This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 11 Bush and others immediately suspected Iraq involved in 9/11 terrorist attacks

 

1916 Retreating British attacked and broke up tribesmen harassing them in Sahilan, Dhi Qar

 

1921 1^st Iraqi cabinet met Agreed to continue development of Iraqi army

1922 Colonial Sec Churchill told King Faisal accepted UK supporting Iraq’s membership in

League of Nations after Anglo-Iraq Treaty signed Faisal demanded Iraqi sovereignty and thought he had right to League membership without UK

(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)

1923 UK Adv to Interior Min Cornwallis asked British provincial advisors to send him names of

candidates for Iraq’s first parliament that would vote for the Anglo-Iraq Treaty

1927 UK Colonial Office told UK High Commissioner for Iraq that London was prepared to

suspend 1927 Anglo-Iraq Treaty and push for Iraq’s admittance to League of Nations Ended 2 yr deadlock with Iraq

1929 Iraq High Commissioner Clayton told Baghdad that it would be admitted to League of Nations

for independence in 1932 He then died

(Musings On Iraq review Britain’s Informal Empire In The Middle East, A Case Study of Iraq 1929-1941)

1933 Watani Party declaration Called PM Gaylani reactionary who hurt Iraq Said he opposed UK

Then said wanted good relations Led Gaylani to call for dissolution of parliament King Ghazi said no

1958 KDP statement to govt Supported Iraq-Egypt union but it should not be pressed because

Kurds would become smaller minority Said national rights should be first and that would lead to Kurdish rights being recognized

1961 Kurdish Arkou tribe attacked army column near Bazyan Qasim ordered bombing of Kurdish

areas in response

1980 Iraq sent protest letter to Iran about border incidents Said Iran violated intl law and Iraq would

defend itself

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1982 Iraq agreed to Arab League ceasefire proposal including withdrawing from Iran $70 bil in

reparations Iran said no

1985 Iran seized western Majnoon Islands Iraq counterattacked but failed to dislodge Iranians Did

stop advance

(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 released edited version of Saddam’s meeting with US Amb Glaspie Saddam told Amb

Glaspie Iraq would take military action vs Kuwait if it didn’t give into Iraq’s demands

1991 Iraqi intel created plan to undermine Bush’s new world order Proposed committee to lead

influence operations around world Recruit foreign agents Mobilize foreign supporters against sanctions on Iraq

1996 KDP took control of all of Kurdistan after pushing PUK out with help of Iraqi army

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

2001 Bush asked whether Iraq was involved in 9/11 because Saddam backed Palestinian terrorists

(Musings On Iraq Iraq, 9/11 And The Bush Administration)

(Musings On Iraq From 9/11 To The Invasion of Iraq: Analysis of Bush Administration Decision Making)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq And 9/11, How The Bush Administration Immediately Focused Upon Saddam After The September Attacks)

(Musings On Iraq Was Iraq An Imminent Threat To The West?)

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review The Next Attack, The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right)

(Musings On Iraq review The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America’s Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since 9/11)

(Musings On Iraq review To Start A War: How The Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq)

2001 Rice told UK Amb to US Meyer that White House was looking into whether Iraq

            involved in 9/11

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 3.1 Development of UK Strategy and Options on Iraq, 9/11 to Early January 2002)

2001 5 hrs after 9/11 Defense Secretary Rumsfeld wrote memo asking for info on

            whether US should attack Saddam and Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

2001 Def Sec Rumsfeld told Pentagon lawyer to talk to Dep Sec Def Wolfowitz about Iraq-Al Qaeda

connections

2001 NSC meeting Def Sec Rumsfeld said he wasn’t sure Afghanistan should be first in war on   terror Asked if Iraq involved Sec State Powell argued Al Qaeda had to be first target

2001 Counterterrorism chief Clarke said Def Sec Rumsfeld and Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz were taking

advantage of 9/11 to push their Iraq agenda

(Musings On Iraq review Against All Enemies, Inside America’s War on Terror)

2001 Bush said that US should get rid of Saddam and told some aides to look into Iraq-Al Qaeda

connections

(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)

2001 Joint Chiefs of Staff asked Central Command to begin contingency planning against 5         countries including Iraq Request denied because Command too busy with Afghanistan

2001 UndersecDef Feith said that war on terror had to start with Iraq

2001 Joint Chiefs deputy ops chief Gen Newbold told Undersec Def Feith plans were being made for

Al Qaeda and Afghanistan Feith said they should be planning for Iraq instead

2001 In 2003 Bush would say 9/11 changed his mind about the problems Saddam could pose Said

he no longer believed in containment afterward

(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)

2001 Report that Saddam put his forces on alert and retreated to a bunker in Tikrit area showing he

was involved in 9/11 False story

2001 DepSecDef Wolfowitz told TV show that US would target govts that supported terrorism

Mentioned Iraq as example of that type of state

2001 Defense Policy Board member Perle said that Iraq responsible for 9/11 and had to pay

2001 Italian intelligence told CIA that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)

2002 UK intel report that Iraq was producing WMD 7 days a week in facilities throughout the

country Warned overthrow of Saddam would increase chances of WMD falling into hands of terrorists and terrorism overall

