This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 5

 

1915 6^th Army created by Ottomans under command of German Gen von der Goltz to defend

Mesopotamia from British

1922 King Faisal accepted Anglo-Iraq Treaty

(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)

1922 UK Sec of War Evans lobbied cabinet to withdraw from Mosul province

(Musings On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)

1974 Kurdish parliament appointed by Baghdad took office

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1975 Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz went to Damascus to discuss uniting Iraq and Syria

1980 Iraq ended unilateral ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War after Iran didn’t follow suite and went back to

fighting

1982 Iranians regrouped during Op Muslim ibn Aql Attacked again Broke through Iraqi lines and

reached Mandali Diyala

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1985 Iraq ended air strikes on Kharg Island Iran’s main oil terminal Hit 21 times but no lasting damage

(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 Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)

(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)

1990 Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz addressed UN saying Iraq wouldn’t compromise on Kuwait

2000 During VP debate Cheney said US might have to take military action to remove Saddam in future

2002 Bush in weekly radio address said U.S. had found Saddam ordered field commanders to use

chemical weapons something Iraq denied it had

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2002 CIA Dir Tenet told White House to remove Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger from Bush speech

Said intel was weak

(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)

2002 Knight Ridder article quoted several intelligence officers that Bush admin ignored dissenting

opinions on aluminum tubes

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

2004 Bremer said US never had enough troops in Iraq while he was running the CPA Said military

thought troop levels fine

2005 Parliament changed decision from actual voters back to registered ones for no vote on constitution

(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)

2005 Suicide bomber hit mosque in Hilla, Babil killing 27 wounding 87

2005 UK official claimed Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah providing EFPs to Shiite militias

in Basra to attack British troops

(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias) 

(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In 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)

2005 UK Def Intel Chief report after trip to Iraq Said security worse despite political progress Said if

strategy not changed situation would not allow UK withdrawal

2006 UK Intel report on Maliki govt Coordination within govt poor Maliki wanted to keep Shiite support

Opposed Coalition action vs militias as a result Wanted political solution to that problem Little progress on reconciliation Govt full of distrust Sunni ministers felt excluded Shiite and Kurdish ministers questioned whether Sunnis willing to give up violence

2006 Sunni leaders told Sec State Rice Iraq breaking apart They were victims of sectarian violence and no

one protecting them

2006 SCIRI head Hakim told Sec State Rice Shiites tried to work with Sunnis but they were

obstructionists

2006 Sec State Rice told PM Maliki if there was no reconciliation US would leave and Maliki would end

up being hung

2006 Al Jazeera played tape by Islamic Army offering talks with US Said Iraq facing occupation by US

and Iranians and latter worse Said Zarqawi had made mistakes in Iraq

2006 Al-Bubaz tribe in Baghdad Diyala Salahaddin said it was going to start working with Al Qaeda in

Iraq

2006 Report Maliki govt sent envoys to Syria Egypt UAE Jordan to try to stop support for insurgency 

2006 Displacement Min 80,000 displaced registered with ministry July-Aug 40,000 families asked for

govt aid last 7 months Officials said real numbers higher Head of Intl Org for Migration said most displaced had no plans to return

2007 Natl Sec Adv Rubaie said that Iran increased arms shipments to militias and infiltrations into Iraq

Said number of arms found by US was only tip of iceberg Said sending more advanced weapons Policy ordered by Ayatollah Khamanei Said Iranian influence pervasive throughout Iraq Came week after PM Maliki claimed Iran stopped all support for militias

(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias) 

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2007 Report ISI carrying out assassination campaign vs Anbar Awakening leaders

(Musings On Iraq The Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2008 Egyptian Foreign and Oil Ministers visited Iraq 1^st Egyptian official visit since 1990 Said would re-

open mission Closed offices in July 05 after diplomat kidnapped and killed by Al Qaeda in Iraq

2008 Report Govt raised salaries 50-75% to try to keep professionals More than 7000 doctors fled Iraq 600

came back Higher Educ Min said 6700 professionals left 150 came back

2008 Displacement Min trying to close displacement camp in Najaf Maliki govt wanted to close all camps

to claim displacement over

2009 UN report 71% of Iraqis lived in urban areas Of those 57% lived in slum conditions

(Musings On Iraq Almost Half Of Iraqis Live In Slum Conditions)

