1920 Pro-Independence delegation of Iraqis met UK High
Commissioner Wilson who invited 20 pro-
British Iraqis Meeting went nowhere
British later tried to arrest pro-independence delegates
1920 British reinforcements arrived helping defeat tribal
fighters in 2nd Battle of Aridiyat
1920 Tribal fighters laid siege to Kufa
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Reclaiming
Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1933 Mosul province told many Assyrians had left for Syria
from Dohuk area
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Tragedy of
the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review State and Society
in Iraq)
1959 Gen Qasim put several Communists on trial for hand in
Jul 14 fighting between Kurds and
Turkmen in Kirkuk
(Musings
On Iraq book review Red Star Over
Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview
with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1961 Kuwait told Arab League Iraq stopped working with
League because Qasim claimed Kuwait as part of
Iraq
1970 Pres Bakr attacked Communists for not accepting
Baathist leadership in govt
(Musings
On Iraq book review Red Star Over
Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview
with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
1987 Iraq accepted UN Res 598 calling for a ceasefire in
Iran-Iraq War Iran didn’t reject it which was a first
1988 Iraqi forces reached Iranian border in Kurdistsan
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1988 Ayatollah Khomeini said that he endorsed Iran-Iraq War
ceasefire
1988 UN Sec Gen de Cuellar invited Iraq and Iran foreign
ministers to NY for talks to end war Iran
refused direct talks saying it
didn’t accept Saddam’s govt Led Saddam to go back on offensive to make Iran
talk
1988 Iraq tried to add 3 more requirements to UN Res 598
ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War including direct
talks with Iran Was meant to delay
talks so Iraq could gain more territory to increase its position
(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)
1990 Pentagon report said Iraq unlikely to use force against
Kuwait
1991 KDP and PUK launched attacks in Irbil, Dohuk,
Sulaymaniya provinces UN said Kurds had
taken large parts of Sulaymaniya
Iraq accused Iran of interference
1998 US asked PUK and KDP to meet in Washington for peace
talks over civil war
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
2002 CIA Dir Tenet met MI6 Head Dearlove Tenet said WMD
intel didn’t matter because war was inevitable
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Sadrists protested in Najaf against US harassment
2003 Report US military teams searching for Iraq’s WMD
frustrated by not finding anything
2003 Report Jun 02 US started campaign to use No Fly Zones
to degrade Iraq’s air defenses to prepare for
invasion
2003 Report US intel actually knew very little about Iraq’s
WMD after UN inspectors left in 90s
2004 Filipino driver kidnapped by insurgents Was released
after Philippines withdrew its 51 soldiers from
Iraq
2004 PM Blair defended Iraq war to parliament saying caveats
should have been included in UK dossier on
Iraq WMD
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2006 Bush told violence moving from insurgency to sectarian
Overwhelming Maliki govt ISF involved in
sectarian violence
2006 UK Amb to Iraq Patey said Coalition facing strategic failure
in Iraq Civil war or division of Iraq
possible Happened despite political
progress in Iraq but that also increased sectarian divisions UK needed to push
Iraqi govt into lead and ensure it has monopoly of force
2008 Iraqi Accordance Front ended 11 month boycott of
parliament gaining no concessions from PM Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq article on Accordance Front boycott)
2018 Protests in Babil Baghdad Basra Dhi Qar Karbala Maysan
Muthanna Najaf Qadisiya Wasit for services
and jobs 2 killed 1 in Najaf 1 in
Qadisiya by police and Badr guard Almost all broken up by police
(Musings
On Iraq article on Jul 20 protest activity)
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