1921 Faisal arrived in Basra and then went to Najaf and Karbala as gesture towards Shiite clergy as
preparation to be crowned king Clerics opposed him
1965 Monarchist coup plot announced foiled by Arif govt
1991 US Gen said in opening day of bombing during Gulf War US tried to kill Saddam
1991 2nd International Atomic Energy Agency inspection team arrived in Iraq
1996 Iyad Allawi interviewed in WashPost saying Iraqi National Accord supported a military uprising in
Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
1998 Jim Hoagland OpEd in Wash Post said that Iraq was lying about its WMD to UN inspectors
Was based upon inspector report by Scott Ritter that he gave to Ahmed Chalabi who gave it to Hoagland Hoagland was a Chalabi ally Ritter’s report later proved false Convinced Iraq US would make up stories about WMD to maintain sanctions and therefore Iraq should stop cooperating with inspections
(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)
(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)
2003 Ayatollah Sistani issued fatwa saying Iraqis should elect council to draft new constitution vs CPA
plan
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2003 Oil Ministry made first foreign oil sale to Turkish company since invasion
(Musings On Iraq Review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
2003 Official US found more evidence since Iraq invasion to prove Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2003 US defense official complained to press Iraq-Al Qaeda ties were based on politics before war not
based on intelligence
2003 Bush at NSC meeting asked why US wasn’t pushing elections in Iraq and maybe they should come
before writing constitution
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby told NYTimes reporter Miller Fmr Amb Wilson’s wife worked at CIA
in retaliation against Wilson Implied Wilson’s wife set up her husband’s trip to Niger
(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 Cheney chief of staff Libby complained that CIA was selectively leaking info to press to lesson its
role in claims about Iraq’s WMD
2003 Sadr returned from Iran where he met Ayatollah Haeri and commemorated death of Ayatollah
Khomeini Sadr went to Baghdad for 1st time since his father’s death Met by 1000s of followers
2004 Pentagon report said only 6% of Iraqi police had finished training Said ISF lacked equipment
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
2004 Report were two waves of foreign fighters to Iraq one before and one after 2003 invasion
2004 Report cooperation between Baathist and jihadist insurgents in Iraq and international terror
networks including Al Qaeda
2004 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said what was going on in Iraq was not an insurgency Said it was former
regime elements who didn't want to give up
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
2004 US delivered $1.4 bil in cash to KRG for administration Went unaccounted for
2005 15 Sunnis and 1 Sabean added to constitutional drafting committee and 10 more Sunnis as advisers
(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2006 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey briefed Bush on withdrawal plan Bush approved
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2008 Report govt came up with new displaced program to force squatters out of homes and make them
return to their original areas Were 2.7 mil displaced and 2.5 mil refugees
(Musings On Iraq Government’s Displaced Plan?)
(Musings On Iraq January 2009 U.N. Report On Iraq Refugee Returns)
(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2008 Report Interior Min complained Haswa Babil police chief was arresting too many Shiites and had to
arrest more Sunnis When he didn’t he was investigated and relieved of duty
2008 Report Iran cut power supply to Basra after Charge of Knights op cutting electricity to only 6 hrs
a day
2008 Report Amiriya Baghdad Sahwa leader said Maliki govt had arrest warrant out for him Part of
intimidation campaign vs Sahwa
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 PM Maliki announced 17 Tribal Support Councils would be formed in Maysan after Op Promise of
Peace Councils became part of Maliki’s patronage network to create support for Dawa/State of Law
(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)
(Musings On Iraq Disputes Over Tribal Support Councils)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2013 Parliament amended 2008 Provincial Powers Law but not implemented
2014 ISIS held large military parade in Mosul after city fell
2014 Fighting between ISIS and Hawija Brigades in Hawija, Kirkuk for control
2014 Jihad and Reform Front agreed to work with ISIS in summer offensive Said tribal revolutionaries
would sweep over Anbar
2014 Albu Mahal tribe surrendered Qaim Anbar to ISIS
(Musings On Iraq Anbar Before And After The Awakening Pt IX Sheikh Sabah Aziz Of The Albu Mahal)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)
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After much delay the U.S. Army finally released its official history of the Iraq War in 2019. It was a self-critical report that noted the many flaws and shortcomings in the invasion of Iraq and the following occupation. The first chapter of the two-volume set was about the divisions over doctrine facing the Army after the Cold War and the tremendous changes that Iraq went through in the 1990s due to United Nations sanctions. Both of these factors would go on to affect how the war was conducted and received.
