1920 War Min Churchill wrote PM George that British army
over extended in Mesopotamia and
asked whether UK should give up
Mosul province because of costs
(Musings
On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How
Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The
Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
(Musings
On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil,
Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1963 Govt forces attacked Dohuk killing 165 Peshmerga
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1975 Iran-Iraq signed Reconciliation Treaty to resolve
border issues
1997 UN complained about Iraq’s obstruction of weapons
inspections
(Musings
On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003
Invasion)
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
(Musings
On Iraq Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)
(Musings
On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
1998 UN inspectors met with Iraqi delegation led by Tariq
Aziz over UN inspections
(Musings
On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003
Invasion)
2002 UK Def Min paper said postwar planning needed to be
made before taking military action against
Iraq UK never made plans
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Volume 2 Sec 3.3 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and
Options April to July 2002)
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 US ground forces commander Gen McKirenan moved HQ from
Iraq to Florida Denied US forces
remaining in Iraq intelligence and
staff
2003 Gen Eaton arrived in Baghdad to head US training
program for new Iraqi army
2005 US held 2nd secret talk with insurgents in
Balad to try to break them away from foreign fighters and
Al Qaeda in Iraq
2006 Bush made surprise visit to Baghdad told PM Maliki US
stood behind him
2006 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey told Bush US had to withdraw and
make Iraqis take more responsibility
Bush did not agree but went along
anyway
(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)
2006 New Al Qaeda in Iraq leader al-Masri issued statement
saying he would follow Zarqawi’s path
Continue attacking Shiites Still
loyal to bin Laden
(Musings
On Iraq review The Caliphate At War,
Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
(Musings
On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State
Movement)
2007 ISI bombed Askari shrine in Samarra 2nd time
Used agents in Iraqi police Ayatollah Sistani and Sadr
called for calm Some Sunni mosques
attacked in Baghdad and Basra in retaliation
2007 Sadrists began boycott of parliament and pulled
ministers from cabinet when PM Maliki refused to
set withdrawal date for US
2007 Gen Dempsey said 25% of Iraqi soldiers on leave 25%
stayed home when units deployed to other
areas Injured soldiers kept on
payroll when couldn’t serve Corrupt officers created ghost soldiers to steal
salaries US found 13,000 ghost police Karbala and Najaf hired 1000s more police
than needed as job program and to steal salaries
2008 Sadr said that he was turning most of his movement into
social and political
organization
disbanded most of Mahdi Army Would have special unit just to attack U.S.
(Musings
On Iraq Sadr’s Leadership Or Lack Thereof)
2008 PM Maliki said talks over new Status of Forces
Agreement with US at dead end
2009 Kurdish List in Ninewa said it was thinking of creating
alternative administration of districts that
refused to work with provincial
govt Part of Kurd-Al Hadbaa dispute
(Musings
On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings
On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
(Musings
On Iraq Update On Political Dispute In Ninewa)
2010 Iraq Central Bank attacked by ISI dressed in military
uniforms Started with 7 suicide bombers 25
killed 50 wounded
2011 Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq press
conference on beatings of protesters in Baghdad
broken up by plain clothes police
2012 ISI bombed Shiite pilgrims and KDP HQ 84 killed total
almost 300 injured
(Musings
On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State
Movement)
2012 Report Ayatollah Khamenei tried to persuade Sadr to
drop opposition to PM Maliki Quds Force
commander Gen Suleimani already
failed
(Musings
On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His
Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2013 SIIC and Sadrists complained State of Law and Loyalty
to Najaf broke deal and formed new Najaf
govt illegally
2014 Ayatollah Sistani issued fatwa for men to defend
country leading to creation of Hashd al-Shaabi
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with Tel Avav Univ’s Rachel Kantz Federa on Ayatollah
Sistani’s Fatwa To Defend Iraq)
2014 3 Iraqi army divisions disintegrated in collapse of
Mosul Tikrit etc
2014 Peshmerga moved into Sadiya and Jawala, Diyala and
Kirkuk City after ISF fled
2014 North Oil Company shut down oil to Baiji refinery
because of fighting
2014 ISIS demanded that people return to their jobs in Mosul
after taking city
2014 Report up to 25 tankers with ISIS oil travelled into
Kurdish controlled areas of Tuz Kharmato per day
2014 Insurgents seized police station in western Ramadi
2014 Badr head Amiri given control of security in Diyala by PM
Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2014 Report 500 Iranian Revolutionary Guards deployed to
Diyala
(Musings
On Iraq Iranian Mobilization In Iraq In The Face Of The Insurgent Surge)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings
On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam,
Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
2014 Sunni imam and two aides arrested in Baghdad by ISF
later found dead
2015 2nd day of fighting between Hashd and
Peshmerga in Sadiya, Diyala over control of town
2015 Report top US commanders didn’t want to get more
involved in Iraq war against IS
2015 Protests in Basra demanding governor resign for
corruption
2015 PM Abadi speech said Hashd non-sectarian under his
command in war against IS
2015 80 US soldiers arrived in Habaniya base Anbar to
support ISF operations in province
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