1935 Tribes seized Suq al-Shuyukh and cut railway between Basra and Nasiriya during revolt
against govt
1941 German major arrived in Baghdad to lead Brandenburgers Commandorecon along with
squadron of bombers and squadron of fighters Met with PM Gaylani Decided priority blocking Transjordan force from reaching Habaniya base Was too late to do that
(Musings On Iraq interview World War II In Iraq and Syria Interview With Case Western’s Prof Broich)
1941 Germany had total of 24 fighters and bombers in Iraq to help Gaylani govt fight German planes
were painted in Iraqi colors to hide their origin
1941 British received intel that German planes flying to Iraq from Syria
1941 German plane bombed British force from Palestine heading towards Habaniya Anbar
1941 British bomber attacked Iraqi column outside Rutba, Anbar
1941 Kurds began discussing revolt against PM Gaylani to take advantage of crisis with British
(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 Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
1948 Kirkuk oil workers protested against Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1948 2nd Iraqi unit crossed Jordan River Joined attack on Kibbutz Gesher 1st Arab-Israeli War
1948 PM Sadr declared martial law due to growing pre-electoral violence Nuri al-Said and fmr PM-
Jabr used martial law to go after opposition
(Musings On Iraq review Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics)
1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad Meant to rally support for regime
1973 Kurdish villages in Sheikhan forced to cede land to Arabs and population expelled
1986 KDP Peshmerga and Iranian paratroopers took Mangesh north of Mosul near Kirkuk pipeline
(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)
1988 Start of 5th Anfal Campaign aimed at destroying last of PUK’s bastions in Balisan Valley,
Sulaymaniya
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
1990 West Germany seized parts headed for Iraq suspected for 130ft long supergun
(Musings On Iraq review Al-Hussein, Iraqi Indigenous Conventional Arms Projects, 1980-2003)
1991 International Atomic Energy Agency started first weapons inspection in Iraq
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)
2001 Sec State Powell told Congress UN sanctions had effectively contained Saddam
(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)
2003 2 most senior Iraqi biological scientists denied Iraq was working on WMD before war
2003 UK Foreign Sec Straw Hard evidence of Iraq WMD may never be found Not important Iraq
was in the wrong WMD was main reason UK joined war
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Undersec of Def Feith told Congress US found evidence of Iraq WMD and needed Iraqis to
step forward and tell them where it was
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
2003 Undersec of Def Feith told Congress US had commitment to stay and to leave Iraq
Said CPA would create interim Iraqi government
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 CPA security adviser Slocombe arrived in Iraq Met with CENTCOM who planned on
bringing back Iraqi military Slocombe told it to continue with plan Said disbanding military was just a formality
(Musings On Iraq Review Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athfication Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions)
2003 CPA security adviser Slocombe talked with CENTCOM dep dir of planning Col Agoglia
Slocombe argued that US couldn’t recall Iraqi military because they were cowards who deserted Agoglia said they did what US asked them which was not fight during invasion Slocombe said military all Baathists Agoglia said wasn’t true
2003 ORHA head Garner complained to Bremer about draft CPA Order 2 disbanding Iraqi
military Garner talked Bremer out of disbanding police and Interior Ministry CPA security adviser Slocolmbe told Garner Iraqi army had disbanded itself Colluded in Saddam’s crimes and needed to go Slocombe later denied this conversation happened and said Garner supported disbanding military
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with CSU San Marco’s Prof Marashi Development And Setbacks Of The Current Iraqi Military)
2003 Bremer and CPA advisers reviewed CPA Order 1 DeBaathification
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
(Musings On Iraq The Baathist Purge In Post-Saddam Iraq, A Short History Of DeBaathification)
2003 CPA appropriated $2 bil for rebuilding Iraqi security forces electricity oil
2003 US forces launched Operation Planet X to arrest Baathists north of Tikrit
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2003 Sadr cleric gave sermon in Baghdad accusing US forces of being able to see through women’s
clothes and giving pornography to children
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2004 US approved spending $1.9 bil in Iraqi funds for rebuilding weeks before CPA was to end
(Musings On Iraq The Coalition Provisional Authority’s Inauspicious End)
2005 Sec of State Rice told Pres Barzani and PM Jaafari they had to include Sunnis in new govt
2005 Salah al-Mutlaq said couldn’t unite Iraq without including the Baathists
2007 Sadr returned from Iran to give sermon in Kufa Dismissed number of officials he felt were
disloyal Then went back to Iran
2007 Constitutional Review Comm submitted draft of changes with no major issues dealt with Told
political parties they had to do rest Deadline for final draft to include all issues extended until 7/31/07 Nothing done
2008 Sahwa in Mosul complained ISF were arresting them instead of insurgents during Mother of
Two Springs Operation
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2009 Mass grave found in Najaf with 3,000 Kurds killed during Anfal
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
2009 Oil Ministry said it wouldn’t pay oil companies exporting oil from KRG because deals weren’t
approved by Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq Oil Companies Exporting From Kurdistan May Not Be Paid For Years)
2009 PM Maliki called for majority government and ending sectarian quota system
