1917 British crossed Shumran bend outflanking Ottoman forces
in campaign to recapture Kut
1981 UN Rep Palme went to Iran and Iraq for 3rd
time to try to negotiate ceasefire
1986 Iran started attack to gain more ground in Fao
Peninsula
(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)
1995 Temporary ceasefire made between PUK and KDP during civil
war
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
1998 Clinton told Pentagon US had to stop Iraq from getting
WMD and nuclear weapons and Baghdad
had to allow unfetted UN
inspections
(Musings
On Iraq book review The United States
And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
2003 U2 spy planes began flying over Iraq for UN weapons
inspectors
2003 Turkish parliament delayed vote to allow deployment of
US troops for Iraq invasion due to domestic
opposition
2003 IAEA found that Iraq-Niger uranium docs were fakes
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iraq-Niger uranium story)
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The
Selling Of The Iraq War)
2007 3 car bombs in Baghdad killed 74 and wounded over 100
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2007 VP Hashemi called for Mahdi Army to be placed on
terrorist list by US
2007 Report Mahdi Army staying off Baghdad streets as Surge
started
2008 2 car bombs at Awakening meeting in Anbar killed more
than 20
2008 Sadr announced end of truce with SIIC made in Oct 07
Didn’t stop fighting between two parties
2008 Report 2007 avg 200 attacks per day against ISF Start
of 2008 only avg of 82 per day
2008 Report Almost half of displaced said they wouldn’t
return to old neighborhoods because
demographics changed in civil war
Baghdad’s Adil neighborhood 70% of violence caused by conflicts between
returnees and squatters occupying their homes ISF helping Shiites keep homes by
arresting Sunnis and not allowing families back
2008 US accused Iran of increased arms shipments to militias
in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
2011 Protests in Sulaymaniya began demanding reform in KRG
Attacked KDP HQ Fired upon by guards
killing 2
(Musings
On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests)
2012 Mahoum Sarkhi offices set on fire Blamed on followers
of Ayatollah Sistani
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