This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 27

 

1918 British took Haditha

1922 General Haldane commander of UK forces compared Iraqis to children

1959 Communists protested demanding death sentences be applied for opponents of Qasim

(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)

(Musings On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)

1975 Barzani and KDP leadership entered into exile in Iran after Shah ended support

1979 Saddam told Baath meeting that Iraq was going to get a nuclear weapon with help of Soviets so he

could go to war with Israel 

1979 Saddam believed having a nuclear bomb would allow a conventional war of attrition with Israel

that could cost 50,000 Iraqi casualties

1979 Saddam discussed with advisers how to punish countries that backed Sadat’s peace treaty with

Israel

1981 Start of second attempt by Islamic Conference to negotiate ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War

1982 3^rd phase of Iranian Op Fath began to take Fakkeh strategic crossroads to Maysan Saddam ordered

4^th Corps to retreat from Shush in face of Iranian attack

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

1984 Iraq used French Super Etendard jets for 1^st time to attack Iranian shipping Hit a Greek ship in

Persian Gulf carrying Kuwaiti oil that was helping Iraq pay for the war

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

1988 Iran Op Bait al-Moqaddas 4 in Kurdistan started

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

(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)

1988 Iraq dropped chemical bombs for 2^nd day on Karadagh Kurdistan 64 killed 210 wounded total

during Anfal Campaign

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)

1991 2^nd day fighting between Iraqi forces and peshmerga on Khanaqin-Jalawla road Diyala

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

1991 White House spokesman said that US had made no promises to Shiites or Kurds and US public not

interested in getting involved in an Iraqi civil war

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

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)

(Musings On Iraq Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)

1991 4,700 Kurds fled 91 uprising for Turkish border

1995 Fighting between KDP and PUK killed 100 in Irbil

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

1996 UN Resolution 1051 set up monitoring system for Iraqi imports-exports under Oil for Food

program

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

1998 UN inspectors went to 8 presidential sites Iraq allowed entry to Were all sanitized and nothing there

Iraq then said inspectors couldn’t come back

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection Of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD And 2003 Invasion)

2003 Coalition ground forces commander Gen McKiernan ordered halt to operations to regroup forces

2003 U.S. forces entered Samawa, Muthanna and encountered fierce fighting by Fedayeen Saddam

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

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter The Invasion of Iraq)

2003 Iraqi forces began withdrawing in Kirkuk Looting started

(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173^rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)

(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In

2003)

2003 Iraq Def Min reviewed war Told US capturing transportation hubs attacking multiple targets at

same time Report ignored by Saddam

2003 ORHA had meeting of all 4 postwar planning groups to come up with unified plan for Iraq Didn’t

happen Groups had all been created separately within Bush admin with no coordination between them

(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)

(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)

(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 Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)

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

2003 Dep Sec Def Wolfowitz told House of Reps committee Iraq oil would pay for reconstruction

(Musings On Iraq Irqi Oil Would Pay For Reconstruction)

2003 USAID disaster response team entered Um Qasr, Basra to assess humanitarian situation in city

2003 Pres Assad called on Arab countries to stand up against US invasion

2003 Iraqi govt claimed 350 civilians killed in Coalition air strikes during invasion

2004 Report sent to Washington that after examination 2 trailers found during invasion were not mobile

WMD labs as originally thought

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

2004 Marine patrol hit by IED leading to 36 hr gunfight in Fallujah Prelude to 1^st Battle of Fallujah

(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)

2007 Anbar council said no oversight of border crossings and 40% of tariffs stolen due to corruption

(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 ISI killed al-Dhari head of 1920 Revolution Brigade in Anbar after he refused to give

it allegiance

2007 2 car bombs killed 152 wounded 200 in Tal Afar Ninewa

2007 Report fighting between Islamic Army and 1920 Revolution Brigades vs ISI in Anbar and Abu

Ghraib and Taji areas of Baghdad over tactics and ISI trying to dominate insurgency Also splits in Diyala

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

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

2007 US Mil intel report that Iranian intelligence working with Badr and Mahdi Army to assassinate

Industry Ministry officials

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

2007 Report 1^st EFP attack Aug 2003 Aug 05 Natl Sec Adv Hadley said Iran probably behind EFP attacks

Oct 05 UK Amb to Iraq said Iran giving aid to militias to attack UK forces Apr 06 EFP attacks began increasing then dropped start of 07 Bush admin struggled over what to do about attacks Decided upon raids and media briefings EFPs supplied by Iran and Hezbollah

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

(Musings On Iraq on Iran training Iraqi militias)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)

2008 UK reported ISF suffered bad intelligence and bad planning and had to change Charge of Knights

op Also reported Iraqi Special Forces had failed to take any of their targets and had to withdraw Mahdi Army controlled most of Basra

2008 Fighting between ISF and Mahdi Army continued in Basra Kut Diwaniya Amara Spread to Dhi

Qar Mahdi Army fired mortars at 2 neighborhoods in Baghdad and Green Zone Fighting in 2 of Baghdad’s neighborhoods Basra police chief escaped suicide car bomb Mahdi Army kidnapped spokesman for Baghdad Ops Command

