This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 26 Saddam ordered shelling of Iranian border looking for excuse to invade

(Britannica)

1920 War Min Churchill wrote PM George that he thought reinforcements would lead to victory

in 1920 Revolt

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(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)

1922 King Faisal apologized to British Iraq High Commissioner Cox for Anti-British remark made at a

party

1922 3 weeks after being legalized leaders of Iraqi National Party exiled for opposing UK influence in Iraq

1946 Interior Min Qassab resigned over PM Umari failing to punish Kirkuk police for shooting at oil

workers on strike

1968 Mullah Mustafa Barzani had his two ministers resign from Bakr govt because Baath was backing

Jalal Talabani

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

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

1980 After Saddam visited Khanaqin Diyala Iraqi army started shelling Iranian border Was looking for

excuse to justify invasion

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1981 85 POWs exchanged between Iraq and Iran in Cyprus 2^nd prisoner exchange of Iran-Iraq War

1987 Iraq demanded UN arms embargo on Iran for not accepting ceasefire deal and threatened new air

strikes

1987 US signed 5 year trade agreement with Iraq mostly for farm products One of main forms of support

US provided Iraq during Iran-Iraq War

(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 Saddam Tapes)

(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 End of 5^th Anfal campaign

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)

1988 UN Res 620 condemned use of chemical weapons in Iraq Was reference to Anfal campaign

1992 UN Res 688 said ethnic and civilian communities in Iraq need to be protected from

            govt attacks

1992 US, UK, France started Operation Southern Watch creating southern no fly zone over Iraq

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(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

1994 Iraqi Vanguard for National Salvation took responsibility for car bomb in Baghdad

1996 CIA said Saddam was going to launch attack upon PUK in Irbil

1998 UN inspector Ritter quit after his anti-concealment unit was disbanded at request of Clinton admin

Ritter claimed from Nov 97-Aug 98 Clinton admin tried to block inspectors work 7 times Ritter’s claims about Clinton convinced many on UN Security Council US manipulating inspectors for its own aims

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)

2002 VP Cheney speech at Veterans of Foreign War Called Iraq a mortal threat to US Said no doubt Iraq

had WMD and that it was good at deceiving weapons inspectors Said Hussein Kamil proved Iraq had renewed its nuke program Hussein said Iraq ended nuke program Killed in 1996 so couldn’t know what Iraq doing in 2001 Argued UN inspectors would fail in Iraq

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(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)

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

Tragedy)

(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)

2002 Sec State Powell argued that US had to go through UN to deal with Iraq at National Security

            Council

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(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

2002 Turkish Foreign Min official talked with Def Sec Rumsfeld who said Iraq war plans being made but

no final decision Invasion would include US using Turkey

2003 Report US left thousands of munitions dumps all over Iraq which were looted by

            insurgents and militias

2003 Bremer said Iraq could not pay for its own reconstruction and US would have to put up several

billion dollars to do it CPA could not meet Iraq’s electricity needs until summer of 2004

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2003 US launched Op Ivy Needle to hunt down criminals and Baathists in Salahaddin

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War, 2003-2006)

2003 DepSecState Armitage said US might consider a multinational force under UN to help with

security after rejecting UN role

2003 Humanitarian aid groups announced pulling out workers from Iraq after terrorist attacks by Zarqawi

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(Musings On Iraq review Black Flags, The Rise Of ISIS)

2004 US halted military operations in 2^nd Battle of Najaf to allow negotiations to end fighting

(Musings On Iraq review US Marines in Battle An-Najaf August 20014)

(Musings On Iraq review Battle For The City Of The Dead)

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

2004 Mahdi Army attacked Sistani supporters in Kufa killing 20

2004 CPA democracy official Diamond wrote memo to Sec State Rice on problems with Iraq Said US had

to follow through with disarming militias US should not seek military bases because would fulfill Iraqi fears Should talk about withdrawal instead of open ended US occupation Should move away from Iraqi exiles Rice never replied

