Kurdish Oil Exports Through Turkey Resume At End Of Sep

 

September 27 Kurdish oil reached Turkey for the first time since 2023. This was the fulfillment of months of negotiations between Baghdad, Irbil and oil companies operating in Kurdistan. The agreement also includes a budget deal between the central and regional governments and will help both with their revenues.

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 30 Qasim passed Agrarian Reform Law Broke up power of landlords who had ruled Iraq since Mandate

 

1922 PM Naqib Gaylani named new cabinet Was to pass new Anglo-Iraq Treaty before

            parliament formed so it wouldn’t be debated Ensured British control over Iraq

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 29 Def Sec Rumsfeld ordered review of all Iraq war plans

 

1914 Royal Naval dispatched ships to patrol Shatt al-Arab to protect Persian oil concessions

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This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 28 After invasion plan failed Saddam asked for ceasefire one week into Iran-Iraq War

 

1915 British attacked Ottomans at Es Sinn with frontal attack Ottomans held and then retreated at

night

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 27 US published letter from Al Qaeda to Zarqawi Warned him about vanity Said he had to consult with Al Qaeda more and cooperate with other insurgent groups

 

1919 TE Lawrence wrote Foreign Sec Lord Curzon that Sir Percy Cox should be high

commissioner of Iraq to relieve tension there

Review Heskell Haddad as told to Phyllis Rosenteur, Flight from Babylon: Iraq, Iran, Israel, America, McGraw-Hill, 1986

Haddad, Heskell, as told to Rosenteur, Phyllis, Flight from Babylon: Iraq, Iran, Israel, America, McGraw-Hill, 1986

 

Flight From Babylon: Iraq, Iran, Israel, America is the biography of Jewish Iraqi doctor Heskell Haddad. The book covers his transformation from an Iraqi nationalist growing up in Baghdad to being a committed Zionist who immigrated to Israel. Most of the book is engaging personal stories of Haddad’s family and career but he also comments on Iraqi and Israeli society and especially on how Jews and Iraqis were treated.

This Day In Iraqi History – Sep 26 Bush told Def Sec Rumsfeld to secretly start Iraq war plans

 

1914 Gen Barrow at India Office said UK had to stop Turkish-Arab alliance and declaration

of jihad which could spread to Afghanistan and threaten India UK should make show of force in Shatt al-Arab to deter Arabs from backing Ottomans and if war started should seize Basra vilayet

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In World War I, From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest)

(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)