PM Zaidi Begins Anti-Corruption Campaign

  

Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi came into office promising to make two major changes to Iraq. The first was to disarm the pro-Iran Resistance and the second was to take on corruption within the state. The premier took a major step towards the latter in a wave of arrests across Baghdad on June 28.

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

 

1915 US consulate report on anti-Turk riot in Karbala

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

 

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

provinces Never happened because WWI

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

 

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

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

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

Review George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm, My Years at the CIA, Harper Collins, 2007

  

George Tenet was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Presidents Clinton and Bush. He eventually resigned because of the controversy over Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. His book At The Center of the Storm is very interesting because it shows that he was very sensitive about his time at the Agency with several chapters responding to criticisms of his tenure.

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

 

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

Gaylani not to accept resignation

Iraq Considering Emergency Economic Plan Until Oil Exports Revived

   

An economic advisor to Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi said that the government was considering a 100 day emergency economic plan to cover spending and the budget until oil exports could return to pre-war levels.