1980 Iraq attacked Iran’s air force starting Iran-Iraq War
Attacked 10 air bases but did little damage
and only destroyed 4 planes and
lost 5 of its own Were not trained for low level bombings Didn’t have munitions
to penetrated bunkers and missed most runways
(Musings
On Iraq Inauspicious Start To Iran-Iraq War)
1980 Invasion plan was to seize Kermansha Dezful Ahwaz
Abadan along border in less than 10 days
Deployed 2nd Corps in
Diyala to protect route to Baghdad 3rd Corps would invade Khuzistan
province to take Dezful Ahwaz Khorramshahr
1980 Iraqi invasion of Iran began with divisions leaving
Diyala towards Qasr e-Shirin in center to protect
route to Baghdad Also attacked
Panjwin to protect Sulaymaniya and Kirkuk in north
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1980 Iraq Attacked Iranian naval base at Khosrowabad at
mouth of Shatt al-Arab
1980 Iraq declared Khuzistan a new Iraqi province
1980 UK Defense Committee discussed how to start selling
weapons to Iraq during war
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1981 Iran began Operation Samen ol Aemeh to break siege of
Abadan Iran’s 2nd largest city
1987 Iranian speech at UN rejected UN ceasefire talks
1988 Pres Khomeini addressed UN condemning it for not doing
anything about Iraq’s aggression during
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)
1990 Iraq said if sanctions started to hurt it would attack
Saudi Arabia and Israel
2001 Telegraph story claiming Iraq was funding Al Qaeda
Quoted CIA and Israeli sources
2002 Natl SecAdv Rice said UN sanctions were failing and
Iraq using illegal revenues to develop WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Zarqawi bombed Canal Hotel Baghdad 2 dead 19 wounded
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2003 Bombing of UN compound led to unanimous decision to
evacuate UN staff from Iraq
2003 Bremer testified to Congress asked for approval of $87
bil in aid for Iraq
2003 Report Iraqi Governing Council members were going to
tell Congress US reconstruction money being
wasted
2004 US civilian Jack Hensley beheaded by Zarqawi Body
dumped in Baghdad
2004 2 suicide car bombs in Baghdad killed 21 wounded 150
2004 Gun battle in Samarra led US forces to seal off city
2005 Bush said with upcoming elections for parliament and
constitution Iraq would face more violence Said
if US withdrew from Iraq it could
become a terrorist safe haven
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
2005 Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said Iraq
could be breaking up
2005 Report Shiite cleansing of Baghdad by insurgents increased
especially in Dora Amiriyah Ghaziliya
Sadiya
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2005 UK official said Sadr wanted to talk about southern
Iraq UK said it wouldn’t negotiate because
Mahdi Army working with Iran and
Hezbollah to attack British troops in Basra Sadr said still interested London
recommended talks
2006 Ret Gen Keane told Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace he was
failing and his only priority should be winning
in Iraq Gen Pace agreed to set up
staff to go over Iraq strategy afterward Keane suggested Gen Petraeus should be
new US Iraq Cmdr to Gen Pace
2006 US military said militias in Baghdad earning up to $1
mil/day via kidnapping extortion black market
blackmail running Petrol stations
2006 3000 demonstrated in Tikrit calling for Saddam to
return to power
2008 Wasit council headed by SIIC refused to set up Tribal
Support Councils because seen as tool of PM
Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq article on PM Maliki’s patronage system including Tribal Support
Councils)
(Musings
On Iraq article Disputes over PM Maliki’s Tribal Support Councils)
2016 Parliament dismissed Finance Minister Zebari on
corruption charges led by Maliki and Reform Front
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