1932 King Faisal asked PM Said to resign Faisal wanted a national unity govt that would include
opposition and carry out reforms
1936 PM Hashemi contacted head of Dulaim and Banu Tamim tribes along with Kurds to back
his plan to declare a republic and depose King Ghazi
1936 Gen Sidqi and Gen Latif chief of staff of military wrote letter asking PM Hashemi to resign
1948 Finance Min Mumtaz resigned when govt refused to get loans from Egypt and Intl Bank to
deal with financial crisis
1982 Saddam ordered increased attacks upon Iranian cities 3 SCUD missiles fired at Dezful
(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 restored diplomatic relations with US which ended in Oct 1967
(Musings On Iraq Review The Twilight War, The Secret History Of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran)
1992 Inspectors interviewed Dr Jabouri missile fuel expert who said Iraq imported SCUD fuel from
Germany Numbers didn’t add up to number of missiles Iraq declared Led inspectors to believe that Iraq was hiding SCUDs
1992 Report before Gulf War Bush admin approved sale of computers and software to Iraq that
were used on missile and supergun programs
(Musings On Iraq review Al-Hussein, Iraqi Indigenous Conventional Arms Projects, 1980-2003)
1992 UK approved illegal sales of equipment to Iraq before Kuwait invasion that were used for
weapons programs Deals were made to collect intel on Iraq
1992 Opposition meeting in Salahaddin Kurdistan called for democratic and federal Iraq Made
INC umbrella organization with ethnosectarian quotas
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s Ethnosectarian Quota System)
(Musings On Iraq review Sectarianism In Iraq, Antagonistic Visions of Unity)
1992 PUK KDP PKK signed ceasefire after PUK and KDP helped Turks attack PKK
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
2002 US intel complained to press Pentagon using own intel on Iraq and relying upon INC too
much
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
2003 Bremer returned to DC to discuss his long term plan for Iraq which White House had
turned against
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld told Bremer of plan to give power to Iraqi Governing Council and return
Iraq sovereignty by Apr 04 Bremer said needed new Iraqi govt and constitution 1st
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
2003 Bush at NSC meeting said US had to stay the course in Iraq Gen Abizaid said US had to
bring back ex-Iraqi soldiers to rebuild army Bremer said too risky Natl Sec Adv Rice said insurgency desperate and not going to succeed
2003 Zarqawi bombed Red Cross HQ and 4 police stations in Baghdad Sixth attack foiled 35
dead and 244 injured Part of Ramadan offensive
(Musings On Iraq How The U.S. Failed To Recognize The Insurgency In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Black Flags, The Rise Of ISIS)
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2003 Saddam called on insurgents to attack Iraqi security forces rather than US led coalition
2003 U.S. military blamed foreign fighters for spate of Baghdad bombings Day before denied foreign fighters important in capital Said insurgents were paying 10 times as much for people to carry out attacks against US forces
2003 UnderSecDef Feith provided evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties his office had collected to
Senate Intel Comm Feith told comm Iraqi govt knew Zarqawi entered Iraq in 2002
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To
The Sectarian War of 2006)
2003 Bush told press that violence in Iraq desperate act and sign that US was making progress
2004 Report number of IEDs being planted in Iraq went from 500 per months in May and June 04 to 1,000
by Oct 04
2005 Baghdad insurgent leader told Guardian he supported voting on Constitution and opposed
Al Qaeda in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
2007 Gen Petraeus said ISI no longer had any strongholds in central Baghdad Said ops in
Baghdad Belt responsible Said harder to root out militias
2007 Report Winter 06 Sadiya Baghdad was being cleansed of Sunnis by Mahdi Army and
Interior Min’s Wolf Brigade Half population fled US troops arrived during Surge Were attacked by police US hired Sunnis into police PM Maliki govt objected
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2008 Iranian agent arrested attempting to infiltrate into eastern Basra 4th such incident in Oct
(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iranians And Special Groups Forces Returning To Iraq)
2008 Report $100 mil water treatment plant in Fallujah over budget 3 yrs behind schedule Was
held up as centerpiece of US reconstruction in Anbar No electricity to run facility No money to build pipes to connect plant to houses US officials knew about problems and did nothing Started in May 04 Was supposed to be finished in 18 months Was supposed to cover all of Fallujah Now would only service 1/3
