1905 British Amb to Turkey O’Connor sent memo written by Sir Sykes to Foreign Office
detailing oil deposits in Mosul vilayet
1906 Protests in Mosul ended against Ottoman census that included counting women
1915 British official in India Office sent draft letter voicing concerns over medical
situation in Mesopotamia
1927 1st successful oil well started at Baba Gargur field in Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq review Imagining The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
1960 Islamic Party complained to Gen Qasim that his govt neglected religion while accepted
Communists Asked Qasim to ban Communists and their media while releasing any cleric arrested since 1958 coup
(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)
1973 Israelis attacked Tel Antar in Golan Heights and forced Iraqi brigade to retreat losing
half its tanks Yom Kippur War
1980 Iran launched large counter attack against Iraqi forces around Andimeshk
(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)
1984 Iraq and Turkey made deal to fight PKK Allowed each country to enter 3 miles into others
territory to combat group
(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)
1991 Report UN inspectors said Iraq worked on hydrogen bomb before Gulf War Found program
more advanced than previously thought Iraq could’ve had bomb in a year
(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)
1993 Chief UN inspector Ekeus told Security Council progress had been made on missile
chemical and nuclear programs Iraq was hoping its recent concessions would end sanctions
1994 Iraq withdrew troops from Kuwait border after Russian diplomacy and UN Res 949 that
demanded withdrawal UN Res 949 demanded Iraq’s full cooperation with UN inspectors
1995 Saddam won referendum for 7 more years as president with 99.9% of vote Was meant to
show public was behind Saddam after Hussein Kamil defected to Jordan
1996 UAE head Nahyan called on Arab countries to reconcile with Iraq and called for lifting of
sanctions
1997 Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr gave sermon saying No! Yes is just for God mocking
Yes to Saddam slogan
(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)
(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
1997 Turkey’s Op Dawn ended against PKK in Kurdistan
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
2000 Iran announced it was returning to 1975 Algiers Treaty Meant rapprochment with Iraq but
also Iraq gained nothing from Iran-Iraq War
2001 CIA report from Rome said that Italian intel said Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger but
didn’t see much merit in it Story false
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2001 CIA DIA Energy Dept thought Iraq-Niger uranium deal was possible State Dept thought
story suspect
(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)
2001 White House spokesman said no connection between Iraq and anthrax letters sent to Wash
DC
2002 Def Sec Rumsfeld wrote list of 29 things that could go wrong with Iraq War Included finding no
WMD ethnosectarian conflict List was to point out possible problems so war could be successful Had no follow up on how to deal with any problems listed
(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)
2002 Italy’s SISMI intel agency told CIA of Iraq-Niger uranium deal documents Were fake
2002 Under Sec of Def Feith briefed NSC on plan for governing postwar Iraq with 3-star general
in charge of military and civilian administrator
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
2003 Sec of State Powell said that his claims about Iraq’s WMD program had been proven
(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 Natl Sec Adv Rice said CPA’s schedule for Iraq wouldn’t work and new one had to be created
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
2003 Sadr followers failed to take over Karbala shrine
2003 UK intel report Worried that Iraq would become new base for jihadists Significant number
of Islamists had already travelled to Iraq Could become base for recruiting training and attacks and could get worse
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 CPA began distributing new Iraqi dinars
2004 US put Zarqawi on its terrorist list
2004 VP Cheney said Iraq could have given WMD to terrorists
2005 Constitution approved in Referendum 66% voter turnout 70% of Sunnis voted against it
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 18 – Defeated By Democracy, Winter 2005-2006)
(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 Reconciliation conference indefinitely postponed due to weekend violence Setback for PM
Maliki’s reconciliation plans
2006 Mujahedeen Shura Council again announced ISI and Islamic State in Baghdad Anbar
Diyala Kirkuk Salahaddin Ninewa Babil Said its goal was to govern
2006 Report auditors found ¼ of US funded water projects had broken down since being turned
over to Iraqis
2006 2 days Shiite gunmen killed 47 Sunnis in Balad in retaliation for 26 dead Shiites being