2008 Electricity Min said most power plants in south stopped working after attacked by mortars and

gunfire due to govt fighting Mahdi Army

2008 Report Basra Ops Commander Gen Mohan wanted to wait 3 months to build up forces and strategy

to take on Mahdi Army but PM Maliki started early Warnings about fighting spreading throughout south Iraq were ignored by Maliki

2008 Sadr called for talks to end Charge of Knights PM Maliki said no publicly but talks were going on

in Najaf Iran mediating

2008 US general arrived in Basra to coordinate with ISF Set up drones to take out Mahdi Army mortar

teams

2008 US told that PM Maliki did not want US advisers in Charge of Knights just US firepower

2008 Pipeline in Basra blown up cutting exports by 1/3

2008 Presidential Council approved General Amnesty Law as part of reconciliation Allowed release of

thousands of prisoners

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Amnesty Law)

2009 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Austin said Iraq would ask US forces to stay in Baquba, Mosul and

Basra to help with security after deadline for US troops to leave cities PM Maliki didn’t ask

2009 Study US occupation and insurgency destroyed education in Fallujah 35% of children were

illiterate and couldn’t write Only 20% passed school exams in 08

2012 Baghdad hosted Arab Summit marking major move back into Arab politics

2014 Islamic Party accused ISF of being involved in killing civilians in Buhriz, Diyala

2014 Report Education Min said students who passed religious exams at schools run by Shiite Muslim

Endowment would be equal to exams at regular schools

2015 Tikrit operation re-started after US airstrikes requested by PM Abadi

2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq claimed US told IS about airstrikes beforehand Said Coalition was trying

to save IS in Tikrit Claimed US bombing ISF

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

2015 Report PM Abadi told Hashd they should be cooperating with govt and ISF to take Tikrit

after many factions said they withdrew due to US involvement Ayatollah Sistani gave sermon saying Hashd should work with Abadi and ISF Hezbollah Nujaba said it might target Coalition planes for taking part in Tikrit op

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi and Hezbollah al-Nujaba)

2016 ISCI and Kurdish Alliance complained that Abadi not consulted with them over his reforms Kurds

said they would not submit any candidates for ministries unless govt completely changed Said didn’t know why ministers had to be changed in 1^st place

2016 Sadr went into Green Zone to start his own sit in protests Was trying to dictate PM

            Abadi’s reforms

(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)

2017 Mass grave found in Jalawla Diyala Thought to be peshmerga executed by IS Another mass

grave found in Sadiya where 100 civilians went missing

2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said that US should be excluded from Mosul battle because committed

crimes Came after US airstrike killed over 200 civilians

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

2017 Joint Ops Command said investigation into Mosul bombing found IS responsible Put 130

people into house and car bomb went off outside False story Over 200 civilians killed in US airstrike

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 162, March 27, 2017)

2018 PM Abadi met with Turkish PM Yildrim about PKK Abadi said Iraq would not let any foreign force along its border with Turkey Claimed ISF was in control of all of Iraq when had no control of border Abadi rejected any incursions by Turkey

(Musings On Iraq Political Posturing By Iraq And Turkey)

2018 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq threatened to attack Turkey if it violated Iraqi territory

2018 PM Abadi attacked media for its coverage of IS Claimed repeated fake stories that helped IS

2019 Warrant issued for ex-Ninewa Gov Akoub after he was dismissed for ferry sinking

Accused of corruption

2021 Pro-Iran Hashd gave ultimatum to PM Kazemi to take action against US for Feb airstrikes

against Hashd

2021 Hezbollah al-Nujaba threatened Foreign Min Hussein Said he didn’t understand politics or

the Hashd and didn’t want to be Iraqi because he was a Kurd Threatened to teach him a lesson Happened after Hussein said no Resistance factions in Iraq Meant pro-Iran Hashd

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi and Hezbollah al-Nujaba)

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This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 26

1918 Battle of Khan Baghdadi between Ottomans and British started

1969 Pres Assad called for Iraq-Syria-Egypt union

1975 Iranian premier visited Baghdad and laid out steps to implement Algiers Agreement to determine

border between two

1979 Iraq hosted anti-Sadat meeting to oppose new Egypt-Israel peace treaty

1982 2 Iraqi divisions ordered to retreat to escape encirclement during Iranian Op Fath push on Maysan

Large tank battle in Chananeh End of day Iraqi 1^st Mech Div destroyed

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

1984 US Special Envoy Rumsfeld arrived in Iraq for 3rd time Rumsfeld presented secret proposal for

Israeli aid against Iran Iraq rejected offer Also offered $2 bil in loan guarantees Agreed to restore diplomatic relations

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

1985 Iraq threatened to spread war to all sections of Iran if it didn’t agree to a peace settlement

(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)

1988 Iraq dropped chemical bombs on Karadagh Kurdistan during Anfal campaign

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)

1991 Fierce fighting between Iraqi forces and Peshmerga on Khanaqin-Jalawla road Diyala

(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)

(Musings On Iraq Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)

1991 Talabani returned to Iraq after 3 years Gave speech talking about freeing all of Iraq working with

Iraqi opposition to create a provisional govt 

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

1991 White House meeting on Iraq uprising Decided not to get involved

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

(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)