2006 National conference of Sunni sheikhs backed Maliki govt condemned violence called for people to

participate in politics

2007 PM Maliki Pres Talabani and VPs announced deal on provincial powers law and deBaathifcation

Maliki also agreed to share decision making with Presidency Council Didn’t happen

2007 Report insurgents were extorting money from companies that got contracts to work with Anbar

            Awakening

2008 Kurds in Khanqin Diyala protested arrival of Iraqi forces leading them to withdraw

(Musings On Iraq Kurdish-Baghdad Tensions Over Diyala)

(Musings On Iraq Cold War Between Baghdad and Kurds Turn Hot)

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

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

2008 Car bomb hit new police recruits drawn from Sahwa in Diyala Part of ISI campaign against Sahwa

(Musings On Iraq Behind The Revival Of The Islamic State in Iraq, Interview With Naval War College Prof Craig Whiteside)

2008 Member of United Iraqi Alliance said sahwa had helped fight ISI but there were some working with

insurgency

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2009 Head of Qadisiya reconstruction comm said previous provincial govt issued $43 mil in

frivolous projects Some went to tribal figures others to corrupt persons others were political favors

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(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US Anti-Graft Official)

2009 Report Lack of water threatening 2 mil people in south Iraq Losing electricity and drinking

water Nasiriya power production down 50% Basra hit with high salinity due to lack of fresh water 3000 people evacuated from north Basra due to lack of drinking water Dams in Turkey Syria Iran to blame

2009 Report Oil production and exports hit post-03 high in July Iraq exported 2.08 mil/bar/day

2012 Report Shell supposed to produce 175,000 bar/day of oil at Majnoon field in 2012 Couldn’t because

of lack of pipeline Shell asked Baghdad for waiver on reaching target Had to reach mark to start getting paid Lack of infrastructure would hinder Iraq’s oil plans

2013 Tax Authority said oil dependence would undermine economy Said govt had no plan on how to

diversify Said regulations and rules blocked developing market economy Corruption held up spending by govt Tax income hardly amounted to anything Most companies and investors smuggled profits out of country to not pay taxes

2013 Report Maliki govt released low casualty figures as violence increased Attacked media for covering

violence Army officer said Maliki ordered ISF to only report on successes 1 day in Aug Interior Min said 3 killed in Baghdad Media reported 24 killed

2013 ISF arrested head of Scholars Council in Anbar Was a protest leader

2015 Pres Masum implied that some of PM Abadi’s reforms were unconstitutional

(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)

2015 Offensive to free Daquq south Kirkuk began

2017 Mass grave in Tal Afar discovered by Iraqi forces Had bodies of 80 civilians and ISF killed by

IS

(Musings On Iraq Tal Afar Battle Day 7)

2018 Report IS leader Baghdadi released 1^st recording in 11 months Said group should target tribal

Hashd Carry out targeted killings and recruit in Sunni community Said IS still a force in Mideast

2018 Protesters stormed Basra Health Directorate Officials said 17-18,000 hospitalized due to bad

water Health Directorate said Shatt al-Arab contaminated

(Musings On Iraq Iraq Failed To Prepare For Water Crisis)

2019 Fatah said US responsible for Israeli strikes on Hashd bases Said strikes declaration of

war vs Iraq

2019 15 families fled Shura dist south Ninewa due to IS attacks

2020 PM Kazemi created committee to investigate corruption Arrested fmr dir of national

retirement directorate Director of Qi Card Agricultural Bank director and head of Baghdad Investment Commission

2020 Report PM Kazemi said armed groups working outside the law would face crackdown Said

criminals behind attacks on protesters Said govt would reveal who they were Said govt had arrested people for rocket attacks Pro-Iran Hashd behind attacks on protesters and rocket attacks Govt would do nothing

2021 Oil Minister issued order for National Oil Company to take control of 7 state owned oil

companies

2021 Iraq signed deal to build solar power plants

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