraq stopped working with League because Qasim claimed Kuwait as part
of Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam’s War)
1970 Pres Bakr attacked Communists for not accepting Baathist leadership in govt
(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)
1987 Iraq accepted UN Res 598 calling for a ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Iran didn’t reject it which was a
first
1988 Iraqi forces reached Iranian border in Kurdistsan
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1988 Ayatollah Khomeini said that he endorsed Iran-Iraq War ceasefire
1988 UN Sec Gen de Cuellar invited Iraq and Iran foreign ministers to NY for talks to end war Iran
refused direct talks saying it didn’t accept Saddam’s govt Led Saddam to go back on offensive to make Iran talk
1988 Iraq tried to add 3 more requirements to UN Res 598 ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War including direct
talks with Iran Was meant to delay talks so Iraq could gain more territory to increase its position
(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)
1990 Pentagon report said Iraq unlikely to use force against Kuwait
(Musings On Iraq review Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam’s War)
1991 KDP and PUK launched attacks in Irbil, Dohuk, Sulaymaniya provinces UN said Kurds had
taken large parts of Sulaymaniya Iraq accused Iran of interference
1998 US asked PUK and KDP to meet in Washington for peace talks over civil war
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
2002 CIA Dir Tenet met MI6 Head Dearlove Tenet said WMD intel didn’t matter because war was
inevitable
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Sadrists protested in Najaf after Sadr claimed U.S. forces had surrounded his house and were going to
arrest him
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2003 Report US military teams searching for Iraq’s WMD frustrated by not finding anything
2003 Report Jun 02 US started campaign to use No Fly Zones to degrade Iraq’s air defenses to prepare
for invasion
2003 Report US intel actually knew very little about Iraq’s WMD after UN inspectors left in 90s
2003 Turkey said US asked for its forces to be deployed to Iraq Bremer and Iraqi Govenring Council
objected to idea
2004 Filipino driver kidnapped by insurgents Was released after Philippines withdrew its 51 soldiers
from Iraq
2004 PM Blair defended Iraq war to parliament saying caveats should have been included in UK dossier
on Iraq WMD
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2005 State Dept cable Iran Rev Guard Quds Force smuggling weapons into Iraq and directing attacks
upon Coalition Said ISCI received $100 mil from Iran in 2005 $45 mil of which went to Badr
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2006 Bush told violence moving from insurgency to sectarian Overwhelming evidence Maliki govt ISF
involved in sectarian violence
2006 UK Amb to Iraq Patey said Coalition facing strategic failure in Iraq Civil war or division of Iraq
possible Happened despite political progress in Iraq but that also increased sectarian divisions UK needed to push Iraqi govt into lead and ensure it has monopoly of force
2008 Iraqi Accordance Front ended 11 month boycott of parliament gaining no concessions from PM
Maliki
(Musings On Iraq Sunni Accordance Front Returns To Maliki’s Government Amidst Recriminations and Challenges)
2018 Protests in Babil Baghdad Basra Dhi Qar Karbala Maysan Muthanna Najaf Qadisiya Wasit for
services and jobs 2 killed 1 in Najaf 1 in Qadisiya by police and Badr guard Almost all broken up by police
(Musings On Iraq 2 Killed As Protests Hit 10 Provinces In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
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