1937 Elections finished for new parliament after 1936 coup
1940 Gen Umari Mosul garrison commander attempted coup rather than be forced to resign
by Regent Put down by Golden Square officers
(Musings On Iraq review The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)
1963 Head of Kurdish delegation Talabani met with PM Bakr and other govt officials
Promised Kurdish rights
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70)
1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad Meant to rally support for regime
1985 US and Soviet officials met to discuss ways to end Iran-Iraq War Nothing came of it
(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 1st Cav Div launched large attack into Iraq Engaged 7 Iraqi divisions to deceive Iraqis on where
invasion would come from
1995 KDP and PUK resumed fighting in Rawandaz ending ceasefire
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
1996 Hussein Kamal and brother Saddam Kamal Saddam’s sons in laws accepted pardon and returned to
Iraq Were later killed
1998 UN report said Iraq’s electricity situation was in dire
straights Grid never rebuilt due to sanctions
1998 UN Res 1153 increased Iraq’s exports from $2 bil in oil each 6 months to $5.2 bil and expanded
imports from food and medicine to infrastructure needs
1999 Supreme Council accused govt of killing Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr
(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present)
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
2002 Secret CIA team entered Kurdistan to prepare for ops inside Iraq called Northern Iraq Liaison
Elements
2002 CIA gave fmr Amb Joseph Wilson talking points for his trip to Niger to investigate Iraq-Niger
uranium deal Story fake
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
2002 UK Joint Intel Comm chief Scarlett briefed Foreign Sec Cook on Iraq’s WMD Cook thought Iraq
didn’t have capability for large scale WMD attack
2003 Chief UN Inspector Blix told PM Blair intelligence he’d gotten wasn’t great and maybe Iraq didn’t
have much WMD
2003 UN sources told press US intel on Iraq WMD was not turning up anything
(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)
2003 Report interviews with Iraqi scientists by inspectors had not turned up any evidence of a nuclear
program
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
2003 Pew/Council on Foreign Relations poll found 57% of Americans believed Saddam involved in 9/11
2004 Report CPA dropping caucus plan to elect Iraqi provisional govt and working with UN for
alternative Iraqi Governing Council wanted to expand membership from 25 to 125 and become new govt
2004 Sadr responding to Bremer saying Iraqi constitution would not be based on Islam said Iraqis could
fight US like 1920 Revolt or 1991 Intifada Said Bremer was against Islam
2007 British turned over army base in Basra to Iraqi 10th Division as part of withdrawal from province
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2007 Report Officials claimed 80% drop in violence in Baghdad at start of Surge US focusing upon Dora
South Baghdad Sadr told Mahdi Army to stand down
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the Surge)
2007 Report Sadrist mosques posted lists of Mahdi Army fighters expelled Sadr was trying to purge and
control militia
2008 After Sadrist members were arrested Mahdi Army started fighting Iraqi army in Basra In Diwaniya
Sadrists accused ISCI controlled police of blowing up 4 houses
2009 Report US met with fmr Baath era army officers in Jordan to try to get them to return to Iraq
2009 ISF started Operation New Hope to secure Mosul Became main insurgent area after Surge
2009 Report Asaib Ahl Al-Haq was thinking of running in 2010 election to challenge Sadr
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2009 Report Iran said it would stop militia attacks upon British forces in Basra if London
accepted Tehran’s nuclear program
2012 Saudi Arabia named its Jordan Ambassador as non-resident ambassador to Iraq as relations were
slowly improving
2013 Iraq signed deal to build natural gas pipeline from Iran across Iraq to Syria Never happened
2016 PM Abadi said financial crisis meant reforms needed Called for end of quota system in govt
(Musings On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2016 Sadr created committee to nominate technocrats for Abadi’s new cabinet
(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)
2018 Report some of the 9 Abrams tanks pro-Iran Hashd units got came from the Iraqi army rest were
captured from IS
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Army Supplied Pro-Iran Hashd With US Abrams Tanks)
2021 Pro-Iran group fired rockets at Balad Air Base in Salahaddin wounding 2 contractors
(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq Feb 15-21, 2021)
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