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2002 PM Blair said parliament had to discuss Iraq and WMD Told Parliament war with Iraq would

increase terrorism threat but Saddam giving WMD to terrorists was larger concern

(Musings On Iraq review A War Of Choice, The British In Iraq 2003-9)

2002 Bush told Natl Sec Adv Rice and Sec State Powell he would ask for new UN resolution vs Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review Rise Of The Vulcans, The History of Bush’s War Cabinet)

2002 Bush said he had gotten support from Australian Premier Howard and Spanish Pres Aznar for

action against Iraq

2002 Sen Graham asked CIA for new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq

2002 Bush speechwriter Gerson called another speechwriter about Iraq trying to buy uranium from

Niger Wanted it included in Bush’s UN speech CIA was going to allow Niger claim initially but then changed mind saying it was single source and unconfirmed

2002 White House asked CIA to clear use of aluminum tubes story for Bush UN speech Were for

rockets

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

2002 VP Cheney went to Pentagon to join Def Sec Rumsfeld and brief senators on Iraq threat

2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said Saddam connected to terrorism and Al Qaeda and bin Laden now

trying to work with ex-Baathists

(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil

War, 2003-2006)

2003 Report Pentagon made no detailed plans for postwar Iraq Hoped Chalabi and INC would take

over govt

(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)

(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)

2004 Zarqawi recording condemned Muslims who were not supporting jihad in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2005 Report 70% of Iraqi detainees picked up by US released for lack of evidence or being a threat

1000s of innocent Iraqis being held in US facilities for months before being released US mass arrests caused widespread resentment against Americans

(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)

2006 Bush speech US being tested like Cold War and withdrawing from Iraq would be catastrophe

US strategy at time was to withdraw from Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)

(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)

(Musings On Iraq review The Gamble, General David Petraeus And The American Military Adventure In Iraq, 2006-2008)

(Musings On Iraq review The Strongest Tribe, War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq)

2006 Wash Post report Marine intel reported US losing in Anbar due to lack of troops no

functioning Iraqi govt Caused US politicians to question war

2006 VP Cheney told Meet The Press insurgency had gone on longer than expected May 2005

Cheney said insurgency in “last throes” Defended invasion of Iraq saying Saddam supported terrorism and would have restarted WMD programs if not for US Blamed fmr CIA Dir Tenet for bad pre-war intel on Iraq

2007 US killed ISI border emir Abu Muthanna near Sinjar and captured large collection of

ISI docs Included records of 606 foreign fighters 40% were Saudis 31% from North Africa Most came through east Syria

2008 Gen Petraeus said couldn’t declare victory in Iraq Said improvements in Iraq could be

reversed Warned Iraq would take a very long time to find peace and stability

2008 US released captured letter from ISI to Al Qaeda Said ISI wasn’t getting good fighters Wasn’t

communicating with Al Qaeda Questioned leadership of War Min Masri who was misidentified as leader of ISI Same time claimed ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was not a real person Letter was ISI disinformation to mislead US and Iraq about group

2008 Parliament’s human rights comm found secret prison in Basra with 200 unfed sick tortured

prisoners None had gone to trial Facility run by Defense Min

2008 Jihadist Internet forums posted names of more than 40 Awakening leaders assassinated by

insurgents

2009 Report sea water pushing up Shatt al-Arab due to low water flow down Euphrates 2,000

villagers in Basra left villages as a result

2013 ISIS called for attacks on apostates in Ninewa

2014 Report KRG mad that Turkey didn’t provide any military aid when IS attacked in Aug

2015 Kataib Hezbollah said no Hashd or lovers of Islam should join protests Claimed they were

being controlled by US

(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)

2015 Hashd group posted video of 14 Turkish workers it kidnapped in Baghdad Demanded Turkey

stop helping jihadists and block KRG oil exports

2016 Report Hashd spokesman warned Peshmerga about entering Mosul Said KRG would be

stopped from annexing Sinjar Makhmour Bashiqa in Ninewa Peshmerga commander said Kurds would liberate all the Kurdish areas in annex them to KRG

2017 Report IS still held Ajeel and Alas Dome oil fields Smuggled some oil to Turkey and Syria

2017 Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleimani went to Sulaymaniya to talk with PUK about KRG

independence referendum

(Musings On Iraq What’s Next For Kurdistan After The Referendum?)

(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

2017 Ninewa govt complained about arbitrary and sectarian arrests by Hashd

2017 Report Hashd and tribal Hashd arresting people and holding them for ransom in Mosul

2018 Protest in Basra city demanding dismissal of Basra Operations Commander and PM Abadi to

resign

2019 Checkpoint at Gogli outside Mosul 30^th Hashd Brigade got into confrontation with

motorcade of Ninewa Dep Gov Rozbayani and MP Dobardani Detained 4 of their bodyguards and freed them an hour later

(Musings On Iraq Hashd’s 30^th Brigade In Ninewa Assaults Dep Governor and MP)

2020 Report Hashd created security cordons around 25 villages in Khanaqin Diyala due to IS

attacks

2021 Report Natl Sec Adv Araji said Kazemi govt made truce with pro-Iran Hashd groups to stop

targeting US in Iraq Was supposed to last until Oct elections Didn’t cover attacks on convoys working for U.S. Didn’t happen

2023 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Iraq facing emergency over climate

change Said Iraq losing its resources like dates and water

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