1949 Communist Chairman Farhad hanged by PM Said to try to
squash opposition protests
(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)
1958 Iraq and Jordan announced Arab Federation in response
to Egypt and Syria’s United Arab Republic
Kuwait asked to join but said no
1983 Sec of State Shultz met with Iraq’s For Min Hammadi who
asked for expanded trade deals
1984 Iran Op Kheibar began with diversionary attack
northeast of Khorramshahr Iran southern front
1986 Iraq counterattacked to try to re-captured Fao
Peninsula started
(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 of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1991 During funeral for member of Hakim family anti-Saddam slogans
chanted in Najaf
1991 Iraq said it would withdraw from Kuwait if Israel
withdrew from Palestine sanctions ended and
Iraq’s foreign debt forgiven
2002 National Sec Adv Rice called PM Blair For Pol Adv
Manning saying US was only reviewing its Iraq
policy
2003 Chief Inspector Blix briefed Security Council on Iraq
inspections Said found no evidence of WMD
Said 400 inspections at 300 sites
Were all without notice and gained entry every time Said Iraqis cooperating
Said soil samples showed no signs of WMD Iraq still had unaccounted for
materials Found 2 banned missiles Blix refuted Sec State Powell’s claim that
Iraqis were cleaning WMD sites before inspections
2003 IAEA head El Baradei said it had dismembered Iraq’s
nuke program in 1998 and found no evidence
that it had been restarted yet Said
Iraq had provided documents for why aluminum tubes it tried to buy had such
specific specifications
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
(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 Sec State Powell told Security Council Iraq not
cooperating with inspections and use of force still an
option
2003 Saddam issued presidential directive banning companies
from importing equipment for WMD
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld gave speech that U.S. was opposed to
nation building in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of
Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Wash Post editorial supported war with Iraq
2003 NSC met over how to respond to a coup in Iraq Didn’t
think it was likely but had to plan for it
2004 Fallujah police station attacked by insurgents dressed
in ISF uniforms killing more than 20 officers
and released prisoners
2004 US intel report Al Qaeda captive al-Libi recanted story
Iraq trained Al Qaeda in poisons and
explosives Libi’s story was used in
US intel reports and Sec State Powell’s UN speech
2006 US military ordered investigation into Marines
executing Iraqi civilians in Haditha
2007 1st reports appeared that Sadr had left Iraq
for Iran out of fear that Surge would target him
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2007 Bush said that Iranian Rev Guards Quds Force was
operating in Iraq aiding militias and needed to be stopped
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Vanguard of the
Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
2008 Jordan put visa restrictions on Iraqis to try to stop
flow of refugees moving there
2008 Iraq justice system overwhelmed by prisoners captured
during Surge More than half 26,000 prisoners
held hadn’t gone to trial and some
waited for years Prisons overcrowded Police often ignored orders to release
prisoners Many guards worked with militias and released them Iraq didn’t have
enough judges to deal with cases Not supported by govt
2016 Hakim criticized PM Abadi’s call for ending quota
system saying that PM got his job because
of quotas
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2018 Kuwait conference raised $30 bil in loans investment
credits mostly for developing Iraq’s economy
as well as reconstruction
(Musings
On Iraq article on Kuwait conference)
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