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1913 Secret Al-Ahd Association of Ottoman officers formed Included many Iraqis that would
become leaders and prime ministers under monarchy such as Nuri al-Said Yasin Hashemi Jamil Midfai and others Called for Arab autonomy
1914 Gen Delamain cmdr UK 6th Div in India made plans to seize Faw in Basra
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In World War I, From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest)
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1918 British defeated Turks at Shirqat
1933 PM Gaylani resigned to maintain unity of Patriotic Brotherhood Party which was split by
personal rivalries between ministers vying for power Gaylani also wanted parliament dissolved King Ghazi said no
1934 King Ghazi addressed Iraq Said he would hear people’s complaints and requests each week
1936 Chief of staff Gen Latif gave letter from him and Gen Sidqi asking PM Hashemi to resign
to Hikmat Sulaiman to pass along to King Ghazi
1952 Opposition United Popular Front National Democratic Party Independent Party sent
petition to Regent Demanded he stay out of politics Give political freedoms Start direct elections
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
1952 Royal palace said reforms necessary Regent said he would accept advice on matter
1980 Major fighting ended in Khorramshahr with Iraqis in control Iraq lost 2,000 dead 6,000
wounded Iran lost 1,500 dead Heavy losses meant Iraq gave up assault on Abadan to secure eastern shore of Shatt al-Arab and decided to surround city instead City was supposed to be taken in 1st wk of war Took 1 month
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1980 Iranian navy made raids on Faw oil facilities in Basra
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq Naval War, Volume 1: Opening Blows September-November 1980)
1987 Soviet diplomat Vorontsov made another trip to Iran and Iraq to try to negotiate end to 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)
1997 Iraq National Assembly said inspections should be stopped until deadline given to end
sanctions Saddam said Iraq would cooperate with inspections if they respected Iraqi sovereignty
(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)
2001 Columnist George Will told ABC that Saddam vowed revenge against US Had anthrax
Loved WMD Had terrorist training camps including practicing taking over airplanes Last claim came from INC defectors and false Said 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi diplomat Never happened
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld met with Gen Franks Joint chiefs head Gen Pace Under Sec Def
Feith to discuss how to define victory in Iraq Rumsfeld wanted to make sure US said Iraqis would take lead in creating their own govt and institutions Talked about postwar Saddam state Said Gen Franks would be in charge of Iraq right after invasion which meant CENTCOM had to work with White House on postwar plans
2003 Bush speech said Iraq frontline of war on terror and would take time to win
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Gen Pace said US had to return
sovereignty as soon as possible and get Iraqis to run things
2003 Sec State Powell said security number one priority in postwar Iraq otherwise nothing else
would matter
2003 Bremer met with NSC Bremer wanted constitution and elections by end of 05 Pentagon
wanted quick transfer of sovereignty Bremer later admitted his timeline was too long for White House
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
2003 CENTCOM head Gen Abizaid briefed Joint Chiefs Said insurgency made up of 4000
former regime members 2000 from Ansar al-Islam Unknown number of foreign fighters Intel officer in Iraq thought those numbers undercount
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 9 Down The Spider Hole, October-December 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2005 Bush speech said Iraq central front in war on terror against Al Qaeda and US would have
complete victory US strategy was for withdrawal not winning
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(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 What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The Strongest Tribe, War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq)
2005 VP Cheney chief of staff Libby indicted on obstruction perjury false statements for
