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1915 Lord Curzon asked why British should promise Basra and Baghdad vilayets to Arabs if they
were fighting on Ottoman side
1916 British defeated in 2nd Battle of Sannaiyat by Kut British suffered 1,283 casualties Setback in
attempting to relieve siege at Kut
1916 UK Gen Lake wrote Sir Beauchamp Duff Said British suffered 23,000 casualties in
Mesopotamia since start of 1916
1920 Meeting of Baghdad and mid-Euphrates branches of nationalist group Haras al-Istiqlal Told
Ayatollah Shirazi of Karbala rejected UK rule Mid-Euphrates branches were willing to take up arms against the UK
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1923 British troops occupied Rowanduz in military campaign to subdue Kurds opposed to being
included in new Iraq Mandate
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
1931 Commemorated as founding date of Royal Iraqi Air Force
(Musings On Iraq review Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970)
1932 Royal Iraqi Air Force bombed Sheikh Barzinji rebels in Kifri and Khanaqin
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
1959 100,000 Communists marched Demanded role 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 A History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan Franzen)
(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)
1969 After Shah ended 1937 border treaty with Iraq Iran sailed ship down Shatt al Arab waterway in
violation of treaty Iraq retaliated by expelling 10,000 Iranians
1980 Khomeini revealed that Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr had been executed and called for overthrow of
Saddam
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
1981 Iran began attack to retake Qasr e-Shirin central front Was to be jump off spot for invasion
into Iraq Iranians were turned back
(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)
1990 Iraq Air Force cmdr Gen Hassan said Iraq would use all its power against Israel if
attacked any Arab country
(Musings On Iraq Why Did Saddam Threaten Israel Before The 1990 Invasion of Kuwait?)
(Musings On Iraq review the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait)
1991 Report that Iranian intel and Revolutionary Guard working in Iraq to help revolts 1991 revolt
already over
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
1991 Report Bush decided on maintaining sanctions hoping they would lead to overthrow of
Saddam
(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)
(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)
1991 Report Saudis were holding Iraqi POWs from Gulf War to try to create opposition group out of
them
1998 Foreign Min Aziz letter to UN Said inspectors ignored last 7 yrs of progress Said intrusive
inspections work of US to create justification for US military strike
(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)
2003 ORHA head Garner went to KRG to talk with Barzani and Talabani about interim Iraqi govt
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 Barzani and Talabani suggested group of Iraqi advisers to help Garner rather than interim Iraqi
govt
2003 UnderSecDef Feith wrote that idea of creating a transitional Iraqi authority was not going well
2003 Sadrists held second day of protests after its cleric Fartusi was arrested by US
2003 Only 10% of Baghdad’s electricity restored since city fell to US forces
2003 US sent 1000 more experts to look for Iraq’s WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Chief UN inspector Blix told BBC US tried to discredit inspections at the Security Council
(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)
2003 UK general warned that British military not trained for postwar operations called for in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 NYTimes’ Miller told PBS NewsHour US found info on Iraq’s WMD Had destroyed stocks
right before invasion Fooled UN inspectors False story
2004 Bremer said some Baathist officials would be able to return to their jobs
(Musings On Iraq The Baathist Purge In Post-Saddam Iraq, A Short History Of DeBaathification)
2004 After no real weapons turned over by insurgents in Fallujah Gen Conway said militants had
days to do so or city would be attacked again
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2006 Pres Talabani asked Maliki to form new govt
(Musings On Iraq The Life Of Nouri al-Maliki An Interview With Journalist Ned Parker)
2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey’s intel dir told him violence had shifted from Sunnis attempting to
derail politics and fight occupation to competition between sectarian groups for power
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The Open, January-June 2006)
2007 ISI stopped bus and took 23 Yazidis off and executed them in Bashiqa, Ninewa
2008 PM Maliki promised $150 mil to rebuild Sadr City after fighting Mahdi Army was over Money
was mostly stolen by Dawa members or given out in patronage networks to win support for Maliki
2008 Female suicide bomber attacked Baquba police station
(Musings On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2009 16 Kurdish towns in Ninewa threatened to not cooperate with new Hadbaa run Ninewa council
calling it Baathist
(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
2010 Parliamentary election results were supposed to be certified but political disputes delayed that
2011 Protests in Baghdad and Mosul Called for release of prisoners better services fighting
corruption US withdrawal ISF broke up protest in Mosul
(Musings On Iraq Continued Protests At Tahir Square In Baghdad, Iraq)
2011 Sadr announced new social organizing project Munasiroon in Basra
2012 Attack on Najaf offices of Ayatollah Fayadh in wave of attacks against Iraq’s top clerics
2012 Turkey’s Erdogan compared PM Maliki to Saddam
2012 2 leaders from ISCI and Sadrists said they were not in talks with other parties for no
confidence vote vs PM Maliki ISCI said it stood behind Maliki
(Musings On Iraq Why The Talk Of A No Confidence Vote Against Iraq’s Premier Maliki Remains Just Talk)
2013 Tigris Ops Command stopped parliamentary delegation from visiting Hawija protest site after
checkpoint attacked
2014 Pres Barzani threatened independence of Kurdistan if oil dispute with Baghdad
continued Said PUK wouldn’t get KRG Interior Min Should settle for VP Said KDP had good relations with PKK Claimed 2006 he rejected a US-Turkish plan to root out PKK bases in KRG Blamed PKK for failure of Kurdish National Congress in 2013 in Syria KDP never had good relations with PKK
(Musings On Iraq Explaining Iraqi Kurdistan’s Policy Towards Syria, Interview With Wladimir van Wilgenburg)
2015 Day after IS attacked Sahl al-Malih, Ninewa Peshmerga expelled Arab residents, looted and
burned village
2016 Report IS on the retreat Last major gain May 2015 when took Ramadi Lost footholds in
Diyala and Babil Tikrit Baiji Ramadi Kubaisa liberated Failing at recruiting many new fighters IS has been increasing fees to make up for financial loses
2017 Gorran and PUK joint statement Said KRG independence referendum had to be approved by
KRG parliament Had been closed since 2015 KDP rejected idea
(Musings On Iraq What’s Next For Kurdistan After The Referendum?)
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2017 Hashd unit raided PUK Peshmerga HQ in Bartella Ninewa Took down Kurdish flag
2017 House with 90 people in it hit by airstrike in Mosul 88 trapped in rubble IS had used house 3-
4 days before 2 houses hit by rockets by ISF IS were in house next door
2018 IS released recording Said Sunnis should not vote Said would attack polling stations during election
2019 Integrity Commission found $64 mil for rebuilding in Mosul stolen by Ninewa
officials
(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)
2019 Report Iraq becoming more dependent upon Iranian electricity and natural gas
imports Had no alternatives
2019 Report Feb Ninewa official said all displaced had returned to Baaj dist Then said they
had all been displaced again Hashd blocked all returns Locals said 30 towns around Tal Afar had been abandoned over last 10 months due to IS attacks
2020 4 pro-Najaf Hashd brigades sent letter to Hashd Commission head Falah Fayad Said
they would now be under Commander in Chief Said had blessing of religious establishment
(Musings On Iraq Resigned PM Abdul Mahdi Doesn’t Accept Units Leaving Hashd Commission)
2021 Report Kataib Hezbollah and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq created new groups and posted them on
Telegram to carry out attacks upon US targets in Iraq Mar 2020-March 2021 26 new groups appeared Used Telegram and Sabereen News to publicize groups and attacks
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2021 PM Kazemi cancelled 1,128 projects Said any project with 0-35% completion rate or missed
deadlines would be stopped
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