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1914 US consulate reported Ottomans reconciled with Sayid Talib who’d pushed for
autonomy in Basra vilayet
1958 Nuri al-Said became PM 9th time Held new elections where he picked winners so he had
pliant parliament Cabinet was almost half Shiite and included 2 Kurdish ministers
(Musings On Iraq review A History of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review ‘Independent Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
(Musings On Iraq review Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics)
(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki More Like Premier Nuri al-Sa’id Than Saddam? An Interview With Historian Phebe Marr)
(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)
1970 Committee created for economic cooperation between Iraq and Soviet Union
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1973 Iraq offered trade agreement to Kuwait then withdrew it when Kuwait demanded no changes in
territory Bakr wanted Warbah and Bubiyan Islands
1974 Bakr govt said it would announce its own Kurdish autonomy plan without the KDP
1981 Islamic Conf Organization went back to Tehran to present its peace plan
1983 Iraq claimed it destroyed several Iranian oil rigs and 5 Iranian ships in Persian Gulf
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1984 US stopped company from selling products to Iraq that could be used for chemical weapons
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
1987 Iran launched 3rd attack in Op Karbala 5 in Basra Gained 3km
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1987 Iran Op Karbala 7 in Haj Omran Kurdistan KDP took part Gained 10 miles heading towards
Rawanduz Irbil Turkey told Iran it would not allow it to take Kirkuk or Mosul Was diversionary attack from main operation in Basra
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1987 Gulf Cooperation Council condemned Iran’s occupation of Faw Peninsula Basra
(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 Iraq signed ceasefire with US to end Gulf War
1991 Demonstrations against Saddam started in Najaf following Gulf War Fired upon by security forces
(Musings On Iraq The 1991 Shiite Uprising In Southern Iraq)
(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)
1991 Foreign Min Aziz sent letter to president of UN Security Council Said Iraq ready to follow UN
Resolution 686 that renounced Iraqi annexation of Kuwait Accepted liability for losses Iraq would return Iraqi assets and release POWs and civilian captives
1995 CIA told its team in Irbil not to support INC uprising plan
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
1999 Pres Clinton told Congress that Iraq violated UN sanctions by smuggling oil
(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)
1999 SCIRI’s Hakim claimed it attacked govt buildings in Karbala in revenge for murder of Ayatollah
Sadr
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
2002 60 Minutes ran story based upon Iraqi defector who said he was from Mukhabarat Said Iraq
had mobile WMD labs to hide program from UN inspectors Labs didn’t exist
(Musings On Iraq review Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War)
2003 Russia threatened to use veto power in UN to stop any resolution authorizing war vs Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February to 7 March 2003)
2003 US and UK planes hit five targets in Wasit and Basra as part of no fly zone Were trying to weaken
Iraq’s air defenses before invasion
2003 IAEA told US that docs alleging Iraq-Niger uranium deal were forgeries
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
2003 ORHA head Garner went to UN to try to get support for postwar Iraq UN said no because White
House said it was opposed to any UN role
2003 UndersecDef Feith briefed Bush on Pentagon’s postwar plans Included creating democracy
winning intl support destroying WMD
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
2003 Pentagon postwar Iraq plans only outlined goals not how to accomplish them
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I: Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
2003 US memo on setting up an Iraqi interim govt after invasion Said that Iraqi govt had to promise
equal rights to citizens ban Baath party deBaathify security forces
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace called Gen Franks Franks said he had no problem setting up liaisons
with Kurds but didn’t want to work with Chalabi and INC
2004 Gen Taguba’s investigation into abuses at Abu Ghraib prison sent to military
2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey claimed only 350 civilians killed since Feb Samarra bombing and
that crisis had passed It hadn’t Baghdad morgue recorded 1,300 deaths during same period Interior Min 1,077 deaths
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The Open, January-June 2006)
2008 Court dropped charges against Sadrist fmr Dep Health Min Zamili and fmr head of Health Min
Facility Protection Force Shammari for lack of evidence Several witnesses did not appear after death threats Charged with allowing Mahdi Army to use Health Min vehicles and kidnapping and killing Sunnis at hospitals Stealing from contracts
2008 Report Some est 30,000 Iranian agents in Iraq 2,000 Iranian students studied in Najaf and KarbalaSome believed 1/3 of students worked for Iranian intel Iran one of Iraq’s largest trading partners Free trade zone in southern Iraq Iran had good ties with PUK-KDP leaders Iran wanted to keep Iraq weak with a friendly govt Believed had more long term influence in Iraq than US
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2009 Report govt money for displaced returns caught up in bureaucracy and not consistently paid out
(Musings On Iraq Dec. 08-Jan. 09 U.N. Humanitarian Update – Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq February 2009 U.N. Humanitarian Report On Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)
2010 Report State of Law candidate offered money and pistols for votes Another candidate offered
