This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 10 Sadrists killed Sayid Abdul Majid al-Khoei Surrounded Ayatollah Sistani’s house in Najaf Driven off by tribesmen

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1917 US consulate report Economy in Baghdad collapsing after British took city Trade cut off No

business

1941 London ordered India to send forces to Shaiba air base in Basra and Basra City

(Musings On Iraq interview World War II In Iraq and Syria Interview With Case Western’s Prof Broich)

(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)

1941 PM Gaylani convened parliament and asked it to pick new Regent Selected Sharif Sharaf

veteran of Arab revolt and relative of Hashemite family

1941 PM Gaylani gave speech at parliament that his govt would honor Anglo-Iraq Treaty of 1930 to

stall British action against him

1941 Hitler decided to give military aid to Iraq

1941 Italian ambassador to Iraq said Golden Square coup sign Iraq believed Axis was winning WW2

and would soon be in Middle East

(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

(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 Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)

1968 Arif said Iraqi National Oil Company would develop North Rumaila oil field without the Iraqi

Petroleum Company

1969 1^st Spring Festival held in Mosul to highlight ancient Iraqi history as part of Baath campaign to

create unified national identity

(Musings On Iraq review The Ba’thification of Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s Totalitarianism)

(Musings On Iraq review Culture, History & Ideology in the Formation of Ba’thist Iraq, 1968-89)

1970 Barzani said he wasn’t for Kurdish independence just wanted autonomy

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

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

1982 Syria closed Iraqi pipeline to Mediterranean to help Iran in war Cut Iraq oil exports to just

600,000 bar/day

1982 Syria closing pipeline led Iraq to settle border disputes with Jordan Turkey Saudi Arabia to build

land routes for its oil

1983 Iran launched Op Wa al-Fajr 1 3^rd offensive aimed at Maysan Attacked Fekkeh and Ain al-

Qaws with goal of cutting Baghdad-Basra highway Used human waves Seized 69 sq mi of Iranian territory

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

(Musings On Iraq review Armies of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

1986 Iraq counterattack to retake Faw failed Led leadership of Republican Guard and regular military

to confront Saddam telling him they could not take his political interference in war anymore Saddam agreed but still interfered

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)

1987 Iran deployed reinforcements in Op Karbala 8 in Basra to expand bridgehead at Fish Lake

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)

1988 Iran started Op Bait al-Moqaddas 5 in Panjwin, Kurdistan Meant to draw Iraqi forces away from

south Didn't work

(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 Iraqi forces took Qadir Karam Kurdistan from PUK during Anfal campaign

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

1990 UK seized parts for Iraq’s supergun

(Musings On Iraq review Al-Hussein, Iraqi Indigenous Conventional Arms Projects, 1980-2003)

1990 US canceled trade mission to Iraq

1990 Natl Sec Adv Scowcroft and asst Haas wrote memo to Bush Said engagement with

Iraq had not changed Saddam but US had little choice but to continue with it

1991 US ordered Iraq to end all military action in northern Iraq above 38^th parallel Northern no fly

zone created

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

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

1991 KDP and PUK sent delegation to Baghdad to negotiate situation in Kurdistan following 91

            uprising

1995 UN inspectors report Said monitoring system was running Destroyed all known nuclear

facilities

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

2001 1^st CIA report Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for centrifuges Sign renewed nuclear program

Didn’t provide any analysis for claim Said tubes were step backwards from centrifuge designs Iraq working on before Gulf War Were for rockets

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

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

2002 PM Blair told parliament Saddam was threat to his people and region and was working on WMD

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2003 CENTCOM told Coalition ground forces to set up local govts in Iraq’s provinces

2003 Saudis called on Saddam to step down to end war

2003 Iraq’s 5^th Corps surrendered to US Special Forces as they entered Mosul Special Forces then

moved to block KDP from taking over city

2003 After Kirkuk fell Kurds Arabs and Turkmen carried out attacks on each other for 2 days

40 killed Looting also started in city US 173 Airborne Bgd ordered to restore order in city

(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173^rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)