1915 British troops began attack upon Nasiriya
1920 Grand Ayatollah Shirazi’s son and 11 others arrested and exiled by British for calling for revolt in
Karbala
(Musings On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1922 Standard Oil told State Dept that it and other US companies were interested in exploring in Iraq
1922 Gertrude Bell wrote that Shiites were all under the pay of leading cleric Sheikh Mahdi al-Khalisi who
she said wasn’t an Arab but a Persian
(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell And Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)
(Musings On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)
1932 Ahmed and Mullah Mustafa Barzani surrendered to Turks after being forced out of Iraq by
RAF bombing for opposing the settling of Assyrians in their area and refusing to pay taxes
1963 Govt forces captured Saqsaq and Tobzawa from Barzanis Kurds raided military camp
in Kirkuk city Bombed Rasheed Camp in Baghdad
(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)
1982 Commander in chief of Iranian army said Iran-Iraq War would continue until Saddam
overthrown
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1982 Saddam complained that Iran was defeated in 1980 but didn’t give up
1983 Iraqi govt ordered all Kurds born from 1963-64 to be drafted into army
(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)
1996 UN and Iraq agreed on terms for allowing UN inspectors into Republican Guard Special Republican
Guard Special Security Organization Mukhabarat sites
(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 US decided to provide new aid to Iraqi opposition against Saddam
2003 Bush blamed former regime elements for attacks in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
2003 Bush claimed other intel services said Iraq had WMD and Iraq never proved it destroyed its WMD
arsenal
(Musings On Iraq Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
2003 Head weapons inspector Blix thought Iraq only had “debris” of WMD program since none found
since invasion
2003 Blix said pre-war reports by Iraqis that WMD were destroyed might prove true Cited Hussein
Kamal in 94 who said no WMD left
(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 Report 2002 National Intelligence Estimate questioned Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2003 2000 Ayatollah Sistani supporters protested outside Green Zone demanding elections and
new Iraqi govt
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2003 British searches in Maja al-Kabir, Maysan led to shooting with locals 8 wounded
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq beheaded S Korean civilian Kim Sun-il
2004 UN audit on reconstruction in Iraq found spending and contracts full of errors and open to fraud
2004 UN audit found State Organization for Marketing Oil had no records on tenders contracts who won
bids etc
2004 Report White House claimed Saddam Fedayeen members were in Al Qaeda based upon confusion
of their names
2005 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey got report of prisoner abuse by ISF Ordered US forces to stop any
abuses they saw
2006 US Cmdr in Iraq General Casey told press that Iran giving weapons and training to militias
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)
2008 Iraqi offensive against Sadrists in Maysan expanded to Dhi Qar and Wasit
2008 Report IEDs down 90% from 2007
2008 Female suicide bomber in Baquba killed 15 wounded 45
(Musings On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2008 Report US reconstruction projects in Hit halted due to corruption of mayor and police chief
2008 Baghdad Ops Command said PM Maliki issued order to integrate all Sahwa in province
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2009 US commander in Diyala said govt had not paid 1000 Sahwa in province nor integrated them into
govt
(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
2009 US turned over security in Anbar to Iraqi forces
2010 Protests in Ramadi and Nasiriya over lack of electricity
2010 Army arrested sons of protest organizer in Basra demanding leader turn himself in Basra council
condemned Army’s move
2011 Report Asaib Ahl Al-Haq carried out recruiting program to get people to attack US forces
before they withdrew from Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2011 Basra council voted to ban US military from operating in province
2012 Def Sec Panetta asked Iraq to hold Hezbollah operative Daqduq in prison Captured
by US and turned over to Iraqis
(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)
2012 Iraq’s national grid ran out of fuel shutting down electricity across entire country for 24 hrs
2012 Sadr criticized Ayatollah Haeri and Iran for trying to interfere with his followers during no
confidence move vs PM Maliki
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2013 ISF launched operation in Rawa, Anbar
2013 Anbar governor claimed Iraqi Islamic Party cheated in provincial elections paying off voters
2014 ISF withdrew from Qaim, Anbar ISIS seized Trebil and Walid border crossings
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)
2014 ISF withdrew from Tal Afar, Ninewa turning it over to ISIS
2014 Fighting between ISIS and pro-Naqshibandi tribes in Hawija, Kirkuk for control
(Musings On Iraq Precarious Relationship Between The Islamic State of Iraq And The Baathist Naqshibandi)
2014 Human Rights Ministry report 480 Shiite prisoners were executed by ISIS in Badush prison after
Mosul captured
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
2014 Iraqi forces again claimed Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil freed of insurgents Wasn’t
2014 Report Iraq lost 60 of 243 Army battalions with all of their equipment 5 of Iraq’s 14 Divisions
combat ineffective
2014 Iran objected to US sending military advisers to help Iraq against insurgency Claimed US
supporting Baathists and ISIS
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Hale, William, Turkey, the US and Iraq, London, Berkeley, Beirut: SAQI, 2007
Turkey, the US and Iraq by William Hale is a history of Turkish-Iraq relations and the role of the United States from the foundation of Iraq in 1920 to the start of the U.S. occupation. Hale believes the relations between Turkey and Iraq went through three main phases. First, Turkey laid claim to northern Iraq after World War I. Then the Kurds became a major issue in the 1980s. Finally the U.S. began demanding that Turkey help it with its conflict with Iraq starting with the Gulf War and then the 2003 invasion. In the process Turkey completely changed its policy towards Iraq, which is the main point of the book.