1991 Bush told press Iraqi rebels had not asked U.S. for help during uprising

1991 Bush administration said they would not stop Iraq from using helicopters to put down uprisings

1991 Bush Natl Sec Adv Scowcorft secretly met Saudi King Fahd who told US to stay out of 1991

uprising

1996 Jordanian govt held party celebrating opening of Iraqi National Accord new HQ in Amman

1996 PUK backed peace deal with KDP although talks had not worked out

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

1997 Sec State Albright said Iraq not cooperating with inspections and US would not remove sanctions

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

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

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

1998 UN inspectors went to presidential palace and found nothing

2003 US forces began move on Kut, Wasit Surrounded Najaf

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

2003 US 173^rd Airborne Brigade landed in northern Iraq to cooperate with Peshmerga move into Kirkuk

(Musings On Iraq interview with Petit of 173^rd Airborne Bgd on operations in Kirkuk)

2003 Iraq claimed US missile hit market in Baghdad US Air strikes failed to take Iraq state TV off the air

2003 Bush and PM Blair met at Camp David to discuss Iraq invasion

2003 ORHA sent list of 16 sites that needed to be protected in Baghdad to US military HQ in Kuwait but

was ignored

2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told ORHA’s Garner he had some replacements for Americans going to run Iraq

ministries Wanted them all from Pentagon

(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)

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

2003 British intel report Hope that Iraqi govt would quickly fall within days of invasion fading

2006 US-Iraqi special forces raid killed 16 Mahdi Army militiamen in Adhamiya Baghdad Sadrists

removed weapons Rearranged bodies to look like they’d been killed during prayers Spread photos on Internet Led to US and Iraqi investigations that halted US raids on Mahdi Army

2007 PM Maliki and Pres Talabani announced Accountability and Justice bill would change

deBaathification process Wouldn’t pass until 2008 due to opposition

2007 Report Amb Khalilzad held talks with 1920 Revolution Brigades and Islamic Army in 2006 No

breakthroughs Insurgents made unreasonable demands like dismissing govt Suspending constitution US also had talks with insurgents in 2005 Maliki govt upset with talks claiming Khalilzad sectarian and trying to undermine Shiite majority rule

2008 ISF got into shootout with Mahdi Army in Diwaniya

2008 Fighting between ISF and Mahdi Army in Basra 5 neighborhoods in Baghdad plus Kut Diwaniya

Hilla Karbala Mortars fired at Green Zone Mahdi Army attacked US checkpoints in EBaghdad Clashes between Mahdi Army and Badr Dawa office burned in Sadr City

2008 PM Maliki gave gunmen 72 hours to turn in weapons in Basra

2008 US and Iraqi forces began moving into Sadr City as fight against Mahdi Army

            moved from Basra to Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)

2008 Sadrists walked out of parliament over govt crackdown on movement Called for no confidence

vote against PM Maliki

2008 Mass grave with 52 bodies of people executed by ISI found in Diyala River Valley

(Musings On Iraq Diyala Province Backgrounder)

2009 US and UN sanctioned Muthanna Harith Dhari for financing ISI 1920 Revolution

Brigade and Islamic Army of Iraq

2009 Report May 08 PM Maliki launched security op in Mosul $100 mil for rebuilding

Clashed with Ninewa govt over contracts Governor said unnecessary people hired Mosul govt said money wasted and nothing completed Governor tried to stop contracts

2009 Report PM Maliki moved 4^th Div out of Kirkuk which was led by Kurds Replaced by 12^th

Div accused of harassing Kurds Demanded peshmerga and Kurdish intel leave Kirkuk Moved into disputed town and almost got into shootout with residence before US intervened

2010 Election results announced Iraqiya 91 seats State of Law 89 National Alliance 70 Kurdish Alliance

43

(Musings On Iraq Allawi Wins Iraq’s Election, But Does It Matter?)

(Musings On Iraq review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq)

2010 Pres Talabani and VP Mahdi went to Tehran to talk about national elections

2010 State of Law met with Sadr in Qom to try to win his support for 2^nd Maliki administration

2010 State of Law protest in Amara called for recount in national elections

2010 Human Rights Min said it found 84 mass graves in Baghdad and Diyala all from post-03 violence

2011 PM Maliki warned of sectarian conflict in Gulf after Saudi Arabia and UAE sent troops to Bahrain

2011 Peshmerga announced withdrawal from parts of Kirkuk after political protests

2012 KRG said it would stop oil exports if it didn’t get paid for what it had already shipped Claimed owed

$1.5 bil by Baghdad Said hadn’t gotten monthly payment since May 2011 KRG was not meeting its oil export quota

2012 KRG demanded that Baghdad get its permission to work on Kirkuk oil field Oil Min was talking

with BP to develop field

2012 Pres Talabani announced national conference to solve political differences over Maliki govt on

Apr 5 Barzani and Allawi said they wouldn’t attend

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

2012 Saudi owned Al-Sharq Al-Awsat editorial condemned terrorism charges against VP Hashemi Said

Maliki govt was an Iranian creation

2013 Cabinet said that it agreed to meet major demands of protesters dealing with arrests amnesty etc

Never did

2014 Sadr condemned militias in Diyala after several reports of them killing civilians and destroying

property

2014 Mutahidun said militias had killed civilians in Buhriz Diyala and destroyed houses and mosques

2015 Hashd spokesman said Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Kataib Hezbollah Peace Brigades would no longer

take part in Tikrit op due to US airstrikes

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

(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)

