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1916 Battle of Sannaiyat by Kut British attacked Ottomans Took Hanna and Fallahiya British had
1,885 casualties
1939 King Faisal II made king Ilah made Regent Asked Nuri al-Said to become PM again for 3rd time
(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)
(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 review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
(Musings On Iraq review ‘Independent Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
1955 UK joined Iraq-Turkey agreement that became anti-Communist Baghdad Pact PM Said didn’t
inform parliament
1965 Arif govt launched military offensive against Kurds
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70)
1980 Saddam gave speech saying conflict with Iran was about Arabs vs Persians and denounced
Khomeini
1980 Funeral of those killed in Mustansiriya bombing hit by a bomb Both done by Islamic Action
Organization Iran again blamed
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1984 Reagan issued NSDD 139 that US would help Iraq in Iran-Iraq War
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
1985 Iranian delegation to Soviet Union said that Tehran would only accept complete Iraqi surrender
to end 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 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 said it would destroy its WMD if Israel did the same and signed 1968 nuclear non-
proliferation treaty
(Musings On Iraq Why Did Saddam Threaten Israel Before The 1990 Invasion of Kuwait?)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)
1990 Saddam told Saudi Amb to US Bandar that his threat to destroy to destroy Israel was being
misconstrued Told Bandar to re-assure US and Saudis that Iraq would not attack Israel Wanted US assurance that Israel would not attack Iraq Said that if Israel attacked Iraq people would rise up against him
1991 Saddam declared that Kurdish and Shiite rebellions were crushed following Gulf War
(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)
(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)
1991 Saddam article on 91 uprising Said south Shiites from marshes were isolated backwards
unable to integrate into Iraq Said Kurds were the same Said southern Shiites were criminal deviants If they ever came into power would destroy Iraq
1991 Bush authorized airdrops of supplies to Kurds
1991 UN Resolution 688 condemned Saddam’s repression of its civilian population
1991 Some displaced Kurds began leaving mountains after govt appealed to them while Turkey let
80,000 into country
1992 Iran bombed Mujahadeen e-Khalq base in Iraq
2002 PM Blair gave TV interview saying Saddam needed to go
2002 PM Blair and Bush met and talked about using UN inspections to pressure Saddam
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.2 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, January to April 2002 – “Axis of Evil” to Crawford)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 US 3rd Inf Div launched Thunder Run into Baghdad Immediately ran into trouble when tank knocked out Were other stops as vehicles hit and casualties taken Afterward unit did not want to go back into Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq Review Cobra II, The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2003 Republican Guard Hammurabi Adnan Baghdad div and special Forces and Special Republican Guard attacked Baghdad Airport Suffered heavy losses Defeat led to mass desertions
2003 US air strike in Basra attempted to kill Chemical Ali Missed Killed 17 civilians Most in Basra
believed Ali died
2003 National Intel Comm memo said docs claiming Iraq-Niger uranium purchase were fakes and
2002 report on deal was not credible
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 Sec State Powell said he was sure Iraq’s WMD would be found
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2003 DIA task force said Baathists made plans for an insurgency with help of jihadists Would later
prove false
(Musings On Iraq Did Saddam Plan The Insurgency In Iraq?)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2004 Marines tried to cordon off as much of Fallujah as possible at start of Op Vigilant Resolve
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 12 Things Fall Apart Apr 2004)
(Musings On Iraq review No True Glory, A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah)
2004 2nd Iraqi National Guard Battalion sent to Fallujah Attacked in traffic on trip there 28 deserted
When got to base more said they refused to fight and dismissed Total 106 of 695 soldiers deserted and 104 dismissed
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 Mahdi Army occupied Basra governor’s office
2004 Spanish cmdr Gen Coll started talks with Sadr Appointed Badr commander governor of Najaf
Bremer ordered stop to Coll’s moves
2004 Bremer called Sadr an outlaw and promised to put down his revolt
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2004 CPA announced Iraqi judge issued arrest warrant for Sadr for murder of Khoei
2004 CPA official Kosnett Spanish cmdr Gen Coll Multi-national division cmdr Gen Bieniek pushed
for political solution to Sadr uprising
2004 Bremer met with Iraqi Governing Council It did not want to confront Sadr Justice Min wanted
to give concessions Def Min Allawi wanted to fight insurgents and leave Sadr alone Some said Sadr just wanted positions in govt but Bremer opposed
2004 Zarqawi recording released calling for more attacks upon US led Coalition and Shiites
(Musings On Iraq The Rise And Rebirth Of The Islamic State Interview With Author Michael Weiss)
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
(Musings On Iraq review Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation)
2004 Bremer referred INC officials to criminal court for illegally recycling old dinars that were
supposed to be destroyed Attempting to obtain state property via Finance Min and sell it Kidnapping and attacking rivals
(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)
2006 Iraqi parties chose Maliki to be new PM over keeping PM Jaafari
2007 Islamic Army condemned ISI for imposing Islamic law and attacking other insurgent groups
Also attacking civilians and stealing women Forced women to cover themselves Banned satellite TV
(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)
2007 Al Qaeda told Ansar al-Sunna that its complaints about ISI were unbelievable and it was still
under Al Qaeda’s leadership
2007 Pentagon Insp Gen report on fmr Dep Undersec of Def Feith’s Counterterrorism Task Force
