865 Abu Ahmad’s army from Samarra reached gates of Baghdad to overthrow Abbasid Caliph Mutasim
1917 British forces defeated Ottoman defenses outside Baghdad in Diyala River Led Ottomans to
abandon Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1947 PM Said held new elections to get parliament full of his supporters National Democratic Party ran
candidates in Baghdad Mosul Basra Kut Found Said interfered in vote and picked winners Democratic Party only won 4 seats Said would resign and ask Salih Jabr to be next PM so he could hold power behind the scenes
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
1963 Arif govt announced it would give Kurds national rights and decentralization
(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(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)
1963 Iraqi delegation led by Baath leader Saadi went to Syria to talk about joining United
Arab Republic
1975 Iraq’s Revolutionary Command Council and Regional Command of Baath Party ratified Algiers
Agreement with Iran
1975 Mustafa Barzani sent letter to Sec State Kissinger Said Kurds were being destroyed by
Iraqi govt Reminded him of promise that US would assure aid to Kurds via Iran Kissinger didn’t respond
(Musings On Iraq review Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings On Iraq When The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)
1980 Iraq declared Iran’s ambassador persona non-grata as dispute built up leading to Iran-Iraq War
1990 Saddam issued amnesty for Kurdish fighters
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1990 Iraq sentenced UK Observer journalist Bazoft to death for reporting on missile program
1991 Iranian Rev Guard attacked 2 Mujahedeen e-Khalq camps in Iraq during Shiite uprising
1991 Kurdish uprising spread to Tuz Kharmato and Dohuk
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1991 Govt imposed curfew in Kirkuk to try to stop unrest
(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)
(Musings On Iraq Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)
1991 US troops began withdrawing from Persian Gulf
1991 300 delegates from 23 opposition parties met in Lebanon to come up with strategy against Saddam
1991 Talabani met with Turkish Foreign Min officials in Ankara to discuss Kurd-Turkish relations after
Gulf War
2002 Report UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee investigation found no links between Iraq and 9/11
2002 CIA briefing included story that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 UK gave Iraq 6 requirements to meet if wanted to avoid war including Saddam going on TV and
admitting to WMD
2003 French President Jacques Chirac said France would veto any new resolution because no grounds
for war
(Musings On Iraq Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February to 7 March 2003)
2003 Bush told PM Blair 2nd UN resolution against Iraq was waste of time Was major policy goal of Blair
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Bush talked to his advisors about giving an ultimatum to Saddam to leave power
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 US official said Iraq had cluster munitions to disperse WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 ORHA head Garner briefed Bush on plans for postwar Iraq including using Iraqi army for
reconstruction and interim govt Said would only remove top Baath leadership Bush approved ORHA’s plan
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 NSC briefed on postwar Iraq plans Included excluding 25,000 top Baathists from govt Prosecuting
Iraqi war criminals Discussed truth and reconciliation commission Using Iraqi courts and police Establishing law and order Bush said US needed to get Iraqis running new govt and US would not pick new Iraqi leaders Powell said US had to get a new UN resolution for the US led interim administration in postwar Iraq US Treasury Sec Snow said that US dollars could be used as interim currency in Iraq until new dinar created Bush approved light deBaathification after war Using dollars as temporary currency in Iraq Retaining Iraqi police
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Part I: Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
2003 Institute for Science & Intl Sec report asked whether US misled public about Iraq rebuilding nuke
program
2003 Turkey’s Erdogan met Bush Argued against deposing Saddam saying it would lead to Shiite govt
tied to Iran
2003 Gen Franks told White House mayors would be appointed to run Iraq after invasion Was not in any
postwar plans
2004 82nd Airborne Div commander claimed insurgency in Anbar was in disarray Next month 1st Battle
of Fallujah would be fought
2005 Kurds and United Iraqi Alliance agreed on new govt based upon deal to resolve future of Kirkuk
and PUK’s Talabani becoming president
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey told Bush attacks in Iraq lower than during 2nd Battle of Fallujah
and 2nd Battle of Najaf Casey downplayed civil war throughout spring
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The Open, January-June 2006)
2007 For 2 days ISI began burning homes in Muqdadiya Diyala causing dozens of families to flee
2007 Iraq hosted international conference of 13 countries UN Islamic Conference and Arab League PM
Maliki asked for help to fight terrorism
2008 Report Iraqi intel said Sadr’s ceasefire and move to Iran during Surge benefited Tehran the most
