1922 UK cabinet adopted Colonial
Sec Churchill’s proposal to put Royal Air Force in charge of
security in
Iraq replacing army
(Musings
On Iraq article on Churchill’s words 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)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Supremacy And
Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1963 Gen Qasim asked for safe passage out of Iraq Was
refused by coup leaders Qasim captured shot and
body shown on TV
1963 Baathist Gen Ahmed al-Bakr became premier Col Abd Salam
Arif president
1981 Iran and Iraq agreed to visits by Islamic leaders who
wanted to try to negotiate a ceasefire in Iran-Iraq
War
1982 Iraqi offensive to seize Bostan Khuzistan ended due to
rainy conditions
1983 Iranian Op Fajr al-Nasr Attacked again Iraqi
counterattack surrounded Iranians and destroyed division
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1986 Iran Op Wa al-Fajr 8 Largest so far 50% of army 2/3 of
Revolutionary Guard attacked Fao Peninsula
Basra Started with diversionary
attack north of Basra At night Iranians crossed Shatt al-Arab in two places
Landed south end of Fao
(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)
(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 US 1st Cavalry Division made reconnaissance
mission into Iraq to make sure mechanized units could
operate in Kuwaiti and Iraqi desert
2003 France and Germany proposed tripling number of UN
inspectors in Iraq US attacked plan
2003 Pentagon memo said that there would be security vacuum
after invasion leading to disorder Said
civilians at Pentagon expected
military to come up with troops to preserve order but military wanted troops
for other tasks Memo was rejected by CENTCOM that said war plan was to get to
Baghdad and couldn’t leave troops behind to maintain order
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Report UK intel didn’t think there was an Iraq-al Qaeda
connection
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Observer article disputed Iraqi defector Mohammed
Shahab used in March 02 New Yorker article who
claimed Iraq connected to Al Qaeda
via Ansar al-Islam
2004 US released Zarqawi letter to Al Qaeda Said goal to
start sectarian war by attacking Shiites to rally
Sunnis to its cause
(Musings
On Iraq interview with former CIA analyst Nada Bakos that tracked Zarqawi)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2004 Report White House 03 paper on Iraq WMD dropped
qualifications and doubts from 02 Natl Intel Est
on Iraq
2007 Report Mahdi Army cleansing Sadiya Baghdad of Sunnis
and Shiites moving in PM Maliki protecting
Sadr’s forces
(Musings
On Iraq book review Voices From Iraq,
A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq
Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2007 1920 Revolution Brigades offered negotiation terms to
US Included cancelling constitution and govt
Releasing prisoners Recognition of
resistance Direct talks with US Disbanding militias Bringing back Saddam’s army
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
2007 Pentagon Inspector Gen found DepDefSec Feith’s Office
of Special Plans made its own intelligence
assessment that was inappropriate
differed from intelligence community and wasn’t fully supported by intelligence
Promoted story that 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in April
2001 Told White House intelligence community was wrong about Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2008 Anbar Salvation Council gave Islamic Party 30 days to
leave provincial council or be forced out Two
also competing over reconstruction
contracts
(Musings
On Iraq book review Illusions of
Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
2016 PM Abadi called for technocratic and non-partisan
cabinet
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2016 Ramadi finally freed from IS by Iraqi forces
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