Feith’s office claimed active Iraq-Al Qaeda ties CIA and DIA found none Insp Gen said Feith’s work inappropriate Said postwar interviews found no Iraq-Al Qaeda relationship
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2008 Meeting of ruling parties decided to back PM Maliki in Charge of Knights and criticized Sadr
2008 PM Maliki called on all political parties to disband their militias or they might get banned from
politics
2008 ISF and US forces cordoned off Sadr City as fighting continued between Mahdi Army and US
(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)
2008 Iran’s Gen Suleimani met Pres Talabani and promised to stop arming militias Said Sadr was
uncontrollable Iran had armed Mahdi Army throughout Charge of Knights
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2008 British sent military trainers to Basra to help ISF during Charge of Knights op against Mahdi
Army
2008 Fmr Under Sec of Def Doug Feith claimed US invasion of Iraq prevented next terrorist attack
on US
2009 Basra Gov Waeli escaped IED probably done by Special Groups or Mahdi Army
2010 World Bank gave $250 mil loan to Iraq to help with budget
2010 UNAMI held meeting between Hadbaa and Kurdish Alliance in Ninewa to try to repair relations
(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
2011 Speaker Nujafi said parliament would work with provinces to deal with detainees in response to
protests
2011 PM Maliki said ministries could reform in 100 days to respond to protests Didn’t happen
2011 Govt talks with 5 insurgent groups broke down
2011 Islamic Union and Islamic Group in KRG called for govt to step down and interim one formed
to carry out reforms due to protests
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2012 Report US Amb Jeffrey met with PM Maliki 9 times since start of year to try to mediate
Baghdad vs Irbil argument
2012 New KRG cabinet under Premier Nechirvan Barzani sworn in Opposition boycotted ceremony
2012 Pres Barzani said Iraq could become a dictatorship again due to PM Maliki
(Musings On Iraq How The No Confidence Move Against Iraq’s Premier Split The Kurdish Parties)
(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Prime Minister Becoming A Dictator? An Interview With Kirk Sowell Of Inside 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)
2012 Report Shell was considered signing oil deal with KRG but backed out after decided to focus on
Basra Major oil companies more interested in KRG due to problems with Baghdad including red tape infrastructure bottlenecks
(Musings On Iraq Will Shell Take The Leap Into Iraq’s Kurdistan?)
2013 Iran delivered bodies of Iraqi militiamen killed fighting for it in Syria
(Musings On Iraq The Increasing Flow Of Iraqi Fighters To Syria, An Interview With University Of Maryland’s Phillip Smyth)
2013 National Alliance delegation went to KRG to try to end Kurds boycott of govt over budget
(Musings On Iraq What’s To Gain From the Kurdish Alliance’s Boycott Of Iraq’s Government?)
2013 PM Maliki said he was open to better ties with Turkey which US had been pushing
2013 Iraq threatened legal action against Turkey for oil deals with Kurdistan
2013 1st shipment of Kurdish oil sold on international market
2013 PM Maliki said he would form a majority govt and not follow sectarian quotas anymore
(Musings On Iraq Interview A Look At Iraq’s 2014 Election Interview With Reidar Visser)
2014 25 families fled Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil as ISIS moved into area from Anbar
(Musings On Iraq Deteriorating Security In Northern Babil Province Iraq)
2014 Sadrists began campaign for national elections calling for majority govt and end to sectarian
quotas
2015 Tribes claimed 400 buildings burned in Tikrit after liberation Human Rights Watch found
evidence of 75 houses destroyed in Qadisiya neighborhood of Tikrit since it was freed
(Musings On Iraq Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit)
(Musings On Iraq Human Rights Watch Finds Iraq Government Forces Destroyed Tikrit Area After Its Recapture)
2015 Iraqi military spokesman said some Hashd took part in looting in Tikrit Said they were
undermining the victory
2015 Speaker Jabouri said there was looting in Tikrit Sadr called for end of looting in Tikrit
2015 KDP arrested Haider Sesho in Sinjar for forming his own militia and siding with Baghdad
2015 President and VPs said that tribes in Anbar and Ninewa should be armed to fight IS
2016 Supreme Council said Abadi’s technocratic cabinet was not serious move
(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)
(Musings On Iraq Complaints About Iraq PM Abadi Undermine His Cabinet Reshuffle)
2016 Sadrists complained ruling parties not supporting reforms even though public had called for them
via protests
(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)
2016 Report Kurdish official said security deteriorating in Tuz Kharmato due to Turkmen Hashd
killings and kidnappings
2017 Iraqi air force dropped leaflets over west Mosul again telling civilians to stay in their homes
during battle to free city
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 170-171, Apr 4-5, 2017)
2017 Head of Ninewa Ops Command said Iraqis using fewer airstrikes in west Mosul due to civilian
casualties
2017 Civil Defense officer said 278 bodies had been taken from building hit by US air strike in west
Mosul Spokesman for Golden Div said only 61 bodies had been recovered Defense Min claimed air strike not responsible
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 172-173, Apr 6-7, 2017)
2017 Report Hashd loyal to Ayatollah Sistani told to do social work Removing mines leftover from Iran-Iraq War tutoring students rebuilding school Helped rebuild Tikrit Univ Hashd leader Abu Muhandis tried to cut off pay to 1 of them Al Abbas Div for not following his orders
2018 Comm to Protect Journalists said 15 reporters assaulted 7 arrested for covering protests in KRG
2018 Pres Masum asked Turkey to withdrew its forces from Iraq Didn’t happen
2020 Report Nov 2018 US sanctioned Mohammed Abd al-Hadi Farhat of Lebanon Accused
of advising Hashd for Hezbollah Worked with Iranian Rev Guards Involved in money laundering for Iran in Iraq
2020 Female activist assassinated insider her house in Dhi Qar Came after 2 days of clashes
between protests and ISF that killed 3 protesters
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2022 Report Jan 2022 Oil Min officials talked about increasing oil exports to 3.7 mil/bar/day by end
of yr Delays in infrastructure projects meant officials now only talking about increasing exports by 200,000 bar/day
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