1914 Gen Barrett and Sir Percy Cox asked that UK occupation of Basra be announced as
permanent believing it would sway Arabs to UK side Request turned down
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1920 Gertrude Bell wrote few tribes were talking about self-rule and many rejected it in Basra Said
only way Iraq would be at peace was if Arab govt created and tribes subdued by force after 1920 Revolt
(Musings On Iraq review of Gertrude Bell And Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)
(Musings On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq review Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)
(Musings On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1927 UK Foreign Sec Chamberlain told King Faisal talks over Anglo-Iraq Treaty should be delayed for
two years and Faisal would have to run Iraq on his own British knew Faisal afraid of potential unrest and was trying to intimidate him Tactic worked
1934 Border dispute between Iraq and Persia escalated
1936 PM Sulaiman named new cabinet 1922-58 were 59 cabinets
1980 Iranian marines destroyed Mina al Bakr and Khor al Amaya oil terminals in Iraq Attack cut
Iraqi exports from 3.24 mil/bar/day to 550,000 bar/day
1981 Iran Op Tariq al-Quds began to free Bostan in south Started with drive in Susangard Pres
Rafsanjani told parliament he would push Iraqis back to the border
(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 UN Resolution 678 gave Iraq until 1/15/91 to withdraw from Kuwait
(Musings On Iraq review from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq)
1990 Iraq released all the foreign hostages it held trying to sway world public opinion
1990 Sec State Baker met French UK China USSR foreign ministers Endorsed trying one
more round of talks with Iraq
2001 UN Res 1382 extended Oil for Food program
2001 Amer Enterprise Institute panel said Saddam had to be removed before US could confront
radical Islam
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)
(Musings On Iraq review America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)
2002 UK Defense Min told Blair that US still had no political strategy for Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 American Enterprise Inst group of experts started work on paper on what U.S. facing after
9/11 Would focus on Iraq
2003 Insurgent attacks killed 7 Spanish intelligence officers and 2 Japanese diplomats in Iraq
2004 Bush told NSC January 2005 Iraqi election had to happen on time
2005 Def Sec Rumsfeld told press “insurgent” should no longer be used when reporting on Iraq because
they didn’t believe in anything He then explained that they stood for overthrowing the Iraqi system and creating a caliphate Rumsfeld said US forces didn't have to report abuse and torture by ISF Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace then used insurgent when describing security in Iraq and said US forces absolutely had responsibility to report any abuses by Iraqi forces
2005 Report Badr infiltrated Inter Min Mahdi Army regular police Both carrying out murders torture
abuse Inter Min Inspector General said police carrying out extrajudicial killings Inter Min intel chief Kamal said there was abuse going on but was not official policy of the Ministry
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation, War And Resistance In Iraq)
2005 Ceremony for DNO to start drilling for oil at field in Zakho KRG
2006 Report PM Maliki wanted more control over ISF increased US training Bigger weapons Said
couldn’t disarm militias when Iraqis didn’t trust ISF and US Said his govt would collapse if he moved against militias Said he would find a political solution to problem
2006 Adviser to Saudi govt said would be a massive intervention by Riyad to save Iraq’s Sunnis from
Shiite militias if US withdrew
2006 Inter Min announced it was creating monitoring unit that would take legal action against
media that reported fake news Quoted AP story of 6 men burned to death in Baghdad mosque Claimed police captain in story didn’t exist AP talked to police captain for 2 years and been in his office Also found 3 witnesses to story and more people came forward afterward
2007 Car bomb found outside offices of Accordance Front leader Adnan Dulaimi Would lead to him
being placed under house arrest
2008 Bosnia and Herzegovina withdrew its military forces from Iraq
2009 Chilcot Inquiry Letter from Attny Gen Lord Goldsmith to PM Blairn Jul 02 that invasion of
Iraq would be illegal UN only allowed self-defense and UK couldn’t use previous UN resolutions Goldsmith threatened to resign because Blair didn’t listen to him
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2019 PM Abdul Mahdi said he resigned after Ayatollah Sistani’s Friday message
2019 Najaf police chief resigned after massacre of protesters Nov 28 2nd Dep Gov of Najaf
resigned Said protesters were being murdered
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
2019 Clashes between protesters and ISF continued in Nasiriya Another 17 killed Crowd
tried to storm shrine of Mohammed Baqir al-Mohammed ISCI’s Ashura Brigade fired at crowd killing 5
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