This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 30 Start of 1920 Revolt vs British Mandate in Iraq

 

1915 UK committee wrote paper advocating for break up of Ottoman Empire and creation of

Iraq to control its oil and agriculture Cabinet didn’t agree

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq)

This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 29 Nouri mosque in Mosul liberated where IS’s Baghdadi declared the caliphate Iraqi forces claimed Mosul freed but fighting continued

 

1915 US consulate report on anti-Turk riot in Karbala

This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 28 CPA disbanded and sovereignty returned to Iraq

 

1914 Ottomans agreed to oil concessions for British and Germans in Mosul and Baghdad

provinces Never happened because WWI

Review Patrick O’Donnell, We Were One, Shoulder To Shoulder With The Marines Who Took Fallujah, Da Capo Press, 2006

O’Donnell, Patrick, We Were One, Shoulder To Shoulder With The Marines Who Took Fallujah, Da Capo Press, 2006

 

Patrick O’Donnell went to Iraq in 2004 to witness the 2^nd Battle of Fallujah and tell the story of some of the Americans involved in the fight. He eventually came across the 1^st platoon of the 3^rd Battalion, 1^st Marine Regiment. He told their story in We Were One, Shoulder To Shoulder With The Marines Who Took Fallujah. It is a traditional combat story emphasizing the comradery and bravery of the Marines.

This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 27 Iraq’s Revolutionary Command Council approved invasion of Kuwait

 

1916 UK report on defeat at Kut published Led to Secretary of State for India Chamberlain to resign

Said campaign bad from the start because under split control of London and Delhi Blamed Political officer Cox for pushing taking Baghdad which led to expansion of original mission to protect Persian Gulf and oil fields in Persia Was lack of transportation troops and supplies India didn’t adequately fund war Blamed India for mismanagement

(Musings On Iraq review Desert Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia)

This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 26 Iraqi intel rounded up Iraqi National Accord coup plotters backed by US Called CIA and told them to go home

 

1922 Commerce Min Timman resigned over proposed Anglo-Iraq Treaty King Faisal ordered PM

Gaylani not to accept resignation

Interview with Prof Nicole Watts Author of Republic of Dreams Ordinary People Extraordinary Struggles and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan

San Francisco State Professor Nicole Watts recently came out with an excellent book about the life of a Kurdish family. Called Republic of Dreams, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan, the book follows Peshawa and his family from Halabja from the 1988 chemical attack upon the town during the Iran-Iraq War up to the present. Here is an interview with Professor Watts about her book and work on Iraqi Kurdistan.