1939 PM Said claimed coup attempt to remove King Ghazi by fmr PM Sulaiman and Gen Sidqi
followers in army Many didn’t believe there was any coup Said just getting revenge on his political enemies Fmr PM Sulaiman given death sentence for coup plot Commuted to five years imprisonment upon intervention of UK ambassador
(Musings On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Said with PM Maliki)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
(Musings On Iraq review The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1964 Arif govt said 1,200 Kurds had been released
(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
1969 Barzani launched offensive against Bakr govt Attacked several oil facilities in Kirkuk
shutting down oil industry Talabani raised force to fight for govt
1979 KDP leader Mustafa Barzani died in U.S. where he went for medical treatment for lung cancer
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1981 Islamic Conf Org group met with Khomeini Said wanted aggressor in Iran-Iraq War punished
1981 Khomeini told Islamic Conf Org group he wanted plebiscite in Iraq to see whether people wanted
Saddam as their leader
1982 UN Rep Palme said his 5th attempt to negotiate ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War failed
1983 Iraq attacked Iran’s Nowruz oilfield along Persian Gulf
1984 Iraq counterattacked vs Iran’s Op Kheibar Same time Iranians attacked southward into marshes
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1984 France agreed to $500 mil loan to Baghdad that would pay for French contractors in Iraq
1985 Iraqi diplomat and son assassinated in Kuwait Iraq blamed SCIRI
1985 Iraq executed 10 Hakim family members in retaliation for assassination of its diplomat in Kuwait
1987 Iraq counterattack in Jasim River Basra to regain lost territory from Iran Op Karbala 5 Would
eventually regain 1/3 of lost territory but with high casualties
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1988 Iraq fired missiles at Tehran for 2nd day in last war of cities
(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)
1991 Iraqi army units in Basra began revolt after end of Gulf War
(Musings On Iraq interview with Natl Singapore Univ’s Fanar Haddad on social impact of the 1991 uprising in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)
(Ahulbayt Video on 1991 Uprising)
1991 Pres Bush said that the Iraqi people should overthrow Saddam
(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)
(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)
1995 Iraqi National Accord head Nouri went to US and successfully argued against backing INC’s
uprising plan
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
1998 UN inspectors revealed progress in their work with CNN violating agreement with Iraq on
inspection regime
(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)
1998 Pres Clinton called Saddam a predator who the US would not allow to have WMD
2001 NSC meeting on Iraq policy Sec State Powell told to devise smart sanctions proposal for UN
(Musings On Iraq review The Price of Loyalty)
2001 Sec State Powell and Sec Def Rumsfeld argued over dual use equipment that should be banned
from Iraq
2001 Separate NSC meeting discussed working with Iraqi opposition and INC Talked about arming them
but couldn't agree on anything
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 1.2 UK Iraq strategy September 2000 To September 2001)
2002 State Dept report on Iraq-Niger uranium deal Said it was unlikely Story fake
(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)
2003 1st high level US meeting on creating Iraqi interim govt held just days before invasion UnderDefSec
Feith said US would set up an Iraqi authority as soon as possible and would pick the members with majority being exiles because they would understand democracy better
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 Turkish parliament rejected allowing US forces to use country for Iraq invasion
2004 Iraqi Governing Council agreed to text of Transitional Administration Law to be Iraq’s interim
constitution
