1921 American consul in Baghdad wrote that Faisal would
become King of Iraq even though he was
unpopular in the country
1921 Gertrude Bell noted that Iraqi notables couldn’t wait
for election to appoint Feisal King because would
take 2 months and that was too long
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Gertrude Bell
And Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Gertrude Bell,
Explorer of the Middle East)
1973 Police Chief Kazzar and 20 other coup plotters found
guilty and given death sentence
1973 Baath Regional Congress expanded membership to
accommodate Saddam supporters
1984 Iraqi govt uncovered plot to assassinate Saddam
Executed some 50 army officers as a result
1987 UN Resolution 598 called for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War
(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 Iraq Foreign Min Hussein told UN that it would make a
declaration of its nuclear program Said Iraq
had not violated Non-Proliferation
Treaty or IAEA safeguards
(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)
1991 Iraq’s concealment committee met Decided to reveal
details about nuke program after inspectors
found site Decided to secretly
destroy WMD programs and materials to hide them from inspectors Would prove
long term problem because Iraq could never fully prove what it destroyed and
what it was hiding to inspectors
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
1997 Turkey withdrew its forces from Kurdistan after killing
over 2,000 PKK fighters
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
2003 CPA suspended Iraq’s old banking laws as part of reform
program
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld told Senate US didn't go to war with
Iraq because it had dramatic new
evidence of
its WMD programs
2003 White House admitted Bush’s State of Union claim Iraq
tried to buy uranium
from Africa
Shouldn't have been used
2003 VP Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told White House
spokesman Fleischer fmr Amb Wilson’s wife sent
him to Niger to investigate
Iraq-Niger uranium deal Was attempt to discredit Wilson
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 SCIRI dropped objection to joining Iraqi Governing
Council after lobbying by UN
2003 UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs comm report on UK
dossier on Iraq’s WMD said was not sexed up by
Blair govt
2003 UK Foreign Affairs comm report said Blair govt didn’t
mislead parliament but misstated some of the
intel on Iraq’s WMD
2003 UK Foreign Affairs comm report said claim Iraq could
use WMD in 45 min should not have been so
prominent in dossier
2003 UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs comm report said UK
dossier on Iraq WMD should’ve been more
qualified on story Iraq tried to
buy uranium from Africa
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 State Dept intel agency sent memo to DepSec State
Armitage originally from June that said Iraq-Niger
docs were fakes
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2004 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey told Bush 70% of Fallujah
Brigade had joined insurgency
2004 Sen Intel Comm found major judgements in Oct 02 Natl
Intel Est on Iraq’s WMD and nuke program
were overstated and generally not
supported
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
2004 Sen Intel Comm found US intel claims Iraq had WMD and
programs larger than before Gulf War were
overstated
2004 Sen Intel Comm found US had evidence Iraq buying dual
use equipment Uncertain Iraq had destroyed
its WMD stocks after Gulf War
2004 Sen Intel Comm found US intel didn’t have much good
info on Iraq’s WMD and nuke programs after
UN inspections ended in 1998
2004 Sen Intel Comm found US intel suffered from group think
Assumed Iraq had WMD Assumed
everything it did was to expand
those programs
2004 Senate Intel Comm report on pre-war intel found that
all of CIA’s claims about Iraq renewed nuke
program were wrong and weak to
begin with
2004 Sen Intel Comm found CIA justified to claim Iraq-Al
Qaeda might have cooperated based upon pre-
war intel
2005 Iraq and Iran’s Defense Ministries signed military
cooperation agreement
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
2005 Report Human Rights Min said Iraqi forces carried out
random arrests not using
warrants
torturing and abusing prisoners
2005 Report Human Rights Min official said Iraqi forces
conducting extrajudicial
killings
and govt not doing anything about it
2005 Report $8.8 bil went missing in Iraqi ministries during
CPA period 03-05
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen
on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption
in Iraq)
2006 Bush said Americans were wondering if US could win Iraq
war Said US was winning
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey given investigative report on
Marines killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha
2006 Integrity Commission head Radi said weak institutions
and lack of punishment led
to
uncontrolled corruption
2008 PM Maliki said he wanted a memo of understanding on
withdrawal of US forces
instead of
a Status of Forces Agreement which was stalled
(Musings
On Iraq article on negotiations over SOFA)
2008 Female suicide bomber hit market in Baquba 23rd female
suicide bombing of the year
(Musings
On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)
2008 Report 94% decline in attacks by ISI 25 in Nov 07 vs
334 Nov 06
2013 KRG Pres Barzani visited Baghdad to try to resolve
problems with PM Maliki
2017 Protesters seized power plant in Babil due to
electricity shortages
2018 Protest in Imam Sadiq Basra blocked main road over
electricity shortages
(Musings
On Iraq article on summer protests)
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