2017 Riyad and Hawija in Kirkuk liberated from Islamic State

(Musings On Iraq Center of Hawija Taken As Operations Reaches Final Phase)

(Musings On Iraq Town of Hawija Liberated From the Islamic State)

(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Forces Finish Hawija Now On To Western Anbar Again)

2017 Turkey’s President Erdogan threatened to close border and air space to Kurdistan

            in retaliation for KRG independence referendum

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)

2019 Baghdad people tried to march on Tahrir Square Shot at by police killing 7 Clashes

with ISF in Zafaraniya 1 killed Police tried to shut off Sadr City leading to clashes Mortar fired into area 2 killed in Shula 5 TV stations in Baghdad attacked likely by Hashd Basra protesters arrested Nasiriya Saraya Khorasani Badr Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Dawa Communists Fadhila ISCI Hikma offices all burned in city 5 killed Police shot at crowd in Diwaniya killing 6 Kut people tried to burn dep gov’s house with 1 killed

(Musings On Iraq Govt Violence Reducing Number Of Protests In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Khorasani Brigade Another Iraq Militia That Returned Home From Syria To Fight The Insurgency)

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

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This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 4

 

1920 All of Upper Euphrates modern day Anbar was under British control during 1920 Revolt

(Musings On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)

1980 Lack of progress in Iran invasion led Iraq to announce unilateral ceasefire only 2 weeks into war

Iran didn’t comply

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1982 UN Res 522 called for ceasefire Iraq accepted Iran rejected

1982 Sec of State Shultz and Soviet For Min Gromyko met and agreed Iran-Iraq War should end as soon

as possible

(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)

1990 Hosni Mubarak said Iraq and Israel had secret meetings in 1987 and 1989 facilitated by US

academic Laurie Mylroie

(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Convoluted Iraq-Terrorism Conspiracy Theory)

(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq Conspiracy Theory Was Debunked By Captured Baath Documents)

1997 PUK accused Turkey of arming KDP in return for help against PKK

1999 UN Res 1266 allowed Iraq to export $3.04 bil in oil under Oil for Food Program

2002 Unclassified version of CIA’s report on Iraq’s WMD released by White House Dropped most of the

reservations in original Said were disputes within intelligence community over Iraq’s nuke program Said most believed aluminum tubes were for centrifuges Others for rockets

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

(Musings On Iraq 2002 CIA White Paper On Iraq Vs the 2002-2003 U.N. Inspectors)

(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)

2002 CIA told NSC to remove reference to Iraq trying to buy uranium from Niger from Bush speech

2002 CIA’s National Intel Officer told Senate Intel Comm he questioned Iraq-Africa uranium story in

British dossier

(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)

2002 General in charge intel for US invasion met with DIA to go over suspected WMD sites DIA had no

plans on how sites were to be dealt with during invasion General couldn’t confirm there was WMD at any of the 946 sites listed by DIA because intel so bad

2002 UK Foreign Office legal adv Sir Wood said that U.N. needed to act on Iraq to give legal justification

for war otherwise British forces could be sued

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2002 Intel officials complained to press that White House pressured them on reports on Iraq

2002 Report Institute for Science and International Technology Lawrence Livermore Lab said didn’t

believe aluminum tubes for centrifuges

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

2002 Report claimed White House ignored contradictory views on Iraq Pushed US intel to come up with

more on Iraq

2002 State Dep Future of Iraq Project met in London INC presented plan written by Kanan Makiya

calling for exiles to set up transitional govt

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)

(Musings On Iraq review The Assassins’ Gate, America In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)

2003 Last day CPA paid ex-Iraqi soldiers turned into violent demonstrations in Baghdad and other cities

3 killed by US and British troops

2004 Car Bombs in Baghdad’s Green Zone and Mosul killed 21 Wounded 90

2004 CIA review found no connection between Saddam and Zarqawi as White House claimed

(Musings On Iraq review Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation)

