1910 Ottoman army defeated Montafiq tribal confederation in present day Maysan province for rejecting
taxes
1917 British started Samarra offensive against Ottomans after taking Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1933 UK Amb to Iraq told King Faisal that trying to control opposition by including it in govt only
created dysfunctional govts and opposition were opposed to Iraq’s alliance with UK and should be excluded
1935 PM Midfai sent army unit from Hilla to Diwaniya to crush tribal uprising Head of army
Hashemi said army too weak to deal with uprising Revolt instigated by politicians opposed to Midfai
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1959 Nasser gave 3rd speech attacking Iraqi Communists Said Communists wanted to spread their ideas
across the Arab world
(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)
1975 KDP announced ceasefire with Baghdad after Iran said it would stop giving it aid following Algiers
Agreement Amnesty offered which led most Kurdish refugees in Iran to return to Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(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 review Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70)
(Musings On Iraq When The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)
1984 UN team arrived in Iraq to investigate use of chemical weapons while Iran made new claims its
forces hit with mustard gas in Manjoon Islands
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
1985 Iraqi commandos airlifted into Hoveyzah marshes to try to cut off Iranian Op Badr forces
1986 Iraqi counterattack to retake Faw in Basra stopped in middle of island Iraqis dug in Iran 10,000
dead 25,000 wounded Iraq 3,000 dead 9,000 wounded 1,500 captured Iran still in control of Faw
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1988 Iran launched Op Zafar 7 in Khurmal Op Bait al-Moqaddas 3 in Sulaymaniya Op Wa al-Fajr 10
in Halabja Goal was to capture two dams Captured 7 Kurdish villages
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1991 Pres Bush said Iraqi helicopters should not be used to put down Shiite and Kurdish uprisings
(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)
1991 Kurdish uprising spread to Zakho
1991 Kurdistan Front announced council to run Kurdish areas during uprising
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1991 325 Iraqi opposition leaders from 23 factions met in Beirut to discuss uprising in Iraq Led to Free
Iraqi Council led by Saad Salih Jabr
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s Ethnosectarian Quota System)
1991 Was anti-govt protest in Baghdad
(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)
1995 UN Security Council reviewed sanctions US argued Iraq violating human rights missing
Kuwaiti nationals and Iraq not fully disclosed WMD programs to maintain embargo
(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)
2002 PM Blair Foreign Pol Adv Manning met with Natl Sec Adv Rice’s staff Manning said US not
considered problems with going to war with Iraq
2003 UK Foreign Office legal adv Brummell wrote Attny Gen Lord Goldsmith saying didn’t need 2nd UN
resolution to go to war with Iraq
2003 Attny Gen Lord Goldsmith changed his opinion saying 2nd UN resolution not needed for action
against Iraq
2003 PM Blair told Bush not to give ultimatum to Saddam until he had dealt with parliament Bush said
OK
2003 PM Blair told still hope that 2nd resolution authorizing force against Iraq could be passed in UN
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 USAID official told aid groups Iraq war would be quick Needs would be met Iraqis would regain
control US would be out in a year
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 2 The Agencies Engage)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2005 Dep Industry Min said there was systematic looting of factories and weapons sites after 03 invasion
2006 Bush said Iraqi forces would take over most security jobs by end of 2006 and that way forward
would continue to be difficult
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
2007 PM Maliki and Gen Petraeus went to military base in Ramadi met Awakening sheikhs Petraeus said
city example of successful counterinsurgency Maliki promised services and reconstruction for city Awakening sheikhs asked for new Anbar provincial elections so they could gain seats in govt
(Musings On Iraq The Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings On Iraq review The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq review The Sheriff of Ramadi, Navy SEALS and the Winning of Anbar)
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2007 ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi released tape refuting criticism of his group
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi)
2007 Report CURVEBALL source of claim Iraq had mobile WMD was still under German intel
protection living outside Munch Fmr CIA’s Europe ops chief Drumheller claimed he tried to remove CURVEBALL info from Sec State Powell’s Feb 03 UN speech Drumheller claimed he met with Dep CIA Dir McLaughlin to complain about including CURVEBALL in Powell’s speech McLaughlin denied that Powell said he never heard any questions about CURVEBALL before his speech Labs didn’t exist