2015 Report Asaib Ahl Al-Haq claimed US bombed Iraqi forces and dropped aid to IS by

mistake Said US was trying to steal Tikrit victory from Hashd Badr and Sadrists said didn’t trust US led Coalition Said Tikrit could be taken without US help US demanded Iranians and pro-Iran Hashd pull back from Tikrit and allow ISF to take city

2015 CENTCOM mcdr Gen Austin said Iraqi police and army were now in lead in Tikrit op

2015 Report Tikrit op planned by Iran and Hashd Hashd cmdr Muhandis presented Tikrit plan to

PM Abadi and asked whether ISF wanted to be included Said US was not to be involved Muhandis said Iran and Hashd would attack Tikrit regardless of Abadi Meant to prove that Iran and allies could take major city without US Iran and Hashd launched media campaign showing that it was helping Sunni civilians during op

2015 Report Garma eastern Anbar surrounded by ISF then operation halted

2015 Report KRG received 2^nd budget payment from Abadi govt but lower than expected KRG

still not meeting its oil export quota Was supposed to export 375,000 bar/day during 1^st qtr 2015 Only exported 153,000 bar/day Jan 306,000 bar/day Feb KRG not getting enough money from Baghdad to meet its costs Oil companies in KRG owed $750 mil

2016 World Bank pledged $250 mil to rebuild freed areas of Iraq PM Abadi said govt would cut

spending Encourage private sector Diversify economy away from oil Only made budget cuts

2016 Turkish soldier killed Another wounded by IS rocket attack upon Turkish base in Bashiqa

Ninewa Turkey responded with artillery and air strike 2^nd IS attack upon base

2016 Report Hashd spokesman said it was not involved in politics Said followed govt institutions

and overseen by PM Abadi Already involved in politics and some factions did not follow Abadi

2016 Makhmour Ninewa op stalled by IEDs and bad weather that blocked air strikes

2017 ISF denied air strike led to civilian deaths in west Mosul Claimed IS car bomb destroyed

building Then said this happened in different neighborhood US airstrike did destroy building leaving over 200 dead

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 162, March 27, 2017)

2017 Joint Ops Command said reports of civilian deaths in Mosul being exaggerated

2017 Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said 3,846 civilians killed in Battle for Mosul Called on

Iraq and US to show restraint Said IS had taken 197 civilians to Grand Mosque in Mosul to be used as human shields

2018 Report Civil Defense officer in Mosul complained about lack of support to rebuild city Civilians cleaning up city because govt too slow didn’t have money and was corrupt

2018 Teachers protested in Sulaymaniya Dohuk Irbil over govt not paying salaries due to disputes with Baghdad over budget oil and bad contracts

2018 Report Kosrat Rasul said PUK split Hero Ibrahim wife of Talabani believed she was leader Rasul said PUK not a family party

2018 Comm to Protect Journalists said media attacked by security forces while covering protests in KRG 7 reporters assaulted 2 arrested

2018 Report Turkey occupied 28 villages up to 10km into Irbil Built new military base to fight PKK

2018 Report Kurds fleeing villages in Daquq south Kirkuk due to IS attacks

2020 Pro-Iran Hashd group fired rockets at Green Zone in Baghdad

2020 Report Hashd said it sanitized 2,000 sites for COVID Set up hospitals in Dhi Qar

Babil Karbala Salahaddin Trying to use virus to show working for public

View the Iraq History Timelines 

This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 25

 

1917 British forces defeated by Ottomans at Battle of Mount Hamrin, Diyala British suffered 1,165

casualties Ottomans withdrew afterward

1920 PM Lloyd George argued in parliament that Basra Baghdad Mosul should be part of British

Mandate Said withdrawing from Mosul would forfeit oil there

(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)

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

1982 Iranian Op Fath broke through Iraqi lines in push towards Maysan Iraqi counterattack failed

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

1982 Iraq asked US to stop Israel from sending weapons to Iran US Said it had no say in matter

1982 Reagan admin officials warned that if Iran beat Iraq in Iran-Iraq War would endanger western         interests

1985 US intel reports Iraq used chemical weapons in fighting in southern Iraq

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

(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)

1995 Iraq told UN inspectors it had produced 550lbs of VX but denied weaponizing it to try to

end US complaints and end sanctions Backfired as Security Council decided to continue them

1998 UN Res 1158 extended Oil For Food Program for another 90 days

2002 UK Foreign Sec Jack Straw told Blair no Iraq-Al Qaeda link and Iraq not more of a threat now than

before 9/11 Straw argued for following legal path against Iraq via U.N. resolutions

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

2002 CIA report said foreign govt told it Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)

2002 New Yorker article said Iraq supported Al Qaeda via Kurdish Ansar al-Islam based upon prisoner

held by PUK Kurds told New Yorker Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri met Saddam in 1992 Also that Iraq was sending WMD to Al Qaeda Not true

(Musings On Iraq Why Didn’t Bush Strike Zarqawi And Ansar al-Islam In 2002?)

