1922 Cleric Khalisi informed southern tribes British were trying to get their way in new Anglo-
Iraq Treaty
1936 Opposition gave 2nd petition to King Ghazi Complained that PM Hashemi repressing their parties
(Musings On Iraq review Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics)
1941 Mufti of Jerusalem told Italians Arab revolt hinged on Iraq and it needed more support
(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)
1973 Kurdish villages in Khanaqin forced to cede land to Arabs and population expelled
1982 Iran’s Op Beit al-Moqaddas ended Took Khorramshahr in south Iraqi forces pushed back to
border in Khuzistan province Regained 2,077 sq mi of Iranian territory Iraq lost 9,000 dead 15,000 wounded 19,000 prisoners Iran lost 12-15,000 dead 25,000 wounded Saddam had 20 senior officer relieved of command 10 executed
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1982 So far in war Iraq had lost 30,000 dead 35,000 prisoners 20% of its artillery 40% of its planes
60% of its tanks Half its ground forces Iran also recaptured 90% of the territory Iraq seized in 1980
1982 Iraqi forces exhausted Lost all its major gains in Iran Saddam and leadership discussed how
to end war Decided to withdraw to Iraq-Iran border Go on defensive
1982 Israeli press reported US sent arms to Egypt which were then sold to Iraq
(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 US National Security Council deputies meeting told that US still sharing intelligence with Iraq
1999 Sec State Albright met with 7 Iraqi opposition groups receiving US funds Said US would
provide them nonlethal aid
2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld issued order to Joint Chiefs to begin Phase Four postwar planning for Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I: Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood Money, Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
2003 1st time CPA paid Iraqi govt workers
2003 Col Hughes received list of 137,000 Iraqi soldiers that wanted to return to duty from their
officers
2003 Opposition Leadership Council met to discuss UN Resolution 1483 that made US and UK
occupying powers in Iraq Leaders disappointed with occupation Chalabi said UN stripped opposition of any power to run Iraq Group decided to remain united and protest resolution
2004 Bush said US would stay the course in Iraq and move towards returning sovereignty and
creating democracy in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2005 SCIRI’s Hammoudi named head of constitutional drafting committee Deadline to finish
document was August 15
(Musings On Iraq How Faults With Iraq’s Constitution Undermines The Country, Interview with Constitutional Scholar Zaid Al-Ali)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq review The Struggle For Iraq’s Future, How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy)
2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey asked staff to see whether Iranian Rev Guard could be declared a
hostile force
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 20 Baghdad Burns, Summer-Fall 2006)
2006 Joint Chiefs intel report said insurgency enduring despite political progress and growth of ISF
Said violence would increase into 2007
2006 Report police and army full of militias insurgents and criminals carrying out abuses and sectarian
violence US officials and military apologized for former Inter Min Jabr from ISCI and Badr saying they weren’t responsible for police abuses
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(Musings On Iraq From Bad To Worse How Military Moved Into The Iraqi Police Force And The United States Failed At Nation Building Part Two Of An Interview With Jerry Burke Former Advisor To The Baghdad Police And Interior Ministry)
2006 PM Maliki said he wanted to reign in militias and demobilize them Went to Najaf to try to get
Ayatollah Sistani to make statements against militias Maliki supported Mahdi Army
2006 Report Iraqi Army’s 16th Brigade in charge of Dora south Baghdad ran death squads and
assassinations in conjunction with insurgents Killed its own commander
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2007 Funeral for Sheikh Issawi from Awakening hit by suicide car bomb in Fallujah 34 killed 66
wounded Part of ISI targeting Awakening sheikhs
(Musings On Iraq Demise, But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Fallujah Redux author Daniel Green on Fallujah during the Surge)
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings On Iraq review The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2011 Anbar councilman blamed Syria for allowing insurgents to cross its border into Iraq
2011 Ex-Trade Min Sudani accused of wasting $245 mil while in office on vegetable oil Ministry paid
$1,332 per ton but then listed price as $2,400 per ton Part of schemes to enrich himself and fund State of Law
(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 Report US forces coming under increased attacks by militias as withdrawal date approached Feb
93 attacks on US 128 in Mar 162 in Apr
2011 US Def Sec Gates went to Iraq to lobby for US troop presence past end of year
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary At War)
2011 Dep PM Sharistani complained KRG oil deals not transparent Didn’t have competitive bidding
Didn’t submit oil company bills to Baghdad to be compensated Said KRG acting autonomously and not thinking about Iraq as a whole
2011 Report Major bottlenecks to increase oil output Needed high volumes of water to increase