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
2008 Dep PM Salah said strong military presence needed in Basra to get rid of militias Natl Sec Adv
Rubaie said Basra Gov Waeli had ultimatum to fight militias or lose backing of Baghdad Waeli replied Baghdad didn’t understand situation and neglected province Lead up to PM Maliki’s attack upon Mahdi Army
2008 Army and US Special Forces deployed to take Kut back from Mahdi Army after it had expelled
police following raid on Sadrists areas of city Was 3rd day of fighting
2008 Gen Petraeus complained that Iraqi leaders were not taking advantage of improved security in Iraq
to move forward on reconciliation
2008 US military said that ISI could be reduced but would not go away because it was so adaptable
2008 Head of Baghdad Operations Command Gen Qanbar said sectarian violence down 90% in capital
2008 Body of Chaldean Archbishop of Iraq Raho found outside of Mosul after being kidnapped
2009 Report PM Maliki transferring Kurdish officers and units out of north Replaced army’s 4th
Div with 12th in Kirkuk Transferred Kurdish officers out of 2nd Div in Ninewa Welcomed by al-Hadbaa who complained 2nd Div mostly Kurds
2009 Pres Barzani said as long as Oil Min had a bad policy KRG could follow its own
2011 Report parliament investigating up to 20,000 govt workers suspected of having fake diplomas Goes
all the way to some ministers Buying fake diplomas common in Iraq
2011 Report Iraqi army had $27 mil worth of Humvee parts at depot in Taji Received parts twice
a year General in charge of facility valued parts on shelves over sending them to units Many units had to buy parts locally because can’t get them from army Units had to request parts from division HQ where general had to sign off on every order Army had gas ration for units based on working vehicles Incentive for commanders not to report broken vehicles and therefore not fix them Army didn’t value parts logistics or repairs US found 80% of Humvees in 2 Iraqi divisions needed new tires and batteries
2012 Report KRG Natural Resource Min didn’t have good records on imports of fuel or export of oil
KRG imported large amounts of counterfeit and expired medicine Health Min not fighting corruption in health care system Little transparency in contracts signed Many contracts signed by Pres Barzani’s office or cabinet without showing ministries
2012 1st oil tanker loaded a new floating oil terminal in Basra Would help greatly increase exports
2012 Oil Ministry told KRG not meeting its oil 175,000 bar/day export quota KRG was to get monthly
payments from Baghdad in return Exports been decreasing for months
2012 Sahwa in Salahaddin complained hadn’t been paid since Dec 2011 Was not being integrated into
govt as promised All sahwa were supposed to get govt jobs by end of 2010
2013 Report PM Maliki retired Dep Gov of Central Bank of Iraq Maliki had arrested him in Jan on
corruption charges Part of Maliki’s effort to control bank
2013 Anbar Tribal Chiefs rejected idea of turning Anbar into a region Had been pushed by some
politicians and protest leaders
2014 Report ISIS tried to storm several villages in recent weeks Included Sulaiman Beq in Salahaddin
Azim and Sadiya in Diyaal Jurf al-Sakhr and Musayib in Babil Radwaniya and Abu Ghraib in Baghdad Also building up bases in Baghdad belts Part of buildup to assault on Mosul
2014 PUK MP said KRG lost control of its finances Said even if Baghdad restarted budget payments
KRG couldn’t meet its debts KRG Finance Min ordered not to pay high level officials so low level ones could get salaries but didn’t happen High officials still paid Low levels ones not
2015 Report IS started new rules to keep people in Mosul Orders said people could only leave to
collect pensions Travel by non-Muslims was banned Said if someone left Mosul could not take family with them
2015 UN human rights report ISF and Hashd carried out extrajudicial killings torture abductions
forced displacement No punishments Jun 2014 ISF burned army base with 53 prisoners inside Jun 2014 43 prisoners in Baquba police station executed Aug Hashd and police attacked Diyala mosque twice killing 34 civilians Aug 2014 Hashd kidnapped 7 men in Salahaddin and executed them Jan 2015 Hashd and ISF killed 70 civilians and arrested more who had not been heard from since ISF and Hashd arrested Sunnis at checkpoints in Salahaddin and tortured them Sep 2014 security operation in Salahaddin Hashd forced people from homes and burned them accusing them of being IS Reports of looting in two cities in Salahaddin
2015 Report Iran launched info campaign over Tikrit op posting pictures of Quds Force Cmdr
Gen Suleimani on social media as if he was leader of op
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2016 IS withdrew from Qaim Hit Kubaisa Rutba in Anbar
2017 Mass grave with 160 bodies found in Mosul Mostly former ISF executed by IS after take
over of city in 2014
2018 PM Abadi ended ban on flights to KRG airports started in Sep 2017 over independence
referendum
2018 Anbar official said Badr Kataib Hezbollah Asaib Ahl Al-Haw refused to withdraw from areas in province and blocking displaced returning
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
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