This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 14

 

1925 Iraq deal gave Turkish Petroleum Company right to explore for oil in entire country Was done before

Iraq constitution finished so didn’t have to debated in parliament

(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Burdens, Oil, Sanctions and Underdevelopment)

1951 Grenade hit American Cultural Center in Baghdad wounding some Jewish visitors 5^th of 8 such

attacks on Jews 1950-51

1959 Nasser gave 4^th speech against Iraqi Communists Said that he would stand against the communist

            dictatorship

(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)

1963 Iraq Syria and Egypt began talks about uniting

1981 Cuba’s foreign minister arrived in Lebanon as head of Non-Aligned Movement attempt to negotiate

ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War

1983 Sec of State Shultz ordered US diplomat in Baghdad to discuss US financing trade deals with Iraq

1985 Iran fired SCUD missiles at Baghdad War of Cities 1^st time Iran used long range missiles Saddam

ordered retaliation Baghdad would bomb Tehran for 4 weeks

1986 UN mission found that Iraq had used chemical weapons several times in Iran-Iraq War

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)

1988 Iraq’s 43^rd Div destroyed and Iran captured Halabja Iran captured Dukan Dam Turned back at

Darbandikhan Dam

(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 warned Iran not to take advantage of Iraq uprisings to try to annex any territory

(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)

2002 PM Blair Adv Manning said Natl Sec Adv Rice committed to regime change in Iraq

2002 PM Blair Adv Manning said US working on strategic decisions on how to remove Saddam

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told ORHA head Garner he was going to pick all the advisers that were going to

run Iraqi ministries

(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 Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)

(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

2003 Iran’s national security adviser said US would not have a happy ending in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2003 French Pres Chirac told PM Blair he would not accept a UN resolution that set an ultimatum for

Iraq disarmament

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2003 NSC decided on language for ultimatum to Saddam Included 48 hour deadline to leave power

pushed by Sec Def Rumsfeld

2005 Netherlands withdrew its 160 troops from Iraq

2006 Report May-Jun 03 British worried about strategic failure in Iraq due to US mistakes

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2007 Iraqi military announced deaths down 80% in Baghdad since start of Surge NYTimes found higher

number of deaths but still big drop US military said deaths in Iraq down since start of Surge but deaths up in Baghdad

(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 Pentagon report to Congress on last Qtr of 06 Said PM Maliki promised reform and reconciliation

but did nothing Oct-Dec 06 most violent period recorded in Iraq since 2003

2007 Report Dead bodies in Baghdad down from more than 200/wk in Dec 06 to 80/wk Mar 07 # of

dead from bombings in Baghdad went from 528 in Dec 06 to 370 in Jan 07 Mahdi Army off streets of Baghdad Many insurgents said to have withdrawn to Diyala

(Musings On Iraq Diyala Province Backgrounder)

(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

2008 Basra commander Gen Mohan outlined security plan to US Would start in March Gen Petraeus

was unhappy with plan

2011 Justice Min said it would close Camp Honor secret prison in Baghdad run by PM Maliki that used

torture on prisoners Was not closed

2011 KRG PM Salih said he agreed with all the demonstrators demands Were calling for political

reforms better services rise in living standards No serious changes made

(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)

2011 Peshmerga found mass grave south of Kirkuk with 2,300 bodies Victims of Saddam

2012 Ninewa council voted to freeze Article 140 that was to determine future of disputed areas

2012 Baghdad police held Russia Today reporters for 3 hrs because were doing story on militia attacks

on emos and gays in Baghdad

2012 PM Maliki went to Kuwait to improve ties Was dispute between two over compensation for stolen

and destroyed airplanes from 1990 invasion Maliki said he resolved problem 

2013 5 suicide bombers and a car bomb hit Justice and Foreign Ministries, Communications

            Institute in central Baghdad 26 killed 63 wounded

(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)

2015 Operation to free Tikrit from IS stalled due to high Hashd casualties Iran was hoping to push Hashd

allies into lead in war but failed

2015 Report Badr head Amiri said some Iraqi parties were sucking up to US and getting nothing

while Iranian support was unconditional Said US threat to Iraqi sovereignty Hashd spokesman said 40 Iranian advisers helping with Tikrit op

2015 Report IS selling looted artifacts on eBay Was looting historic sites Imposed taxes on

artifacts to maintain control over trade Has connection to crime rings in Turkey Lebanon and Jordan to sell items Money used to finance group

2016 IS moved back into Rutba Anbar after leaving it day before Was meant to lure ISF into city

and then entrap them Fighting continued in Hit

2016 State of Law MPs said Sadr’s protests in Baghdad could be infiltrated by terrorists

(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)

2016 Oil Ministry ordered North Oil Company to stop sending oil to Kurdish pipeline to Turkey

Part of on going dispute between Baghdad and KRG over oil

2016 Report KRG stopped sending oil money to Baghdad and Abadi govt stopped sending budget

payments to Irbil KRG in financial crisis Signed contracts with oil traders to deliver set amount of oil each month which it didn’t meet 2014 Kurds took control of Kirkuk oil fields after ISF fled due to IS Kurds kicked out North Oil Company and had Kurdish company run fields

2017 Report Captured IS document said it knew it would lose Mosul and Raqqa Said loss of

territory wouldn’t end Caliphate

2017 Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights reported 439 civilians killed in battle to take West

Mosul from IS Thought 700 more had died but couldn’t confirm

2017 Mass grave found near Al Houd 118 people disappeared form town under IS rule

2018 Sulaymaniya teachers promised to continue their strike over not being paid since November 2017

due to KRG austerity measures

2019 Saudi Trade Minister arrived in Baghdad Said Arar border crossing would re-open

Closed since 1990 invasion of Kuwait

2020 Camp Taji hit again with rockets wounding 3 US soldiers and 3-4 ISF

(Musings On Iraq Tit For tat Between U.S. and Pro-Iran Hashd Continues)

2021 Report Hashd factions in Albu Dora Salahaddin blocking displaced from returning

Controlled trade Extorted money from people Controlled fishing and farms south of Tikrit

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