1916 British attacked Sannaiyat by Kut British suffered 1,168 casualties
1919 Iraq political officer Wilson sent Eastern Comm outline of constitution for Iraq Included rule by
UK high commissioner 5 provinces run by UK officials with Arab advisors Arab councils would be appointed Arabs could be hired into parts of bureaucracy
(Musings On Iraq review Britain In Iraq, Contriving King and Country)
(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)
(Musings On Iraq review U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq)
1922 Fatwa said Saudi Wahabi Ikhwan were brigands and people could fight them published in Iraqi
paper
1922 Shiite tribes mostly responded to fatwa against Wahabi Ikhwan Sunni ones thought Baghdad
should deal with Ikhwan
(Musings On Iraq review The Shi’is Of Iraq)
1939 Nuri al-Said became PM 3rd of 9 times
1941 British commander in Iraq asked for military reinforcements from Egypt but turned down
1941 Iraq banned British military from moving from Habaniya base Confiscated radios from British
Military Mission
(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1948 Port of Basra protest against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1963 Iraq Syria Egypt started talks about uniting three countries Nasser didn’t want to share power
with Baath so talks stalled
1968 Arif govt set up military mission in France Signed deal to buy 54 Mirage jets 46 Alouette
helicopters Was in response to defeat in 1967 Arab-Israeli War and inability to put down Kurdish revolt Iraqi Air Force cancelled deal complaining jets were too expensive and training would take too long
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1972 Soviet PM Kosygin visited Baghdad to sign strategic agreement with Bakr govt
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1973 Iraqi Hawker Hunter jets flown to Egypt Would be used in 1973 Arab-Israeli War
(Musings On Iraq Review Hawker Hunters At War, Iraq and Jordan , 1958-1967)
1974 Govt mobilized army reserves in preparation for new campaign against Barzani
1979 Israeli agents sabotaged Osirak nuclear reactor while it was in France waiting to be shipped to
Iraq
1980 Iraqi commandos fired rockets at Iranian oil field prelude to Iran-Iraq War
1984 Iran and Iraq announced end of 4th round of war of cities Iran-Iraq War
1984 Report UK firms sold agents to Iraq to make mustard gas and sarin
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
1985 UN Sec Gen deCuellar announced he would go to Baghdad and Tehran to try to negotiate end
to Iran-Iraq War
1987 Iran Op Karbala 8 started in Fish Lake Iraqi defensive line in front of Basra city Only gained 1
mile caused 2600 Iraqi casualties
(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 UNHCR est 750,000 Kurds fled to Iran and 280,000 to Turkey and 300,000 on Iraq-Turkey
border Aftermath of 1991 uprising
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1991 Baghdad accepted UN resolution 687 that said Iraq had to recognize Kuwait sovereignty and
destroy WMD and missiles
1996 At conference in New York UN inspectors deducted that Iraq had biological weapons facility
at Hakam, Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)
2003 Iraq Info Min Sahaf took journalists to see US tank destroyed in Baghdad Claimed US Thunder Run defeated
2003 US 3rd Inf Div attacked west Baghdad and seized bridges Iraqis counterattacked for
next 60 hrs 82nd Airborne cleared Samawa of Fedayeen Marines crossed Tigris moved on Kut and east Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2003 Iraq Def Min memo said Iraq was doing great in war Told staff not to exaggerate US capabilities
2003 Saddam met with aides in Baghdad Had Tariq Aziz read a letter Aziz thought it was a goodbye Said Saddam finally realized war was near end
2003 Saddam met with Qusay and Uday Defense min Chief of Staff of Quds Army Chief of
Staff of Republican Guard Chief of Staff of Fedayeen Saddam Told them Republican Guard needed to withdraw into Baghdad to defend city Guard was already destroyed
2003 British raid into Basra City led to overall attack to take city Looting began
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 8: The Invasion)
(Musings On Iraq review Burning Horizon, British Veteran Accounts Of The Iraq War 2003)
2003 US raided Salman Pak Claimed found foreign fighters there proving Iraq was connected to
terrorism Thousands of foreign fighters had come to Iraq to defend against a western invasion Weren’t terrorists
2003 Pentagon told ORHA about replacements for its staff Asked when they would arrive Said
hadn’t informed some of them yet
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)
2003 Pentagon flew Chalabi and his Free Iraqi Forces into Nasiriya Sec Def Rumsfeld wanted him
flown to Baghdad but Gen Franks said no
2004 CPA Order 71 was to decentralize power to local councils
2004 1/3 of Civil Defense Forces in Baghdad Iraqi police Civil Defense Forces in Fallujah and