found in Dhuluiya
2006 6 car bombs in Kirkuk killed 10 and wounded dozens 52 killed in attacks in Baghdad
2006 500 Sunni sheikhs held meeting condemning federalism plan by ISCI objected to breaking
up Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2006 Islamic Party accused Interior Min of Oct 9 murder of VP Hashemi’s brother
2007 State Dept official told reporters corruption in Iraq was systemic and hindering govt
Claimed PM Maliki was dealing with it He wasn’t
(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)
2007 Report Gen Odierno said ISI had been degraded by 60-70% Gen McChrystal wanted to
declare victory vs ISI
2008 Moldova announced withdrawing its 20 soldiers Dec 08 Were supposed to stay until March
09 Said improved security meant not needed anymore
2008 US and ISF started 3rd campaign to secure Mosul Started in western half Was ISI’s new
base Campaign failed
2008 Human Rights Min said 03-07 172 Christians killed 9000 Christians displaced
2009 Sadrists held primary election meant to rally support for 09 provincial elections
(Musings On Iraq The Sadrist Primaries)
2009 Ex-MP Dani arrested in Malaysia using fake passport Fled Iraq after accused of
involvement in bombing parliament’s cafeteria in 07 and murder of National Dialogue Front MP
2009 2008 PM Maliki called for professionals to return to Iraq 1500 teachers and professors
returned Asked for jobs with Education Min Around 800 hired 200 didn’t get paid
2011 Deadline set by Gen Austin for Iraq parliament to pass SOFA with US and allow stay behind force
Didn’t happen
2012 Report PM Maliki agreed to $4.2 bil arms deal with Russia Was too much for what Russia
offered Deal was corrupt
2012 Report Banks impediment to economic growth in Iraq Hard to get credit Govt talked about
bank reform Did little Rules said state owned banks that dominate banking sector can only make deposits with other state banks Taxes and govt bills could only be made through state run banks
2012 Integrity Comm issued warrants for Head of Central Bank of Iraq and 15 other bank
officials
(Musings On Iraq Surprise Charges Against Central Bank Of Iraq Officials Raise All Kinds of Questions)
2013 Reports New survey of 2000 households est 461,000 excess deaths from 03-11 Tried to be
more random in picking households to question 60% of deaths caused by violence 35% of those were by Coalition 32% by militants
(Musings On Iraq Comparing Surveys of Iraqi Deaths During The War)
2014 IS attacked Amiriya Fallujah in Anbar from three direction Police chief said ISF were
almost trapped IS surrounded Al-Assad base
2014 ISF attacked Fallujah Failed
2015 Immediately after Baiji refinery liberated Hashd began looting facility and selling off
equipment to Iraqi and Iranian businesses
2015 Teachers protested in Sulaymaniya and Halabja over KRG not paying salaries
2015 Reports Gorran claimed KDP told them to give up speakership of KRG parliament and not
get involved in future of Pres Barzani and it could return to govt Gorran called for Barzani to resign
2017 Report KRG rejected PM Abadi’s call to cancel results of KRG independence referendum
(Musings On Iraq Fighting Breaks Out Between Federal Forces And Peshmerga In Salahaddin And Kirkuk)
2017 Hashd burned PUK office in Tuz Kharmato after fighting stopped there over independence
referendum
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2018 UN envoy said 110,000 sick in Basra from drinking bad water
2019 Sadr called for new protests during Arbaeen pilgrimage in Karbala
(Musings On Iraq Sadr Joins Protests While Govt Continues With Promises And Crackdown)
2019 Court issued warrants for 2 SWAT officers in Wasit for killing protesters
2020 Pro-Iran Hashd said truce over attacks on US targets was only temporary Said US had to
fully withdraw from Iraq
2020 Report Govt couldn’t pay most salaries in Sep and Oct Borrowed $12 bil from Iraqi banks to pay bills
in Jun 1st 3 quarters of 2020 Iraq avg $3.43 bil in oil revenues/mo Govt salaries were $4 bil/mo Kazemi govt asked for 2nd borrowing bill from parliament to cover rest of 2020 Said govt expected to earn $3.42 bil/mo from oil for rest of 2020 but had $12.23 bil/mo in expenses Talk of devaluing dinar which would save govt money Would mean paycut for workers
2021 Report Hashd lost seats in 2021 election Fatah went from 48 seats in 2018 to 20 in 2021 Badr got 5
seats Asaib Ahl Al-Haq got 10 seats Bloc that represented Jund al-Imam won 5 seats Kataib Hezbollah party won 1 seat Badr’s Amiri rejected election results June al-Imam head called on Election Comm to prove there was not fraud
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2022 PM designate Sudani said he would find out what happened to missing $2.5 bil missing
from tax authority Was withdrawn from Rafidain Bank in Aug and Sep 2021 and sent to 5 companies Scandal originally announced in Sep
(Musings On Iraq PM Sudani Plays Politics With Iraq’s Latest Corruption Scandal)
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