Violence in Iraq hit a low point during the fourth week of June. Attacks by the Islamic State were at single digits while there was another rocket incident by pro-Iran groups in Baghdad. Part of this is due to a number of security sweeps through IS areas along with the end of the group’s Spring offensive.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Security In Iraq Jun 22-28, 2020
Violence in Iraq hit a low point during the fourth week of June. Attacks by the Islamic State were at single digits while there was another rocket incident by pro-Iran groups in Baghdad. Part of this is due to a number of security sweeps through IS areas along with the end of the group’s Spring offensive.
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Monday, June 29, 2020
Iraq’s PM Gives Warning To Kataib Hezbollah To Stop Rocket Attacks In Baghdad
In June Iraq opened talks with the United States over a new security agreement. Pro-Iran Hashd units responded with a series of rocket attacks upon targets in Baghdad that housed Americans like the International Airport and the Green Zone. Prime Minister Mustafa Kazemi said that these incidents would not be tolerated. When they continued the Counter Terror Service launched a raid against Kataib Hezbollah sending a warning that the premier would not accept these continued security violations.
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Sunday, June 28, 2020
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Saturday, June 27, 2020
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Friday, June 26, 2020
Review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War
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Thursday, June 25, 2020
Baathist Origins Of Iraq’s Agriculture System
(AFP) |
Like the rest of the economy agriculture is facing a crisis in Iraq. That’s because the system is dominated by the state, which is not making enough money to pay its bills. This is a legacy of the Baathist system implemented in the 1970s which placed the government at the center of all transactions in the farming business.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
The Enduring Principles and Strategies Of The Islamic State Interview With Authors Of The ISIS Reader Haroro J Ingram Craig Whiteside and Charlie Winter
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Security In Iraq Jun 15-21, 2020
Violence in Iraq has returned to a very low level. For the third week in a row incidents were only in the teens. This came after the Islamic State announced a new offensive in April-May where attacks went up to 2018 levels. The government has also been launching an aggressive series of security sweeps which have also kept insurgent operations down.
This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 23
1991 US Gen said in opening day of bombing during Gulf War US tried to kill Saddam
1996 Iyad Allawi interviewed in WashPost saying Iraqi National Accord supported a military uprising in
Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
2003 Ayatollah Sistani issued fatwa saying Iraqis should elect council to draft new constitution vs CPA
plan
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2003 Oil Ministry made first foreign oil sale to Turkish company since invasion
(Musings On Iraq Review Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective)
2003 Official US found more evidence since Iraq invasion to prove Iraq-Al Qaeda ties
2003 US defense official complained to press Iraq-Al Qaeda ties were based on politics before war not based
on intelligence
2003 Bush at NSC meeting asked why US wasn’t pushing elections in Iraq and maybe they should come
before writing constitution
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby told NYTimes reporter Miller Fmr Amb Wilson’s wife worked at CIA in
retaliation against Wilson Implied Wilson’s wife set up her husband’s trip to Niger
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby complained that CIA was selectively leaking info to press to lesson its role
in claims about Iraq’s WMD
2004 Pentagon report said only 6% of Iraqi police had finished training Said ISF lacked equipment
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)
2004 Report were two waves of foreign fighters to Iraq one before and one after 2003 invasion
2004 Report cooperation between Baathist and jihadist insurgents in Iraq and international terror
networks including Al Qaeda
2004 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said what was going on in Iraq was not an insurgency Said it was former
regime elements who didn't want to give up
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
2004 US delivered $1.4 bil in cash to KRG for administration Went unaccounted for
2005 15 Sunnis and 1 Sabean added to constitutional drafting committee and 10 more Sunnis as advisers
(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2006 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey briefed Bush on withdrawal plan Bush approved
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2008 Report govt came up with new displaced program to force squatters out of homes and make them
return to their original areas Were 2.7 mil displaced and 2.5 mil refugees
(Musings On Iraq Government’s Displaced Plan?)
(Musings On Iraq January 2009 U.N. Report On Iraq Refugee Returns)
(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
2008 Report Interior Min complained Haswa Babil police chief was arresting too many Shiites and had to
arrest more Sunnis When he didn’t he was investigated and relieved of duty
2008 Report Iran cut power supply to Basra after Charge of Knights op cutting electricity to only 6 hrs
a day
2008 Report Amiriya Baghdad Sahwa leader said Maliki govt had arrest warrant out for him Part of
intimidation campaign vs Sahwa
2008 PM Maliki announced 17 Tribal Support Councils would be formed in Maysan after Op Promise of
Peace Councils became part of Maliki’s patronage network to create support for Dawa/State of Law
(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)
(Musings On Iraq Disputes Over Tribal Support Councils)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2013 Parliament amended 2008 Provincial Powers Law but not implemented
2014 ISIS held large military parade in Mosul after city fell
2014 Fighting between ISIS and Hawija Brigades in Hawija, Kirkuk for control
2014 Jihad and Reform Front agreed to work with ISIS in summer offensive Said tribal revolutionaries
would sweep over Anbar
2014 Albu Mahal tribe surrendered Qaim Anbar to ISIS
(Musings On Iraq Anbar Before And After The Awakening Pt IX Sheikh Sabah Aziz Of The Albu Mahal)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)
Monday, June 22, 2020
More On Islamic State Financing In Iraq
(Indian Express) |
In May Iraqi security analyst Husham al-Hashimi published a report for the Center for Global Policy about the state of the Islamic State. He wrote that IS was earning over $3 million a year. That contrasted with an American general and senior official who claimed that the Islamic State was in serious financial trouble.
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