1920 UK PM George wrote that French objected to Faisal becoming king of Iraq George and
French both thought he was weak leader
(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)
1921 King Faisal said he wouldn’t accept restrictions on sovereignty included in UK’s Iraq mandate
Wanted an Anglo-Iraq treaty that would give him full power
1921 Colonial Sec Churchill wrote Iraq Commissioner Cox that Faisal needed to stop making
demands of UK and do what London told him
(Musings On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1933 King Faisal ordered Interior Min Suleiman to investigate massacre of Assyrians in Sumail
(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1935 Senator and ex-PM Midfai accused Rashid Ali al-Gaylani of starting southern tribal revolt that
brought down his govt He did PM Hashemi accused Midfai of starting revolts against his govt
1960 Qasim began talks with Iraq Petroleum Company to increase govt share of profits
1982 Iraqi planes started attacking shipping at Khor Musa channel leading to Bandar Khomeini port in
Iran Sank 2 ships
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1982 Iraqi planes started bombing campaign against Kharg Island Iran’s major oil port
1985 Iran Op Ashura 2 started in Maysan marshes
(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)
1986 Turkey launched raid into Kurdistan after PKK destroyed a Turkish military post in Anatolia
Turks killed 165 PKK
(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)
1990 Iraqi opposition in Iran claimed they could field 50,000 to fight Saddam
1990 Iraq offered to fully implement UN Res 598 and Algiers Agreement to try to win favor with Iran
after Kuwait invasion
1991 UN Resolution 706 proposed Iraq import petroleum products to alleviate humanitarian situation
caused by sanctions Iraq rejected plan as violation of its sovereignty
1991 UN Resolution 707 Said Iraq was in flagrant violation of weapons inspectors Allowed inspectors
to use planes and helicopters for flights inside Iraq
1991 Baghdad objected to Res 707 saying US had flown U2 spy plane over Iraq claiming it was for
inspectors
(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 The Saddam Tapes)
1995 Supreme Council denounced Jordan taking in Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamil calling him a
murderer
2002 NatlSecAdv Rice said US needed to launch pre-emptive strike against Iraq before it got too
strong
(Musings On Iraq review America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2002 Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Feith’s office briefed CIA officials on its findings that
Iraq and Al Qaeda had cooperated for years Wasn’t true
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2002 1st Bush NatlSecAdv Scowcroft wrote Wall St Journal OpEd saying Saddam not threat to US
and not connected to 9/11
2002 Sec State Powell called Scowcroft thanking him for OpEd saying it would help for arguments
within administration over Iraq
2002 Dep head of UK embassy to US wrote that White House talking about when war would start
not if it would happen
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.4 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, Late July to 14 September 2002)
2002 Jalal Talabani invited US and England to invade Iraq from PUK territory
2003 Anti-US protest fired upon by American soldiers in Mosul 15 killed
2003 White House objected to CPA’s request for $20.3 bil after administration said it would not ask
Congress for any more money for Iraq
2003 Oil pipeline to Turkey bombed in Baiji Salahaddin shutting down exports for 2nd time in a week
2004 Peace talks between Allawi govt and Sadr broke down over ending 2nd Battle of Najaf
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq review Battle For The City Of The Dead)
(Musings On Iraq review US Marines in Battle An-Najaf August 20014)
2005 One week extension given to Constitutional committee to finish work
(Musings On Iraq How Faults With Iraq’s Constitution Undermines The Country, Interview with Constitutional Scholar Zaid Al-Ali)
(Musings On Iraq review The Struggle For Iraq’s Future, How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy)
2007 Gen Petraeus given intel briefing Said Maliki govt taking part in civil war to solidify power and
refusing to reconcile Challenged Surge assumption that better security would lead to political compromise Said US should be more neutral towards PM Maliki and attempt to mediate between govt and Sunnis
(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)
2008 2 female suicide bombers hit Shiite pilgrims in Iskandiriya 19 dead 75 wounded
(Musings On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers0
(Musings On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2008 Baghdad-Irbil deal to have Peshmerga withdraw from Khanaqin Diyala Confrontation ensued
when ISF began evicting Kurdish parties and Peshmerga from town Part of PM Maliki move to take disputed areas