uniforms to a sports team PM Maliki said gifts were for those that helped with security Islamic Party handed out chickens in Diyala PUK offered former peshmerga land in return for family’s vote Some voters asked to swear on Koran that that they will vote for a certain list after given gifts Ayatollah Sistani said gifts were forbidden
2010 Report Transparency Intl and World Bank put Iraq at bottom of their lists for corruption Comes
from weak institutions Quota system divides up ministries by parties Ministries could veto corruption investigations Ministries didn’t work Ministries protected from investigations by parties that ran them PM Maliki never did anything about graft Even in large public corruption cases are few prosecutions Trade Min Sudani from Dawa in high profile case was protected by Maliki Sudani signed contract with company owned by his son for $50 mil for old tea that cost $20 mil Fmr Culture Min Hashemi never prosecuted for using ministry for torture Was accused of assassination plot in 2007 Reportedly hid in VP Hashemi’s house in Green Zone to escape arrest Politicians interfered in arrests and detentions Oct 09 ISF arrested Mosul lawyer for bribing officials to release ISI members and destroy their records During 08 cholera epidemic officials in Babil bought expired chlorine from Iran One official arrested and then released because protected by ISCI Politicians got large salaries and protection MPs got $30,000/mo salaries and $9,000 for security Got $7200/mo pensions for 10 yrs Parliament voted to give each MP $60,000 loan to buy cars Gave families passports for 10 yrs and real estate
(Musings On Iraq Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US Anti-Graft Official)
2011 Allawi rejected heading Natl Council for Strategic Policies Allawi said PM Maliki hadn’t agreed to any
details about what council would do Natl Council was supposed to be consolation for Allawi after won election but PM Maliki out maneuvered him to stay in power Ruling parties agreed to power sharing agreement including council which Maliki never followed
2011 Gorran and 2 Islamic parties boycotted Kurdish parliament in support of protests 2 reporters kidnapped
by Asayesh for covering demonstrations Were beaten and threatened
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests)
2011 Report People said ISF trying to intimidate and arrest protesters Checkpoints around Sunni areas of
Baghdad to block people joining marches Dora special forces deployed Told people they couldn’t join protests 100s arrested on Feb 25 Day of Rage Taken to 11th Army base tortured and raped Maliki denied any arrests Blamed media Baathists and Al Qaeda for exploiting protests
(Musings On Iraq Government Moves To Suppress Protests In Iraq)
2011 Dep Interior Min said Baathists were going to exploit protests 2 protest organizers arrested Baghdad
mayor resigned over demonstrations Rejected by PM Maliki
2011 Report ISF arresting and intimidating protesters Sunni areas of Baghdad blocked off so couldn’t join
demonstrations PM Maliki denied arresting any protesters Blamed media Baathists and Al Qaeda for exploiting protests Said ISF were trying to prevent suicide bombers attacking demonstrations
2014 Report Interior Min dismissed 1200 policemen that fled their posts during fighting in Anbar
2014 ISIS released statement telling people in Kirkuk not to vote
2014 State of Law won lawsuit claiming Wasit govt formed illegally Part of plan by PM
Maliki to overturn provincial govts that excluded State of Law
(Musings On Iraq Maliki Goes After Rival Governments in Diyala, Wasit and Basra)
2014 Diyala govt stopped 111 service projects worth 70 bil dinars because of corruption Included schools electricity health water paving streets
2015 Sadr called for removal of brazen militias from Hashd Said Hashd carried out murders and
wanted to expand their power Said undermined govt Called for Hashd to be integrated into ISF to ensure discipline and prestige
2016 Testimony to UK parliament that IS taking dinars from Mosul sending them to Jordanian
banks then to Ramadi and onto Baghdad using money transfers Then used dinars to buy dollars from Central Bank of Iraq’s dollar auctions and sold them for a profit Money then sent back to IS areas IS making $20-$25 mil/month from dollar auctions
(Musings On Iraq More On The Islamic State’s participation In Iraq’s Dollar Exchanges)
2017 Fighting broke out between Sinjar Protection Units (YBS) and Rojava Peshmerga 7 killed
Started over YBS blocking peshmerga at checkpoint which led to argument
2018 Parliament voted on provincial election law including Kirkuk for first time since 2005
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Provincial Elections Set For Dec 2018, Includes Kirkuk)
2018 2018 budget passed for $88 bil with $10.6 bil deficit Kurds boycotted session
because KRG didn’t have usual 17% allotment IMF said budget violated Stand By Agreement by not giving enough money to KRG and not raising non-oil revenue enough
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s 2018 Budget Passed Angers Kurds And Hashd Questions IMF)
(Musings On Iraq IMF, World Bank and Pres Masum Object To Iraq’s 2018 Budget)
2020 Report Jan Sadr withdrew followers from protests Pro-Iran parties moved to smash
demonstrations Accused protesters of being pro-US attacked protests in Basra Baghdad Wasit Dhi Qar Each protest site had own ideas and followers
2022 Federal Supreme Court ruled PM Kazemi’s anti-corruption committee headed by Gen Ragheef
invalid Created in 2020 to investigate corruption and important crimes Committee was later accused of torture and politically motivated arrests
2022 Report Federal Supreme Court abolished anti-corruption committee Lawsuit filed by political
parties that wanted to stop its work Was setback for PM Kazemi Was question about what committee did because didn’t look into corruption files but specific people Questioned about people convicted under committee Sep 2021 PM Kazemi stopped committee’s work Head of Baghdad Investment Comm Dir of Key Card Company Fmr Ninewa Gov Akoub Head of Al-Hal Party Karbuli Dep Min of Electricity Head of Public Retirement Authority all arrested Were accusations of human rights abuses Gov Akoub said his brother was tortured by committee Others reportedly tortured as well
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