1921 Churchill wrote Sir Percy Cox asking him what he
thought of Feisal
1921 Churchill to Lord Curzon said that Feisal might be best
man to be Iraq’s monarch
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on Mesopotamia)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Churchill’s
Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Inventing Iraq:
The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
1968 Baghdad Univ student strike demanded return to
parliamentary govt and elections led
by Baath and Communists
(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)
1973 After 8th Baath Party Congress Bakr govt
said it would reach out to western countries while
maintaining ties with Soviets
1987 Saddam started 3rd War of the Cities in
retaliation for Iran’s Op Karbala 5 Iraqi air force stopped
ground support ops in Basra and
attacks upon Gulf shipping to focus upon Iranian cities
1987 Iraq Def Min Khairallah
authorized used of WMD to repel Iran Op Karbala 5 in Basra
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1991 Bush administration authorized by Congress to use force
to make Iraq withdraw from Kuwait
(Musings
On Iraq book review from storm to
Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein,
Deciding on Conflict)
1998 1st day new UN inspections went to General
Security HQ and Abu Ghraib prison looking for
docs on WMD tests on prisoners from
1994-95
(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)
2003 State Dept intel analyst sent email to intel community
arguing that Niger docs were fakes
2003 State Dept told White House docs claiming Iraq-Niger
uranium deal were fakes
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
2003 IAEA said it would be hard to believe that Iraq was
hiding a complete nuclear weapons program IAEA
head El Baredei said provisional
conclusion aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for rockets not centrifuges
(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 article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2006 UK Embassy in Iraq argued for high level talks with
Sadrists to push them towards greater political
engagement and role in new Iraqi
govt
2006 Gen Peterson head of US training mission said that
200,000 Iraqi police would finish courses
by end of 2006 in what was dubbed
Year of the Police
(Musings
On Iraq article on pre-Surge US Iraq strategy)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
2006 Report Albu Mahal tribe in Qaim west Anbar turned on Al
Qaeda in Iraq and formed Desert
Protection Force to fight it
(Musings
On Iraq article on Albu Mahal tribe)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Anbar tribes turning on Al Qaeda in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on change in perceptions that led to Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Confronting Al
Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Marines
Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Illusions of
Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
2006 Report US hoping to exploit splits between insurgency
and Al Qaeda in Iraq
2008 Accountability and Justice Commission replaced
deBaathification Commission
(Musings
On Iraq article on Accountability and Justice Law)
2008 145 MPs from Iraqiya Sadrists part of Dawa National
Dialogue Front and others said they were
against turning over Kirkuk to
Kurds
2009 4 MPs from Independent Democratic Gathering left Iraqi
Accordance Front National Dialogue Council
and Independent Bloc already left
list accusing Iraqi Islamic Party of domination
(Musings
On Iraq article on disintegration of Iraqi Accordance Front)
2011 Kuwait Premier and Foreign Affairs Min arrived in
Baghdad for first high level meet between
2 countries since 1990
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