2003 Talabani announced PUK setting up interim govt to run Kirkuk city

2003 Bush administration told Turkey that US forces would take control of Kirkuk city

(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In

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2003 Sec State Powell told Turkey that US stood for territorial integrity of Iraq meaning wouldn’t

support Kurds separating

2003 PUK told Turkey that it would withdraw its Peshmerga from Kirkuk city

2003 Sadr’s followers killed Sayid Abdul Majid al-Khoei in Najaf Surrounded Ayatollah Sistani’s

house but driven off by tribesmen

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

2003 US moved 2,000 Peshmerga backed by US Special Forces to Diyala’s Khanaqin to try to block

Badr Brigade moving in from Iran Badr wanted to threaten MEK camp in province and had hit lists of 1000s of opponents to assassinate in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Early Reports On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)

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

2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said that it was important for US to find Iraq’s WMD

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

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

2003 Sec State Powell said he was sure US would find Iraq’s WMD

2003 Def Policy Board’s Adelman OpEd in Washington Post Reminded readers 14 months before he

said war would be a cakewalk

2003 Def Policy Board’s Adelman said Iraqis would start coming forward telling US where Iraq’s

WMD were hidden

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

2003 Suicide bomber hit Marine checkpoint in Baghdad wounding 4

(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)

2003 White House said it wanted to name some of ORHA staff after they’d already arrived in Kuwait

ready to go into Iraq

2003 White House spokesman Fleischer said Iraq’s WMD would be found

2003 2 Iranian Rev Guards intel reports said its agents and allies were in control of Kut Wasit and

            Amarah Maysan

(Musings On Iraq Early Reports On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)

2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq kidnapped American Nick Berg and took him to Fallujah Would later be

beheaded by Zarqawi

(Musings On Iraq review ISIS The State of Terror)

2004 Fallujah medical officials claimed 450 civilians killed 1,000 wounded 70,000 displaced during 1^st

Battle of Fallujah

(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 12 Things Fall Apart Apr 2004)

(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)

2004 Marines ordered to halt 1^st Battle of Fallujah

(Musings On Iraq review No True Glory, A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah)

2004 Fighting in Ramadi ended with Marines defeating insurgents

2004 UK diplomat Sir Richmond wrote US carried out targeted attacks on Fallujah but to outside

world looked like collective punishment

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 9.2 23 May 2003 To June 2004)

2005 Report Iraqi officials couldn’t manage scores of water sewage electrical plants rebuilt by US and

            turned over to Baghdad

2006 Report US failed to provide police trainers as called for to rebuild Iraqi police after 03 invasion

CPA pushed number of new police not quality Interior Min lacked capacity to deal with them US officials withdrawn from Interior Ministry which facilitated Badr’s take over of ministry

(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)

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

(Musings On Iraq American Negligence In Iraq Or How The United States Failed To Plan For Security The Country Part One Of A Two Part Interview With Jerry Burke Former Advisor To The Baghdad Police And Interior Ministry)

(Musings On Iraq From Bad To Worse How Military Moved Into The Iraqi Police Force And The United States Failed At Nation Building Part Two Of An Interview With Jerry Burke Former Advisor To The Baghdad Police And Interior Ministry)

(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)

(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)

(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil

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2007 Islamic Army accused ISI of killing 30 of its members and members of Mujahadeen Army and

Ansar al-Sunna

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

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

2008 Bush said US would only leave Iraq when it became a democracy

(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)

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

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)

(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)

2008 Interior Min said it would start confiscating weapons in Basra as amnesty period ended

2008 Sadr said he would disarm Mahdi Army if all the other militias disarmed

2010 Iranian Amb said next Iraqi govt should be national unity one with Sunnis implying that Allawi’s

Iraqiya should be included

2010 Insurgents like 1920 Revolution Brigades held meeting in Istanbul to discuss Iraq after US

military withdrawal

2010 Human Rights Min told PM Maliki about secret prison in Baghdad Maliki promised to shut

it down and arrest officers that worked there

(Musings On Iraq Secret Baghdad Prison Discovered By Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry)

