1933 Iraqi army swept through Jebel Behkair executed any Assyrians found
(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)
1958 Communists organized huge protest in Baghdad for federal union with United Arab Republic
and Yemen but against immediate union which was pushed by pan-Arab officers, Nasserists and Baathists
(Musings On Iraq review The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology)
(Musings On Iraq review A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004)
(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq A History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan Franzen)
(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)
1968 Pres Bakr govt announced amnesty for Kurdish rebels Reconciliation attempt by new Bakr
govt with Kurds
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1980 Saddam told King Khalid Iraq was going to invade Iran Asked for financing King questioned
war Was afraid of repercussions Said Saudi military was weak and was afraid of Soviet intervention Couldn’t change Saddam’s mind and gave him tacit support
1983 Iran launched 2nd attack in Op Wa al-Fajr 3 in Mehran aimed at Diyala Broke Iraqi lines and
surrounded a brigade Iraq counterattacked
(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 Iraq started withdrawing Republican Guard from Kuwait to Rumaila Basra Regular
army and popular army sent to secure Kuwait
1990 Pres Bush said Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait would not stand
(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)
1990 Bush called King Fahd Sent Sec Def Cheney to convince king to allow U.S. troops to
deploy to Saudi Arabia
1990 Saudi King asked for briefing on US military plans to respond to Kuwait invasion Sec Def
Cheney went to get basing rights
1990 NSC meeting Bush said that Kuwait problem wouldn’t be solved until Saddam removed and
defending Saudis and invading Kuwait two different things
(Musings On Iraq review from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq)
1990 Dep PM Ramadan went to Turkey Tried to get it to oppose sanctions Turkey said Iraq should
withdraw from Kuwait
1990 PM Thatcher condemned Iraq invasion of Kuwait
1991 2,000 Turkish troops invaded 3 districts of Kurdistan in retaliation for PKK attack in Turkey
KDP and PUK supported Turkey PKK criticized them for doing so
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
2002 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Franks briefed Bush on war plan Had original plan Running Start which
would have quicker build up and Hybrid Plan which would be immediate start to war No postwar plan and Franks wanted to withdraw US forces as quickly as possible
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
2002 After CENTCOM cmdr Gen Franks presented latest war plan Postwar Iraq discussed Bush
asked CIA Dir Tenet how Iraqis would react to US invasion Tenet said most Iraqis would welcome it
2002 Sec State Powell told Bush that Iraq invasion would dominate 1st term and US would be
responsible for Iraq afterward Powell said US had to go through UN to disarm Iraq and build international coalition Bush said wanted coalition
(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 Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Bush At War)
(Musings On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2002 Report Bush official said 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intel in Prague in 2001 False story
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld announced US forces had been finding buried Iraqi fighter jets in desert
Explained why Iraqi air force didn't fight during invasion
(Musings On Iraq Why Didn’t The Iraqi Air Force Fight During The 2003 Invasion?)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld said “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” about Iraq’s WMD
not found yet
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld said death of Uday and Qusay Hussein showed Iraq that Baathists not
returning to power
2004 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey issued first military campaign plan for Iraq since 2003 invasion
Said US had to confront insurgency Build Iraqi forces Persuade Sunnis to give up insurgency Rebuild country
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 13 The Changing Of The Guard, Again Spring-Summer 2004)
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review Nights in the Pink Motel, An American Strategist’s Pursuit of Peace in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
2004 Sadr called for his followers to rise up against the US occupation
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq review Battle For The City Of The Dead)
2004 Mahdi Army attacked main police station in Najaf city and US forces in Baghdad starting 2nd
Battle of Najaf
(Musings On Iraq review US Marines in Battle An-Najaf August 20014)
2004 Anbar governor resigned after his son was kidnapped by insurgents
