1916 British forces attacked
Ottomans at the Dujaila Redoubt
1941 German Foreign Min official Woermann wrote that Berlin
should send arms to Iraq but didn’t
think Baghdad should declare war vs
UK because couldn’t win
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq And Syria
1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1950 Opposition MPs left parliament claiming they were being
silenced in assembly Were hoping to
cause protests and bring down PM
Suwaidi’s govt but failed
1959 Fighting broke out between Leftists that supported
Qasim and pan-Arabists backed by Shammar
tribe who were against Qasim in
Mosul
1959 Mosul commander Col Shawaf led military coup against
Gen Qasim Poorly organized Only 2 other
army units joined Radio from Egypt
didn’t arrive
(Musings On Iraq interview
with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1975 Iran and Iraq came to agreement over Shatt al-Arab and
Iran said it would stop supporting Kurdish
revolt
1975 Iraqi army moved into Kurdistan after Iran withdrew
support for Kurds under Algiers Accord
(Musings
On Iraq book review Killing Hope,
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Great
Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of The Kurds, A
Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Kurds of Iraq,
Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Nixon admin support for Kurdish revolt)
1981 Iran rejected any ceasefire with Iraq Baghdad began bombing
Iranian town of Ilam and oil refinery
in Khuzistan in retaliation
1984 Iraqis used mustard gas against Iranians to try to turn
them back in Basra marshes
(Musings
On Iraq article on the origins of Iraq’s WMD programs)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iran-Iraq War
Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1988 USSR submitted new proposal for negotiating end to
Iran-Iraq 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)
1991 Ayatollah Khoei issued 2nd fatwa calling for
clerical leadership to run Najaf and restoring order
during uprising
1991 Iraqi officials asked for WMD to put down rebellion in
Najaf
1991 Bush Admin warned Iraq not to use WMD against Shiite
and Kurdish uprisings after Gulf War
1991 Govt forces began artillery and rocket fire on Najaf
shrine
1991 Peshmerga began uprising in Sulaymaniya
1991 Saddam offered Shiites and Kurds share in govt in
exchange for loyalty oath but turned down
1991 Iranian Pres Rafsanjani said Saddam was unpopular and
should give into popular demand and
step down
(Musings
On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on 1st hand accounts of 1991 Uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Saddam’s view of 1991 Uprising)
(Ahulbayt
Video on 1991 Uprising)
(Musings
On Iraq article on how US encouraged 1991 uprising)
1998 UN inspectors went to Special Republican Guard and
Special Security Directorate
1998 NSA intercepted Saddam’s secretary Mahmoud telling
Special Security Direcrorate to delay
inspection at one site so documents
could be removed Destroyed at another
(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)
1998 US was hoping to cause confrontation between Baghdad
and UN inspectors to strike Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq article on how US manipulated UN inspections)
(Musings
On Iraq book review of Iraq In The
Eye of the Storm)
2003 UK Att Gen Goldsmith said that 2nd UN
resolution was needed for action against Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Book Review The Report of the
Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Head weapons inspector Blix said that Iraq doing more
but not fully cooperating and still months
more work ahead Said no evidence of
mobile WMD labs
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 IAEA chief El Baradei told UN no evidence Iraq
restarted nuclear program
(Musings
On Iraq article on how poor US intel work led to claim Iraq rebuilt its
nuclear weapons program)
2003 IAEA concluded that aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy
were for rockets not nuke program
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2003 IAEA said that documents claiming Iraq tried to buy
uranium from Niger 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)
2003 Sec State Powell told UN Security Council in response to
IAEA that US had new proof that
aluminum tubes were for centrifuges
2003 UK For Sec Straw suggested UN set ultimatum for Iraq’s
full cooperation with inspectors by Mar
17 or face war
2003 2nd high level US meeting on creating an
interim Iraqi authority after invasion held just days before
war
(Musings
On Iraq book review Leap of Faith,
Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Defense Policy Board’s Adelman wrote OpEd USA Today
saying US had given Iraq too much time
and needed action
2006 Anbar Revolutionaries said they’d killed 20 Al Qaeda in
Iraq foreign fighters and 33 Iraqi ones Said
goal was to get rid of Zarqawi
(Musings
On Iraq article on tribes turning on Al Qaeda in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq article on change in perceptions that led to Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq book review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq book review The Caliphate At
War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2007 Fadhila Party left United Iraqi Alliance over
disagreements with leadership
2008 Pres Talabani visited Turkey Sign that Turkey was
changing policy towards Kurds Refused to meet
with KRG Pres Barzani
2010 Parliamentary elections held leading to 2nd Maliki
term
2014 Insurgents bombed Kirkuk oil pipeline cutting northern
exports
2016 Sadrists threatened no confidence vote against Abadi if
he didn’t announce new govt in 45 days
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms)
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