2011 Sadr said that he still had a militia the Promised Day Brigades which continued to attack US

forces

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sadr Backs Off Threat Of Reviving Mahdi Army)

2012 PM Maliki said that if Assad deposed in Syria would cause greater problems in Middle East

(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Syrian Policy)

2012 Sadrist MP said no confidence vote against PM Maliki would not be good move Pushed for

national conference instead to work out differences

(Musings On Iraq The Sadrists’ Double Game: Criticizing Iraq’s Prime Minister, While Supporting Him At The Same Time)

(Musings On Iraq Why The Talk Of A No Confidence Vote Against Iraq’s Premier Maliki Remains Just Talk)

(Musings On Iraq What Does Iraq’s Sadr Want?)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sadrist Back Off Attacks Upon Prime Minister Maliki For Now)

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

2013 Gorran Islamic Union Islamic Group all said opposed to Barzani extending his term as president

of KRG

(Musings On Iraq President Barzani Attempting To Manipulate Political System For A 3^rd Term In Iraq’s Kurdistan)

2013 Report Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Kataib Hezbollah Peace Brigades all said they were fighting in Syria

(Musings On Iraq The Increasing Flow Of Iraqi Fighters To Syria, An Interview With University Of Maryland’s Phillip Smyth)

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

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

2014 MP from Diyala said there were militias and death squads operating in province Mutahidun

accused militias of carrying out attacks against civilians in 4 parts of Diyala

2014 Report insurgents bombed pipeline to Turkey several times stating in March Then stopped repair

crews from fixing it

2014 Report ISIS began raids into Ramadi City council said families fleeing city due to shelling and

            gun battles

(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Government Admits To Losing Control Of Parts Of Ramadi)

2015 IS captured Albu Faraj north of Ramadi Executed 33 people afterward Part of effort to

capture Ramadi

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Ramadi Has Not Fallen But The Islamic State Has Gained Ground)

(Musings On Iraq interview The Political Fallout From The Loss Of Iraq’s Ramadi Interview With EPIC’s Ahmed Ali)

2015 Report IS attacked Ramadi from 5 sides started Apr 9 Policeman said army had cleared area

around Ramadi Then turned it over to police who were driven off by IS Sahwa and tribal fighters complained govt hasn’t armed them PM Abadi promised to incorporate 10,000 tribal fighters into Hashd

2017 Around 100 MPs signed petition to have parliament dismiss Kirkuk Governor Najm Karim over

raising Kurdish flag in province

2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq beat up and fired shots at students protesting against it at Qadisiya Univ

Students threw rocks at them Leader Qais Khazali had to be escorted out of school by police Khazali said there was an attempt to keep Hashd out of politics and accuse it of working for Iran

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

2017 KDP and PUK met to discuss independence referendum Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleimani

met with PUK and Pres Barzani to try to stop referendum

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)

2017 Report KRG PM Barzani said unified Iraq no longer existed Said independence referendum

would tell world what Kurds wanted Jan Pres Barzani set up committee to decide on disputed areas and that referendum would be held PUK was skeptical Gorran accused Barzani of using referendum for next election

2017 World Food Programme survey More than half of Iraqi families at risk of food insecurity Was

increasing as food prices rose 2.5% of Iraqis food insecure 75% of children under 15 working to support family instead of going to school Food insecurity twice as high amongst displaced

2017 Sinjar mayor said 31 mass graves in district with 1,646 bodies Thought there were 50 graves

in district Victims of IS

2018 Iraqi court said it would hear case against KRG’s independent oil contracts Filed by Baghdad in August 2012 KRG never formally accepted case holding up process 2022 court would rule oil contracts illegal

2019 PM Abdul Mahdi said his govt trying to stop US designating Iranian Revolutionary

Guard as a terrorist group Said could have negative impact on Iraq

2020 Kataib Hezbollah rejected Mustafa al-Kazemi as PM candidate Said nomination was a

betrayal of Iraq and conspiracy that could lead to war Was because Kazemi worked with US as intel chief

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

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