2006 Report US military said Mahdi Army running death squads out of hospitals and Baghdad morgue

Murdered patients Using ambulances to move men weapons hostages around Sadr Health Min Shammari said he welcomed any investigation into his ministry 

2006 US military said bomb attacks in Baghdad had reached all time high

(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

2006 Report British forces in south found no evidence of Iranian weapons crossing into Iraq

(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias) 

2007 Fmr Integrity Comm head Judge Radhi testified to House Comm Said corruption had cost Iraq $18

bil over last 3 yrs $500 mil stolen from Oil Min by insurgents and militias and used to fund violence Couldn’t investigate Oil Min because of threats of violence Ministers could stop any investigations Said PM Maliki blocked investigations into top officials by demanding all cases be okayed by him first 31 members of Comm and 12 of Judge’s family members had been killed for their work

2007 Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen testified to House Comm Said US wasn’t doing much

to help fight or investigation corruption in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen on corruption in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)

2007 State Dept official told House Comm State had issued orders that none of its officials could publicly

            criticize Maliki govt out of fear it would harm US-Iraq relations

2007 NatlSecAdv Rubaie told Pentagon officials PM Maliki opposed to Sahwa plan and wanted to control

them

(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)

2007 Report Def Sec Gates Joint Chiefs head Adm Mullen Dep Def Sec England Under Sec Of Intel Gen

Clapper all thought Iraq drain on US military and distracting from Afghanistan Adm Mullen said Iraq war might not improve Middle East

(Musings On Iraq review Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary At War)

2007 Report Izzat al-Duri announced Unification Congress of 22 insurgents groups leading to Supreme

Command for Jihad and Liberation Duri named its leader Said insurgents needed to be recognized as legitimate voice of Iraq Called for US withdrawal All soldiers to be returned to duty Duri’s Naqshibandi only major group listed in membership

2008 Poland announced withdrawing its 900 troops that were stationed in Diwaniya by end of Oct Was

part of invasion force Lost 21 soldiers and 70 wounded

20008 Large numbers of Christian began fleeing Mosul after 11 killed in Sep

(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Bad Times For Iraq’s Christians)

2008 Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum announced they would start producing natural gas in KRG

2008 ISF forced Kurdish Toilers Party out of office in Jalawla Part of PM Maliki’s confrontation with

            Kurds over disputed area in Diyala

(Musings On Iraq Cold War Between Baghdad and Kurds Turns Hot)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

2017 Iran’s President Rouhani said his country would not support the division of Iraq Said Kurds made

wrong decision to hold independence referendum

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)

2017 Turkey’s President Erdogan said that Kurdish referendum was illegal

2017 Central Bank of Iraq said it would ease financial restrictions imposed on Kurdistan day before over

independence referendum

2019 People marched on Tahrir Square and bridge to Green Zone in Baghdad and were shot

at by ISF 10 killed Were also clashes in Shaab Husseiniy Zafaraniya New Baghdad Shula Amil Sadr City in Baghdad More people killed in those districts Reports of snipers firing into crowds Reports of Hashd attacking protesters and raiding TV stations Crowds broken up in Basra Maysan Najaf by gunfire 3 killed by ISF in Nasiriya People were arrested when they tried to go to a hospital Govt building in Diwaniya stormed and 3 killed Protest in Muthanna

(Musings On Iraq Have Iraq’s Protests Reached A Tipping Point?)

(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)

2019 Najaf governor and police chief accused saboteurs of infiltrating demonstrations and

causing violence to discredit them

2019 PM Abdul Mahdi said he would create a committee to carry out reforms and fight

corruption in response to protests

2019 Ayatollah Sistani used Friday sermon to condemn violence in protests and called on

parliament and courts to carry out reforms

2019 Sadr ordered his Sairoon bloc to boycott parliament called for prime minister to

resign Fmr PM Abadi also called for new elections

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This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 3

 

1920 Gertrude Bell called mujtahids a group of popes standing in the way of British plans Claimed

Shiites were problem in Iraq Said Sunnis should rule Iraq because Shiites would impose a religions state That was why Mosul province had to be included in Iraq to add more Sunnis Said that British were looking for Iraqi to be new ruler but couldn’t find one so had to pick a son of the Sharif of Mecca