retaliating vs FmrAmb Wilson over Iraq-Niger deal
(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)
2006 PM Maliki-Bush talked 50 min to overcome rift after Maliki objected to Amb Khalilzad’s
benchmarks for Maliki govt Agreed to create committee to speed up training of ISF and turning over security to Iraqis
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2006 ISI launched first chlorine bomb
2006 Spec Insp Gen for Iraq Recon report US hadn’t trained enough Def and Interior Min
personnel to handle logistics Didn’t think ISF would be ready to handle own logistics by Jan 08 deadline it set
2006 During UK Op Sinbad Iraqi 10th Division only contributed two dozen soldiers PM Maliki
opposed operation
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 22 – The Failed Transition)
2007 Report Interior Min refused to train senior officers at Habaniya Police Center aimed at
incorporating Awakening into ISF US pushed govt to hire 6,000 Diyala Sahwa into ISF but Interior Min refused Interior Min did hire 548 that were mostly Shiites Interior Min sent 663 Shiite police to Tal Afar Ninewa police chief said that disrupted effort to have more balanced provincial police force Anbar proposed 9,000 Awakening be hired into police Interior Min okayed 5,000
(Musings On Iraq Diyala Province Backgrounder)
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2007 US commander northern Iraq Gen Mixon complained PM Maliki agreed to hire 6,000
Diyala Sahwa into police in April 07 but never happened
2008 Report PM Maliki tried to set up Tribal Support Council in Khanaqin Diyala Maliki tried to
assert federal control over district run by Kurds for months Maliki also just said he was closing all councils
(Musings On Iraq Maliki Still Pushing The Kurds On Khanaqin District)
(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)
(Musings On Iraq Disputes Over Tribal Support Councils)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2008 Last Polish troops withdrew from Iraq Were stationed in Diwaniya 1st deployed troops
during 2003 invasion
2008 US general in charge of Mosul said Maliki govt’s reconstruction plan after Op Mother of
Two Springs was a failure
2008 Report Iraq’s bureaucracy lacked skilled workers Didn’t have procurement budgeting
contracting expertise Many skilled workers left due to war Baghdad counted money allocated but not spent as spent in budget
2008 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Odierno said Iran might have bribed Iraqi parliamentarians to
vote against US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
2008 Report Dec 07 US okayed Turkish attack on PKK in KRG
2010 Reuters survey of oil experts predicted Iraq would reach 2.5 mil/bar/day in production by
2011 Predicted 4.6 mil/bar/day by 2015 Security and lack of infrastructure hindered production Oil Min Shahristani predicted 4 mil/bar/day by 2013 Oil Min said it would reach 12 mil/bar/day by 2017 after signed oil contracts in 09
2010 Kurdish politician Othman said Kurdish Coalition came out for 2nd term for PM Maliki
Held talks with Iraqiya to form national unity govt Iraqiya still rejected Maliki
2011 2 protests shut down highways in Anbar against firing of govt workers over Baathist pasts 3
protests in Salahaddin to support provincial govt push to make it a region
2013 Sadr said PM Maliki was backing Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Told followers not to clash with group
Two fought in Baghdad 1 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq member killed Sadrist families were forced out afterward and had homes blown up Asaib Ahl Al-Haq filed lawsuit against 17 Sadrists Sadr asked Asaib Ahl Al-Haq members to return to his movement
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2013 Report ISF security ops alienated people and pushed them towards insurgents Think
tank analyst said Iraq had no strategy to deal with insurgency Risk analyst said Iraq using short term tactics without long term view
2013 Report ISI was trying to co-opt Sunni protests Believed to have assassinated 4 leaders in
Mosul Protests stalled after provincial elections Oct ISI gunmen showed up at Ramadi protest site Anbar protests tried to counter ISI by starting talks with Maliki govt Protests divided
2014 Parliament’s integrity comm said Displaced Comm run by Dep PM Mutlaq was stealing
money Said wasn’t providing aid or services to displaced