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2004 Weekly Standard article talked with Mukhabarat officer who claimed he was emissary to Al Qaeda
Mukhabarat officer told Weekly Standard Zarqawi was Al Qaeda’s emissary in Iraq from the start Was false
(Musings On Iraq review Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation)
2007 Fmr Dep Def Sec Feith set up website criticizing Pentagon Inspector General report
on his Office of Special Plans Claimed Report never said whether his criticism of the CIA was wrong Claimed report was trying to protect the CIA and Agency had made plenty of errors in the past Inspector General said that Feith’s intelligence on Iraq-Al Qaeda ties was unreliable
2007 Study found after Iraq War 7 fold increase in jihadist attacks in world If Iraq and Afghanistan
excluded 1/3 increase in jihadist attacks Found Iraq war inspired Muslim youths to join jihadist groups
2009 Pro-PM Maliki Diyala Support Council organized 10,000 to protest against Accordance Front
and Kurdish Alliance creating new provincial council and excluding them
(Musings On Iraq Old And New Alliances Argue Over Control Of Diyala Provincial Council)
2009 UNHCR reported 1.6 mil displaced and 2 mil refugees Since 2003 600,830 displaced returned
home along with 405,396 refugees
(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
(Musings On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)
(Musings On Iraq January 2009 U.N. Report On Iraq Refugee Returns)
2009 Sahwa in Kirkuk turned over to govt control One of last provinces to have transfer All Sahwa
supposed to be under Baghdad by April 1
(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
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1941 Mufti of Jerusalem Pan-Arab Golden Square officers Rashid al-Gaylani had secret
meeting Decided to remove PM Hashemi if he insisted on ending relations with Italy Golden Square decided to replace PM Hashemi with Gaylani if he would not change policy on Italy Agreed on no concessions to UK Refused to break relations with Italy Would expel pro-British politicians
(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)
1963 Mulla Mustafa Barzani said Kurds would go back to fighting government if didn’t commit to
Kurdish autonomy
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
1972 Iraq Petroleum Company came to terms with Baghdad over nationalization including compensation
1979 Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr congratulated Ayatollah Khomeini for the Iranian revolution
and said some tyrants hadn’t seen their day of reckoning yet
1981 Iran told Islamic Conference Org that it wanted Iraq found aggressor and punished for Iran-Iraq
War and withdrawal from territory
1981 Speaker Rafsanjani later told Islamic Conf Org Iran sure it would win war so didn’t want to
negotiate
1984 Iraqi counterattack against Iranian Op Kheibar retook Beida Iranian Revolutionary Guard
began retreating in disarray Iran lost 3,000 dead
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
1986 Iran Op Wa al-Fajr 9 in Penjwin and Halabja stopped by Iraqi counterattack
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1987 Iraq ended 3rd War of Cities after Soviet appealed and new arms deal
1987 During war of cities 1984-87 35 Iranian cities hit 3,000 dead 9,000 injured Baghdad and Basra
hit 300 dead 1,000 wounded
1987 Iran attacked and broke through Iraqi lines Iraq counterattacks regained lost territory in 12 hrs
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1988 Iran fired SCUD missiles at Baghdad and Tikrit Tehran was trying to lure Iraq into another war
of cities to decrease attacks upon its economic infrastructure
(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)
1987 Ali Hassan al-Majid made governor of northern Iraq provinces and told to end Kurdish insurgency
Would start Anfal Campaign
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1990 Saddam warned of Israeli aggression backed by US at Arab Cooperation Council meeting
(Musings On Iraq Why Did Saddam Threaten Israel Before The 1990 Invasion of Kuwait?)