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell And Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)

1932 Iraq gained independence from Britain

1968 Soviet Union called for negotiations between Baghdad and KDP rebels

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1978 Ayatollah Khomeini left Najaf for Paris after Baghdad demanded he reject politics in deal made

with Shah of Iran

1980 Iraq Foreign Minister Hamadi presented Iraq’s case to UN claiming it acted in self-defense in Iran-

Iraq War

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)

1980 Khomeini speech said goal of war was to punish the Baath and rejected negotiations to end it

1980 Iraq began bombing Tehran

1982 Sudan said it would send troops to help Iraq in Iran-Iraq War

(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)

1988 1975 Iraq contracted US company to build pesticide plant in Samarra Wanted to use it to work on 4

agents close to nerve gas Company got worried and never finished plant 1980s WGerman company finished plant Produced nerve gas and tabun US believed Iraq wanted WMD to counter Israel

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)

1996 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors that it hid part of its missile program and then secretly destroyed

them in March 92

(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 Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

2002 Bush signed executive order to train 5,000 Iraqi exiles to help with invasion

2002 US planes dropped flyers over Iraq telling them not to fight Americans

2002 Report US using No Fly Zones to practice attacking Iraq

2003 Bush said interim report by Iraq Survey Group justified invasion because found WMD programs

(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 US went to war with Iraq because most likely place terrorists could get WMD

2003 CBS/New York Times poll found 53% of respondents in US thought Iraq war a mistake

2003 Report aluminum tubes were one of the main arguments US had Iraq restarted nuke program but

was always contested Senior White House officials claimed Natl Sec Adv Rice knew about differences over tubes Administration overstated argument for tubes

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

2006 Report Albu Mahal tribe fought Al Qaeda in Iraq in Qaim

(Musings On Iraq Anbar Before And After The Awakening Pt IX: Sheikh Sabah Aziz Of The Albu Mahal)

(Musings On Iraq How A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening)

2006 Report various Anbar sheikhs Iraqi army general and Association of Muslim Scholars all criticized

the new Awakening Claimed it would only lead to more violence Were just going to kill other Sunnis and were puppets of the US

2006 Interior Min Bolani ordered commander 8^th Natl Police Bgd and unit suspended Officer arrested for

suspected involvement in kidnapping of 26 workers in Amil Baghdad 10/1/06 10 later found dead

2006 US military said 50-70 foreign fighters entered Iraq each month Jan-Sep 06 US-ISF captured 630

foreign fighters Total number of foreign fighters in Iraq est 800-2,000 Most from Saudi Arabia Egypt Syria

(Musings On Iraq The Saudi Role In The Iraqi Insurgency)

2006 Car bomb on Industry Min motorcade in Baghdad killed 14 wounded 75

(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

2006 Intl Org for Migration 9,000 people fleeing per week 190,000 displaced in central and southern Iraq

2008 US turned over control of security in Babil to Iraq 12^th of 18^th province to do so

(Musings On Iraq Babil Province Handover To Iraqis)

2008 Dhi Qar Governor said that Tribal Support Councils were violation of law

(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)

(Musings On Iraq Disputes Over Tribal Support Councils)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

2014 IS released video of beheading of UK hostage Alan Henning and threatened to behead US hostage

Peter Kassig

2014 Australia authorized air strikes against IS and Special Forces to be sent to Iraq

2017 Former Iraq President Talabani died

2017 Central Bank of Iraq said it would halt all foreign currency transfer to KRG and stop selling dollars to

four Kurdish banks in retaliation for independence referendum

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)

2017 Parliament said it would not work with 4 telecommunications companies with contracts in Kurdistan

2017 Parliament threatened to take away immunity for Kurdish MPs that voted in the referendum

2017 Kurdish MPs were either blocked or boycotted the parliamentary session

2017 Report Irbil and Baghdad in secret talks to try to defuse tensions after referendum

2017 Turkey offered to mediate between Irbil and Baghdad to end crisis over referendum

2017 Pres Masum’s office announced that Kirkuk Governor Karim would stay in office until his court

challenge over his dismissal was heard

2017 KRG Election Comm rejected Change candidate for president saying he missed deadline when he

didn’t

(Musings On Iraq In Face Of Referendum Fallout Kurdish Ruling Parties Decide To Hold Onto Power)

