Nemir Kirdar was born in Iraq but left in 1969 due to the Baathist dictatorship. He went into business and became a multi-millionaire running his own investment firm. His book Saving Iraq, Rebuilding A Broken Nation represents everything that was wrong with Iraqi exiles. They had no idea what happened in Iraq since they left and valorized the past as an idyllic period that could be recreated in the present.
1916 British attempt to re-supply besieged garrison at Kut failed Last attempt to relieve forces there
1915 UK Gen Townshend ordered by Mesopotamia cmdr Gen Nixon to take Qurna and Amara
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1915 Lord Curzon asked why British should promise Basra and Baghdad vilayets to Arabs if they
were fighting on Ottoman side
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) finds itself on the defensive after the election of Iraq’s president. The party believed it was on the ascendency due to the disarray of its partner the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) but that trend has been reversed recently.
In March Iraq’s oil exports hit the lowest volume since the 2003 invasion due to the Iran War. The conflict is not over yet threatening the industry’s attempt to restart production. This is causing a financial crisis for the most oil dependent country in the world.
Nemir Kirdar was born in Iraq but left in 1969 due to the Baathist dictatorship. He went into business and became a multi-mil...
