1940 Gen Umari Mosul garrison commander attempted coup
rather than be forced to resign
by Regent Put down by Golden Square
officers
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Role of the
Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad
1985 US and Soviet officials met to discuss ways to end
Iran-Iraq War Nothing came of it
(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 book review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War,
The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Iran-Iraq War)
1991 US 1st Cav Div launched large attack into
Iraq Engaged 7 Iraqi divisions to deceive Iraqis on where
invasion would come from
1995 KDP and PUK resumed fighting in Rawandaz ending
ceasefire
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
1996 Hussein Kamal and brother Saddam Kamal accepted pardon
from Saddam and returned to Iraq Were
later killed
1998 UN Sec Gen Annan met with Saddam to try to restart UN
weapons inspections
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
1998 UN report said Iraq’s electricity situation was in dire
straights
1998 UN Res 1153 increased Iraq’s exports from $2 bil in oil
each 6 months to $5.2 bil and expanded
imports from food and medicine to
infrastructure needs
1999 Supreme Council accused govt of killing Ayatollah
Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah
Sadiq al-Sadr)
2002 Secret CIA team entered Kurdistan to prepare for ops
inside Iraq called Northern Iraq Liaison
Elements
2002 CIA gave fmr Amb Johseph Wilson talking points for his
trip to Niger to investigate Iraq-Niger
uranium deal
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2002 UK Joint Intel Comm chief Scarlett briefed For Sec Cook
on Iraq’s WMD Cook thought Iraq didn’t
have capability for large scale WMD
attack
2003 Chief UN Inspector Blix told Blair intelligence he’d
gotten wasn’t great and maybe Iraq didn’t have
much WMD
2003 UN sources told press US intel on Iraq WMD was not
turning up anything
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2003 Report interviews with Iraqi scientists by inspectors
had not turned up any evidence of a nuclear
program
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
2004 Report CPA dropping caucus plan to elect Iraqi provisional
govt and working with UN for alternative
Iraqi Governing Council wanted to
expand membership from 25 to 125 and become new govt
2007 British turned over army base in Basra to Iraqi 10th
Division as part of withdrawal from province
2007 Report Officials claimed 80% drop in violence in
Baghdad at start of Surge US focusing upon Dora
South Baghdad Sadr told Mahdi Army
to stand down
2007 Report Sadrist mosques posted lists of Mahdi Army
fighters expelled Sadr was trying to purge and
control
militia
2012 Saudi Arabia named its Jordan Ambassador as
non-resident ambassador to Iraq as relations were
slowly improving
2013 Iraq signed deal to build natural gas pipeline from
Iran across Iraq to Syria
2016 PM Abadi said financial crisis meant reforms needed
Called for end of quota system in govt
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2016 Sadr created committee to nominate technocrats for
Abadi’s new cabinet
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms)
2018 Report some of the 9 Abrams tanks pro-Iran Hashd units
got came from the Iraqi army rest were
captured from IS
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Hashd got Abrams tanks)
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