2019 Protests in Baghdad Basra Dhi Qar Maysan Muthanna Najaf Qadisiya Wasit Protests in

Baghdad continued in different neighborhoods and some of the surrounding towns Hashd accused of driving car into protesters and killing 1 in Baghdad 1 killed in Hilla Govt building in Dhi Qar’s Rifa stormed Plainclothes gunmen said to target protesters in Nasiriya Report 35 killed so far in unrest

(Musings On Iraq 30 Killed In Iraq Protests As PM Abdul Mahdi Again Proves How Ineffective He Is)

(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)

2019 PM Abdul Mahdi gave televised speech Said he’d only been in office one year so

couldn’t expect any dramatic changes Said he’d given strict orders on use of force and protesters’ were responsible for deaths

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Iraqis Mark One Year Anniversary Of Protest Movement And Voice Frustration

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Iraqis came out into the streets of several Iraqi cities on October 1 to commemorate the one year anniversary of the protest movement. Many voiced frustration at not having their demands being met by the government.

This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 2

 

1918 UK War Office told commander in Mespotamia to seize as many oil producing areas as

possible

(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)

1980 Iran launched counterattack on Iraq’s northern bridgehead at Penjwin 1^st of the war

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1981 Iran bombed 4 hydroelectric power plants in Iraq

1982 Day 2 Iranian Op Muslim ibn Aqil between Qasr e-Shirin and Sumer in center Iraq used tear gas 1^st

time to try to turn back Iranian human wave attacks Saddam went to front to urge on troops because Iranian attack could threaten Baghdad

(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 Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

(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)

1989 US NSDD26 said US would try to improve relations with Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

1990 Report German companies built facilities and provided agents for Iraq’s WMD

program in 1980s Germany denied it helped with weapons Iraqi front companies bought equipment in Europe

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)

1992 UN Res 778 authorized Iraq oil revenues to be deposited in UN controlled bank until sanctions

lifted

2001 Badr met with Barzani again Asked about US intentions in Iraq Barzani said US was thinking of

invading Iraq after Afghanistan Barzani was worried about Turkish involvement in any invasion Barzani said that US would only support pro-US parties and they would take control after Saddam Badr asked to open office in Irbil

(Musings On Iraq Early Report On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

2002 Summary of main points Natl Intel Estimate released Said Iraq rebuilding nuke and WMD programs

(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

2002 Iraq called UK’s weapons dossier propaganda and lies

2002 Bush appeared with Democrats and Republicans calling on Congress to pass use of force resolution

on Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

2002 Bush said that Iraq had WMD stocks rebuilding programs Working on nuclear programs

(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2002 NYT article quoted Defense Policy Board’s Perle that CIA was anti-INC and it provided best intel on

Iraq

2002 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate CIA had no sources inside Iraq since 1990s

2002 CIA Dep Dir McLaughlin told Senate British had stretched story that Iraq tried to buy uranium

from Africa Said low chance Iraq would use WMD Would only use them if attacked Said low chance Iraq would use terrorists against US unless America attacked Iraq 

(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)

2002 Undersec Def Feith memo Said exiles should organize a conference to create bill of rights for Iraq

before war US wanted a federal system of govt US military would run Iraq after war and work with exiles

2003 Iraq Survey Group head Kay briefed Congress on interim report Found no WMD but evidence of

WMD programs No nuclear program No mobile WMD labs Said Saddam never gave up ambitions to have WMD Iraq’s WMD stocks looked like they were destroyed in 1990s after Gulf War Said secret WMD programs were hidden in Iraqi intelligence services for assassinations Said Iraq had produced banned missile types

(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

2003 CIA Dir Tenet and Deputy Dir McLaughlin reluctant to accept Kay’s findings Argued over WMD

stocks being destroyed aluminum tubes and mobile WMD labs

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)

2003 White House called CIA Asked why finding no WMD could’ve been buried in Kay’s report instead

of being first 

2003 Kay testimony led White House to change message from Iraq had WMD stocks to WMD programs

being the threat that justified war

2003 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Sanchez said insurgency had evolved and gotten more deadly

