1920 War Min Churchill approved sending division to
Mesopotamia from India
to put down
1920 Revolt
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of
the Modern State)
1968 Pres Bakr accused Def Min Daud and PM Naif of
attempting to take over govt PM
Naif arrested and became Ambassador
to Morocco Baath then purged govt of opponents
1968 Pres Bakr became prime minister and commander and chief
of armed forces
consolidating his power Appointed
Saddam deputy secretary general of Baath Party
1983 Iran ended Op Wa al-Fajr 2 after seizing 14 km of
Kurdistan and capturing Hajj
Omran garrison
1983 Iran started Op Wa al-Fajr 3 to free Mehran, Iran
1988 Iran and Iraq started talks at UN for ceasefire
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones 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)
1990 Saddam offered to withdraw his troops from Iran and
settle Shatt al-Arab
differences
to prepare for Kuwait invasion
1990 DIA analyst told DIA Dir Soyster Iraq could overrun
Kuwait and northern Saudi
Arabia and US would have no warning
Said that Saddam was going to use force vs Kuwait and Kuwait would make no
concessions to Iraq
1990 DIA Dir Soyster disagreed with analyst about Iraq’s
intentions but passed
assessment
to SecDef Cheney and Gen Powell
1991 Iraq admitted to have four times as many chemical
munitions as it claimed before
to UN
weapons inspectors
1992 Iraqi forces surrounded Shiite rebels in southern
marshes and bombed them
1996 CIA report head of Iraq intel met bin Laden in Sudan
and provided bomb making
know how False report bin Laden
left Sudan May 96 and no reports he returned afterward
2002 Blair’s foreign policy adv Manning told Bush UK with US
against Iraq but had
to go
through UN
2002 UK attorney general Goldsmith told Blair without U.N.
resolution war against
Iraq
illegal
2002 Pres Chirac said that Germany and France would only
support an invasion of Iraq
if backed
by a UN resolution
2002 Fmr head UN inspector Ekeus said US manipulated 90s
inspections to spy on Iraqi
security services and find location
of Saddam Said US wanted to create crises to justify attacks on Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on how CIA used UN inspectors to spy and back coup in Iraq)
2003 Bush admitted Iraq-Africa uranium story should not have
been included in his
State of
Union speech
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Rice said Saddam was a threat and he had WMD Said Iraq
was buying all kinds of
equipment
for centrifuges including aluminum tubes
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2004 SecState Powell in Iraq said US worried about Iran’s
influence in southern Iraq
2008 U.S. forces officially withdrew troops from Iraqi
cities
2008 Sadr said he was leading a nationalist movement against
the US and needed to
restrain
abuses and violence of Mahdi Army
2015 Protests in Arbat and Darabandikhan, KRG and Nasiriya
over lack of services and
electricity
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