2003 Information Minister Sahaf began giving press conferences claiming that U.S. was losing war

2003 Russian Amb to Iraq provided U.S. invasion plans to Baghdad including invasion routes

(Musings On Iraq Russia Provided Iraq With Details Of US Plans Right Before Invasion)

2003 UK and ISCI reported locals in Basra rose up against Saddam Fedayeen

2003 UK forces reported Iraqi army was firing mortars on civilians in Basra to put down anti-govt revolt

2003 British bombed Basra city

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

2003 British forces secured Um Qasr town in Basra

(Musings On Iraq review Target Basra, The High Octane Story of the Royal Marine Commandos In Iraq)

2003 British government confirmed its first two combat deaths in Iraq invasion in Basra

2003 Heavy fighting between US forces and Fedayeen in Najaf

2003 US bombed Republican Guard positions south of Baghdad

2003 Retired US generals in TV interviews began saying invasion wasn’t going well because didn’t have

enough troops

2003 Report that Saddam was thinking of using chemical weapons when US forces attacked Baghdad

2003 NY Times reported facility found outside Najaf was not a chemical weapons site

2003 U.S. forces found chemical weapons gear in Nasiriya

2003 UK General recommended govt plan for its forces to stay in Iraq until March 2004 for postwar

operations

2004 UN proposed investigation into abuses of Oil for Food program

2005 State Dept told Congress wanted to reorganize rebuilding funds with more money for services and

maintenance Didn’t think Iraq could sustain projects

2006 US Amb Khalizad told ISCI’s Hakim US opposed to Jaafari remaining as premier Kurdish and

Sunni parties were threatening boycott of govt if Jaafari remained in office

2006 Report on captured Iraqi docs said Iraq kept the story it had WMD because helped Iraq’s image in

Arab world and deterred Israel Saddam told his top advisers there were no more WMD

2006 Report on captured Iraqi docs Saddam thought France and Russia would stop war in UN If US did

attack Thought Iraq’s “warrior spirit” would be victorious

2006 Report on captured Iraqi docs Saddam thought internal revolt main threat to his regime not US

invasion

2006 Report on captured Iraq docs Russian Amb gave Iraq detailed intel on US troops movements and

invasion plans

(Musings On Iraq Russia Provided Iraq With Details Of US Plans Right Before Invasion)

2006 Report on captured Iraq docs Saddam thought Iraq winning when war almost over and wanted

unconditional surrender by US led Coalition

2006 Report on captured Iraq docs Tape Sec State Powell played during Feb 03 UN speech was

Republican Guard making sure area met UN inspections not hiding WMD

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

2006 Large battle between Mahdi Army and insurgents in Mahmudiya Baghdad 40 dead and

wounded

2007 Report Attacks in Ramadi cut in half 4,500 tribal members asked to join Ramadi police Result of

Awakening 2,500 fighters in Emergency response Units organized by Awakening paid by Interior Min

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

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

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)

(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)

(Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)

(Musings On Iraq review The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)

(Musings On Iraq review The Sheriff of Ramadi, Navy SEALS and the Winning of Anbar)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

2008 U.S. Seal team arrived in Basra to liaison with Iraqi forces during Charge of

            Knights op against Mahdi Army

2008 Curfew and vehicle ban imposed on Basra as part of Charge of Knights PM Maliki said militias

criminals and the local govt responsible for Basra’s problems

2008 Mahdi Army seized 5 of 18 districts in Kut Sadrists marched in Samawa against Charge of Knights

Curfew imposed on those two cities 

2008 Fighting between ISF and Mahdi Army in Nasiriyah and Hilla

2008 Mahdi Army kidnapped policemen belonging to Badr in Baghdad Fought ISF and Badr in 6

neighborhoods Fired rockets at Green Zone Sadr offices called for civil disobedience in city Attacked 2 Dawa and Sistani offices in Sadr City Overran half of the checkpoints around Sadr City 230 police deserted in Shula neighborhood of Baghdad

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

2008 US general in charge of Anbar said US hoped rebuilding would begin when security improved but

didn’t happen

2009 Iraqi embassy in Jordan announced program to register former soldiers who wanted

            to return to Iraq

2009 Spec Insp Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen testified to Congress Iraq largest rebuilding

effort in history Largely failed US didn’t plan for postwar Iraq Rebuilding was largely ad hoc Responded to situation rather than following a plan Massive waste like large rebuilding projects in Basra and Fallujah without security 1 success rebuilding ISF

(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General Testifies To Congress)

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

2009 Pentagon created program to revive Iraq’s state owned enterprises Worked with 30 factories

None making a profit

2009 Report US military acknowledged militias won battle of Baghdad and carried sectarian

cleansing with many Sunnis forced out Only 50,000 of 300,000 displaced families 16% returned

(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)

2009 Speaker of Iranian parliament Larijani came to Iraq Pushed Shiite parties to reform United

            Alliance for 2010 elections

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2010 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq released US contractor it kidnapped Issa Salomi in return for 4 of its

members being freed

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

2010 State of Law threatened lawsuit unless Election Commission made a recount of national vote

2010 State of Law members protested in Basra, Najaf, Karbala, Kut calling for voting recount

2010 Federal Supreme Court ruled that list that formed largest coalition after election had right

            to form govt Allowed PM Maliki to outmaneuver Iyad Allawi who won most seats in election