2005 US said that EFPs were being shipped from Iran into Iraq to attack American forces
(Musings On Iraq How Iran Used Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) To Influence events In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq A History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s Galen Wright)
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2006 Sec of State Rice told Bush Iraqis pulling their country apart
2008 Blair govt said UK policy in Basra was right one Made deal with Mahdi Army to withdraw
from city to airport PM Maliki was furious at UK Didn’t include it in Charge of Knights op
2009 Report Iraq in 4th yr of drought according to UN Rainfall expected to be down 50% Wheat
crop expected to be down 40% Would have to import 4 mil tons of wheat to meet 5 mil ton demand
2010 Report Obama sent letter to Ayatollah Sistani asking him to intervene with Shiite parties and
get them to compromise to form new govt
2011 Sadr’s Promised Day Brigades claimed 16 attacks on US in Baghdad Diyala Dhi Qar Wasit
Maysan Qadisiya Najaf Said it killed US soldiers Militias were trying to take credit for US withdrawal
2011 Protest in Baghdad Called for prisoners to be released reforms US withdrawal jobs better
services
2012 Dep Labor Minister said unemployment 16% Said ministry planned to reduce joblessness to
zero by 2016 Didn’t happen
2012 Report Oil contracts KRG offered drew in more companies Offered more profits Natural
Resource Min Hawrami said KRG oil production could reach 1 mil/bar/day by 2014 2 mil/bar/day by 2017 Didn’t happen KRG signed 1st oil deal with Genel Energy in 2002 Deal with DNO in 2003 Now 4 of the top 10 oil companies Exxon Chevron Total Gazprom worked in KRG Aug companies complained not paid
(Musings On Iraq The State Of The Kurdish Regional Government In Iraq, An Interview With National Defense Univ’s Dr Denise Natali)
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2013 Sadr announced he was withdrawing from politics Sadrists denied that and said he was just
taking a break Was way to rally his supporters
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Moqtada al-Sadr Trying To Rally His Supporters With “Retirement”)
2014 Peshmerga freed Summer east of Mosul ISF suddenly withdrew from two areas east of Ramadi
IS moved in afterward ISF freed Barwana in Anbar
2014 Report Sr Iranian official said Tehran wanted PM Maliki out of office Said he was
undermining Iraq
2015 Protests in Sulaymaniya over lack of services broken up by police
2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said it would participate in next protest in Baghdad attempting to co-opt
demos
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2015 Parliament’s finance comm said Iraqi banks transferring money to other countries Worked
with front companies to smuggle funds Did study going back to 2012 Found 15 fake trading companies involved in Central Bank of Iraq dollar auctions
2015 KDP Peshmerga commander said peshmerga didn’t withdraw from Sinjar Were defeated by IS
Peshmerga withdrew without a fight
(Musings On Iraq Kurdish Government Tries to Create New Narrative Of What Happened To Iraq’s Yazidis)
(Musings On Iraq interview with AUIS’s Christine van den Toorn on what happened to Yazidis when IS invaded Sinjar)
2016 Oil traders cut advances to KRG from $127 mil in Jun to $35 mil in Jul Cut payments to oil
companies from $30.3 mil in Jun to $18.1 mil in Jul KRG made $461 mil in Jul Needed $460 mil just to pay govt salaries
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2017 Report Unpublished KRG report said 18,000 KDP peshmerga fled Sinjar without a fight in
Aug 2014 Peshmerga in Sinjar under command of Masrour Barzani
2018 Report Election Comm bought voting machines from South Korea May Board of Supreme
Audit warned commission problems with machines Commission did nothing Iraq embassy in SKorea also warned that company might be overcharging for machines MP said National Intel Service proved machines not secure
2018 Continued sit ins by West Qurna 1 oil field in Basra and Muthanna Protests in Basra City West
Qurna 2 and Barjisiya fields Safwan border crossing South Gas Company all in Basra, 2 in Qadisya, Babil
2019 Hezbollah al-Nujaba spokesman said any Iraqi govt that went against Iran would be
overthrown
2019 PM Abdul Mahdi’s deadline for Hashd to withdraw from Ninewa Plains extended to
this day Nothing happened Shabak 30th Hashd Bgd held protest against it leaving
(Musings On Iraq PM Mahdi Fails 1st Test Of New Hashd Order In Iraq)
2020 PM Kazemi met with protesters Said their demands would be met They weren’t
2022 Activists protested against the political system in Baghdad
2022 Sadrists held massive Friday prayer inside Baghdad’s Green Zone Called for early elections
(Musings On Iraq Sadr Abandoned Politics Out Of Frustration Now Wants To Return)
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