2008 Report 24 small oil companies got contracts to explore with KRG 07 2 companies found oil
Couldn’t export due to dispute with Baghdad reason why only small companies involved
2008 Report Despite image KRG had limited economy Kurds were leaving for Europe to find
jobs Lacked infrastructure Corruption Few banks which meant hard to get loans Unemployment/Underemployment high Govt main employer Used foreign workers No transparency in KRG Avg only 8 hrs of electricity/day Big gap between rich and poor 2 oil companies invested $650 mil into KRG
2009 Iyad Allawi announced he was joining with Salah al-Mutlaq and VP Hashemi to create
Iraqiya for 2010 election
2011 Salahaddin council voted to start process to become a federal region PM Maliki blocked
move Came after Higher Educ Min fired 140 employees at Tikrit Univ for being Baathist Said Maliki was repressing Sunnis
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2012 Report Militias went to Iran and then to Syria to fight for Assad Others took tour buses to
Syria Also used buses to ships weapons to Syria Fought alongside Iranians and Lebanese Iran pushed Iraqis to recruit more for Syria in Diyala and south Many Iraqis feared Syrian war would spill over into Iraq Sadrist official in Babil said it had been recruiting fighters as well
2013 Report Sep 2012 Baghdad and KRG signed deal for KRG to export 250,000 bar/day in oil
to get budget payments KRG said Baghdad didn’t pay oil companies in region and stopped exports 2014 budget again set export quota for KRG
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2013 Report ISI controlled large parts of Anbar at night Set up checkpoints and killed people ISF
didn’t secure Anbar-Syrian border Anbar tribes not working with ISF
2014 IS rounded up families in Anbar from Albu Nimr tribe after took town Executed most of
them
2014 Report ISF freeing Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhr disrupted IS’s attempt to take northern Babil Also
thought it would help end IS siege of Amiriya Fallujah in Anbar
2014 Peshmerga launched attack upon Sinjar dist Ninewa
2015 State of Law withdrew support for PM Abadi over his appointment of secretary to cabinet
2015 60 members of State of Law sent letter to PM Abadi demanding answers about his reforms
Organized by VP Maliki
(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)
2016 KDP compared VP Maliki to Ali Hassan al-Majid Came after Maliki said KRG would
become another Palestine and Barzani worked with Israel Said Kurds were why Turkish troops were in Iraq
2016 Report Abu Fadhl al-Abbas Brigade went into Rutba Anbar after it was freed Blew up
largest mosque in city Took away 20 people ISF did nothing Destroyed cars Looted homes Brigade claimed they were acting against IS sympathizers
(Musings On Iraq review A Stranger in Your Own City, Travels in the Middle East’s Long War)
(Musings On Iraq Abu Fadhl Al-Abbas Brigade From Fighting In Syria To Iraq)
2017 Ceasefire announced between federal and Kurdish forces to allow for talks after
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 IS leader Baghdadi killed in US raid in Syria
2019 Students went on strike in Baghdad Marched to Tahrir Sq PM Abdul Mahdi condemned
students Badr and 2 MPs offices burned in Babil ISF broke up protest in Basra Were protests in 2 other districts in Basra 1 protester died of wounds in Basra ISF started arrest campaign against activists and journalists in Dhi Qar Sit in continued in Karbala and tried to storm govt building at night Marches in Rumaitha and Samawa in Muthanna Protest in Diwaniya Protesters shut down govt offices in 3 districts of Wasit Solidarity protest in Ninewa
(Musings On Iraq More Confrontations Between Protesters And Govt 3rd Day Of Renewed Demonstrations)
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2019 Govt shut down Al Arabiya and Al Hadath TV stations for covering protests
2019 6 MPs from Sadr’s Sairoon and Nasr resigned to support protests
2019 Dep head of Hashd Comm Abu Muhandis said he was watching protests Hoped govt would
meet people’s demands and called on people to support PM Abdul Mahdi Abu Muhandis organized Hashd to attack protests
2020 Finance committee MP said govt workers taking double salaries were making 1.5 tril dinars
Were around 150,000 people involved
2020 Report Iran used Iraq to get around sanctions Iran’s Central Bank Gov visited Iraq Asked
for debt settlements in dollars Iraq owed Iran $5 bil Iraq also paid Iran in dollars for electricity imports Reports that Iraq sent dollars to Iran in fake trade deals Banks and Hashd also got money for Iran
2022 PM Sudani’s cabinet was confirmed by parliament with 21 ministers
(Musings On Iraq 1 Yr After Elections Iraq Finally Has A New Govt)
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