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

2011 ISF blocked all entrances to Tahrir Sq to try to block protests but happened anyway Were protests

in Baghdad Najaf Diwaniya Kut Hillah against corruption and lack of services

(Musings On Iraq Protests Continue In Iraq)

2011 Was 2^nd protest in Tahrir Sq against reconciliation with former Baathists probably organized by

Dawa

2011 37 Dawa officials in PM Maliki’s office found with fake diplomas

2012 VP Hashemi claimed ISF tortured one of his bodyguards to death during questioning

2012 Pres Barzani said that PM Maliki was abusing his powers and not following Irbil agreement made

after 2010 elections

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

2012 Pres Talabani called for reconciliation between Kurdish Alliance and PM Maliki

2012 Displacement Ministry said Europe was deporting Iraqi refugees and wanted it to stop

(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)

2012 Electricity Ministry said it would stop importing power in summer 2013 as domestic production

increased Didn’t happen

2013 Committee created to come up with laws to meet demands of protesters Never happened

2013 Turkey signed trade deal with KRG

(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)

2014 Militias held parade in Balad, Salahaddin which local officials tried to deny

2014 ISIS took over Nibai for one day and then left

2014 ISIS made call for declaring the caliphate as a trial balloon

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

2014 Transportation Ministry set up special flights to take ISF members from Mosul to homes in

Baghdad to avoid insurgent attacks along highway

2014 Report Dozens of Sunni families fled Buhriz, Diyala Was taken over 1 day by ISIS Then ISF shelled

town Next day police and militias showed up Burned 3 mosques

2015 Officials accused Diyala governor of stealing millions in aid meant for displaced

2015 Gorran presented 3 plans for renewing Pres Barzani’s term

2015 Fight in KRG parliament when KDP members attacked Gorran MPs over Pres Barzani

2015 Member of Salahaddin council accused Hashd of kidnapping 125 civilians from Dour

2015 US began air strikes on Tikrit Pro-Iran Hashd said they would not take part in op to re-take city

because of US involvement

2015 Hashd accused of blowing up house and executing 3 civilians in Diyala

2015 2^nd adviser to Diyala governor killed Blamed on Hashd

2015 Ninewa Gov Nujafi set up training camp in Ninewa for militia Kurds provided land Turks

provided trainers Baghdad paid fighters

2017 KRG PM Barzani said Kurdish referendum on independence would happen in 2017

2017 US admitted it carried out airstrike in Mosul day house hit and over 200 civilians killed Civil

Defense force said it pulled 136 bodies from rubble and thought another 150 still buried in building

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 160, March 25, 2017)

2017 Golden Div Gen Saadi said Coalition airstrike responsible for destroying building in West

Mosul where civilians killed Defense Min opened investigation into bombing Iraqi general said car bomb responsible for casualties Civil Defense force said no sign of a car bomb

2017 Report Trump asked Pentagon to rethink rules of engagement for airstrikes in Iraq to make

them easier to approve

(Musings On Iraq review Airpower in the War Against ISIS)

2018 Turkey made false claim it was launching military operation in Sinjar to force PKK to leave which it

agreed to do

(Musings On Iraq Turkey Bluffs Its Way Into Getting PKK To Withdraw From Iraq’s Sinjar)

(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)

2018 KRG said it would adjust how it paid govt workers if PM Abadi continued to send monthly budget payments Police attacked protesters in Sulaymaniya complaining about not getting paid

(Musings On Iraq Baghdad Paid Half Of KRG’s Salaries, Kurdistan Didn’t Contribute Leading To

Protests)

2018 PUK official in south Kirkuk province said no security forces in villages south of Kirkuk city and under IS control Anbar councilmen said roads in west Anbar unsafe IS based in desert region along Syrian border

2020 Kataib Hezbollah told its fighters to prepare for more attacks upon US targets in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)

2021 Rab Allah held parade in Baghdad with 40-50 vehicles and weapons against PM Kazemi and

devaluation of dinar Threatened to cut off Kazemi’s ear

2021 Report Sallyport had $2 bil contract with Pentagon to service Balad Air Base since 2014 Fuel

trucks to base were being attacked by Hashd Advisers to company Mantid Intl suggested deal with Iraqi company connected to PM Abadi and Dawa Sallyport signed another fuel deal with company run by Balad base commander and National Sec Adv Fayad who got Hashd to stop attacks on trucks Sallyport said Balad cmdr stole over $1 mil in equipment from base Sallyport signed another deal with company connected to Maliki

(Musings On Iraq PM Maliki Accused Of Taking Kickbacks On Defense Contract)

(Musings On Iraq US Company Paid Off PM Maliki To Service And Rob Iraqi Military Base)

(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)

2021 Warrant issued for fmr Babil Gov Abadi for falsifying docs on land grants meant for martyr

families and Saddam era political prisoners Mar 2020 sentenced to 7 yrs in prison for forging ID papers but never sent to jail

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Review Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq

Graham-Brown, Sarah, Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq, London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999

 

Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq is about the unintended consequences of the Gulf War for Iraq and the international community. Author Sarah Graham-Brown deals with how the conflict created hundreds of thousands of refugee, sanctions led to a humanitarian crisis, and Kurdistan was given autonomy which immediately fell into armed conflict. All those sections are very well written. The one drawback is the discussion about non-governmental organizations and the United Nations’ work in Iraq. It’s just not half as interesting as the rest. Otherwise, Sanctioning Saddam is a good overview and analysis of Iraq and U.S. policy in the 1990s.

