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1920 All of Upper Euphrates modern day Anbar was under British control during 1920 Revolt
(Musings On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1964 Mullah Mustafa Barzani held Kurdish meeting Agreed Arif govt had done nothing so
Kurds had to create own autonomous zone
(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 People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan)
1980 Lack of progress in Iran invasion led Iraq to announce unilateral ceasefire only 2 weeks into war
Iran didn’t comply Iraq realized war would last a lot longer than planned
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1982 UN Res 522 called for ceasefire Iraq accepted Iran rejected
1982 Sec of State Shultz and Soviet For Min Gromyko met and agreed Iran-Iraq War should end as soon
as possible
(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 Hosni Mubarak said Iraq and Israel had secret meetings in 1987 and 1989 facilitated by US
academic Laurie Mylroie
1994 Iraq said it would not cooperate with UN inspectors if no assurance given that sanctions would
end
1997 PUK accused Turkey of arming KDP in return for help against PKK
1999 UN Res 1266 allowed Iraq to export $3.04 bil in oil under Oil for Food Program
2002 Unclassified version of CIA report on Iraq’s WMD released by White House Dropped most
reservations in original Said were disputes within intel community on Iraq’s nuke program Said most believed aluminum tubes were for centrifuges Others for rockets Were for rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq 2002 CIA White Paper On Iraq Vs the 2002-2003 U.N. Inspectors)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2002 CIA told NSC to remove reference to Iraq trying to buy uranium from Niger from Bush speech
2002 CIA’s National Intel Officer told Senate Intel Comm he questioned Iraq-Africa uranium story in
British dossier
(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)
2002 General in charge intel for US invasion met with DIA to go over suspected WMD sites DIA had no
plans on how sites were to be dealt with during invasion General couldn’t confirm there was WMD at any of the 946 sites listed by DIA because intel so bad
2002 UK Foreign Office legal adv Sir Wood said that U.N. needed to act on Iraq to give legal justification
for war otherwise British forces could be sued
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 Intel officials complained to press that White House pressured them on reports on Iraq
2002 Report Institute for Science and International Technology Lawrence Livermore Lab said didn’t
believe aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges Were for rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
2002 Report claimed White House ignored contradictory views on Iraq Pushed US intel to come up with
more on Iraq
2002 State Dep Future of Iraq Project met in London INC presented plan written by Kanan Makiya
calling for exiles to set up transitional govt
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review The Assassins’ Gate, America In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2002 Iraq ambassador to Russia sent note to Baghdad Pres Putin gave instructions to his Foreign Min
to oppose any UN resolutions authorizing force against Iraq
2003 Last day CPA paid ex-Iraqi soldiers turned into violent demonstrations in Baghdad and other cities
3 killed by US and British troops
2004 Car Bombs in Baghdad’s Green Zone and Mosul killed 21 Wounded 90
2004 CIA review found no connection between Saddam and Zarqawi as White House claimed
(Musings On Iraq review Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation)
2006 Report US military said Mahdi Army running death squads out of hospitals and Baghdad morgue
Murdered patients Used ambulances to move men weapons hostages around Sadr Health Min Shammari said he welcomed any investigation into his ministry
2006 US military said bomb attacks in Baghdad had reached all time high
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2006 Report British forces in south found no evidence of Iranian weapons crossing into Iraq
(Musings On Iraq A History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s Galen Wright)
2007 Fmr Integrity Comm head Judge Radhi testified to House Comm Said corruption had cost Iraq $18
bil over last 3 yrs $500 mil stolen from Oil Min by insurgents and militias and used to fund violence Couldn’t investigate Oil Min because of threats of violence Ministers could stop any investigations Said PM Maliki blocked investigations into top officials by demanding all cases be okayed by him first 31 members of Comm and 12 of Judge’s family members had been killed for their work
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Corruption)
2007 Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen testified to House Comm Said US wasn’t doing much
to help fight or investigate corruption in Iraq
(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)
2007 State Dept official told House Comm State had issued orders that none of its officials could publicly
criticize Maliki govt out of fear it would harm US-Iraq relations
2007 NatlSecAdv Rubaie told Pentagon officials PM Maliki opposed to Sahwa plan and wanted to control
them
(Musings On Iraq The Conspiratorial Mind of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki)
(Musings On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)
(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Update)
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2007 Report Def Sec Gates Joint Chiefs head Adm Mullen Dep Def Sec England Under Sec Of Intel Gen
