1917 British forces started
march on Baghdad from Kut
1981 Iraq offered peace deal to
Iran including withdrawal Khomeini said no seeing offer as weakness by
Saddam
1981 Khomeini’s rejection of
Iraq’s peace offer led Saddam to push ahead with new attacks in Iran
1981 Report that Iraq wanted to buy military equipment from
US but turned down
1983 Soviet For Min Gromyko met with Iraqi and Iranian
delegations to try to mediate end to Iran-Iraq War
1984 US condemned Iraq’s use of WMD for 1st time
in Iran-Iraq War Iraq denied it used any
(Musings
On Iraq article on the origins of Iraq’s WMD programs)
1985 Iraq bombed Ahvaz in Khuzistan province Started new war
of cities that lasted until June 1985
1985 Iraqi military intelligence warned 3rd and 4th
Corps of impending Iranian offensive Attack
would come further south
1987 Saddam had meeting on war
Decided to expand Republican Guard Expand tanker war Use
WMD more
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1988 Iran told UN that it was ready to accept ceasefire
(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 Police tried to arrest army deserters in Rania but
Kurdish rebels seized city
1991 Karbala joined Shiite revolt
1991 Ayatollah Khoei issued fatwa for people in Najaf to
follow Islamic Law Protect property during
uprising
1991 US Gen Brandtner said US would not let weapons go to
Shiite rebels in southern Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on 1st hand accounts of 1991 Uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s view of 1991 Uprising)
(Ahulbayt
Video on 1991 Uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on how US encouraged 1991 uprising)
1991 Sec of Def Cheney said US would not be able to hold
coalition together if it moved on Saddam
1991 Iraq officially renounced annexation of Kuwait agreed
to pay reparations and return stolen property to
Kuwait
1995 INC claimed fighting between opposition and Iraqi forces
in Qurna as part of its uprising
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iraq In The
Eye of the Storm that includes 1995 coup plot)
1998 UN weapons inspectors returned to Iraq and carried out
successful searches
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
1998 Report Al Qaeda operative arrived in Baghdad for talks False
story
2002 CIA debriefed Fmr Amb Wilson on his trip to Niger to
investigate Iraq buying uranium Wilson said he
found no proof of Iraq-Niger
uranium deal but in 1999 Iraq asked Niger about better trade CIA believed 1999
overture about better Iraq-Niger trade might have been supporting proof of
uranium deal
2002 Fmr Amb Wilson left CIA debriefing believing he
disproved Iraq-Niger uranium deal CIA felt they
might have proof it happened
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2002 Joint Intel Comm head Scarlett briefed Blair on Iraq’s
WMD Afterward Blair thought Iraq only had
battlefield WMD capability
2002 UK Home Secretary Blunkett at cabinet meeting asked
whether legal basis for action vs Iraq
2002 UK For Sec Straw wrote article saying if Saddam refused
weapons inspectors there would be
consequences
2002 UK intel report predicted successor to Saddam would be
a Sunni military man
2003 UK Embassy in Washington said Bush admin set on war
with Iraq
2003 France Russia Germany said they would not vote for a UN
resolution authorizing force against Iraq
2003 Blair told Bush if they got 9 votes on Sec Council for
2nd resolution and it was vetoed they would still
have legal authority for action
2003 UK Attny Gen told Blair if 2nd resolution
vetoed in UN would be no legal basis for Iraq war
2003 Powell told Congress 2nd UN resolution
against Iraq would pass while his staff told him wasn’t likely
2003 Powell said that Iraq weapons declaration to UN farce
because it said it had no WMD and claimed it
was hiding them from inspectors
(Musings
On Iraq article on UN weapons inspections)
2003 National Intelligence Committee memo said that docs on
Iraq-Niger uranium deal were forgeries
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 Sir Tebbet Sec of UK Def Min asked cabinet for legal
authorization for war with Iraq
2003 Russian Amb provided Iraq with numbers of US troops,
equipment and their locations to Iraq before
invasion
2003 ORHA head Garner got ok from Rice to use frozen Iraqi
assets to pay for postwar plans Garner told
Rice he didn’t think there would be
enough US troops in Iraq to maintain security after invasion Garner asked Rice
what were plans to put together post-Saddam Iraqi govt Got no answer
2003 Gen Franks briefed Bush on war preparations Were 208,000
forces in Middle East with 50,000 more
arriving in 2 weeks
2003 Bush met Vatican envoy who argued against war because
of casualties and gulf between Christians
and Muslims
2004 Gen Abizaid said ISF put together too quickly and
lacked training equipment command and control
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2004 Fmr head weapons inspector Blix said Iraq war was not authorized
by existing UN resolutions
2004 Shiite members of Iraqi Governing Council refused to
sign Transitional Administrative Law due to
Sistani objections
2006 Gen Pace Joint Chiefs head said Iraq was not heading
towards civil war
2006 After head of Nuaim tribe and sheikh from Jabour tribe
killed Hawija sheikhs decided to fight Al
Qaeda in Iraq
2007 Report Interior Min fired and reassigned 10,000 workers
for torture taking bribes tied to militias
2012 Wearing ISF uniforms ISI attacked 5 checkpoints, took
27 police prisoner executed them then released
video of attacks
2018 Parliament voted to review Iraq National Oil Company
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