which was able to break away large sections of Mahdi Army
2008 Female suicide bomber killed sheikh and Sahwa leader in Diyala as part of ISI campaign against
Sahwa
(Musings On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2008 Speaker Mashadani said KRG had right to sign oil contracts Said courts would have final say on
matter
2008 Study of captured Baath docs found no evidence of operational link between Saddam and Al Qaeda
Said Saddam didn’t trust Islamists Mar 06 US military released study of Iraqi docs and found same thing
2008 US military spokesman said caches found of Iranian weapons Accused Iran of recruiting Iraqis to
train them in Iran Hezbollah did much of the training
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
2009 Suicide bombing of tribal gathering with army in Abu Ghraib killed 33
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2009 Report Iraq producing 6,000 megawatts of power Was goal of CPA to be reached by June
2004
2010 Iran invited Shiite politicians to celebrate Nowruz and pushed them to reunite behind PM Maliki
2010 Ahmed Chalabi and Ali al-Lami heads of Accountability and Justice Comm and candidates sued
Election Comm for allowing votes for 55 candidates they banned for Baathist ties
2010 Human Rights Min found out about secret prison in Baghdad Later inspection found 431
prisoners who complained about bad conditions and torture Some were sodomized others electrocuted some raped
2011 12 members of Najaf council signed petition to turn province into region Said was warning to
Baghdad they needed better services
2011 Commander Rapid Reaction Force caught taking $50,000 bribe from real estate agent His guards
held off investigators so he could escape PM asked to turn over general Nothing done
2011 Wasit Governor Tarfa dismissed on corruption charges Were protests demanding he be removed
Attacked govt building Police fired into crowd
2011 KRG parliament held session on Sulaymaniya protests Questioned KRG PM Salih 1st time ever
happened in KRG Survived no confidence vote
2011 Report Kurdistan media complained about threats for covering protests NRT office set on fire
Newspaper editor and Radio Nawa received threats Radio station attacked and looted Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate said around 100 journalists threatened
2011 Amnesty Intl report said that protesters had been arrested and tortured in Baghdad
2011 Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said 160 attacks upon media last 2 weeks 33 reporters arrested
40 stopped from reporting and equipment damaged or taken 12 injured by ISF 9 media outlets raided by ISF 4 permanently closed Observatory was attacked as well
2011 PM Maliki said parliament was to blame not just him for poor services Said parliament not passed
important laws for development Criticized parties that supported protests Said people had right to protest then that ISF had been killed and wounded by demonstrators
2012 Finance Min Issawi met with IMF Said it was opposed to any pay/pension increases Issawi said
that’s what govt wanted
2012 Report 14 teens stoned to death in Baghdad since end of Feb Militias have been attacking and
killing emo kids Militias handed out lists of kids they were going to kill Interior Min said emo kids were Satanists
2012 Sadirsts organized protests in Baghdad Nasiriya Hilla Diwaniya against Bahrain’s treatment of
Shiites
2014 Thousands of Sadrists marched in Sadr City Najaf Amara and Nasiriya after PM Maliki said Sadr
not a mature politician and should be ignored
2015 Badr head Amiri said around 100 Iranian adv working with Iraqi forces in Salahaddin
Criticized politicians who asked for US aid Claimed Iranian advisors free while US advisors had to be paid for
2015 Video posted of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq burning homes in Albu Ajeel Salahaddin Punishment for
members of Jabouri tribe joining IS
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2015 UN human rights report said Hashd acted with impunity and left trail of death and
destruction behind it
2018 Hashd leaders welcomed PM Abadi equalizing pay between ISF and Hashd Said there were 20,000 Hashd not registered with govt Were thousands of ghost Hashd leaders wanted registered to steal money
2019 PM Abadi claimed only 8 women and children died in taking Old City in Mosul from
IS Reporter told Abadi she’d seen dozens of bodies in morgue and rubble Abadi didn’t accept that
2019 Badr head Amiri arrived in Basra Sent by PM Abdul Mahdi to head reconstruction
council for Basra Had no executive power Protesters said Badr had shot demonstrators
2019 KRG Finance Minister said KRG owed govt workers around $10 bil in unpaid wages
and pensions Result of failed oil plan and disputes with Baghdad that ended budget payments
2019 Iranian official said Tehran using Iraq to get around US sanctions
2020 Lawyer and activist assassinated in Amara Part of campaign by Hashd to kill and
intimidate protesters
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
2021 Farmers in Jalawla sub-dist in NEDiyala said Hashd were bulldozing fields to make security
zones Was supposed to be stopped but continued
2021 Gunmen assassinated father of kidnapped law/activist in Maysan Protest in Diwaniya
demanding release of arrested activists
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