1920 Ex-Ottoman Iraqi officers asked leading Shiite cleric
Shirazi for money
Was
rejected by Sayid Tabikh objected Called the officers mercenaries
1937 PM Hikmat Sulaiman govt resigned over threat of
military revolt by Mosul
Garrison commander Gen Umari
Officers overthrew govt believing it had too many Kurds and Turks and not
anti-imperialist Pan-Arabistis
1937 Jamil al-Midfai became
premier for 3rd time in deal with pan-Arab officers
1937 Gen Fawzi became army chief of staff Promised to follow
pan-Arabism support
Arab
nationalist officers End talks with Persia over Shatt al-Arab
1937 PM Midfai named Col Najib Defense Minister which
angered pan-Arab officers
Najib
promoted Iraqi nationalist officers
1937 PM Midfai wanted to exonerate deposed Sulaiman govt
Nuri al-Said wanted them
punished
Began plotting with army against Midfai
1987 Iraq told UN it wouldn’t accept any changes to
Resolution 598 that proposed
ceasefire
in Iran-Iraq War
(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)
1995 Iraq told inspectors after 1991 Kuwait invasion Iraq
had placed biological weapons
into 166
bombs and 25 missile warheads
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
(Musings
On Iraq article on the origins of Iraq’s WMD programs)
1996 PUK attacked KDP positions in Haj Umran near Iranian
border State Dept tried to
mediate
telling Barzani should talk with Talabani
1996 Barzani told State Dept Iran needed to back out of
Kurdistan and without U.S. help
he would
turn to Baghdad
2000 Iraq reopened Saddam International Airport to get
around UN sanctions
2001 US Energy Dep report said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to
buy were probably for
rockets not centrifuges Said tubes
didn’t match design for any operating centrifuges Report refuted CIA analyst
who said alumunium tubes Iraq tried to buy would work for 1950s German
centrifuge design
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2001 US Energy Dept report said Iraq trying to buy magnets
and other moves showed
that Iraq restarted its centrifuge
program to enrich uranium Didn’t know if nuke program restarted
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
2002 Iraq intelligence issued order to keep an eye out for
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
2002 CIA made 1st paper explaining assessment of aluminum
tubes Said they were for
nuclear program
Said high specifications showed they were for centrifuges
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 CPA told White House if didn’t get additional $20.3 bil
would be disaster for
Bush’s
plans for Iraq
2003 Water pipeline in Rusafa Baghdad hit with RGP knocking
out water for 2 days
for 300,000
people
2003 US forces killed Reuters reporter outside Abu Ghraib
prison Said camera looked
like an RPG
2004 Allawi govt offered amnesty and role in govt to Sadr in
return for ceasefire in 2nd
Battle of Najaf
2004 NSC meeting discussed US attacking Imam Ali Shrine in
Najaf and possibly
killing
Sadr 2nd Battle of Najaf
2006 Bush held national security meeting to rethink Iraq
strategy Bush told staff Iraq
policy
going bad and wanted new one
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2006 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey told Bush Iraqis may not be
up to task of securing
Baghdad
2006 US Marine report Starting Dec 05 Al Qaeda in Iraq
started marginalizing and
co-opting other insurgent groups
Was mad so many insurgents backed Dec 05 elections Wanted revenge
2006 Report 80% of insurgent attacks against Coalition 80%
of casualties were Iraqi
civilians
Car bombs and IEDs doubled from 2004 to 2005
2010 ISI suicide bomber hit army recruits in Baghdad killing
60
2011 Iraqi parliament oil committee submitted draft of new
oil law Never passed
2012 VP Biden called Maliki about Iran flying military
supplies to Syria over Iraqi
airspace
2015 Judicial Council rejected call for Chief Justice Medhat
to resign
2017 Abadi’s office acknowledged that Emergency Response
Division unit committed
abuses
reported in Der Spiegel during Mosul campaign
2017 Iraqi authorities announced members of Emergency
Response Division were sent
to court No
specifics given
2017 Iraqi court ruled that Kurdish flag be lowered from
government buildings in
Kirkuk
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