pressure in oil wells Lack of facilities at major ports Old infrastructure Many companies hit a production mark but couldn’t increase it because infrastructure couldn’t handle more
2011 Electricity Min said it would give free fuel to generator operators to try to maintain private
power production because state production inadequate to meet demand
2011 Human Rights Watch Report KRG not committed to media freedom Trying to crackdown on
journalists using lawsuits beatings arrests death threats
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Is The Most Dangerous Place In The World For Journalists)
2011 Report Iraq wanted to develop Faw peninsula into major new port Kuwait began construction of
new port directly across from Faw in May Iraq only had plans for Faw
(Musings On Iraq Iraq-Kuwait Argue Over Competing Port Plans In The Persian Gulf)
2012 KRG PM Barzani said that if Baghdad cut off fuel deliveries KRG would export oil
independently
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Government Tries To Punish Kurdistan For Independent Energy Policy)
2012 Sadr asked National Alliance to replace PM Maliki
(Musings On Iraq What Does Iraq’s Sadr Want?)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sadrist Back Off Attacks Upon Prime Minister Maliki For Now)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2013 Integrity Comm said it was opening investigation into buying fake bomb detectors Went
nowhere
(Musings On Iraq Fallout In Iraq From Conviction Of Fake Bomb Detector Maker)
2013 Clash at Fallujah protest site between those for and against turning Anbar into federal region
Imam at Mosul protest site argued for making Ninewa federal region
(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Protest Movement Splits Over Federalism)
2013 Sadrist killed fighting in Syria had funeral attended by movement members Showed Sadr’s
participation in Syria war
(Musings On Iraq The Increasing Flow Of Iraqi Fighters To Syria, An Interview With University Of Maryland’s Phillip Smyth)
2013 Report Pres Barzani pushed for referendum on KRG constitution without revisions Said
parliament didn’t have right to change document
2014 2 mass graves found in Najaf Were victims of govt putting down 1991 uprising
(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s Deadly Legacy Mass Grave Discovered In Najaf Dating From 1991 Uprising)
2015 Iranian Ground Forces commander said Iranian military moved 40km into Diyala to protect
border from IS
2015 KRG claimed it met its oil export quota set in 2015 budget and should get monthly
payments from Baghdad Pres Barzani said if didn’t KRG would export oil independently KRG was not meeting its quota
(Musings On Iraq Strains and Stresses In The Kurdish-Iraq Central Government Budget Deal)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Reaches Another New High In Oil Exports As Budget Deal With Kurds Breaks Down)
2015 US Def Sec Carter questioned Iraqis’ will to fight after Ramadi fell to IS
(Musings On Iraq interview The Political Fallout From The Loss Of Iraq’s Ramadi Interview With EPIC’s Ahmed Ali)
2016 Badr’s Amiri said Hashd would not enter Fallujah Badr did
(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq, Jun 22-28, 2016)
2017 Interior Min announced investigation into abuses by Iraqi forces during Mosul campaign in
response to Der Spiegel article Nothing came of it
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 220 May 24 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 221 May 25 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 222 May 26 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 223 May 27 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 224 May 28 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 232 Jun 5 2017)
(Musings On Iraq Der Spiegel Reporting On Abuse By Iraqi Forces During Mosul Battle Was True)
(Musings On Iraq Review They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate)
2017 Report Amnesty Intl found Pentagon audit of US military aid to Iraq Lost track of over
$1 bil in equipment Poor bookkeeping meant once aid delivered didn’t know where it went Hashd ended up with some US aid when shouldn’t have
2017 KRG Election Comm called on parties to prepare for Nov 2017 independence
referendum KRG told UN it would hold vote
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2017 Planning Min said estimated $100 bil needed to rebuild freed areas
2017 Diyala politicians complained about deteriorating security in Abu Saida Called on PM Abadi
to intervene Also IS cells in Baladrooz and Hamrin Mts
2018 Protests in Karbala and Dhi Qar over electricity shortages
2018 Civil Defense source said 1,199 bodies had been pulled from rubble in Old City Mosul in last
week
2019 Najaf activist’s house blown up
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2019 Army complained Hashd smuggling food and drugs in Ninewa Stopped Hashd
vehicle led to gun battle in Baaj WNinewa
(Musings On Iraq Expansion of the Hashd al-Shaabi’s influence In Iraq, Interview With Clingendael’s Erwin van Veen)
2020 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq HQ in Maysan burned by protesters Teachers and activists protested in
Sulaymaniya
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2021 Protests in Dhi Qar Basra Maysan over electricity and jobs Tents burned in Nasiriya
2022 At Davos economic forum KRG PM Barzani said that KRG would follow constitution and that
overruled Supreme Court ruling that KRG’s energy law was unconstitutional
(Musings On Iraq Kurdistan Continues To Defy Iraq’s Central Govt Over Oil Industry)
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