1920 Ex-Ottoman Iraqi officers asked leading Shiite cleric
Shirazi for money Were rejected by Sayid
Tabikh who called the officers
mercenaries
1933 Surviving Assyrian women and children from Sumail sent
to Dohuk and then Mosul
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Tragedy of
the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review State and Society
in Iraq)
1937 PM Hikmat Sulaiman govt resigned over threat of
military revolt by Mosul Garrison commander Gen
Umari Officers overthrew govt
believing it had too many Kurds and Turks and not anti-imperialist
Pan-Arabistis
1937 Jamil al-Midfai became
premier for 3rd time in deal with pan-Arab officers
1937 Gen Fawzi became army chief of staff Promised to follow
pan-Arabism support Arab nationalist
officers Ended talks with Persia
over Shatt al-Arab
1937 PM Midfai named Col Najib Defense Minister which
angered pan-Arab officers Najib promoted Iraqi
nationalist officers
1937 PM Midfai wanted to exonerate deposed Sulaiman govt Nuri
al-Said wanted them punished Began
plotting with army against Midfai
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Role of the
Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
1973 Progressive National Patriotic Front announced between
Baath Communists and KDP
(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 told UN it wouldn’t accept any changes to
Resolution 598 that proposed 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)
1995 Iraq told inspectors after 1991 Kuwait invasion Iraq
had placed biological weapons into 166 bombs and
25 missile warheads
(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)
1996 PUK attacked KDP positions in Haj Umran near Iranian
border State Dept tried to mediate telling
Barzani should talk with Talabani
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
1996 Barzani told State Dept Iran needed to back out of
Kurdistan and without U.S. help he would turn to
Baghdad
2000 Iraq reopened Saddam International Airport to get
around UN sanctions
2001 US Energy Dep report said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to
buy were probably for rockets not centrifuges
Said tubes didn’t match design for
any operating centrifuges Report refuted CIA analyst who said alumunium tubes
Iraq tried to buy would work for 1950s German centrifuge design
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2001 US Energy Dept report said Iraq trying to buy magnets
and other moves showed that Iraq restarted its
centrifuge program to enrich
uranium Didn’t know if nuke program restarted
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
2002 Pentagon memo argued against State suggestion that US
would have to run Iraq after invasion State
didn’t think Iraqi exiles could run
Iraq Pentagon agreed exiles had problems but US had to push them to prepare for
the challenge Rejected a US occupation and said Iraq invasion should be like
invasion of France in WWII when US fought with French forces to liberate their
country Said were many bad elements in Iraq like radical Shiites communists
Wahabis Al Qaeda that could fill vacuum after war so US had to put exiles into
power
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2002 Iraq intelligence issued order to keep an eye out for
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
2002 CIA made 1st paper explaining assessment of
aluminum tubes Said they were for nuclear program Said
high specifications showed they
were for centrifuges
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 CPA told White House if didn’t get additional $20.3 bil
would be disaster for Bush’s plans for Iraq
2003 Water pipeline in Rusafa Baghdad hit with RGP knocking
out water for 2 days for 300,000 people
2003 US forces killed Reuters reporter outside Abu Ghraib
prison Said camera looked like an RPG
2004 Allawi govt offered amnesty and role in govt to Sadr in
return for ceasefire in 2nd Battle of Najaf
2004 NSC meeting discussed US attacking Imam Ali Shrine in
Najaf and possibly killing Sadr 2nd Battle of
Najaf
(Musings
On Iraq article on 2nd battle of Najaf)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Battle For The
City Of The Dead)
(Musings
On Iraq book review US Marines in Battle An-Najaf August 20014)
2006 Bush held national security meeting to rethink Iraq
strategy Bush told staff Iraq policy going bad and
wanted new one
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2006 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey told Bush Iraqis may not be
up to task of securing Baghdad
2006 US Marine report Starting Dec 05 Al Qaeda in Iraq
started marginalizing and co-opting other
insurgent groups Was mad so many
insurgents backed Dec 05 elections Wanted revenge
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
2006 Report 80% of insurgent attacks against Coalition 80%
of casualties were Iraqi civilians Car bombs
and IEDs doubled from 2004 to 2005
2008 PM Maliki admitted that Op Mother of Two Rivers in
Mosul failed to improve security Blamed
citizens for not cooperating with
govt Govt never provided $100 mil in reconstruction after op
(Musings On
Iraq article on Maliki saying Op Mother of Two Rivers failed)
2009 PM Maliki visited Syria and promoted closer ties
between the two Major reconciliation move as Syria
had supported insurgents
(Musings
On Iraq Baghdad Can’t Get Its Story Straight On Aug 18 Bombings)
2010 ISI suicide bomber hit army recruits in Baghdad killing
60
2011 Iraqi parliament oil committee submitted draft of new
oil law Never passed
2012 VP Biden called PM Maliki about Iran flying military
supplies to Syria over Iraqi airspace
2015 Judicial Council rejected call for Chief Justice Medhat
to resign
2017 PM Abadi’s office acknowledged that Emergency Response
Division unit committed abuses reported
in Der Spiegel during Mosul
campaign
(Musings
On Iraq article on Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division
during Mosul battle)
(Musings
On Iraq article ABC News had follow up to Der Spiegel article on abuses by
Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings
On Iraq article Toronto Star added more to story about abuses by Rapid
Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings
On Iraq article reactions to Der Spiegel article on abuses by Rapid
Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq Joint Operations Command attacked Der Spiegel article
on abuses by Rapid Reaction Division during Mosul battle)
2017 Iraqi authorities announced members of Emergency
Response Division were sent to court No specifics
given
2017 Iraqi court ruled that Kurdish flag be lowered from
government buildings in Kirkuk
2018 Protests in Karbala Najaf Qadisiya Basra Baghdad for
jobs services against corruption
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