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1939 After British White Paper on Palestine passed PM Said tried but failed to convince the Mufti
of Jerusalem to support it
1941 German planes attacked British forces in Fallujah Iraqi artillery shelled town
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s First Battle Of Fallujah 1941)
1941 Hitler Order 30 Germany would support Arabs against British especially in Iraq
1941 UK Mid-East cmdr Gen Wavell and Indian cmdr Gen Auchinlek met in Basra Decided to send
forces to Baghdad and more to be sent from India to Iraq
(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)
1948 Iraqi brigade attacked Kfar Yona-Netanya to try to split Palestine in 2 Cancelled due
to Iraqis being sent to block Jewish advance on Jenin 1st Arab-Israeli War
1959 Egyptian press claimed British intel planning pro-UK coup in Iraq Afterward Iraq would sign peace
treaty with Israel Part of anti-Iraq propaganda by Nasser
1959 Communists officially gave up demands for positions in Qasim govt
(Musings On Iraq review The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1963 Curfew imposed and security zones set up around oil installations in north in
preparation for new offensive against Mullah Mustafa Barzani
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
1966 Arif govt called on Kurds to surrender or face annihilation
1969 Pres Bakr offered self-determination to Kurds
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1982 Iraq invoked Arab League 1950 defense agreement to get military aid from members Got nothing
League divided over Iran-Iraq War
1988 Iraq launched offensive to re-capture all of its lost territory from Iran
(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)
1988 Towns in Balisan Valley, Sulamaniya hit by chemical weapons in 5th Anfal campaign
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
1991 For third time Kurds attacked police station in Zakho during negotiations with Baghdad over
autonomy
1991 UN announced 500 guards would be sent to Kurdish provinces to deal with relief centers for
displaced after 1991 Uprising
2002 During trip to Germany Bush said he had no Iraq war plans Part of strategy to work on war plans
while publicly denying it
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)
(Musings On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq)
2003 Bush said he supported Bremer’s political plan for Iraq
2003 CPA Order 2 disbanded Iraqi military
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Baghdad at Sunrise, A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with CSU San Marco’s Prof Marashi Development And Setbacks Of The Current Iraqi Military)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
2003 Congress asked CIA to look into its pre-war intel on WMD after none found
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2004 Sadr’s brother in law Riyadh Nouri arrested
2005 Sunni MPs accused Badr Brigade of carrying out sectarian killings
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(Musings On Iraq U.S. Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 16 – Going West, April-August 2005)
2007 Dep PM Zubaie wounded by suicide bomber
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2007 ISI assassinated Sheikh Issawi from Albu Issa tribe Member of the Awakening Part of campaign to
kill Awakening leaders
(Musings On Iraq 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 Fallujah Redux author Daniel Green on Fallujah during the Surge)
(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)
2007 Bush said in Jan 05 bin Laden told Zarqawi to create a cell to plan attacks upon US homeland
Counterterrorism officials contradicted claim
2007 Constitutional Review Comm told parliament it had draft report on amending constitution Then
asked for 1 month extension to gain consensus Nothing came of it
(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)
2008 Clerics denied Sistani issued fatwa allowing attacks on US forces
2010 ISF blamed US releasing prisoners for increase in violence In 2008 PM Maliki negotiated
quicker release of prisoners by US
2011 Adviser to Diyala governor arrested by PM Maliki to intimidate province to not move towards
federal region to protest his govt
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2011 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri complained about ISI’s Baghdadi and Jabhat al-Nusra’s Julani Told them to
reconcile
2011 Gulf Keystone said it was ready to export oil from KRG
2011 Report Iraq signed deal to import natural gas from Iran to fuel power plants in Diyala
2012 Iraq hosted nuclear talks between Iran and six countries
2012 Head of Central Bank of Iraq called for econ reforms Said state expanded too much Retarded
development of private sector 95% of govt revenue from oil Only provided 1% of jobs Unofficial unemployment 30% If wanted to deal with jobless had to move away from oil dependence
2013 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri said that Baghdadi was wrong for declaring ISIS without asking permission
first
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2013 Mutahidun accused PM Maliki of supporting militias and targeting civilians
2013 Sheikh Hayes said Ramadi protesters had 2 days to turn over those who killed 5 soldiers
(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics)
2013 State of Law offered ISCI control of 3 southern provinces in return for control of Basra ISCI turned
down offer
2013 Report Oil companies wanted to revise down production targets with Oil Min Couldn’t meet goals in
contracts due to lack of infrastructure red tape etc Iraq originally said it would reach 16 mil/bar/day in production by 2020 Revised down to 9 mil/bar/day Didn’t reach that mark
2013 Report govt would aid foreign oil company workers Some waited 2-3 months to get visa
2014 Babil Operations Command claimed Jurf al-Sakhr freed from IS Would not be liberated until Oct
2014
2014 Gorran accused PUK of cheating in Sulaymaniya vote
2014 KRG said it sold 1st tanker of independent oil exports Oil Ministry filed legal papers over sale Also
took legal action against Turkey for facilitating sale
2015 Report Iranians operating rockets, artillery and drones in Baiji operation to free refinery from IS
2015 Report on fall of Ramadi IS used sleeper cells ISF lacked command and control Golden Div
suddenly left city Wasn’t enough coalition air strikes Tribes said not supplied by govt to fight Federal Police reinforcements turned back by IS Broke morale of ISF in city Anbar governor said 286 police died in fighting
(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
(Musings On Iraq Political Ramifications Of The Fall of Iraq’s Ramadi)
2015 Badr’s Amiri said US coalition was a mirage that didn’t help Iraq
2016 Abu Fadhl al-Abbas commander posted video saying no civilians or true Muslims left in
Fallujah
(Musings On Iraq Abu Fadhl Al-Abbas Brigade From Fighting In Syria To Iraq)
2016 Golden Div and army attacked Fallujah from south
2017 Der Spiegel ran article documenting abuses by Rapid Reaction unit during Mosul
campaign Tortured and killed prisoners Raped woman while husband beat Unit denied story Released video of its victims denying that they had been abused and then attacked author of article Joint Operations Command also claimed author was making up story and if any torture had taken part he was partly responsible since he witnessed it
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 220 May 24 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 221 May 25 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 222 May 26 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 223 May 27 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 224 May 28 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 232 Jun 5 2017)
2017 Hashd freed Qairawan subdistrict of Sinjar Ninewa from IS
2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq registered to run in elections
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2018 103 bodies pulled from Old City Mosul
2018 Abdul Mahdi said on Facebook he didn’t want to be PM because couldn’t get anything done due to ruling parties Would later become PM
2019 Report locals in Khanaqin Diyala complaining about IS Burned farms in Qara Tapa
Planted IEDs in fields to drive people out
2020 Babil governor denied any secret prisons in province especially in Jurf al-Sakhr Said
insecurity meant no one could return there Kataib Hezbollah had secret prison in district Govt denied people going back to Jurf al-Sakhr because along pilgrimage routes to Najaf and Karbala
2020 UN reported 25 protesters kidnapped From Oct 2019 to Mar 2020 123 activists abducted 98
were found 490 protesters killed 7783 wounded No accountability for perpetrators
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2021 Pres Salah said $150 bil in oil had been smuggled out of Iraq since 2003
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