This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 24

1915 Gen Nixon made UK cmdr in Mesopotamia Told to hold Basra vilayet and all outlets to sea

1955 PM Said renegotiated deal with Iraq Petroleum Company increasing revenues for govt and

expanding pipelines and pumping facilities to increase exports

1959 Gen Qasim withdrew Iraq from anti-Communist Baghdad Pact

(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)

1967 Pres Arif ordered some units of the Iraqi military to be put on alert as tensions grew between Israel

            and Egypt

1973 Saddam visited Moscow to push for stronger Iraq-Soviet cooperation

(Musings On Iraq review Saddam His Rise and Fall)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)

1982 Saddam took control of central front to try to stop Iranian Op Fath attack upon Maysan

1984 Iraq deployed French Super Etendard jets first time on raid on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear

power plant US provided satellite intelligence on facility before and after to assess raid Didn’t hit main target Was 1^st of 6 attacks on facility lasting until 1988 Plant was unfinished and Iran was not working on it so wasted attack

1986 UN condemned Iraq’s use of chemical weapons 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)

(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)

1988 KDP base hit with poison gas in 2^nd Anfal campaign Civilians rounded up and men executed by

govt forces

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)

1991 Turkish Pres Ozal met Bush in US and told him an independent Kurdistan in Iraq would lead to

greater Kurdistan affecting Turkey Syrian Iran

1992 Iraqi army began shelling Kifri as sporadic fighting with Peshmerga continued

1998 French Pres Chirac told PM Blair that sanctions were killing kids in Iraq

2002 VP Cheney on CNN’s Late Edition called Saddam an evil man that U.S. would deal with

(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)

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

Tragedy)

2003 US forces reached outside Karbala

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

2003 Expected sandstorm hit leading to pause in invasion Gen Franks didn’t want pause and pushed for his forces to continue attack

2003 US B-52 bombers began attacks on Republican Guard positions south of Baghdad

2003 British forces took Basra airport Heavy fighting with Fedayeen led British forces to withdraw from

Basra City

(Musings On Iraq review Target Basra, The High Octane Story of the Royal Marine Commandos In Iraq)

2003 British military told govt local Iraqi militias putting up tough fight in Basra

2003 British received reports of uprising within Basra city put down by Fedayeen and Baath militia

2003 Red Cross warned of humanitarian emergency in Basra city as water ran out

2003 Dow Jones reported no WMD found at suspected facility in Najaf

2003 Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and Pres Khatami recorded talking about sending forces to 5 Iraq cities

to incite anti-US violence Decided to send Badr Brigade into Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)

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

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

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2003 Arab League voted 21-1 demanding U.S. and UK forces withdraw from Iraq

2003 Putin called Bush and said there would be great suffering during war Bush said everything would

be under control

2003 Tariq Aziz gave presser saying US was after Iraq’s oil

2003 Al Qaeda spokesman called on Muslims to join the jihad against the US in Iraq

2004 Ex-White House counterterrorism chief Clarke told 9/11 Commission Iraq not behind 1993 World

Trade Center bombing Accusation came from Laurie Mylroie’s conspiracy theories

(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)

2004 INC Chalabi aide and Fin Min official Sabah arrested for allegedly recycling old dinars that were

supposed to be destroyed Sabah told officials INC scheming to get state property from Finance Min and illegally sell it for a profit Also found INC kidnapping and attacking rivals

(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)

2006 Review of captured Iraqi documents and interviews with Baathists showed reason Saddam wanted

WMD and unwilling to admit that he’d destroyed them after Gulf War Was because he thought they deterred Iran which he saw as existential threat Saddam also believed US wouldn’t invade in 2003

(Musings On Iraq Was Iraq An Imminent Threat To The West?)

2007 Report DynCorp contracted by US govt to provide sandbags police and training camps regularly

overpriced work Iraqi contractors repeatedly failed to do job DynCorp contracted to fill sandbags at Najaf police dept Paid $67k then contracted Iraqi company for $23k to do job Sandbags were useless and job had to be redone Built police camps in Baquba Basra Ramadi Fallujah Najaf all considered mostly bad due to subcontractors Built camp in Mosul for $2.1 bil that should have cost $600k Camp got bad review Air conditioners didn't work Used cheap furniture Foam instead of real mattresses Another police camp cancelled after spent $43.8 mil on it

(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil

War, 2003-2006)

2008 PM Maliki launched Charge of Knights vs Mahdi Army in Basra Claimed op was against

militias and criminals Didn’t go after Badr or Fadhila only Sadrists who were biggest rival to Maliki’s plans for provincial and national elections Iraqi army brigade broke Half quit other half retreated