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings On Iraq review the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)
1990 At Arab Cooperation Council Saddam demanded moratorium on loans from Gulf States and $30 bil
investment by them to help Iraq rebuild
1990 Saddam said that if Gulf States did not provide money and help with debt he knew how to get it
1991 Bush announced that Kuwait was liberated and Iraq defeated in Gulf War Started ceasefire in war
1991 Saddam said that Iraq had succeeded in defeating the United States
1991 Jalal Talabani tried to tell State Dept of impending Kurdish revolt but was turned away
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)
1992 Iraqi army attacked Peshmerga in Kalak
1999 General uprising in southern Iraq planned following Saddam’s killing of Ayatollah Sadiq al-
Sadr
(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present)
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
2002 PM Blair told Australian TV Iraq was a threat because it had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 Gen Franks delivered target list for air strikes in Iraq to Sec Def Rumsfeld
2003 Iraq agreed to destroy Samud II ballistic missiles that violated UN restrictions
2003 US attacked Iraq agreement to destroy Samud II missiles claiming it was just propaganda not real
disarmament
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said Iraq never cooperated with UN inspectors
2003 UN said found no evidence of active WMD programs in Iraq
2003 UN inspectors went to site CURVEBALL claimed was secret WMD facility for second time for
samples Found nothing
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
2003 UN inspectors found small stock of mustard gas and some old WMD warheads and Iraq built 2
banned missiles Inspectors said Iraq had not provided any new information to answer questions from 90s inspections
(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)
2003 State Dept said Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for its nuke program Were for rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
2003 UK Def Min report said Coalition had to prevent security vacuum after invasion of Iraq and stop Al
Qaeda from expanding into country
2003 UK Def Min note to PM Blair’s office said UK failed to influence US postwar Iraq planning and
UK would have to deal with US decisions made for it
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 ORHA head Garner made 1st brief of postwar Iraq plans to Bush 1 month before war
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
2003 Defense Policy Board warned by peacekeeping expert Perito could be breakdown in law order right
after invasion if Iraqi police didn’t go back to work Board told that US troops could not take over police duties after invasion because not trained
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2004 Iraqi Governing Council said it would draft and approve an interim constitution Couldn’t agree on
role of Islam
2004 Women’s delegation visited Iraqi Governing Council demanding interim constitution protect
women’s rights
2005 Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide truck bomb on police and National Guard recruits in Hillah killed 127
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2005 Annual State Department human rights report accused Iraqi security forces of rape torture and
illegal arrests
2006 Prosecution presented Saddam’s order to executed 148 people in Dujail in 1982 at his trial
2006 Report US warned about growing insurgency mid-03 and was largely Iraqi not foreigners Ignored
by Bush admin
2006 DIA Dir Gen Maples told Senate Armed Services Comm as long as Sunnis were disenfranchised
insurgency would continue
2008 Report attacks on Sahwa went from 26 in Oct 07 to 100 in Jan 08 as part of ISI campaign
2008 Report Interior Min investigation found 15-20% of police or 11,000 officers didn’t exist Anbar
25% of police didn’t exist
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1923 UK High Comm Cox wrote London that Faisal complained Anglo-Iraq treaty was only new
phase of mandate instead of ending it
1982 US removed Iraq from list of terrorist countries in step towards restoring relations
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
1984 Iran captured Majnoon Islands Basra Iraqi counterattack began Iran built pontoon bridges from Iran
to Majnoon to supply 2 divisions defending area Was turning point in war
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1984 Iraq bombed Iran’s main oil terminal Kharg Island Said it would continue to attack oil industry
until Iran agreed to end war
1984 Iraq claimed it used leased French Super Etendard jets for 1st time attacking two Iranian tankers
Was propaganda and no attacks took place
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1988 Iraq fired missiles on Saqqez Iran killing 26 Also bombed Tehran refinery Iran bombed Baghdad in
retaliation
(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)
1991 Battle of Medina, Basra US 1st Armored Div and 3rd Inf Div defeated Iraq’s Medina and Adnan Divs
in largest tank battle of Gulf War
(Musings On Iraq review M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural, Operation Desert Storm 1991)
