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1916 British attacked Shaikh Saad in campaign to relieve troops trapped at Kut Turned back
by Ottomans 600 British casualties
1920 Cpt Mann UK political officer in Shamiya said that Iraqis were angry that British had
not kept WWI promises of independence
1921 Foreign Min Lord Curzon told UK cabinet that French PM told him Faisal should not
be made king of Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)
1939 PM Said turned to pan-Arab Muthanna Club to push his govt program Said said he
would promote democracy freedom of press electoral reform allow opposition He did none of that
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
1948 Students in Baghdad protested against 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty Broken up by police
Start of Wathba/Great Leap
1963 Qasim govt announced it recognized the independence of Kuwait
(Musings On Iraq review Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam’s War)
1969 Bakr govt tried 13 Jews arrested on spy charges Were arrested in 1968 Defense lawyer
apologized for representing spies and hoped they would be punished
1981 Iran claimed it destroyed Iraq’s oil industry in Iran-Iraq War Was just damaged
1981 Iran launched diversionary attack in Mehran Iran central front before main operation
in south
(Musings On Iraq Remembering The Iran-Iraq War Interview With Author Anthony Tucker-Jones)
(Musings On Iraq The Iran-Iraq War Interview with Author Tom Cooper)
(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)
1983 Tariq Aziz went to Paris to renegotiate $5 bil debt Said wanted to buy 20 Super
Etendard jets and Exocet missiles Dassault pressured Pres Mitterand to rent the Etendards to Iraq Iraq also made deal to buy 24 Mirage fighters to be built in 2 years
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1993 Iraq deployed 20 anti-aircraft missiles batteries within the No Fly Zone to challenge
the West
1999 Iraqi opposition claimed Baghdad executed 100 dissidents in Nov 1998 who were
arrested during 91 uprising
2003 UK Foreign Pol Adv Manning told PM Blair US almost given up on inspections
because wanted immediate action against Iraq Manning warned that US was pushing for war as soon as possible
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.6 Development of UK Strategy and Options, November 2002 to January 2003)
2003 US Natl Intel Council report said building democracy in Iraq would be long and
difficult
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(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)
2004 Bin Laden said US war in Iraq attempt to control region’s oil and start of holy war in
Middle East
2004 Report Kirkuk councilman and member of Turkmen Front said Turkmen wanted to
work out differences with Kurds politically but if that didn’t work would use violence
2004 Report Gen Sanchez’s Iraq command working on plan to hand over security to ISF allowing
US withdrawal
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 12 Reconstructing Iraqi Security Forces)
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency,
Civil War, 2003-2006)
2005 Report US considered embedding US advisors within Iraqi units to speed their
development
2005 Insurgents assassinated Baghdad Governor Haidari
2007 Natl Sec Adv Hadley told Bush PM Maliki opposed to troop surge before video
conference between the two
2007 Bush told PM Maliki Surge happening and he had to publicly back it and could not
stop US ops PM Maliki wanted US to only go after insurgents while he continued to protect Sadr and Mahdi Army
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2007 Baathist leader Izzat al-Duri declared war on Sadr and Hakim
2007 Report New Pentagon program opened one closed state owned enterprise factory in
Dec Had plans to reopen 9 more by end of Jan Hoping they would create 11,000 jobs
2007 Report Intl Org for Migration recorded 40,000 Sunnis fled Baghdad to Anbar in 2006 to
escape civil war
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2008 Iraqi Red Crescent reported 45,913 refugees returned from Syria from Sep-Dec 07
Govt claimed 60,000 had returned because inflating numbers 38,736 went to Baghdad Around 10,000 displaced returned home from Nov-Dec 07 Returnees found it hard to find housing school health care
(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2008 Report bin Laden said those that joined the sahwa sold out their religion for money
(Musings On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)
2008 Report Lancet II report est 654,965 Iraqi deaths from 03-06 10 times higher than other ests Health Min