2008 Mahdi Army attacked joint US-Iraqi security station on edge of Sadr City

2008 Oil Min asked foreign companies to submit plans to develop Iraq’s oil and natural gas fields for

first time since 03

2008 Gen Petraeus blamed Iran for recent spate of rocket attacks upon Green Zone

2008 Report Bush was never a fan of INC’s Chalabi before 03 invasion

(Musings On Iraq Ahmad Chalabi Was Not President Bush’s Man For Iraq)

2008 Report Neither Sec State Powell nor Natl Sec Adv Rice objected to Pentagon taking control of

postwar Iraq Powell thought State would eventually take charge Rice thought US would only be in Iraq for a few months

2008 Report From 03-08 demand for electricity increased 125% Supply increased during that period

but couldn’t keep up with demand

2008 Report Sadrists complained about ceasefire Said they were attacked by PM Maliki and US

Claimed 2,000-2,500 of their followers arrested since start of ceasefire Blamed ISCI for attacks upon them in south Said they received new weapons and cash from Iran

2009 Sahwa commander in Salahaddin said that Ansar al-Sunna and ISI had

            created new alliance after mediation by Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri

2009 Report Sahwa group in Baghdad said not paid nor gotten promised govt jobs Only 5000

sahwa got jobs in ISF US general claimed 94,000 sahwa would have jobs by end of year Said Health Min agreed to hire 3000 Education Min 10000 Oil Min 500

(Musings On Iraq Budget Problems Affecting Integration of Sons of Iraq)

2009 Report Head of Al Hadbaa said it rejected Peshmerga in Ninewa 200 Kurdish soldiers and

commander in Ninewa deserted summer 08 during conflict between Baghdad-Irbil US said PM Maliki replaced Kurdish officers and sent them to other provinces

2009 Report Iraqi schools deteriorating Shiite religious parties hiring staff adding religious

holidays that reduced schooling Lacked enough schools and teachers Political parties threatened teachers

2009 Pres Talabani said after international Kurdish conference PKK would give up fighting

Turkey PKK said not true and Talabani didn’t control it

2010 PM Maliki announced new anti-corruption campaign Nothing happened

(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption) 

(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)

2011 Riot at Rusafa prison over overcrowding

2012 Baghdad and Irbil agreed to increased joint patrols in disputed areas of Diyala after increase in

insurgent attacks upon Kurds

2012 Report MP from KRG parliament said 50,000 fake bodyguards used by officials to steal money

2013 Naqshibandi sent group to Ramadi protest site to try to push it towards violence against govt

2013 Report Sec State Kerry stopped in Baghdad Urged PM Maliki to stop Iranian arms shipments going

through Iraq to Syria Iran both flew and trucked supplies to Syria through Iraq Kerry also talked with KRG Pres Barzani not to build independent pipeline to Turkey

2015 Iraq’s Foreign Min Jaafar met with Syrian Pres Assad Said Arab countries needed to support

Syria

2015 Report Hashd sending threatening letters to Iraqi army telling them not to ask for US help in Tikrit op

Soldiers in army’s 5^th Div said got notes allegedly from Kataib Hezbollah Badr Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Khorasani Brigade Officer at Samarra Ops Command said 12 officers also got threats from Hashd

(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)

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

(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)

2015 Report Govt gave up on frontal attack upon Tikrit advocated by Hashd US training 2-3 more

army divisions for attack upon Mosul

2015 Report US defense official said stalled Tikrit op defeat for Hashd and Iran Said Iranian aid

not enough to take city

2016 Most ruling parties refused to send candidates for technocratic cabinet to PM Abadi

(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)

2016 Supreme Council suspended its ministers in govt to protest PM Abadi’s reforms

2016 Head of IS Military Council Anbari killed

2016 Report 200 US soldiers set up artillery at Ain Assad base in Anbar Supposed to shell IS

targets in Anbar Base used for US intel for air strikes 

2016 Report 100-200 US marines set up artillery base in Makhmour Ninewa 1 marine killed in IS

attack there

2018 Ninewa councilman said no plans to help displaced return provide services or rebuild province Said Baghdad ignored calls for help Said rebuilding slow and dependent upon intl organizations

2018 Public workers protested in Sulaymaniya Dohuk Irbil over being paid only half of wages Baghdad

paid half and KRG didn’t pay its half

(Musings On Iraq Baghdad Paid Half Of KRG’s Salaries, Kurdistan Didn’t Contribute Leading To

Protests)

2020 Interview with Hashd cmdr for west Anbar Musleh Said Hashd had forced out Danish

special forces in Qaim who were training tribal Hashd brigade Musleh said ISF too weak to protect Qaim

2020 Report 2018 Iraq had electricity capacity of 30.3 gigawatts but actual capacity was

only 11.9 Power plants supposed to run on gas but used substitutes which ran plants at less than 60% of capacity 2018 Iraq produced 105.4 terawatts/hr but only delivered 43.7 Meant 58.5% of electricity supply wasted Most lost during distribution due to old/damaged equipment theft poor maintenance Demand for power expected to continue to grow more than supply 

2020 KRG arrested journalist who posted on Facebook govt using COVID as excuse not to

pay govt workers Held for 2 wks Released and then re-arrested 2 days later for defaming an official

2021 Report PM Kazemi’s anti-corruption comm was going to issue warrants for 7 senior Hashd

leaders and 5 others for assassinations currency smuggling corruption Shiite parties got Kazemi to stop

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