police across south all AWOL Cmdr 2nd Iraqi National Guard Battalion fired along with all company commanders for mass desertion and dismissals day before
2004 Marine reinforcements arrived for Op Vigilant Resolve in Fallujah US forces attacked center of
city
(Musings On Iraq review First Fights In Fallujah, Marines During Operation Vigilante Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 12 Things Fall Apart Apr 2004)
2004 Marines on way to Fallujah ambushed in Ramadi 12 killed and 25 wounded Start of insurgent
attack upon city
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 Qusaiba Anbar entire police force defected to insurgency Began attacking US forces
2004 Mahdi Army attacked Coalition forces in Amara Nasiriya Kut Karbala Najaf Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Revolt On The Tigris, The Al-Sadr Uprising And The Governing Of Iraq)
2004 500 Japanese soldiers in Samawa Muthanna told to halt work and retreat to camp out of fear of
attacks by Mahdi Army
2004 Based upon Gen Taguba’s report US army handed down 6 reprimands and 2 relief of duties over
Abu Ghraib prison scandal
2004 Deputy to Bremer told White House Coalition was winning against Mahdi Army and its defeat
would lead other militias in Iraq to disarm and join the ISF
2004 Joint Sunni-Shiite march in Baghdad’s Adhamiya in support of Sadr and insurgents in Fallujah
2005 Talabani named president of Iraq, Mahdi and Yawar vice presidents in 1st post-03 Iraqi govt
2006 Court documents showed that VP Cheney told aide to leak intelligence on Iraq trying to buy
uranium from Niger to press to discredit Fmr Amb Wilson
(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)
2007 Op Black Eagle US and Polish forces fought Mahdi Army in Diwaniya
2007 Report ISF claimed control of Ghaziliya and Amiriya in Baghdad but not true Ghaziliya
surrounded by ISF for a week Split between Sunni area run by insurgents that imposed Islamic law and Shiite area run by Mahdi Army Khadra Baghdad surrounded by ISF Split between Sunni-Shiite areas ISF didn’t allow young men into district during day At night insurgents had free reign Amiriya under ISI control ISF raided area and claimed it was cleared because arrested few Clashes along border of Amiriya and Abu Saifan run by militias
(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2008 PM Maliki said Mahdi Army needed to be disbanded if Sadrists wanted to run in 2009
provincial elections
2008 PM Maliki deployed militias to checkpoints in Baghdad
2008 Green Zone and US base in south Baghdad hit by rockets by Mahdi Army Fighting continued in
Sadr City between Mahdi Army and US forces
(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)
2008 Report US military believed that Iran had advisers in Basra helping Mahdi Army during Charge
of Knights
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2008 69 sheikhs signed pact to support govt, rejected violence in effort by PM Maliki to
build up patronage amongst tribes
(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 Fmr UnderSecDef Feith interviewed on 60 Minutes Said US invaded Iraq to prevent next
terrorist attack after 9/11 Claimed Saddam’s record showed he was going to attack the US in the future Denied US invaded because Iraq imminent threat with its WMD Said didn’t think US should have based war on WMD Claimed Def Sec Rumsfeld predicted some of the major problems that would happen in Iraq Admitted US didn’t have enough forces to secure Iraq after invasion Denied he wrote deBaathification plan Claimed Iraq would have been better off if US had given power to INC’s Chalabi after invasion Blamed State CIA and Gen Franks for problems in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review War and Decision, Inside The Pentagon At The Dawn Of The War On Terrorism)
2009 PM Maliki had police raid 1st meeting of new Diyala council Had warrants for 6 members
accused of supporting insurgency US stopped arrests Came after Maliki’s State of Law not included in new provincial govt
(Musings On Iraq New And Old Provincial Councils in Diyala Embroiled In Controversy)
(Musings On Iraq Old And New Alliances Argue Over Control of Diyala Provincial Council)
(Musings On Iraq New Political Crackdown In Diyala)
2009 Report Gangs running child trafficking rings Police said 15 kids sold a day Said increased since
2005 Corrupt officials filled out paperwork for kids to leave country Many went to Europe and Mideast
2010 7 bombs in Baghdad destroyed 7 buildings and killed 35 over 100 wounded
2010 Dir of Central Organization for Statistics said 25% of Iraqis lived below poverty level
2011 Iraqi Assoc of Defending Journalists accused govt of cracking down on reporters trying to
cover protests
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Is The Most Dangerous Place In The World For Journalists)
2011 Gorran Islamic Union and Islamic Group said they wanted a transitional govt in Kurdistan
