1926 Verbal agreement made
between British and Turks to give Turkey 10% of Mosul oil
revenues for 25
years in return for giving up claims to province
(Musings
On Iraq article on how Mosul province became part of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation
of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq
1914-1921)
(Musings
On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil,
Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1941 Last brigade of British 10th
Infantry Division from India landed in Basra
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 British troops reached Baghdad Iraqi army barracks
bombed leading it to ask for peace
1941 Baghdad mayor and army officers approached British
embassy asking for armistice
1941 German Amb to Iraq Grobba fled to Mosul Told German
Foreign Minister Ribbentrop Iraqis still in
the fight
1941 Ger For Min Ribbentrop told Ger Amb to Iraq Grobba that
more planes arriving Jun 1 Grobba said
because of lack of fuel German
planes would have to be based in Syria
(Musings
On Iraq review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles
for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941,
The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings
On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A
Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1946 PM Suwaidi resigned over controversy over Iraq-Turkey
Friendship Treaty Nuri al-Said negotiated
treaty without consulting with govt
1959 Last British soldier departed Habaniya base in Iraq as
English military withdrew from country
1967 Egypt’s Nasser and Jordan’s King Hussein called Pres
Arif asking him to deploy Iraqi forces to Jordan
for war with Israel Arif agreed to
send 1 armored div and 3 squadrons of jets
1968 Iraqi army arrived in southern marshes to put down
Communist uprising
(Musings
On Iraq 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)
1982 Protests and riots in Karbala Basra Nasiriyah Baghdad
over battlefield losses in Iran-Iraq War
1985 Iraq carried out heavy air raid on Iran oil terminal at
Kharg Island
(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 review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With
The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military
Conflict)
2003 Gen Conway 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
surprised hadn’t found any Iraq WMD in searches Said
intel about Iraq having ready to
use WMD was wrong
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld announced new Iraq Survey Group would
be formed to take over search for Iraq’s
WMD
2003 Coalition forces looking for Iraq WMD increased to 1300
personnel
2003 Final report of UN inspectors found no evidence of WMD
programs
2003 UN inspectors said soil samples helped back Iraq story
that they destroyed anthrax
(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 PM Blair said he was sure evidence of Iraq’s WMD would
be found
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said war was not based upon lies
because both US and England said Iraq had
WMD
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a
War)
2003 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD
labs were found Inspection found not
labs
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 UnderSecDef for Intel Cambone said only 70 of roughly
600 suspected WMD sites in Iraq had been
inspected
2003 CIA Dir Tenet said that its Iraq intelligence was not
politicized by Bush admin
2003 US report on Iraqi police Said they were corrupt and
needed reform Called for 6,000 advisers which
US didn’t have
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law
and order in post-invasion Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how
US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
2004 US Op Smackdown to probe Mahdi Army defenses of Kufa
mosque began
2004 7 US soldiers disciplined for not stopping Abu Ghraib
prison abuse scandal
2004 Leaked parts of Ryder report on Abu Ghraib found 100s
of Iraqi prisoners were held despite lack of
evidence
2005 VP Cheney said Iraq in “last throes” of an insurgency
2006 Pentagon report to Congress said violence increased
since 2004 from avg 400 attacks/wk spring 04 to
550 attacks/wk Aug 05-Feb 06 to 600
attacks/wk Feb-May 06
2007 US turned over security for Kurdistan to Peshmerga
2007 Op Alljah started to clear Fallujah
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Green on Fallujah during the Surge)
(Musings
On Iraq review Fallujah Redux The
Anbar Awakening and the Struggle With Al Qaeda)
2007 Graffiti appeared in Baghdad’s Amiriya saying down with
ISI It attacked a mosque associated
with Islamic Army in retaliation
killing its local commander Islamic Army then attacked an ISI mosque leading to
4 hr gun battle
(Musings
On Iraq article on splits within insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni
Insurgency)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2007 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq arms supplier Abu Abdullah captured by
U.S. forces
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
2008 ISF raided Iraqi National Gathering HQ in Basra
2008 CIA Chief Hayden said ISI near strategic defeat in Iraq
2008 Ayatollah Sistani aide said he was opposed to Status of
Forces Agreement with U.S.
2008 Fmr White House spokesman McClellan said Bush White
House so caught up in pushing war
ignored intel that didn’t fit
argument
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2009 Ex-Trade Min Sudani tried to leave Iraq but plane
turned around and arrested at Baghdad airport on
corruption charges Used stolen
money to fund PM Maliki’s 2009 and 2010 election campaigns
(Musings
On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption
in Iraq)
2009 Ex-Trade Min Sudani’s brother arrested trying to leave
Iraq by land Tried to bribe border police Also
charged with corruption
2009 Gov Nujafi accused Peshmerga of human rights abuses and
breaking law in Ninewa
2010 Diyala police chief complained his forces were
infiltrated by insurgents
2010 PM Maliki met with Pres Barzani in Irbil to lobby for 2nd
term
2011 Ninewa Gov Nujafi escaped bombing on his motorcade in
Mosul
2011 Maysan council voted to keep US forces out of province
as objection to a US raid
2011 VP Mahdi resigned saying position no longer held power
and Najaf objected to way VPs elected
2012 PM Maliki said he was reinstating Saddam era army
officers as concession to Sunni parties to stop
no confidence vote against him
2012 Pres Talabani met Pres Barzani Allawi Speaker Nujafi
Dep PM Mutlaq in Sulaymaniya and refused
to back no confidence vote vs PM Maliki
2012 Sadr said if Iraqiya and Kurdish Coalition backed no
confidence vote against PM Maliki he would
support it Sadrists said replacing PM
Maliki only solution to political crisis in Iraq
2012 Badr and Fadhila wrote letter to PM Maliki saying they
supported him during no confidence move
against him
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
2012 Iraq Oil Ministry held 4th auction for 12
oil and gas fields Only 1 winning bid
2013 3 Reports militias killing civilians kidnapping people
manning checkpoints with ISF in Baghdad
2013 Anbar governor escaped car bombing in Ramadi
2014 Ramadi protest leader said Sunni autonomy was way to go
and rejected armed struggle
2014 Protest in Qadisiyah over lack of services and
development
2014 Report Iran funding Asaib Ahl Al-Haq operations in
Fallujah and Jurf al-Sakhr
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
2015 IS held ceremony where Ramadi sheikhs gave it
allegiance after city fell
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
2016 Hashd and Federal Police stopped displaced fleeing Sjar
Anbar Executed 12 men
