1921 Gertrude Bell wrote that Feisal entering Iraq with the
British wouldn’t have
been as good as him leading a jihad
but he would still be an inspiration to the new Arab state of Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell
And Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Gertrude Bell,
Explorer of the Middle East)
1935 National Service Bill signed by King starting
conscription for army King hoped conscription would
help with nation building by
creating army drawn from all parts of Iraq
1940 UK Foreign Sec Lord Halifax told War Cabinet situation
in Iraq gotten worse due to German victories
in France German and Italian
propaganda had been using Arab anger over Palestine and Syria against UK Few Iraqis
believed that UK could protect them Arabs wanted to be on winning side in war
1963 Soviet Union condemned Arif govt military campaign
against Kurds
1979 Govt put down 9 days of Dawa led protests capped off by
arresting Ayatollah Baqir al-Sadr Led to
more protests in Iraq Lebanon UAE
Braitain France Iran
1982 U.N. called for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War
1988 Iran Op Beit al-Moqaddas 7
attacked Fish Lake Iraqi defensive line in front of Basra City
Advanced 10km
into Iraqi lines causing heavy Iraqi casualties Took 700 prisoners
(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 Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(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)
1994 8,000 Kurdish refugees who had fled to Turkey after 91
uprising moved back into
Iraq to
escape fighting between PKK and Turkish army
1996 UN Resolution 1060 found Iraq not allowing UN weapons
inspectors full access
to sites
1996 UK intel report worried that Iraq still hiding parts of
missile and WMD programs
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
1997 UN inspectors said Iraq had blocked them from 3 sites
in last two days
(Musings
On Iraq article UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD
and 2003 Invasion)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Saddam Tapes)
2003 1st bombing of an Iraqi oil pipeline near
Kirkuk after invasion
2003 White House said were some fake docs about Iraq-Niger
uranium deal but much more evidence to
support story
2003 DIA memo to DepSecDef Wolfowitz said docs on Iraq-Niger
uranium deal fakes but were
unconfirmed reports that supported
deal such as report that uranium was in warehouse in Benin
2003 Fmr Amb Wilson gave background info to Wash Post
article claiming CIA didn’t tell Bush doubts
about Iraq-Niger uranium deal
Claimed he saw fake Iraq-Niger docs but never did Wilson believed his trip to
Niger discredited Iraq uranium deal story within CIA but didn’t
2003 VP Cheney told chief of staff Libby Wilson’s wife’s
name and said she worked for CIA Later leaked
to press to attack Wilson Cheney
and Libby were worried about press reports they felt were trying to blame VP
and Bush for false reports on WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2006 Health Dir for Diyala province kidnapped and believed
killed by Mahdi Army
2006 Bush approved US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey’s campaign plan to
withdraw US forces and turn
responsibilities over to Iraqis
Bush didn’t approve of withdrawal plan but went along with it anyway
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2007 1920 Revolution Brigade turned on ISI in Diyala after
made deal with US
(Musings
On Iraq article on split within insurgency in Diyala)
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2008 PM Maliki sent forces to Maysan to crackdown on
Sadrists
2008 Senior Sadrist and Iranian linked arms dealer arrested
in Kut, Wasit
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
2008 Islamic Party HQ in Anbar bombed in part of campaign
against party
2011 Sadr bloc threatened to pull out of National Coalition
and push no confidence
vote
against PM Maliki if US troops given extension to stay in Iraq
2011 US Amb to Iraq Jeffries said majority of Iraqi blocs
supported troop extension for
US except
Sadr
(Musings
On Iraq book review The United States
And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
2011 Iraqiya withdrew from parliament after pro-Maliki march
in Baghdad burned
Allawi’s
picture
2012 Kurdish MP claimed if no confidence vote against PM Maliki
went to parliament
would be
passed
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq From War To
A New Authoritarianism)
2012 PM Maliki held cabinet meeting in Dhi Qar trying to
prop up base against no
confidence
vote
2013 Charge of Knights of the Tigris anti-insurgent op
started in Muqtadiya Abu Saida
Hamrin
Jalawla in Diyala
2013 Sadr-Supreme Council alliance took Basra governorship
from State of Law after
provincial
elections SOL got head of council
2014 ISIS announced it was imposing sharia on Mosul ISF
members had to repent or be executed Killed
Imam of grand mosque in Mosul who
refused to support group
2014 ISIS executed 84 ISF in Mosul
2014 ISIS committed Camp Speicher massacre executing cadets
in Salahaddin
(Musings
On Iraq How Northern Iraq Fell To The Insurgency)
2014 ISIS seized 10 towns in Salahaddin and attacked Amerli
2014 ISIS announced that it was going to execute ISF in
Dhuluiya, Salahaddin
2014 ISIS told local tribes in Dhuluiya they had to turn
over ISF or they would be
killed
Refused and tribes starting fighting ISIS
2014 Jabour tribe fighting ISIS in Alam east of Tikrit
2014 Army and Sahwa withdrew from three major entrances to
Fallujah
2014 Insurgents attacked and seized Kubaisa and Saqlawiya in
Anbar
(Musings
On Iraq Security In Iraq’s Anbar Shows Battle Against Insurgents Will Be
Long And Often Futile)
2014 ISF withdrew from Qaim and Mazra army base without a
fight in Anbar ceding
Syrian
border to insurgents
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)
2014 ISF withdrew from Sadiya district Diyala Insurgents
burned abandoned ISF base in district
(Musings
On Iraq Continued Collapse Of Iraqi Security Forces And Fighting In Baghdad
Leads to Militia Mobilization And Arrival Of Iran)
2014 Emergency session of parliament to discuss security
crisis cancelled due to lack of quorum
2014 Supreme Council announced that it sent first unit of
militiamen to fight insurgents
(Musings
On Iraq Iran And Its Shiite Militias Mobilize In Iraq Interview With
Phillip Smyth)
2014 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq set up checkpoints near Dhuluiya
Salahaddin Opened fire
on 3
vehicles killing 12 civilians
2014 3 Sunni men kidnapped and killed by Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in
Sadiya, Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
2014 Quds Force commander Gen Suleimani went to Baghdad to
help coordinate
security
policy against insurgents
2014 2 Brigades of Iranian Revolutionary Guard deployed to
Samarra Najaf and Karbala to protect
shrines
2014 Iranian Revolutionary Guard deployed to Iran-Iraq
border Iran air force put on alert
(Musings
On Iraq Continued Collapse Of Iraqi Security Forces And Fighting In Baghdad
Leads to Militia Mobilization And Arrival Of Iran)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Vanguard of the
Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
2015 Peshmerga and Hashd got into firefight in Sadiya Diyala
in power struggle for
control of
Khanaqin district
2016 Anbar Governor report Hashd killed 43 displaced in
Fallujah op 600+ disappeared Beatings torturing
stealing from displaced
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