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1920 Huge joint Sunni-Shiite demonstration in Baghdad during Ramadan against British rule
(Musings On Iraq review A Short History of Iraq)
1941 British forces set out from Habaniya base to try to take Fallujah
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s First Battle Of Fallujah 1941)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 10 British planes landed at Habaniya air base from Egypt and launched attack on German planes in
Mosul British bombed Baghdad air base Shot down 2 German fighters
1941 German liaison officer with Iraqi govt killed by an Iraqi soldier flying into Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1967 Commander Iraqi air force put two squadrons on alert for deployment to Jordan in anticipation
of Arab-Israeli War
(Musings On Iraq Review Hawker Hunters At War, Iraq and Jordan , 1958-1967)
(Musings On Iraq review Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970)
1973 Iraq rejected border agreement with Kuwait saying never ratified by Iraqi constitution
1987 Iraqi fighter hit USS Stark with 2 missiles killing 37 US sailors
(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)
2002 PM Blair’s foreign policy adv Manning told Natl Sec Adv Rice that they had to get weapons
inspections back into Iraq to garner public support for any war
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 3.3 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options April to July 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Iraqi Leadership Group of exiles and Iraqis put together by Barzani and Talabani to advise ORHA
head Garner disbanded by Bremer
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
(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 ORHA head Garner told Bremer he was leaving Iraq Bremer talked Garner into staying for a bit
2003 US-Kurdish agreement allowed 6,000 Peshmerga to be deployed in Diyala Kirkuk Ninewa
Salahaddin beyond Green Line into disputed areas
2003 500 Arabs from Hawija attacked Kurds in Kirkuk City Lasted 36 hrs Were heard shouting Saddam
slogans Protesting Kurds moved into city after war
(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
2003 Baghdad Univ faculty held election for new leadership as part of democratization move pushed by
US Bremer afraid election would back Baathists
2003 CIA interviewed head of Iraq’s centrifuge program Mahdi Obeidi who asked for asylum in US
2004 Report Mahdi Army recruiting Baathist security and intel officers in Kirkuk for militia along with
Shiite Arabs and Turkmen
2004 CIA warned that political factionalism in Mosul leading to instability
2004 Zarqawi killed Iraqi Governing Council head Salim with a suicide bomber in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2004 Report Sec Def Rumsfeld authorized special interrogation program that helped lead to Abu Ghraib
abuse scandal
2004 Report INC provided defector Adnan Haideri’s stories about Iraq WMD used by US pre-war proved
false Was used in CIA DIA White House reports May 02 labeled fabricator by DIA
2005 Association of Muslim Scholars accused police of being involved in massacres of Sunni civilians
(Musings On Iraq Spiritual Leader To Iraq’s Insurgency Harith Dhari Dies In Exile)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2005 Report Albu Mahal and Albu Nimr tribes in Qaim formed Hamza Forces to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq
Went to Marines in Fallujah asking for help
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 17 Innovation In The Face Of War, Summer-Fall 2005)
2005 Albu Mahal and Albu Nimr criticized US Op Matador in western Anbar for targeting them
when they were fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Demise, But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Anbar Before And After The Awakening Pt IX: Sheikh Sabah Aziz Of The Albu Mahal)
2006 US cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey told NSC sectarian violence up in Iraq New Baghdad security plan not
working Casey told Bush Iran providing more EFPs to attack US forces
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2007 2nd day of fighting between Mahdi Army and Iraqi soldiers in Diwaniya started by security sweep
vs militias
2008 Female suicide bomber attacked Sahwa unit in Diyala Another female suicide bomber set off car
bomb against ISF in Diyala
(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 Report Iranian Revolutionary Guard put Sadr under house arrest in Qom
2009 Head of parliamentary integrity comm said Trade Min Sudani covered up his brothers’
involvement in corruption at ministry Min Sudani denied his brother worked at ministry but did Sudani’s son and nephew got $40 for every pound of sugar imported Trade Min inspector general had evidence against them but was threatened
(Musings On Iraq Half Of Corruption Cases Against Iraq’s Former Trade Minister Dropped)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)
2009 Report Iraq’s hospitals lacked basic supplies Couldn’t do routine tests Usually asked