1920 Foreign Min Lord Curzon wrote that head political officer in Iraq Wilson’s ideas were backwards and
him leading Mandate was a problem Wilson rejected self-rule
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1920 British Mandate was going to be established in Iraq announced to public Said it would eventually lead
to an Iraqi govt
1920 3rd protest in Karbala calling for revolt City blockaded by British Had meeting with Grand Ayatollah
Shirazi’s son
(Musings On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1922 Nephew of cleric Khalisi arrested for posting anti-election fatwa in Khadimiya Baghdad When police
tried to arrest man followers came to his aid but still detained
1922 Mujtahid Khalisi called for shop closings in Khadimiya to protest nephew’s arrest Few complied
1966 Govt newspaper announced offensive vs Kurds was over and talks underway
(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)
1981 UN rep Palme took 4th trip to Tehran to try to negotiate ceasefire to end Iran-Iraq War
1982 Ayatollah Khomeini announced Iran would go to Lebanon and Jerusalem through Iraq
(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 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(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)
1997 UN Resolution 1115 said Iraq had to fully cooperate with weapons inspectors and allow them
into disputed sites
(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)
2002 CIA paper on Iraq-Al Qaeda relationship Said two had contacts since mid-90s but no evidence
of cooperation on terrorism Differences limited relationship
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Sadrist march in Baghdad against US occupation
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2004 9/11 Comm member claimed captured Iraqi docs showed 3 Saddam Fedayeen members were in
Al Qaeda Claimed a Fedayeen was Al Qaeda facilitator in Malaysia Just had same name
2005 PM Jaafari announced $1 bil deal with Iran to build schools hospitals and libraries
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2005 US forces saw insurgents fighting other insurgents along Iraq-Syrian border
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
2005 Sen Hagel told Bush he should listen to outside voices on Iraq policy
2006 Saddam’s lawyer kidnapped by men in police uniform and executed
2006 Zalmay Khalilzad sworn in as new US ambassador to Iraq
2006 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey told Joint Chiefs plan to transfer security to Iraqis in 18 months
except Anbar Wanted to draw down US brigades in Iraq from 15 to 10 by end of yr
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2006 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey told Joint Chiefs he wanted only 5-6 US brigades in Iraq by Dec 07
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
2007 Report VP Mahdi tendered resignation Complained PM Maliki not including president and vice
presidents in decision making United Iraqi Alliance also complained Maliki only consulted with Dawa advisers
2008 Gen Petraeus issued new guidelines for US forces in Iraq to set up governance services build
economy
2009 Mayors in some Ninewa districts threatened to join KRG as part of al-Hadbaa list dispute
(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
2010 ISF broke up protests in Nasiriya over lack of electricity Protests in Basra too
2010 Electricity Minister Hassan resigned due to protests
2012 PM Maliki called for Ninewa Gov Nujafi to be dismissed saying he violated constitution by
holding talks with Kurds over oil deals in disputed areas
2013 Transportation Minister and Badr head Amiri said Iraq’s Shiites would fight ISIS in Syria if
shrines were attacked
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2014 Rawa Ana Rutba Albu Hayat Jubba in western Anbar all fell to ISIS
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)
2014 ISF executed 25 prisoners in Rawa before withdrawing
2014 Fighting between Naqshibandi Ansar al-Sunna Islamic Army vs ISIS over control of Hamrin, Diyala
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2014 ISIS fought Naqshibandi over control of Riyad, Kirkuk
2014 ISIS executed 84 ISF in Tikrit
2014 New security op to clear Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil
2014 ISIS attacked Tuz Kharmato Salahaddin and turned back
2014 Sadrists paraded in Baghdad Amarah Basra and other locations in south Iraq to show that it was