2014 Report KRG upgraded oil pipeline to Turkey Was exporting 290,000 bar/day Natural
Resource Min said wanted to reach 1 mil/bar/day by 2015 KRG was connecting two Kirkuk fields it seized after fall of Mosul to its pipeline
2014 Report Quds Force Gen Suelimani and 200 Iranian soldiers went to Salahaddin to help with
ops to retake Baiji and Tikrit Went with Badr’s Amiri
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2015 Report Up to $500 bil ½ of Iraq’s revenue from 2006-14 went missing under PM Maliki
Fmr Def Min Shalan Fmr Trade Min Sudani Fmr Electricity Min Samarrie all charged with corruption
(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)
2015 Report Dawa split between pro-West faction of PM Abadi and pro-Iran group of VP Maliki
His bloc withdrew support for Abadi over appointment of cabinet secretary Abadi called Maliki “leader of necessity” like Saddam Said he bought votes
2015 Report 2750 guards for president and vice presidents 21000 guards for parliament and
ministers Each MP had 20 guards and 5 armored vehicles
2015 PM Abadi said Iraq had 40 trl dinars from oil sales Wasn’t enough to cover 50 tril dinars
needed for salaries and pensions Called for cutting govt workers and pensions
2016 KRG PM Barzani replaced 4 Gorran ministers with 4 KDP politicians in dispute over Pres
Barzani’s term
2018 Report Corruption in shipping and loading depts customs officers ISF and staff at
border crossings
2018 Report May Abdul Mahdi posted on Facebook that he didn’t want to be PM Said
politics were toxic making it impossible to govern Then he became PM Parliament approved 14 of his 22 ministers MPs weren’t given time to go over nominees Gave out one sheet resumes of each
2019 Parliament voted to dissolve provincial district and local councils and allow governors
to run governorates Not enforced
2019 5 protesters killed in Baghdad by ISF Total of 74 killed in Iraq so far Curfew in
Baghdad ignored Basra city Zubayr West Qurna protests in Basra MPs house in Dhi Qar attacked Protests in Nasiriya Shatra Gharraf in Dhi Qar Protest in Maysan Sit ins continued in Samawa and Rumaitha in Muthanna Sit in started in Najaf but broken up by police March in Diwaniya Student strike spread from Baghdad to Karbala Qadisiya Muthanna
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Protests Get Huge Boost As Students And Professional Groups Join In)
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2019 Solidarity protests in Kirkuk Tikrit Baquba
2019 Karbala sit in site attacked by security forces Arrested people Took down tents Shot
into crowd Killed 35 Wounded around 800
(Musings On Iraq Massacre Of Karbala Protesters As Talk Begins Of PM Abdul Mahdi Resigning)
2019 Bar Ass Engineers Assoc Teachers Union secondary and university students in Babil
Basra Dhi Qar Karbala Maysan Muthanna Qadisiya Wasit joined protests
2019 Councilmen in Najaf Dhi Qar Diyala resigned to support protests
2019 Sadr called for early elections to replace PM Abdul Mahdi
2019 Parliament said it would create committee to amend constitution in 4 months to
appeal to protests Didn’t happen
2019 Baghdad activist kidnapped and disappeared
2020 Protests in Baghdad Dhi Qar Muthanna Diwaniya Basra over killed demonstrators and
demanding early elections reforms and against corruption
2021 KRG PM Barzani said Baghdad owed it $3.1 bil from budget Said it was illegal for
Baghdad to cut off payments in 2020 KRG was cut off for not meeting oil export quota in budget PM Kazemi sent money anyway to get Kurdish support
2022 Report Sadr won 73 of 329 seats in parliament in 2021 election Wanted majority govt
Jun Sadr ordered MPs to resign Jul stormed and occupied parliament Aug occupied parliament again Sadr challenged idea about Shiite controlled state as he was going to exclude most of the Shiite parties Sadr played upon instability before to achieve his goals where he caused crisis to undermine opponents Sadr hoped KDP and Sunni list would resign with him but didn’t Instead KDP and Sunnis talked with Coordination Framework Sadr pushed reforms to mobilize his base Sadr convinced many he was protest leader which helped him win election After 2018 vote expanded control of state but didn’t help his base High unemployment amongst Sadrists despite control of state and expansion of govt workers meant jobs didn’t keep pace with population growth
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