(Musings On Iraq Kurdish-Baghdad Tensions Over Diyala)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2008 Report Officially some Iraqi army divisions reported 130% of their soldiers on duty Iraq’s 7th Div
had 11,478 soldiers on payroll Only 7,556 were on duty 3,922 were on leave in training AWOL wounded or killed Very common in ISF units
2008 Report US military intel officer said captured militiamen claimed Iranian Rev Guards-Hezbollah
training Asaib Ahl Al-Haq and Kataib Hezbollah in 4 bases in Iran Were going to assassinate officials in Iraq like judges Before March 08 Iran was training militia in Qadisiya Dhi Qar Basra
(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
2011 ISI attacked Sahwa in mosque in Yusifiya Baghdad during Ramadan Bombed St Ephraim
Syriac Orthodox church in Kirkuk 15 other cities attacked Total 74 dead Over 300 wounded Most casualties in a single day for over a year
(Musings On Iraq Behind The Revival Of The Islamic State in Iraq, Interview With Naval War College Prof Craig Whiteside)
2012 PM Maliki said he wanted better relations with Turkey but also complained about Ankara’s ties
to Kurdistan
2012 Basra governor said provincial council created committee to turn Basra into federal region Said
needed to deal with lack of services and investment
2014 Report 25 tribes said they would fight IS in Anbar
2014 IS killed 90 Yazidi men in Kojo Ninewa Took all the women and children
(Musings On Iraq Islamic State’s Destruction Of Iraq’s Yazidi Community)
(Musings On Iraq Kurdish Government Tries to Create New Narrative Of What Happened To Iraq’s Yazidis)
2014 Army and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq got into gunfight in Baghdad 1 soldier killed 3 soldiers and 4
Hashd wounded ISF arrested some Hashd Asaib Ahl Al-Haq kidnapped 4 soldiers from checkpoint
2015 Chief Justice Medhat said that judiciary supported PM Abadi’s reforms but made no changes
(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Judiciary Resistant To Reforms)
2016 Report State Dep Congress Obama White House all wanted reduced US presence in Iraq
after 2011 withdrawal PM Maliki also objected to continuing some US programs Sec State Clinton wanted to maintain many programs Keep stay behind force Clinton warned Iraq may not be able to maintain security and ISI still a threat State Dept couldn’t maintain many programs due to lack of money and personnel VP Biden and White House officials pushed for bigger cuts in US spending and programs in Iraq When insurgency started rebuilding Clinton pushed PM Maliki to accept new US security programs Maliki didn’t take up offer
2016 Parliament began voting on PM Abadi’s new technocratic cabinet
2017 Report 25,000 tribal Hashd in Anbar Each unit different leader Different ties with ISF and
Hashd but not part of govt forces Some wanted to become part of ISF Kataib Hezbollah controlled area south of Fallujah Albu Issa main tribal Hashd inside Fallujah
2017 Report Tribal Hashd accused of crime in Mosul Revenge attacks Blackmail Accused people
of being IS Ninewa councilman accused Hashd of acting like gangs robbing kidnapping killing people in Mosul ISF drove some tribal Hashd out of city
2017 Report Christians in Ninewa split over politics Some connected to Shiite parties others to
Kurds Ninewa Plains Protection Unit accused of taking smuggled artifacts from Babylon Brigades and turned over some members to police in Qaraqosh Babylon Brigades then stormed Ninewa Plains Unit office PM Abadi ordered Babylon Brigades to leave Qaraqosh but refused Other Christian hashd included Chaldean Assyrian Popular Council Assyrian National Party Brigades Ninewa Plains Force Lions of Babylon Brigades Kataib Issa Ibn Maryam Brigades 12 Christian political parties Jun meeting to tried to unite Christian parties and militias Failed
2018 Protester killed by police beating outside West Qurna 2 oil field Basra Led to more
demonstrations in province
2018 Report US Treasury officials went to Central Bank of Iraq Threatened sanctions on any bank
that did business with Iran Iraq imported natural gas from Iran and 20% of electricity Iran provided cheap imports
2019 Interior Min Yasiri visited Babil Said no civilians could return to Jurf al-Sakhr until secured
District is a Hashd base All civilians forced out by Hashd because along pilgrimage routes to Najaf and Kabala
2019 50 families fled Daquq dist southern Kirkuk due to IS
(Musings On Iraq The Islamic State’s Failed Comeback In Iraq)
2020 Protest activist had house raided in Diyala by unknown security force Activist escaped
assassination attempt in Dhi Qar Part of intimidation campaign against demonstrators
(Musings On Iraq While PM Kazemi Visits Trump Pro-Iran Groups Target US And Kill Protesters To Embarrass Govt)
(Musings On Iraq Ebb And Flow Of Protests In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2021 Head of pro-Najaf Ansar al-Marjariya criticized pro-Iran Hashd for taking orders from Tehran
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