patients’ families to get supplies Put in orders to Health Min but nothing showed up Ministry stole drugs Bought expired medicine and unnecessary equipment for kickbacks
2009 Kurdish protest in Shikhan against Al-Hadbaa led Ninewa government
(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
(Musings On Iraq Ninewa Struggles Between Arabs and Kurds Continue)
(Musings On Iraq Troubles Continue In Ninewa Over Results Of Provincial Elections)
2009 Oil Minister criticized KRG oil deals Said KRG given excessive profits to companies
2010 KRG said it would not export oil again until after new Iraqi govt formed
(Musings On Iraq Kurdish Oil Exports Placed On Hold Until New Iraqi Government Seated)
2011 Interior Min investigation found IS prison break in Baghdad had inside help
2011 Baghdad Operations Command said most assassinations of ISF personnel were done by militias not
ISI
2011 Pres Barzani said he was ready to talk with opposition parties in KRG parliament about reforms
2011 Report Kataib Hezbollah Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Promised Day Brigades picking up attacks on US to
claim responsibility for withdrawal Attacking logistics convoys coming from Kuwait
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2011 Report BP and CNPC owed over $1 bil and finally getting partial payment
2012 KDP Asayesh arrested 3 Yazidis for attending govt sponsored conference to intimidate them to stay
away from Baghdad
2012 PM Maliki withdrew no confidence request to parliament against Dep PM Mutlaq to try to stop no
confidence move against himself
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Premier Maliki And His Deputy Mutlaq Reconcile)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2012 Central Bank of Iraq said banks were selling hard currency directly to buyers for profit rather than
being middle man Reports Syria and Iran buying dollars in Iraq and smuggling them out
2013 Spiritual leader of Ramadi protests Saadi called for talks with govt Head of Tirkit protests called for
jihad after Hawija camp attacked but then backed Saadi’s call for talks Fallujah also backed idea
(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics)
(Musings On Iraq Rising Tensions In Iraq’s Anbar Province, Raids, Kidnapped Soldiers, Collapse of Talks Offer)
2014 Sheikh Hayes blamed protesters for creating environment for return of insurgency in Anbar
2014 4 Kurdish parties accused PUK of cheating in Sulaymaniya voting
2015 IS seized Anbar Ops Command with 3 suicide car bombs Sealed control of Ramadi
(Musings On Iraq Political Ramifications Of The Fall of Iraq’s Ramadi)
2015 Anbar council voted to allow Hashd to deploy to province after fall of Ramadi Were already there
(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
2015 IS unilaterally began withdrawing from Baiji refinery after Ramadi taken Used fighting in Baiji as
diversion
2015 Intl Org of Migration reported 2.8 mil displaced in Iraq since start of 2014
2015 Report Gorran came in 2nd in KRG elections KDP tried to co-opt Gorran PUK got more
ministries and posts in new govt than Gorran Hadn’t followed through with any election promises
2016 PUK and Gorran signed power sharing-cooperation deal Gorran would get Sulaymaniya governor
PUK Sulaymaniya city mayor
2017 May activists in Baghdad kidnapped and released Some were Communists Apr Communist
HQ in Diwaniya attacked Asaib Ahl Al-Haq accused of attack
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2017 PUK-KDP control their own peshmerga and security forces in their areas of KRG Don’t
coordinate Peshmerga Min has 12 mixed brigades but those still controlled by KDP-PUK
2017 Masrour Barzani said KRG independence referendum could happen by end of yr Said would
include Kirkuk Said 1707 Peshmerga killed 9997 wounded in war vs IS
2017 Abadi govt said Hashd would not enter KDP areas during clearance of west Ninewa Hashd
went into Sinjar PM Abadi then said he didn’t know KDP wanted Hashd out of area
2017 Kurdish MP heading to Mosul stopped at checkpoint and beaten by Hashd unit
2018 PKK said Turkey 25km into KRG Turkey building roads to connect its bases Built 3 new ones and 14 outposts
2018 After Election Comm rejected manual recount PM Abadi asked Integrity Comm to investigate it
2018 Kurdistan Islamic Union State of Law Justice and Democracy Party all claimed voting fraud MP Karbouli accused of cheating in Anbar
2018 Army officer said 2 days 640 bodies pulled from rubble in Mosul Said to be IS members and their families
2018 Sadr complained about Iranian Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleimani trying to form next Iraqi govt
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2019 Diyala MP called on ISF to deploy to rural Khanaiqn dist to deal with IS Said locals
had to set up own security forces because no govt presence
2020 Kurdish teachers protested in Kirkuk Said Baghdad not KRG should pay their salaries KRG
unable to pay salaries due to budget dispute with Baghdad and debt
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