1915 UK cabinet ordered UK cmdr Gen Nixon to take Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1918 Battle of Shirqat started as British forces moved north from Baghdad to seize Mosul
province and its oil before war ended
(Musings On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1920 Abd al-Rahman al-Gaylani selected by British to be Iraq’s 1st PM
1940 German Foreign Min Ribbentrop sent letter to Arab Committee in Gaylani govt Said Iraq
should avoid war with UK but if happened Germany would help
1940 Italy and Germany broadcast radio message that they stood for Arab independence Was
demand of Iraq and Mufti of Jerusalem
1960 Hamza Abdullah kicked out of KDP for ties to Communists while Ibrahim Ahmed re-
elected secretary general
1973 Baghdad ordered its units home in 1973 Arab-Israeli War
1977 Ayatollah Khomeini’s son Mustafa died in exile in Najaf Iranian secret police believed to
be behind it
1980 US said Iran’s national integrity was threatened by Iraq Pres Carter was trying to get US
hostages released by Iran
1985 Iranian op Ashura 4 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)
1990 In response to France and Russia trying to end Kuwait crisis Iraq allowed French
nationals to leave Iraq and Kuwait
(Musings On Iraq review The Gulf Conflict 1990-1991, Diplomacy and War in the New World Order)
1991 Baghdad imposed economic embargo on Kurdistan in retaliation for clashes with Peshmerga
(Musings On Iraq review Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq)
1991 Saddam held ceremony for Gulf War Gave TV speech that Iraq would never give into
foreign demands Dropped talk of democratic reforms
1996 PUK and KDP signed ceasefire brokered by US, UK and Turkey
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
1997 UN Resolution 1134 said that Iraq had to fully comply with weapons inspectors and
condemned non-cooperation Were splits within UN security council over continued weapons inspections
(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 Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)
(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)
2001 Sec State Powell met with Jack Kemp who said planes in no fly zone should fire on Iraqi
targets This could be sign to Iraq Powell said if talks with Iraq opened could counter hawks in White House that wanted to attack Iraq after 9/11
2002 US and UK submitted draft UN resolution for new inspections in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.5 Development of UK Strategy and Options September to November 2002 – Negotiation of Resolution 1441)
2002 UK Joint Intel Comm report said there could be uprising in Iraq after Saddam fell
2003 Madrid Conf began with 76 countries to garner international aid for Iraq Germany Russia
France offered nothing having opposed war
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2003 US guards at Abu Ghraib prison photographed an Iraqi prisoner with a leash on and other
abuses
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 9 Down The Spider Hole, October-December 2003)
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq dressed as police took 49 Iraqi soldiers off bus and executed them in
Diyala
2005 Islamic Army got in gun battle with Al Qaeda in Iraq in Taji north Baghdad over the latter
killing members of the Islamic Army
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2006 Natl Sec Adv Hadley told UK officials Op Together Forward II failing Said Iraqi army
hadn’t sent enough troops Iraqi police couldn’t hold areas cleared Said Maliki govt didn’t fully support plan
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
2006 White House said US policy was not to stay the course in Iraq despite Bush repeatedly
using that phrase Said U.S. had a flexible policy in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
2006 Report UN recorded 1.6 mil refugees 1.5 mil displaced 40,000 Iraqis arriving in Syria per
month 365,000 new refugees since Samarra bombing in Feb 06
(Musings On Iraq January 2009 U.N. Report On Iraq Refugee Returns)
(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2006 US soldier Taie kidnapped by Mahdi Army in Baghdad Turned over to Asaib Ahl Al-Haq
Was then executed
(Musings On Iraq New Challenges To Sadr’s Leadership)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2007 State Dept official said Iranian Revolutionary Guard working in Iraq under orders of
Tehran’s leadership
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(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)
2007 Report State Dept couldn't account for $1.2 bil contract with DynCorp to train Iraqi police
$4 mil that was supposed to build police facility spent on an olympic size pool and VIP trailers $4 mil spent on X-Ray machine never used
2007 Mahdi Army fought Iraqi police in Basra City despite Sadr’s freeze upon his militia
2008 US Iraq cmdr Gen Odierno met PM Maliki Warned him about govt arresting Sahwa and death of 1
leader in custody PM defended action Said Sahwa were Baathists and leader that died was suspected in involvement in 1999 murder of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr
(Musings On Iraq US Army In The Iraq War Volume 2 Chapter 9 The Surge Culminates, Summer 2008)
2009 US hosted investment conference for Iraq Declined since 2006 Mostly gone to oil Iraq still
considered unsafe Bureaucracy hindered business Bad investment laws
2010 Report Wikileaks doc showed US thought head of Fadhila security given money from Iran
to kill and kidnap politicians in Basra
2010 Report Wikileaks had 100s of cases of torture US found Iraqis pouring acid and cutting off