est 50,000 died 03-Jun 06 Iraq Body Count est 45,000 dead 1st Lancet est 100,000 excess deaths during 1st 19 months of war In Fallujah survey recorded 52 deaths in 29 households 71% of total deaths in report Extrapolated would mean 50-70,000 deaths in Fallujah by Sep 04 Was so high Fallujah was dropped from final results Lancet II recorded 302 deaths in 1849 households up to Jun 06 Customary for surveys to release work to show that it could be repeated and verified Lancet II didn’t VP of Natl Opinion Research Center said Lancet II didn’t use routine methods to prevent fraud Sample size might’ve been too small Lancet II visited 47 clusters each with 40 households UN did survey of 2200 clusters of 10 houses each Est 24,000 deaths Lancet II sample size small so each death accounted for 2000 deaths overall Might suffer from main street bias Go to main streets to do survey which have highest violence Lancet II said only 1.7% of households less than 50 total were unoccupied or didn’t want to participate Asked how 98% of households cooperated if only surveyed in 1 day and most men would be at work and women less likely to answer questions alone Lancet II claimed most deaths confirmed with death certificates Didn’t show any proof of certificates Didn’t record any info from certificates Under pressure Lancet II authors released some data Raised more questions 22 death certificates for violent deaths missing and all were in Ninewa Meant there were no other missing certificates for 180 deaths in 15 provinces 70 violent deaths didn’t mention certificates 1 author later said surveyors forgot to ask for certificates when claimed all deaths verified by them 1 Baghdad survey cluster reported 24 car bombs deaths in early July Iraq Body Count only recorded 1 car bomb during period that killed 60 Survey was supposed to end in Jun so shouldn’t have included any bombs in Jul Because small survey size those 24 deaths counted for 48,000 deaths in total 1 incident tripled total car bomb deaths to 76,000 Iraq Body Count only recorded 5,046 car bomb deaths from 03-Aug 06 Didn’t ask for certificates for 24 car bomb deaths Authors released Lancet I and II right before US elections to affect politics Iraq Body Count study of Lancet II est that if correct only 1/10 of deaths were being reported
(Musings On Iraq Comparing Surveys of Iraqi Deaths During The War)
(Musings On Iraq Major Flaws With The Lancet Reports On Iraqi Deaths Part I)
(Musings On Iraq Major Flaws With The Lancet Reports On Iraqi Deaths Part II)
(Musings On Iraq New Survey On Estimated Deaths In Iraq Refutes Lancet Reports)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mark Van Der Laan on Lancet Reports)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Michael Spagat on Lancet reports)
2009 Maliki govt took control of Diyala Sahwa Promised 33% jobs in ISF Higher than 20% promised to
Sahwa in Baghdad 2 Sahwa leaders had warrants out for them Maliki used carrot and stick approach to break them up and then co-opt them before 09 election
(Musings On Iraq Here Comes The Carrot For Diyala’s Sons Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
(Musings On Iraq Budget Problems Affecting Integration of Sons of Iraq)
2010 Chilcot Comm Gen Cross senior UK official at ORHA Said he was told not to commit
any money to postwar Iraq Claimed that was because PM Blair didn’t think London had any postwar policy
2011 Report Head of Integrity Comm said Iraq lost $1 bil in 2010 due to 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)
2012 3000 protested in Mosul Called for removal of PM Maliki 1000 protested in Kirkuk demanded release
of prisoners Demonstration in Tikrit Baquba Baghdad Maliki claimed protesters wanted to bring back Baathist rule and wanted to release terrorists Started after PM Maliki issued warrant for VP Hashemi
2012 MP from Kurdish Coalition said Kurds didn’t support PM Maliki calling for no confidence vote vs Dep
PM Mutlaq
2014 Report indiscriminate govt shelling of Fallujah caused hundreds to be displaced
(Musings On Iraq Counterproductive Tactics Of The Iraqi Security Forces)
(Musings On Iraq Human Cost Of Government Shelling And Air Strikes On Iraq’s Fallujah)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraq’s Fallujah Fell To The Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq Government Shelling Of Civilian Areas In Iraq Continues Despite Premier Abadi’s Pledge Not To)
2016 Hashd spokesman said it was not sending fighters to Syria Hezbollah al-Nujaba was recruiting
fighters for Syria Talked about its victories in Syria on its website
2016 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said PM Abadi worked with US to weaken the Hashd Said govt wasn’t paying