2009 PM Maliki claimed US releasing terrorists from prisons resulted in increased in violence 2008
Maliki govt had negotiated quicker release of prisoners by US
2010 Iraqi general said 32 of 43 ISI commander had been killed
2011 Sheikh Sulaiman said that tribes and politicians would make Anbar a federal region to protest
PM Maliki
(Musings On Iraq Why Anbar’s Sheikh Ali Hatem Sulaiman Joined Iraq’s Protest Movement)
2011 Salahaddin politicians met with Pres Barzani to discuss making province a federal region to
protest PM Maliki
2012 Trial of ex-VP Hashemi began Bodyguard claimed Hashemi implicated in 150 attacks from
2005-11
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq Charges Against Iraq’s Vice President, And Why They Matter)
2012 Human Rights Watch Report Govt continued to arrest without warrants Held people without
charges or trials Ran secret prisons Govt said it closed secret prison at Camp Honor in Baghdad but still open 2 other secret prisons in Green Zone ISF conducted mass arrests
(Musings On Iraq Human Rights Watch reports On Two Mass Arrest Campaigns And Continued Abuses By The Security Forces In Iraq)
2013 Report Attack upon Hawija protest camp could rally insurgency It did 1st qtr 2011 358 incidents
1st qtr 2012 539 incidents 1st qtr 2013 804 incidents PM Maliki afraid of coup Picked cmdrs down to brigades Controlled federal court Moved away from checks and balances on his power
2013 High Criminal Court reversed decision to drop corruption case in Russian arms deal Feb arms
deal announced Mar Iraqi delegation went to Russia Fmr govt spokesman Dabbagh said corruption in deal
(Musings On Iraq Russian Arms Deal Follows Pattern Of Corrupt Purchases By 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)
2013 KRG facing labor issues Migration from rural to urban areas Large number of foreign workers
Increasing university graduates Graduates complained about lack of job opportunities Waited for govt jobs
2014 Water Dir workers in Sulaymaniya Medical Univ in Irbil Teachers union in Kalar on strike over
not being paid KRG lacked money after Baghdad cut off monthly payments over budget and oil dispute
2014 Babil police launched 2nd operation to clear Jurf al-Sakhr after it was declared freed 3 days ago
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Southern Front Babil Province Where The Islamic State Has Free Reign)
(Musings On Iraq Twelve Security Operations Later And Iraq’s Northern Babil Is No Less Safe)
2014 Video of State of Law MP in Qadisiya handing out land deeds in return for votes Fined by
Election Comm PM Maliki handed out land titles During 2012 no confidence vote MPs asked for patronage in return for votes Maliki offered jobs for votes
2015 IS seized govt center in Ramadi with 10 suicide car bombs in final drive to take city 50 police
taken prisoner executed
(Musings On Iraq Political Ramifications Of The Fall of Iraq’s Ramadi)
(Musings On Iraq interview The Political Fallout From The Loss Of Iraq’s Ramadi Interview With EPIC’s Ahmed Ali)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2015 Abadi govt sent 3 units to relieve Ramadi Came too late to stop IS taking city
2016 Govt officials said govt reaching bankruptcy due to low oil prices Govt deficit growing
2016 Gorran-PUK signed 33 point deal to cooperate Said would run together in next election
Gorran once PUK’s biggest rival
2016 Hashd leader claimed it could free Fallujah in 7 days Said blocked by U.S.
2017 Tunisian paper published interview with Naqshibandi leader Izzat al-Duri Apr 2015 Hashd
claimed Duri dead
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)
2017 PUK official said Turkey had set up checkpoints in northern Dohuk Sent in more troops into
KRG
2017 Hashd attacked 2 Yazidi villages Pres Barzani said Hashd should not enter area
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 211 May 15 2017)
2017 Secretary Gen Kataib Hezbollah said people couldn’t return to Jurf al-Sakhr in Babil because
of security Said if allowed back terrorism would return Said area threatened Karbala and Najaf Area turned into large Kataib Hezbollah base Banned people returning to protect pilgrimage routes
2018 Large demonstration by Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk city claiming voter fraud
2018 6 Kurdish opposition parties claimed cheating in Irbil election
(Musings On Iraq Growing Crisis Over Elections In Kirkuk and Kurdistan)
2018 Anbar council said tribes had stopped 1000s of displaced returning because of ties to IS
2019 State Dept ordered non emergency workers out of US embassy due to threats from
Iran Germany and Holland suspended training program for Iraqi army Exxon workers evacuated from Basra
(Musings On Iraq Did The US Detect A Credible Threat From Iran Or React To Iran Preparing For US Attack?)
2019 Sadr conducted another purge of his movement Dismissed some of his leading aides
(Musings On Iraq New Sadr Purge Of His Movement Leads To Violence In Najaf)
2020 IS released video announcing new battle of attrition campaign in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Islamic State Calls For More Attacks During Covid Crisis In Iraq)
2020 Report F-16s largely grounded because Lockheed Martin contractors withdrew due to Hashd
attacks
(Musings On Iraq Attacks By Pro-Iran Groups Force American F-16 Contractors To Withdraw)
2020 Human rights activist called for protest in Dohuk after govt workers protested not being paid
arrested Held for 2 weeks Released then re-arrested Then released and re-arrested 2nd time
2020 Diyala governor asked for Baghdad’s help IS attacks increasing in Khanaqin dist
2020 Demonstrators in Baghdad demanded Kazemi govt explain kidnapping of woman who made
meals for protesters
2021 Oct-May UN documented 48 assassination attempts against activists 32 died Govt did
nothing 20 protesters kidnapped Protests met with excessive force arbitrary arrests torture limiting freedom of expression and media UN counted 487 deaths 7715 injured
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
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