fingers of prisoners in Mosul US started spot checks of Iraqi detention facilities to check on abuses All US could do was tell Iraqis to stop Jun 04 US ordered to report abuses but not investigate them unless told by HQ Nov 05 US found secret prison in Baghdad with tortured prisoners US went to PM Jaafari about prison but nothing else done 07 Gen Petraeus pressured Interior Min to fire National Police battalion and brigade commanders accused of killing and torturing Sunnis in Baghdad
2010 South Oil Company signed deal with Australian consortium led by Leighton Holdings to
extend 2 underwater pipelines Build 3 floating terminals Consortium paid bribes to get deal
(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)
2010 Report Wikileaks recorded 109,032 deaths from Jan 04-Dec 09 66,081 civilians 23,984
insurgents 15,196 ISF Baghdad deadliest with 45,497 deaths Worst month Dec 06 2566 deaths Worst year 2006 16,870 deaths
2011 Report PM Maliki fired Sunni former regime members from ISF and intel agencies Oct more
than a dozen Sunni officers fired Interior Min ordered 32 offices fired in Diyala for links with insurgents and working for Saddam Maliki was acting Defense Interior and National Security Ministers Offices were supposed to be divided between political parties but Maliki held onto them
2012 Report Parliament’s legal committee said Inspector Generals part of corruption problems
Were now appointed by committee controlled by PM Maliki Most inspectors were now from State of Law Cabinet was looking into ending inspector generals
2012 Oil Min signed $127.5 mil deal with KOGAS to build 2 natural and liquid gas pipelines
from Kirkuk to Baiji
2012 Iraq kicked Turkey’s TPAO out of oil deal with won in May Was retaliation for Turkey taking
in VP Hashemi who had warrant out for him
2012 Report Exxon sent letter to Oil Min that it wanted to shell its share of West Qurna 1 field Part
of withdrawal of major oil companies from Iraq
2013 ISI bombed a mall and a restaurant in Mosul that didn’t pay it protection money
2013 Report Ninewa started talks with oil companies Sep 2013 Ninewa govt gave governor right
to sign oil deals Gov Nujafi met with Exxon Nujafi said Ninewa should work with KRG to develop oil fields in disputed areas of province Angered Baghdad
2014 Report IS earned up to $1 mil/day from smuggling oil Went through KRG to Turkey KRG
and Turkey denied it bought IS oil 2 peshmerga arrested for buying IS oil
2014 Anbar Ops Command launched op to clear Euphrates area outside of Ramadi IS just took
2014 PM Abadi said he would get rid of fake bomb detectors
2014 Iraqi forces started 11th op to free Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhr dist
2014 IS destroyed a Shiite and a Sunni shrine in Salahaddin
2015 Report US thought IS oil revenues down 66% due to air strikes US est IS earned $500 mil/
yr Meant early est IS making $1.4 mil/day was off
2015 KRG paid Gene Energy $25.5 mil for oil exports KRG paid 6% of $409 it owned to oil
companies as of Sep 2015 Genel Energy said it was cutting its investment in KRG until got paid more
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2015 Bodies of 3 people detained by Hashd in Tuz Kharmato Salahaddin found dead
2016 IS spokesman Adnani before killed said group was going to lose its state but wouldn’t end
Said it would go to the deserts and revive 08 US and Iraq drove IS underground Demise due to losing Sunni support Killed tribesmen Created tribal feuds Harassed civilians Imposed religious rule Cut into tribes business Comeback based upon winning back some tribes Proselytized amongst them Took sides in disputes Bribed sheikhs Killed those that didn’t cooperate Played carrot and stick with tribes Rebuilt manpower Jailbreaks helped free members Carried out dramatic attacks on govt Took advantage of 2011 US military withdrawal and Syria Used ideas of Maoist revolution
2016 Human rights workers said Kirkuk authorities expelled 250 displaced families in retaliation
for IS attack on city
2017 ISF and Peshmerga clashed in Fishkhabur Dohuk Kurds feared Baghdad was attempting to
seize KRG pipeline to Turkey as a result of independence referendum
(Musings On Iraq Baghdad Ups Ante Attempting To Seize Control Of Kurds’ Oil Pipeline)
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2019 PM Abdul Mahdi said he would cut salaries of top officials Reform ministries Provide
more welfare Jobs for young to answer protests
2019 Judicial Council created committees in each province to look into attacks on protests
2020 Report Govt salaries not paid Sep and Oct Salaries were up 400% from 2005 Around
75% of budget went to salaries and pensions
2020 Report Summit Foundation for Refugees and Displaced found more than 32,000 left KRG
since start of 2020 Main reason lack of jobs KRG parliament committee found 14,500 young people left since start of 2020 Unemployment highest amount young
2020 Report Iran smuggled oil through Iraq to get around sanctions Sent oil to Faw in Basra and
mixed in with Iraqi exports
2021 Fatah supporters tried to storm the Green Zone over its poor election results Turned back
by security forces
(Musings On Iraq Protests Continue In Iraq Over Election Results)
(Musings On Iraq Fatah Terrified Of Being Excluded In Sadr’s Majority Govt) 2021 Election Comm ordered voting recount in Kirkuk after complaints
2021 Ninewa Gov Jabouri said all displaced in province would return to their home areas by Nov
Part of govt effort to end displacement by kicking them out
2023 Biden admin said Iran facilitating attacks upon US troops in Iraq and Syria Said groups
were carrying out attacks with backing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard
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