1991 Battle of Kuwait Airport US 1st Mar Div took airport
1991 Pres Bush declared Kuwait liberated
1991 Voice of Free Iraq radio station aired broadcast calling on Iraqis to rise up against Saddam Was
financed by US and Saudis
(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)
(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)
1991 Joint Chiefs head Gen Powell said he was ready to recommend end of Gulf War in 24 hrs Bush said
should end it now
1991 Bush offered ceasefire in Gulf War Iraq accepted it
1995 Car bomb in Zakho killed 76 PUK blamed Baghdad KDP blamed PUK
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
1996 Iraq provided new declaration on missile program with more info to UN inspectors
(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)
2001 Sec State Powell got Arab states to agree to new smart sanctions on Iraq
2001 DepDefSec Wolfowitz told Senate US reviewing Iraq policy and how to work with groups like INC
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
2002 UK Def Min said govt had to consider military action against Iraq
2003 DepSecDef Wolfowtiz told House Comm admin had no estimates of costs of reconstructing Iraq
and wouldn’t know until it got there Said calls for more troops to handle postwar Iraq were “outlandish” Said crazy to think postwar Iraq would take more troops than invasion Said Iraqis would greet US as liberators and that meant didn’t need more troops Said there would be large numbers of Free Iraqi Forces to restore order Said Iraq had no history of ethnic violence like in Bosnia that required long term peace keepers
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign
Policy Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 ORHA head Garner learned he only had $27 mil to run postwar Iraq
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
2003 UK Att Gen Goldsmith changed his position that UN Res 1441 alone could be legal basis for action
against Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 UK oil firms met with govt officials saying they thought US firms were getting deals for postwar
Iraq over them
2003 State Dept paper said multiple sources claimed Iraq had mobile WMD labs Didn’t exist
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
2003 State Dept analysis said creating democracy in Iraq would be difficult and likely undermined by
internal and external issues
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
2003 CIA told Sen Levine that it didn’t believe Iraq-Niger uranium deal made but Iraq might have been
interested in one in 1999 Niger deal fake
(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)
2003 Saddam agreed to destroy Saoud 2 missiles found to violate range limitations by UN inspectors US
and UK said Iraq playing games
(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)
2004 Deadline to finish Iraq’s interim constitution Transitional Administrative Law missed
2004 Fmr chief UN inspector Blix told Guardian he thought US spied on him
2006 Amb Khalizad announced new draft law as a major accomplishment Was never passed
2007 Bombing at Municipalities Ministry aimed at VP Mahdi 7 killed including Dep Municipalities Min
Anbari and 31 wounded Mahdi blamed Sadrists
2007 Mahdi Army began attack on UK bases in Basra
2007 Report US carrying out talks with factions of Mahdi Army Military and intelligence sources said
claims of rogue elements of Mahdi Army were not true and just used to excuse it actions
(Musings On Iraq review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq)
2007 Report Mahdi Army men turning up dead in north and east Baghdad Allegedly killed by special
teams sent from Najaf to eliminate criminals and disloyal militiamen
2007 US National Intel Dir McConnell told Senate Iraq in civil war Security and political trends in Iraq
going in negative direction and would be nearly impossible for Iraqi leaders to change things Said Samarra bombing had increased polarization Said Iran training Iraqi militias in Iran and Lebanon
2007 DIA Dir Gen Maples told Senate avg 180 attacks per day Jan 07 Same as previous high in Oct 06
US officials claimed immediate decrease in violence when Surge started in Jan
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the Surge)
2007 US announced it would meet with Iran and Syria to talk about Iraq
2008 Iraq’s intel chief accused Iran of sabotaging Sahwa
2009 Pres Obama announced withdrawal plan for US forces from Iraq by 2011 Obama would not
be keeping stay behind force as original planned and would not ask Iraqis about issue
(Musings On Iraq on Obama’s withdrawal announcement and US public opinion)
(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
2009 Incoming Ninewa Gov Nujafi said he would work with Kurds if they stuck to Ninewa issues
If not he would not cooperate Dep Ninewa Gov Goran said Nujafi’s Al-Hadbaa party wanted to get rid of Kurds in Mosul
(Musings On Iraq Al-Hadbaa Party Leader’s Vision For Ninewa)
2009 Migration Minister Sultan said ministry ran out of money to pay refugees who returned to
Iraq Said govt had not helped refugees overall Said ministry lacked plans and resources to help refugees back to their original homes
(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
(Musings On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)
