1915 UK General Staff recommended taking Baghdad before Turkish forces grew in
strength in Mesopotamia
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1920 UK Gen Leslie commended one of his subordinates for destroying villages around Hilla and
wiping out area around Karbala as punishment for 1920 Revolt
(Musings On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1931 PM Said named new cabinet Were 14 govts under Mandate
1948 All Jewish govt workers fired in Iraq after creation of Israel
1958 Gen Bakr forced to retire after Col Arif lost power struggle with Gen Qasim within govt
1980 Saddam speech said Iraq couldn’t win war because outnumbered by Iran
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1983 Iranian Op Wa al-Fajr 4 began to take Penjwin Valley in Kurdistan from KDPI and cut its
supply line to Iraq
(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 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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 Soviet diplomat Primakov told Bush Saddam would never back down from occupying
Kuwait
1995 UN report said 28% of Iraqi children under 5 were severely malnourished
2003 Sec State Powell said US found evidence of Iraq’s WMD programs and that Saddam always
wanted nuclear weapons
(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)
2003 Bin Laden tape aired on Al Jazeera Congratulated Iraqis for resisting Americans in
Iraq Said US was mired in the swamps of the Tigris and Euphrates
2004 Head of aid group Care was kidnapped in Baghdad Later killed by insurgents
2004 Iraq conspiracy theorist Mylroie wrote OpEd in NY Sun that Saddam was training foreigners to
carry out terrorist attacks and working with Islamic groups
(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Convoluted Iraq-Terrorism Conspiracy Theory)
(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq Conspiracy Theory Was Debunked By Captured Baath Documents)
2004 PM Allawi got US to free insurgent leader Sheikh Jumaili in attempt to split militants in Fallujah
against Zarqawi Failed
2005 Saddam’s trial started and pled his innocence
2005 Natl Sec Adv Rice told Senate about Clear Hold Build counterinsurgency plan for Iraq Was not
discussed with US military beforehand
(Musings On Iraq 2006 Clear Hold Build: An Iraq Strategy That Wasn’t A Strategy)
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
2005 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey US Iraq Amb Khalizad later asked Rice what Clear Hold Build was and why
not consulted
2005 Def Sec Rumsfeld complained to Natl Sec Adv Rice that he did not back Clear Hold Build and he
was not consulted about it
2006 IED killed Amara police chief from Badr Police arrested brother of suspected bomber from Mahdi
Army 2 days of fighting started Mahdi Army stormed 3 police stations manned by Badr in Amara
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2006 US military spokesman said Op Together Forward II failed to reduce violence in Baghdad Said
attacks up 22% since start of Ramadan US forces returned to Dora after it was touted as first area cleared during operation
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 20 Baghdad Burns, Summer-Fall 2006)
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
2006 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey US Amb Khalzad gave press conference saying Op Together Forward
II in Baghdad working It wasn’t
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 20 Baghdad Burns, Summer-Fall 2006)
2006 Report over 20 militias operating in Baghdad Mahdi Army splintering
2006 Report police unit blamed for killing 26 Sunnis at food factory in Baghdad’s Amil Unit was
suspended
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2013 IS held parade in southern Fallujah
2019 Sadrists held protests in Karbala during Arbaeen pilgrimage
(Musings On Iraq Sadr Joins Protests While Govt Continues With Promises And Crackdown)
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