defending the country
(Musings On Iraq Moqtada al-Sadr And Iraq’s Militia Mobilization)
2015 KRG stopped delivering oil for export by Baghdad
2017 IS blew up historic Nouri Mosque and Hadbaa minaret in west Mosul as Iraqi forces approached
(Musings on Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 249)
2018 21 Supreme Court ruled that manual recount and replacing Election Comm with judges was constitutional Cancelling displaced and foreign voting was not
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Court Rules For Ballot Recount While talks Continue To Form New Govt)
2019 Protests in Basra Wasit Maysan Karbala Muthanna Dhi Qar Qadisiya over corruption and electricity Sadrists held protest in Baghdad Were protests beforehand but this was first day happened across multiple provinces
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1961 Qasim sent telegram to Kuwait emir claiming his country as part of Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam’s War)
1961 Qasim said that all agreements between Kuwait and England were illegitimate because Kuwait was
part of Iraq
1963 Kurdish minister resigned from Arif govt while Kurdish officers in military and govt
officials suspended due to new Barzani revolt
(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)
1980 Iraq held first parliamentary elections since end of monarchy in 1958 Baath won 187
seats Independents 63
1982 Saddam ordered Iraqi troops to withdraw to border Ayatollah Khomeini said war would end
when Saddam was out
1982 Ayatollah Khomeini agreed to Iran going on offensive and invading Iraq Said that heavy Shiite
casualties had to be avoided
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1985 Iran Op Fatah in Basra started
1987 UN Res 598 called for new peace plan to end Iran-Iraq War Tehran did not reject idea for first
time
1987 Iran Op Nasr 4 Took Mawat Kurdistan
(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 Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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 issued order for random attacks on Kurdish areas to kill as many people as
possible Also said that any Kurd captured between 15-70 should be interrogated then executed
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)
2004 Interim PM Allawi said special commando units would be created Interior Min Naqib used units to
bring in relatives and ex-military into ministry Allawi thought units would be critical to defeating insurgency
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
2004 Head of 9/11 Commission said Al Qaeda was closer to Iran and Pakistan than Iraq
2004 9/11 Comm member said captured Iraqi docs showed 1 Fedayeen Saddam was an Al Qaeda member
Attacked press for claiming Comm report contradicted Bush admin claims on Iraq-Al Qaeda connections
2004 White House claimed 9/11 Comm proved its argument of Al Qaeda-Iraq ties when Commission said
no cooperation
2005 UK UN diplomat Ross said he saw 4 ½ yrs of intel on Iraq WMD and it didn’t support Blair’s
argument for war
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2006 Michael Maloof who was on Pentagon’s Policy Counterterrorism Group said Al Qaeda’s Libi and
INC reported Iraq provided training to Al Qaeda Feb 04 Libi recanted his story which was given under torture
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2006 Michael Maloof who was on Pentagon’s Policy Counterterrorism Group said in 1990 Ansar al-
Islam was working on WMD in Kurdistan Ansar not created until 2002
2006 Michael Maloof who was on Pentagon’s Policy Counterterrorism Group said Iraq supported Ansar
al-Islam Was not true
2006 Michael Maloof who was on Pentagon’s Policy Counterterrorism Group said Iraq ran terrorist
training camp in Salman Pak with a plane fuselage next to a WMD facility raising fears Iraq giving terrorists WMD Was no active WMD facility in Salman Pak but was a terrorist training camp Stories were spread by INC
2006 Michael Maloof who was on Pentagon’s Policy Counterterrorism Group said he believed 9/11
hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intel in Prague in 2001 and never disproven Story false
2006 Michael Maloof who was on Pentagon’s Policy Counterterrorism Group claimed 2002 NIE was
attempt by CIA to win back debate on Iraq to WMD instead of terrorism
2006 Fmr head State Dept Intel Bureau Carl Ford said pre-Iraq war intel showed failure of tradecraft and