(Musings On Iraq January 2009 U.N. Report On Iraq Refugee Returns)
2011 PM Maliki set 100 day deadline to reform government in response to national protests
2011 After Imam gave speech at Sulaymaniya protest was arrested and beat by peshmerga
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2011 Babil Gov Zarkani resigned after protests and pressure from PM Maliki
2012 Diyala governor forced to resign after supported autonomy for province
2012 Head of Election Commission said that it got forms to register voters for referendum on Salahaddin
autonomy
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2013 Wissam al-Hardan elected new head of Awakening Was move against Ahmed Abu Risha who
supported Anbar protests Hardan aligned with PM Maliki
2016 Sadr led demonstrations in Baghdad calling for ending corruption and reforming govt
(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)
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1917 3 British gunboats fired upon by 4 Ottoman ships at Nahr-al-Kalek, Wasit 3 Turkish ships
sunk and 4th captured
1983 Iran’s Op Fajr al-Nasr in Maysan to seize Basra-Baghdad road ended
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1984 Iraq counterattack pushed back Iran’s Op Kheibar in Basra marshes
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1987 Iran officially ended Op Karbala 5 in Basra Suffered 52,000-62,000 casualties vs 40,000 Iraqis
casualties
(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 Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(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)
1991 Saddam said Iraq withdrawing from Kuwait Said was victory because Iraq stood up to 30 countries and
Kuwait legally became part of Iraq
1991 US 3rd inf Div attacked 52nd Armored Div 17 Div Adnan and Tawakalna Divs
1991 Battle of 73 Easting US 2nd Arm Cav Rgt fought Iraq’s Tawakalna Div By end of day Tawakalna
destroyed
(Musings On Iraq review Bradley vs BMP, Desert Storm 1991)
(Musings On Iraq review M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural, Operation Desert Storm 1991)
1991 Battle of Norfolk US 1st Arm Div UK 1st Arm Div destroyed Iraq’s 25th, 31st, 48th divisions
1991 US aircraft began attacking retreating Iraqi forces from Kuwait on Highway of Death
1991 Iraq said it was willing to end annexation of Kuwait and pay reparations for a ceasefire in Gulf War
and end of sanctions
1991 Bush admin officials said they wanted to keep sanctions on Iraq to provoke a coup
(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)
2002 Fmr Amb Wilson arrived in Niger to investigate Iraq trying to buy uranium Story fake
(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)
2002 MI6 Chief Dearlove said US would demand weapons inspectors under conditions Saddam wouldn’t
accept to justify military action
2003 Bush speech at American Enterprise Institute Said Iraq was direct threat to US due to WMD
and links to terrorists Said US had experience in stability operations and putting reformers in power Said other nations would help rebuild Iraq and US would stay in Iraq as long as necessary but “not a day more” Said spreading democracy to Iraq would be an inspiration to Middle East
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
2004 Gen Taguba handed in his report on Abu Ghraib prison abuse case
2004 Ayatollah Sistani dropped demand for elections to be held by June 04 but said they had to happen
by end of year
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq assassinated Gen Saab Manfi Mohammed al-Rawi of Albu Rawi Member of Anbar
Security Council
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2007 Cabinet approved draft oil bill Unions Sunnis and Sadr all attacked bill Never passed
2007 Report EFP cache found in Hillah and another in Diyala US military said proof that Iran was
providing weapons to Iraqi militias
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
2008 Health Min Hasnawi blamed corrupt officials for importing expired and counterfeit medicines
2008 Fmr Defense Min Allawi said right after 03 invasion Badr Brigade sent in 10,000 fighters into Iraq
and took control of Baquba Kut and other southern cities along Iranian border
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2008 Report Tehran received files on Iraqi intel officers under Saddam that worked on Iran and carried
out campaign to assassinate them
2008 Report Badr provided intel on Sadrists to Americans to eliminate their rivals
2009 Iraqi Federation of Industries said 90% of factories closed since 1986
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Closed Factories)
2009 Report Maliki govt put development projects on hold because pay raises on public workers
expansion of security forces and decline in oil revenues
2011 Riot police broke up demonstration in Sulaymaniya city 1 protester killed
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2016 Sadrists joined Friday protests in Baghdad saying they would end support for Abadi if cabinet
wasn’t reformed Said would storm Green Zone
(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr’s protests and demands on PM Abadi)
2016 Kurdish Alliance said they would not give up their ministries to go along with Abadi’s reforms
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