Hashd salaries due to US Abadi tried to keep Hashd out of Ramadi battle due to US
2017 Amnesty Intl Hashd not paid by govt July 2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq’s Khazlai claimed no media able
to accuse Hashd of killing innocent civilians Jan 2015 and Jul 2016 Ayatollah Sistani warned against attacks on civilians Sep PM Abadi said Iraqi forces that committed crimes would face justice Hashd had history of systemic abuses Hashd stopped displaced from returning Jan Diyala café bombed Hashd rampaged through town kidnapping and killing Sunnis Burned and destroyed mosques shops Drove police cars through town Told Sunnis to leave ISF did nothing Jan Hashd accused of killing 56 Sunnis in Baghdad Abadi ordered investigation Nothing happened May 12 displaced men from Sjar Anbar executed 73 other displaced disappeared Kataib Hezbollah blamed Jun large group of displaced in Anbar stopped by Hashd 1300 taken away 605 later released Were tortured and beaten Anbar investigations into two cases found 49 killed 643 disappeared Blamed Kataib Hezbollah Oct Ninewa Hashd detained and tortured men southeast of Mosul Villages south of Mosul said Hashd looted and destroyed homes Hashd arrested and tortured displaced Kataib Heabollah accused of abducting 2200 people at Anbar-Karbala checkpoint
(Musings On Iraq review A Stranger in Your Own City, Travels in the Middle East’s Long War)
(Musings On Iraq Missing 600 From Anbar’s Saqlawiya Finally Found Dead?)
(Musings On Iraq Crimes And Misdemeanors Of Kataib Hezbollah During War Vs ISIS Interview With Free Lance Journalist Jonathan Lee Krohn)
2017 Report UN said 1959 ISF died in Nov 2016 Joint Ops Command criticized figure UN said couldn’t
verify all its casualties Led to criticism by govt UN asked ministries for numbers None responded Abadi govt claimed inaccurate casualty figures helped IS Govt was trying to keep down casualty figures during war
2017 Report US advisers working with ISF inside Mosul
2017 Salahaddin govt said Hashd were stopping displaced from returning to Baiji Yathrib Suleiman Beq
Criticized PM Abadi and ISF for not doing anything
(Musings On Iraq 1/3 of Iraqi Voters Excluded From 2023 Elections Largely Due To Sectarian Cleansing)
2020 Report Iran’s Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleimani met with Iraqi allies in Baghdad Oct 2019
Told Abu Muhandis to increase Hashd attacks on US Wanted to divert attention away from protests that were attacking Iranian influence Wanted to provoke US retaliation that could be used for propaganda
2020 US led Coalition said that it would limit operations in Iraq and suspend training to
protect its forces from threats after the deaths of Gen Suleimani and Abu Muhandis
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2020 Report Asaib Ahl Al-Haq’s Al-Ahd TV called resistance media Promoted Shiite supremacy and
sectarianism Blamed Sunnis for death of Ali Claimed world supported Shiites Said Iraqi state was illegitimate for being corrupt and incompetent Said Iran had better model for govt Rejected West Threatened people who criticized Asaib Ahl Al-Haq
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2020 Najaf activist wounded in assassination attempt Man killed after leaving protest site in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2020 Baghdad’s Green Zone and 1 other neighborhood and Balad air base in Salahaddin hit by
rockets fired by pro-Iran groups
2021 Report Parliamentary comm said $239 bil sent out of Iraq illegally since 2003
2021 Report Half the ISF in Diyala ghost employees Officers got half the salaries in return for
letting them stay on leave Defense Min replaced 2 high ranking commanders in NEDiyala
2021 Report Pro-Iran Hashd changed tactics in 2020 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Kataib Hezbollah Harakt al-
Nujaba stopped taking public credit for attacks on US in Iraq 9 new groups announced who said carried out attacks
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi and Hezbollah al-Nujaba)
2021 Report Kazemi govt couldn’t pay govt salaries for months in 2020 Govt salaries and pensions were
around $5 bil/mo Govt workers tripled since 2004 Around 40% of workforce employed by govt Used for political patronage Couldn’t provide jobs for 700,000 people who entered workforce each year Dec devalued diner which increased prices because Iraq relied upon imports Dec Iran cut electricity and natural gas supplies to Iraq that led to power shortages Couldn’t pay bills because of US sanctions on Iran Iraq going through foreign reserves to pay bills IMF predicted that Iraqi economy would shrink -11% in 2020
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