2003 NatSecAdv Rice created Iraq Stabilization Group to help run postwar Iraq without consulting with

rest of govt Bush had given Pentagon control of postwar Iraq so NSC’s group had no authority

(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)

2004 Bush said Zarqawi travelled to Iraq before 03 invasion Killed USAID official Foley in Jordan Said

that proved Iraq was a threat because it had WMD and was connected to terrorist networks like Zarqawi’s

(Musings On Iraq review Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation)

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2004 Hundreds of Kurds marched in Kirkuk city demanding independent Kurdistan and Kirkuk as its

capital

2005 Parliament ruled no vote on constitution would be based upon actual voters not registered ones to

diminish Sunni ballots against document Sunni politicians complained that change in how votes counted would make it harder to reject draft constitution

(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2005 CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Abizaid told Congress he was optimistic about Iraq war

2005 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey told Congress 1/3 of 119 Iraqi army battalions could operate with some

US aid

2005 Pres Talabani asked PM Jaafari to step down Complained Shiites were dominating govt Accused

United Iraqi Alliance of not giving Kurds govt positions neglecting ministries run by Kurds not dealing with Kirkuk

2007 NatlSecAdv Rubaie told SecState Rice US had to tell Sunni politicians they couldn’t play politics

and violence at same time Said PM Maliki would take care of Sadr and Mahdi Army

2007 United Alliance told US to stop sahwa program Claimed some were terrorists killing and kidnapping

people

2007 Hamas in Iraq accused ISI of beheading civilians for violating its fatwas Condemned ISI’s chlorine

attack upon Amiriya Fallujah

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2015 Protests in Baghdad Babil Karbala Najaf Qadisiyah Muthanna Dhi Qar Wasit Maysan Basra Diyala

demanding reform

2017 PM Abadi said he would not talk to KRG unless it cancelled referendum results

(Musings On Iraq Fighting Breaks Out Between Federal Forces And Peshmerga In Salahaddin And Kirkuk)

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)

2017 Abadi govt announced foreigners in Kurdistan could fly out of country via Baghdad even if didn’t

have federal visa

2017 Joint Iran-Iraq military drill started along KRG border in response to independence referendum

2017 PUK’s Hero Ibrahim Ahmed said that Kurds were paying the price for the wrong decision to hold

independence referendum

2017 Gorran called for new Kurdish leadership council to be disbanded Said that referendum had created

another political crisis for KRG

2018 Parliament elected Barham Salah new president Salah picked Adel Abdul Mahdi as future premier

Iran tried to block Salah’s election but failed

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Parliament Throws Out Rules And Convention To Elect President And Name Premier Designate)

2019 Protests expanded from 10 to 13 provinces in Baghdad Babil Basra Dhi Qar Diyala Karbala Kirkuk

Maysan Muhanna Najaf Qadisiya Salahaddin Wasit Govt buildings in Babil Dhi Qar Maysan Najaf along with offices of Badr Dawa Supreme Council Asaib Ahl Al-Haq burned 8 protesters and policeman killed

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s October Protests Escalate And Grow)

(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)

(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) 

 

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Islamic State attacks in Iraq have leveled off in September, but they are still higher than the previous two months. Pro-Iran groups have also picked up their operations this month.

This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 1

 

1920 Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra as new British high commissioner of Iraq Was told to

prepare for Iraqi independence

1967 Law No 123 gave Iraqi National Oil Company more power and right to develop north Rumaila

oil field

1968 Govt and KDP started fighting once again

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1972 US opened Interests Section in Baghdad after diplomatic relations were ended in 1967

1978 Iraq Revolutionary Command Council said it would get Arab League to reject Egypt-Israeli peace

deal

1980 Saddam halted military operations in Iran for one week

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1980 Iran declared maritime blockade of Iraq

1980 Iran letter to UN blamed Iraq for war claiming it violated Algiers Treaty Supported anti-revolutionary

groups Gave them weapons and sent agents into Iran for sabotage Expelled 40000 Iraqis Said Tehran not willing to follow UN calls for ceasefire