2011 Report Insurgents in Mosul ran legitimate businesses Extorted money from govt and businesses
Kidnapped for ransom Contractor said paid 10% of each contract to ISI Govt offices paid money to insurgents ISI charged money on trucking from Syria and Turkey
(Musings On Iraq Analyzing The Finances Of Al Qaeda In Iraq Interview With RAND’s Patrick Johnson)
2011 Report Integrity Comm still looking into purchase of fake bomb detectors Cost $25/ea Iraq paid
$40,000/ea Investigating $200 mil development plan in Sadr City Baghdad mayor said project would provide up to 100,000 jobs and another 50,000 afterward 1st phase was to build 82,000 housing units Commission said money couldn’t be accounted for
(Musings On Iraq Fake Bomb Detectors At Center Of Corruption Case At Iraq’s Interior Ministry)
(Musings On Iraq Possible Corruption In Iraq’s Sadr City Development Project)
(Musings On Iraq Conviction Of Fake Bomb Detector Maker In England Changes Nothing On The Ground 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)
2011 Labor Min said it would make 50% of foreign companies’ workforce Iraqis 25% unemployment
Unofficially 40%
2012 Proposed national conference to deal with protests and problems with PM Maliki didn’t happen
2012 ISF closed off Tahrir Sq to try to stop protests
2013 Suicide bomber attacked political rally for provincial vote in Baquba killed 22 wounded more
than 50
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2013 Court issued arrest warrant for Finance Min Rafi Issawi on corruption
2014 ISIS governor of Kirkuk and another leader killed fighting Ansar al-Sunna in Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq More Reports Of Insurgent In-Fighting In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)
(Musings On Iraq Infighting Between Iraq Insurgent Groups)
2014 ISIS closed Fallujah Dam causing flooding
2015 MP said Hashd were looting Tikrit after its liberation
(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 PM Abadi said 152 houses and shops burned in Tikrit but didn’t say by who
(Musings On Iraq Review Impossible Victory, How Iraq Defeated ISIS)
2015 3 Yazidi activists fled Kurdistan due to death threats from Kurdish officials Accused KDP
2016 Abadi’s nominee for Finance and Planning Minister Ali Allawi withdrew his name Said no
political consensus over changing cabinet
(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)
2016 Ruling parties said they would submit 3 candidates for new ministers to undermine PM Abadi’s
candidates
2016 Supreme Council criticized PM Abadi for trying to determine new cabinet by himself
(Musings On Iraq Complaints About Iraq PM Abadi Undermine His Cabinet Reshuffle)
2016 Hashd spokesman said Fallujah could be freed in 1 week Blamed foreign countries meaning
US and certain politicians of blocking op
2016 Report Sadrists joined protests in Baghdad and took them over Used them to pressure PM
Abadi Communists who were leaders in protests made alliance with Sadr Hoped to use Sadr’s numbers and power to push reforms
(Musings On Iraq Complaints About Iraq PM Abadi Undermine His Cabinet Reshuffle)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)
(Musings On Iraq Candidates For Iraq Cabinet Reshuffle Withdrawing)
(Musings On Iraq Interview Sadr-Communist Alliance And Iraq’s 2018 Elections Interview With Benedict Robin)
2017 Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights obtained army paper Hit Haditha Baghdadi Barwana
in Anbar told not to accept any new displaced from IS areas and told them to return to their homes Was partly due to lack of money and personnel for displaced
2018 Head of Azm district NE Diyala said IS rebuilding along Diyala-Salahadin border
(Musings On Iraq June 2018 Islamic State Rebuilding In Rural Areas Of Central Iraq)
2018 Human Rights Comm said candidates were paying displaced for their votes
2020 Pro-Iran groups fired rockets at oil camp in Basra
2020 Report Saudi-Russian price war led oil prices to drop to $20/barl Iraq could only pay
half its govt workers as a result Employees went from 1.2 mil in 2003 to 4 mil in 2020
2020 Report New Quds Force Cmdr Gen Qani came to Iraq to push Shiite parties to reject
PM candidate Adnan al-Zurfi and pick another Failed Ayatollah Sistani and Sadr refused to meet him 8 pro-Iran Hashd including Asaib Ahl Al-Haq and Al-Haq Hezbollah al-Nujaba issued statement rejecting Zurfi as a CIA candidate
2021 PM Kazemi said he wouldn’t run in 2021 vote Still wanted to be PM
2022 Report Virginia lawyer worked for Nechirvan Barzani Found 300 properties from Virginia to
Dubai owned by Barzani and associates 4 properties bought in Virginia worth $20 mil from trust associated with Barzani’s wife 2 more properties bought for $3 mil from trust for man that worked for Barzani Husband of Barzani’s aunt owned 288 apartments in building in Dubai worth over $100 mil Records show husband didn’t have enough money to buy that many properties
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