This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 21 Govt killed 20 protesting assassination of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr 3000 followers would be arrested and 450 executed

 

1258 Mongol leader Hulagu had Abbasid Caliph Mutasim and some family members executed

outside Baghdad

Review Committee Against Repression and For Democratic Rights In Iraq, Saddam’s Iraq Revolution Or Reaction? Zed Books Ltd, 1989

  

Saddam’s Iraq Revolution Or Reaction? was an anthology put together by the Committee Against Repression and For Democratic Rights In Iraq. It is part history and part diatribe against Saddam Hussein. Like any collection the chapters are up and down. The historical sections are good as well as the analysis of the development of the economy. That’s thanks to the inclusion of authors such as historians Marion and Peter Sluglett.

This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 20 Saddam convinced his sons in law Hussein and Saddam Kamal who were in Jordan after they defected to return to Iraq where they were later killed

 

1923 British called Sheikh Barzinji to Baghdad for revolt He refused Justified UK military

expedition against him

This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 19 King Ghazi ordered invasion of Kuwait PM Said stopped it

    

1934 King Ghazi accepted PM Midfai’s resignation after disagreements within cabinet made continuation

of govt impossible

This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 18 Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr assassinated by Saddam

 

1921 Colonial Sec Churchill drafted outline of agenda for Cairo Conference Included Faisal being

made king of Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review Cairo 1921, Ten Days That Made the Middle East)

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

(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)

(Musings On Iraq review Foundations of British Policy In The Arab World: The Cairo Conference of 1921)

Iraq Unable To Pay Its Obligations As Financial Crisis Grows

 

 

For months there have been warnings of an impending financial crisis for the Iraqi government. That finally started to hit in February 2006 as Baghdad wasn’t able to pay all of its workers their full wages.

This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 17 PM Maliki claimed most of the 511 candidates banned from 2010 election were fmr Saddam era intel officers who were trying to infiltrate the govt

 

1915 UK forced to retreat from Muzaira, Basra due to bad weather and flooding