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

This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 16 Report 1972 Nixon and Shah agreed to arm and fund Barzani’s revolt vs Bakr govt but didn’t want him to win just drain Iraq

 

1916 Imperial General Staff in London took over Mesopotamian campaign from India Office

This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 15 US led Coalition began ground operations to expel Iraq from Kuwait

 

1917 British launched 3^rd attack and captured Ottoman positions in Dahra bend outside Kut

This Day In Iraqi History - Feb 14 PM Said hanged chairman of Communist Party Fahd to put down protests

 

1949 Communist Chairman Yusuf hanged by PM Said in public square in Baghdad to try to squash

opposition protests

(Musings On Iraq review A History of Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)

(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review The Other Iraq, Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004)

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

(Musings On Iraq A History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan Franzen)

(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki More Like Premier Nuri al-Sa’id Than Saddam? An Interview With Historian Phebe Marr)

(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)

Review Roger Petersen, Death, Dominance, and State-Building, The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention, Oxford University Press, 2024

  

Death, Dominance, and State-Building, The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention is a very detailed argument by MIT Professor Roger Petersen that America’s counterinsurgency and nation building strategies failed in Iraq. His point is that the U.S. was able to temporarily bring down violence during the Surge but failed to maintain the peace nor build a functioning Iraqi state.