This Day In Iraqi History - May 31 Kurdish revolt led by Barzinji put down by RAF

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1915 British took Qurna and set out to capture Amarah from Ottomans

(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)

1924 UK High Commissioner for Iraq said Assyrians would get autonomous homeland in

            Dohuk Called on Iraqi govt to grant Assyrians land

(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

1931 Iraq made first payment of oil revenues to Turkey in return for giving up claims to Mosul

(Musings On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation of Iraq)

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

(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)

(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)

1932 Kurdish revolt led by Barzanji put down by RAF

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)

1933 Assyrian leader Mar Shimun wrote letter to King Faisal Said Interior Minister told

            him how the govt disliked him

(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

1941 Mayor of Baghdad worked out peace treaty with British surrendering city

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)

1941 Yunis Sabawi pro-Nazi leader appointed himself governor of southern Iraq and told Jews to stay in

homes

1941 Ger Amb to Iraq told Berlin UK-Iraq armistice signed False rumor British seized Mosul airport

forced ambassador to flee to Syria

1941 German High Command told German planes heading to and based in Iraq to gather in Aleppo until

further notice

(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)

1960 Islamic Party called for banning Communist Party and Islamicizing laws in Iraq

1967 Jordan invited Iraqi army to deploy troops in its territory for war with Israel

1981 Iran attacked Iraqi forces in Qasr-e-Shirin and Dehloran in central and northern Iran

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1984 Saddam threatened to destroy Iran’s main oil port at Kharg Island hoping it would

            force Iran to negotiate end to war Iran didn’t reply

1984 Iraq launched attacks upon Iran’s oil infrastructure

(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)

1992 Bush proposed doubling budget for covert action to overthrow Saddam

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

2001 1^st of four Deputies Committee of NSC meetings on revising Iraq policy

2003 Badr Brigade claimed it gave up its heavy weapons Wasn’t true

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 7 Muqawama Wa Intiqaam (Resistance And Reprisals), May-August 2003)

2003 Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz said that US would find Iraq’s WMD

(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)

(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2003 CIA Dir Tenet said that CIA had not compromised its intelligence on Iraq

2005 Basra police chief said he had no control of 3/4 of his officers who were loyal to

            political parties and militias and were carrying out assassinations

2005 Basra police chief said militias were the real power in the province and they were criminals and

bad people Said 2 main groups were Badr and Mahdi Army

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

2006 PM Maliki declared one month state of emergency in Basra after 100 killed in fighting between

            militias

2007 2^nd day of fighting between ISI and Islamic Army in Baghdad’s Amiriya 1920 Revolution

Brigades and US unit joined to help Islamic Army Would lead to Sahwa being formed

(Musings On Iraq The Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)

2007 White House spokesman said US wanted long term military presence in Iraq to support ISF

2008 Report only 15% of sahwa integrated into govt

(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)

2008 PM Maliki said he wanted refugees to return Promised privileges for them Said govt had money and

plan to aid them NGOs reported Iraq had no program for returnees

2008 Report Most sectors of Basra govt connected to militias and corrupt 47 parties in Basra all with

militias Sadrists went after doctors and professionals Thar Allah killed unveiled women Fadhila Gov Waili accused of smuggling oil ISCI/Badr sold weapons and killed opponents

2009 Ex-Trade Min Sudani placed in Samawa prison for trial after arrested trying to leave

country $4-$8 bil missing from ministry Bought expired food and charged Ministry full price Bought food and kept it for themselves to sell on black market Bought goods for double the prices Sudani signed contract with company owned by his son for $50 mil for old tea that was only worth $20 mil Bought contaminated milk from China Found $8 mil in expired food in warehouse Sudani’s brother and nephew got $40 in kickbacks from every ton of sugar imported by ministry Sudani used some of money to fund PM Maliki’s State of Law in 2009-10 elections

(Musings On Iraq Half Of Corruption Cases Against Iraq’s Former Trade Minister Dropped)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption) 

(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)

2011 ISI cell arrested that created fake human rights organization as front group

2011 Protests in Ramadi demanded army withdraw from city after police chief killed in raid

2011 Report Foreign Sec Straw Sec State Powell met in NY city Feb 2002 Straw worried

statements by PM Blair and Bush on Iraq’s WMD couldn’t be proved Said lack of supporting evidence Much of intel was assumptions and assessments with little hard facts Powell had same concern Powell worried about Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans and Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz Said intel he saw at CIA was circumstantial Hoped that when facts were revealed claims would not blow up in their faces

2011 Report Brokers sold forged docs so people could get jobs in govt and ISF Primary school diploma

cost $250 College diploma $3000

2012 2^nd day of 4^th auction round for Iraq oil and gas fields Only 2 winning bids Iraq announced 5^th

auction round for Iraqi oil and gas fields would be held after disappointing 4^th auction

(Musings On Iraq Disappointing Fourth Oil And Gas Auction For Iraq)

2012 Ninewa Gov Nujafi claimed almost enough votes in parliament to hold no confidence move against

PM Maliki

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2013 Fight broke out amongst protesters in Fallujah between those for and against Anbar becoming

federal region Federalism was to protest Maliki govt

(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics)

2014 ISIS kidnapped and killed 8 Naqshibandi members in Baiji who would not give it allegiance

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)

2014 Operation started to clear Saqlawiya north of Fallujah in Anbar

2015 Kurdish MP said 1205 Peshmerga killed 6595 wounded fighting IS since Jun 2014

2015 Badr head Amiri dismissed PM Abadi’s plans to retake Ramadi Said he had his own plan

which was to free areas of Anbar first to cut it off Led to Hashd operation to free Thar Thar

(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)

(Musings On Iraq Disarray Over How To Retake Iraq’s Ramadi)

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

2016 Genel Energy found reserves at Taq Taq field in KRG only half what it estimated Company

lost $1 bil as shares dropped

2016 Fighting between Saraya Salam and Kataib Hezbollah in Musayib Babil 6 wounded Started

when Sayara Salam banned from entering Jurf al-Sakhr

(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)

2017 ABC News story offered more information on Rapid Reaction unit abuses first Reported in

Der Spiegel during Mosul campaign Rapid Reaction Div blacklisted by US in Mar 2015 for human rights abuses US praised unit for its fighting in Mosul

(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 228 Jun 1 2017)

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 232 Jun 5 2017)

2017 Dana Gas seeking $26.5 bil in damages from KRG due to delayed projects Filed papers in

US court

2017 VP Maliki said force might be needed to stop Pres Barzani declaring KRG independence

KRG condemned statement Said KRG would defend itself

2017 VP Maliki interview Said fighting against IS going well despite US Claimed he bought all

the weapons for Iraq not PM Abadi Criticized Abadi for replacing all his ministers Said he wouldn’t be PM again Said he wanted a majority govt Said he objected to KRG independence referendum Said Kurds backed by Israel

2018 Report IS in Metibiji mountains and Hamrin Mountains along Diyala-Salahaddin border

2018 Civil Defense Force said 1,468 bodies pulled from Old City Mosul in last 10 days

2018 Election Comm said it wouldn’t follow non-binding resolution by parliament to reject votes Said only Federal Court could annul results

2019 Fmr PM Abadi resigned all his positions within Dawa

2020 Defense Minister said 2,000 IS fighters left in Iraq

2020 PM Kazemi started monthly budget payments to KRG Finance Min claimed it was a one time

payment Kazemi needed Kurdish support for his govt

2021 UNAMI recorded 32 assassinations of activists since Oct 2019 21 others wounded

(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)

(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)

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