Clapper all thought Iraq drain on US military and distracting from Afghanistan Adm Mullen said Iraq war might not improve Middle East
(Musings On Iraq review Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary At War)
2007 Report Izzat al-Duri announced Unification Congress of 22 insurgents groups leading to Supreme
Command for Jihad and Liberation Duri named its leader Said insurgents needed to be recognized as legitimate voice of Iraq Called for US withdrawal All soldiers to be returned to duty Duri’s Naqshibandi only major group listed in membership
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)
2008 Poland announced withdrawing its 900 troops that were stationed in Diwaniya by end of Oct Was
part of invasion force Lost 21 soldiers and 70 wounded
2008 Over 3000 Christian began fleeing Mosul after 11 killed in Sep
(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Bad Times For Iraq’s Christians)
2008 Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum announced they would start producing natural gas in KRG
2008 ISF forced Kurdish Toilers Party out of office in Jalawla Diyala Part of PM Maliki’s confrontation
with Kurds over disputed area
(Musings On Iraq Cold War Between Baghdad and Kurds Turns Hot)
(Musings On Iraq Maliki Still Pushing The Kurds On Khanaqin District)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2010 Report Govt docs showed Bush and Blair govt coordinated statements about Iraq US told UK
officials to remove anything from Sep 02 WMD dossier that might contradict US claims UK went through US white paper on Iraq UK included some claims about WMD because US said them
2010 Report Iraq 5 yr development plan had no strategy on how to implement it Ministries and
provinces didn’t talk about it
2012 Report Interior Min created Shiite Shabak militia in southern Ninewa Gov Nujafi said unit
unconstitutional
2012 Report KRG Natural Resource Min Hawrami said that KRG would build independent oil pipeline to
Turkey
2012 KDP said it would not allow draft constitution to be amended by KRG parliament
2013 KRG Natural Resource Min Hawrami said Dana Gas breached its agreement Owed damages as a
result Report KRG owed Dana $380-$390 mil for past work Did repairs on natural gas facility at Khor Mor in Jul but didn’t restart production because no contract for sales
2015 Govt workers at Sulaymaniya Court went on strike over not being paid
2017 Turkish Pres Erdogan and Iranian Pres Rouhani met Rouhani said Iran wouldn’t support
division of Iraq Said Kurds made wrong decision to hold independence referendum Erdogan said Kurdish vote was illegal Threatened to stop KRG oil exports
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)
2017 Central Bank of Iraq said it would ease financial restrictions imposed on Kurdistan day before over
independence referendum
2018 Agriculture Min said winter crop would be cut 55% due to water shortage
2018 Turkey’s parliament extended its military mandate to operate inside Iraq vs PKK for
another year
(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)
2019 People marched on Tahrir Square and bridge to Green Zone in Baghdad Were shot at by ISF 10 killed
Were clashes in Shaab Husseiniy Zafaraniya New Baghdad Shula Amil Sadr City in Baghdad More people killed in those districts Reports of snipers firing into crowds Reports of Hashd attacking protesters and raiding TV stations Crowds broken up in Basra Maysan Najaf by gunfire 3 killed by ISF in Nasiriya People were arrested when they tried to go to a hospital Govt building in Diwaniya stormed and 3 killed Protest in Muthanna
(Musings On Iraq Have Iraq’s Protests Reached A Tipping Point?)
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2019 Najaf governor and police chief accused saboteurs of infiltrating demonstrations and
causing violence to discredit them
2019 PM Abdul Mahdi said he would create a committee to carry out reforms and fight
corruption in response to protests
2019 Ayatollah Sistani used Friday sermon to condemn violence in protests and called on
parliament and courts to carry out reforms
2019 Sadr ordered his Sairoon bloc to boycott parliament called for prime minister to
resign Fmr PM Abadi also called for new elections
2020 Parliament’s finance committee said Kazemi govt had enough money to pay govt salaries
until end of yr Was 2 wks behind paying salaries Borrowed from Iraqi banks
2020 Report journalist/analyst Hisham al-Hashemi assassinated Jul Asaib Ahl Al-Haq or Kataib
Hezbollah likely culprits because he criticized them Received threats from Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Hashemi wrote about growing power of Hashd Had office that received intl grants to build hospitals bridges roads schools Collected $100,000/day from checkpoints around Baghdad Asaib Ahl Al-Haq got $30,000 day from checkpoint between Baghdad and Salahaddin Hashd got land in Ninewa and blocked Christians from returning there Shiite Endowment took 17 religious sites and shrines in Mosul backed by Hashd Controlled oil fields in Ninewa Smuggled 100 tanker/trucks a day from those fields Extorted money from restaurants Hashd trying to take more land in Ninewa
(Musings On Iraq Expansion of the Hashd al-Shaabi’s influence In Iraq, Interview With Clingendael’s Erwin van Veen)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2020 Activist in Najaf had house bombed
2020 Judicial Council said it got file from Abdul Mahdi govt on killing and kidnapping of
protesters Didn’t name any suspects
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