1980 Iraq retaliated for Iranian bombing of Osirak reactor and Baghdad by bombing Hamadan air base

1982 Iran attacked again in Op Muslim ibn Aqil in central front and broke through Iraqi lines Iraq

counterattacked and drove them back once again

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1983 After international pressure France said it would delay shipping 5 Super Enendard fighter

bombers to Iraq but went ahead secretly

(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)

1997 Iraq blocked UN inspectors at three sites over last week

(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 Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

(Musings On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

2001 Weekly Standard article argued Iraq connected to 9/11 and Saddam had to be removed

2001 William Safire OpEd in New York Times claimed Al Qaeda operative was armed by Iraq

2001 Badr met with Barzani and KDP officials in Irbil Badr asked Barzani about US intentions in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Early Report On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

2002 Head UN inspector Blix met with Iraqi delegation Iraq agreed to UN Res 1284 and new

unconditional inspections Iraq gave CDs on its nuclear facilities to IAEA

(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)

2002 Bush said military option wasn’t first choice with Iraq but disarming country was Part of strategy to

privately work on war plans while publicly denying it

(Musings On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq)

2002 Bush and Cheney met with Congressmen to lobby them over Iraq

2002 White House spokesman Fleischer said that assassinating Saddam would be cheaper way out of

Iraq crisis

2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq released Said Iraq had WMD Reported renewed

production of mustard, sarin, cyclosporine, VX Reports Iraq bought chemicals and equipment for limited chemical weapons production Had little info on chemical stockpiles, but could be 100-500 metric tons Said all parts of biological weapons program active Had low confidence Iraq would use WMD and no intel that Iraq planning to attack US Speculated that in desperation Iraq might use Al Qaeda for WMD attack on US State Dept had 11 page annex with disagreements with NIE’s findings Said US intelligence community had no compelling case Iraq had active nuclear program Didn’t believe Iraq-Niger uranium story Said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for centrifuges Sign of renewed nuclear program State and Energy Depts disagreed that aluminum tubes were for centrifuges Air Force intelligence didn’t think UAVs for WMD but rather for reconnaissance

(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)

(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)

2003 CPA Governor of Anbar Mines told Bremer CPA and military should work together to create a

new Iraqi security force

2004 Start of Battle of Samara to clear city before Jan 2005 elections

2005 Marines launched Op Iron Fist aimed at Qaim border region of Anbar

2006 Health Ministry released partial figures for 1,089 civilian deaths in Aug 06 Passed previous high of

1,065 in Jul 06 UN counted 6,559 deaths form July-Aug 06

2006 Natl Sec Adv Hadley ordered drafting of new strategy for Iraq

2006 Report US public and private assessments of Iraq different Publicly said things improving Privately

talked about violence increasing into 07 Had been getting message Iraq getting worse since 04 and yet had no strategy to win war and being told that was only possible outcome

(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)

2006 26 workers at a shop kidnapped in Amil neighborhood 10 of their bodies later found Police said

50 bodies found in Baghdad in 24 hours

(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

2009 PM Maliki announced new State of Law list to run in 2010 elections

(Musings On Iraq Malik’s New State Of Law List May Not Be Enough)

2010 National Alliance picked PM Maliki as its candidate for premier due to Sadr switching to back

Maliki under Iranian pressure

2014 US sent Apache helicopters to Iraq to protect forces there and later offensive ops against IS

2017 Gorran blamed Pres Barzani for crisis between Irbil and Baghdad saying he ignored warnings

about referendum

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)

2017 KRG announced Referendum Committee was becoming Kurdistan Region’s Supreme Political

Council

2017 UN offered to mediate between Baghdad and Irbil over referendum

2019 Protests in Baghdad Basra Maysan Qadisiya Dhi Qar Wasit Muthanna Babil Karbala Najaf Four

killed by security forces in Baghdad and Nasiriya Govt building in Nasiriya set on fire Demands went from jobs and services to PM Abdul Mahdi resigning by end of day

(Musigns On Iraq Iraqi Secuirty Forces Kill At Lesat 4 Protesters Creating Crisis Govt Was Hoping To Avoid)

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