1920 British cabinet decided Iraqi oil would be developed by a public company Foreign Secretary Curzon
overturned decision
(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
1920 UK Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon decided Turkish Petroleum Company would keep its oil
rights in Iraq signed with Ottomans
(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)
1923 Foreign Min Lord Curzon denied that oil had anything to do with UK wanting Mosul vilayet
to be part of Iraq Main reason was oil
1948 More protests against Anglo-Iraq Treaty leading to fights between Communist and
Independence party Part of Wathba/Great Leap
(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
(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)
1970 33 conspirators in coup against Pres Bakr executed
1986 Iraq carried out air raid on Kharg Island Iran’s main oil terminal
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1987 Ali Khamenei said Iran would not negotiate with Iraq as long as Saddam in power
(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)
1991 Iraq dumped 400 mil gallons of oil into Persian Gulf to try to prevent US retaking Kuwait
1991 Bush said air strikes would destroy Iraq’s nuclear program
1991 Coalition decided air campaign had to focus on Iraqi air shelters and destroy Iraqi air force
1991 1 Al-Hussein missile fired at Israel 4 at Saudi Arabia
1999 NSC counterterrorism dir Clarke said US was right to bomb factory in Sudan because
connected to Al Qaeda and Iraq WMD experts
2003 Iraq Defense Ministry ordered that if Baghdad were to fall all govt buildings were to be looted
and burned
2003 Mukhabarat document called for looting and destruction of property if Saddam were
overthrown
2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice wrote NY Times OpEd Iraq hiding its WMD programs from UN inspectors and
tried to buy uranium for its nuke program Reference to Iraq-Niger deal Didn’t happen
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said that Iraq had WMD and ties to terrorism were one threat
2003 Under Sec Def Wolfowitz said Iraq had WMD and time running out for it Said Iraq
didn’t make truthful weapons declaration Iraqi defectors said Iraq had mobile WMD labs Didn’t exist Said Iraqi govt threatening scientists not to talk to UN inspectors
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
2003 White House released document saying Iraq hiding its WMD and tried to buy uranium for its
nuke program Reference to Iraq-Niger deal Didn’t happen
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(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)
2004 Iraq Survey Group head Kay resigned saying didn’t think Iraq had any WMD stocks or large
programs since 1980s Said Iraq destroyed its WMD after Gulf War due to inspections and unilateral actions Kay resigned because group was going to be diverted from finding WMD to fighting insurgency
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
2004 In response to Iraq Survey Group head Kay resigning and saying there were no WMD White
House said it believed Iraq had WMD and it would be found
2005 Zarqawi called candidates in Jan 05 election demi-idols Said those who voted were
apostates and could be killed Claimed elections US plot to empower Shiites
(Musings On Iraq U.S. Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 15 – Transformation IN A Time Of War, January-April 2005)
2006 Report Iraqis going to Jordan jumped from 200-250/day from 2004-05 to 1,100/day in Jan 06
as people were fleeing violence
2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq bombed Sheikh Kharbite’s house in Ramadi of Albu Khalifa tribe and
member of Anbar security council
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2007 Bush State of Union outlined the Surge
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq Inside The Surge An Interview With Prof Peter Mansoor Former Executive Officer To Gen Petraeus)
(Musings On Iraq Reassessing The US Surge, And Recognizing Iraqi Agency In Ending The 2005-2008 Civil War In Iraq An Interview With New America Foundation’s Douglas Ollivant)
2007 US colonel said mortar rounds and mines with Iranian markings from 2006 were found
in Diyala
(Musings On Iraq A History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s Galen Wright)
2008 ISF Ninewa campaign began to secure Mosul
2008 20,000 pound bomb went off in Mosul Killed 15 wounded 132
2009 Report Lots of stories of parties trying to buy votes by handing out food gifts etc
2010 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq kidnapped US contractor Issa Salomi which it swapped for 4 of its
members held in prison
(Musings On Iraq More Information On League Of The Righteous Kidnapping Of American Contractor)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2010 Report Diyala Sahwa told to abandon posts by commanders due to Maliki govt crackdown
Sahwa sheikh claimed 425 Sahwa and 25 senior leaders had been arrested by govt on charges they belonged to ISI
(Musings On Iraq More Sons of Iraq Integrated While Others Walk Off The Job In Diyala)
(Musings On Iraq Government Tries To Disarm Diyala Sons of Iraq)
2011 Report found prison at Camp Honor Baghdad Prisoners held incommunicado No lawyers
Torture Facility was under direct command of PM Maliki
(Musings On Iraq New Complaints About Iraqi Prison Abuse)
2013 Report After 08 PM Maliki presented himself as Iraqi nationalist Tried to appeal to Sunni voters by
confronting Kurds over disputed areas Lost that when went after Finance Min Issawi Turned to more explicitly Shiite agenda
2013 Report Iraq tried to improve oil contracts to become more competitive Iraq often had long delays in
loading oil tankers 1 buyer said Iraq didn’t make enough concessions Basra Light oil was more expensive than Saudi oil
2015 Hashd destroyed four mosques in Muqdadiya Diyala after operation there
(Musings On Iraq review A Stranger in Your Own City, Travels in the Middle East’s Long War)
2017 Report Head of South Gas Company said wanted to triple exports of liquified petroleum gas
(LGP) and double export of gas condensates LGP exports supposed to go from 30,000 tons to 100,000 tons in 2017 Gas condensates from 200,000 cubic meters to 400,000 cubic meters Iraq started exporting gas liquids in 2016 Most gas still flared
2017 Report PM Abadi ordered investigation into ISF and Hashd for kidnapping and abusing
civilians during Mosul campaign Al Jazeera showed video of police executing 3 men Amnesty Intl said Hashd carried out systemic abuse Nothing happened
2019 Report Head of Abu Saida dist central Diyala said most villages in south part of dist
under IS control Said ISF constantly targeted Said 4 villages used as IS bases Diyala police chief denied story
(Musings On Iraq The Islamic State’s Failed Comeback In Iraq)
2019 Report Supreme Court ruled articles of Iraqi National Oil Company law unconstitutional
Cabinet would have to amend bill
2020 Iraq ranked 17th most corrupt country in Transparency International’s annual
Corruption Perceptions Index Year before was ranked 18th most corrupt
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Continues To Rank In Bottom Of International Corruption Index)
(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)
2020 Gunmen did drive by shooting targeting Basra city protest site
2020 Amnesty Intl ISF resumed deadly attacks on protesters Started Jan 20 when 10 killed in
Baghdad Basra Karbala Diyala Jan 21 3 killed in Baghdad Jan 22 2 more killed in Basra Jan 21-22 ISF tried to break up Basra protests
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2021 New militia group Alwiya Alwaad Al-Haq took responsibility for drone attack upon Riyad,
Saudi Arabia
(Musings On Iraq Pro-Iran Hashd Becoming A Regional Force For Tehran)
2023 PM Sudani fired head of Central Bank of Iraq over devaluation of dinar Scapegoated because dinar
pegged to dollar which was increasing due to Fed Reserve raising interest rates to fight inflation in US
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Suffers As Dollar Increases In Value)
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