analysis of US intel
2006 Amb Carl Ford said US got reports of things like Iraq-Niger uranium story and aluminum tubes and
failed to analyze and question them thoroughly
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
2006 Fmr Dep Dir CIA McLaughlin said that Feith’s Counter Terror Group found lots of articles of Al
Qaeda-Iraq meetings but no control or operational connections
2006 Fmr Dep Dir CIA McLaughlin thought Feith’s Pentagon group was put together to counter CIA’s
intel on Iraq-Al Qaeda
2006 Fmr CIA bin Laden desk chief Scheuer said Iraq war devastated CIA’s counterterrorism office by
draining resources
2006 CIA’s Scheuer said CIA didn’t see any threat from Iraq compared to Al Qaeda Said Dep Sec Def
Feith’s office was set up to counter the CIA’s reporting no ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda
2006 Scheuer headed CIA’s report on Iraq-Al Qaeda ties and found no relationship
2006 Gen DeLong Gen Frank’s deputy commander at CENTCOM said he believed Iraq working with
Ansar al-Islam and Al Qaeda in Kurdistan pre-invasion
2008 Report Reform and Change front that included 1920 Revolution Brigades reached out to political
parties trying to get involved in politics
2008 ISF arrested Sadrist deputy governor 2 councilmen 700 police in Maysan during Operation Promise
of Peace against Sadr
(Musings On Iraq Operation Promise of Peace in Maysan Province)
2008 Report 4 political parties formed from 2 Anbar Awakening groups and 2 from insurgent Islamic
Army
2009 Head of Kurdish list in Ninewa told Bashiqa teachers they should stop teaching in Arabic and
switch to Kurdish Dispute with Hadbaa List
(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
(Musings On Iraq Update On Political Dispute In Ninewa)
2009 ISI bombed Shiite mosque killing 73 in Taza Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
2009 Report After Promise of Peace security op in Maysan PM Maliki promised $100 mil for
rebuilding Money not spent well and still few services Sadrist officials in Maysan were refusing to help with projects Maliki created 17 tribal support councils in Maysan Were patronage networks used in 2010 election
2010 2 car bombs in front of Trade Bank of Iraq in Baghdad 27 killed 55 wounded
2010 Funeral for protester killed in Basra led to march calling for PM Maliki to step down
2010 Ayatollah Najafi issued statement condemning electricity shortages and supported right of people
to protest problem
2011 Sadr statement called for arrest and punishment of ex-Mahdi Army Abu Dura and his followers
Known as Shiite Zarqawi
2011 PM Maliki and other political leaders met at Pres Talabani’s house in Baghdad to discuss power
sharing
2012 Sadr MP said 3rd term for PM Maliki would lead to dictatorship
(Musings On Iraq interview with Inside Iraqi Politics’ Sowell on whether Maliki became a dictator)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Maliki with MP Said)
2012 Sadrist protest in Baghdad claimed govt cracking down on independent press
2013 Chevron signed new exploration deal with KRG for work in Irbil
2013 Gazprom met with Pres Barzani to discuss oil deals in KRG
2013 Shahristani claimed Iraq’s electricity problems would be solved by end of year
2013 Election Comm said voter turnout only 35% in Ninewa and 37% in Anbar in delayed provincial
elections
2014 Tanker sold Kurdish oil to Israel exported through KRG’s independent pipeline to Turkey
2014 Fighting between Naqshibandi and ISIS in Hawija killed 17 as IS tried to assert control over area
(Musings On Iraq Precarious Relationship Between The Islamic State of Iraq And The Baathist Naqshibandi)
2014 45 bodies found executed by insurgents in Tigris River in Salahaddin
2014 Turkman leaders in Tuz Kharmato said happy Peshmerga moved into city but wanted power
sharing
2014 Sistani spokesman called for new govt that “avoids past mistakes” Most took that as criticism of
PM Maliki
2015 Hashd killed a Kurdish civilian in a car leading to gunfight between Hashd and Peshmerga in Tuz
Kharmato
2015 Civil group claimed Peshmerga killing civilians and displacing people in Diyala’s Khanaqin Dist
2018 Up to 300 protested in Basra demanded jobs from oil companies and Industry Ministry Was broken
up by police
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The Islamic State was busy during the third week of June carrying out 20 attacks in Iraq. Its main target was infrastructure with a series o...
