1933 Iraqi army sent to Dohuk in show of force against armed
followers of Assyrian leader Mar
Shimun
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Tragedy of the
Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review State and Society in
Iraq)
1961 Qasim said Kuwait part of Iraq and he would protect it
from imperialists and deploy troops to liberate
it Egypt said it was opposed
because Nasser against Qaim
1961 Qasim ordered military to come up with Kuwait invasion
plan
1961 London believed that Qasim’s comments about Kuwait
being part of Iraq could lead to an invasion
1988 2nd Op Tawakal ala Allah using chemical
weapons Iraq attacked and retook Majnoon Islands
(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 Iran-Iraq War Volume
3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(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)
1991 Iraqis fired on UN weapons inspectors at suspected nuke
site
(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 review The Saddam Tapes)
2003 Report Captured Zarqawi operative in Germany said
Zarqawi independent terrorist not part of Al
Qaeda
(Musings
On Iraq review Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation)
2003 Report State Dept WMD analyst told Congressional
hearing he felt pressured to tailor intel to fit
Bush admin agenda on Iraq
2003 UN Sec Gen Annan met with PM Blair Annan said that UN
was pushing Bremer to transition
to Iraqi control as quickly as
possible Said Bremer good at making fast decisions but that meant he didn’t
talk to others Complained deBaathification had gone too far
(Musings
On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the
Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2004 INC turned over captured Iraqi doc Iraq intel and bin
Laden met in 90s Iraq agreed to air anti-Saudi
tapes but request for joints ops
unanswered by Iraq
2006 PM Maliki announced national reconciliation program
Included Reconciliation Council National
Dialogue Plan fighting terrorism
Reviewing Debaathification Commission Amnesty for prisoners not involved in
terrorism Compensation for terrorism and Saddam victims and IDPs Improving
services Dealing with militias Fighting poverty and joblessness Nothing came of
it
2006 Health Ministry recorded over 50,000 Iraqi deaths since
2003 from terrorism and military clashes
2006 Report CIA officer Drumheller warned Agency before
Bush’s Jan 03 State of the Union and Sec
State Powell’s Feb 03 UN speech not
to use story Iraq had mobile WMD labs
2006 Report CIA officer warned that source of mobile labs
story Iraqi named CURVEBALL held by
Germans was unstable and story not
verified
2006 Report Germans warned CIA that CURVEBALL was unreliable
and refused to allow CIA access to
him
2006 CIA Dir Tenet told Sec State Powell it had multiple
sources confirming Iraq mobile lab story while
preparing Powell’s UN speech
CURVEBALL was only real source
2006 Right before Sec State Powell’s speech CIA Dir called
CIA officer Drumheller to fact check speech
Told Tenet not to use mobile labs
claim
(Musings
On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq
Had WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)
(Musings
On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)
2007 ISI suicide bomber killed Sheikh Gaood of Albu Nimr tribe
Sheikh Rifai al-Fahdawai of Albu Fahad
Sheikh Azziz al-Fahadawi Sheikh
al-Assafir head of the Albu Assaf tribe in Baghdad hotel before meeting with US
officials Were all Awakening members
(Musings
On Iraq Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq How A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Confronting Al
Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Marines Take
Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings
On Iraq review Illusions of Victory,
The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2007 US cmdr Op Arrowhead Ripper in Baquba said ISF not
capable of holding areas cleared by US
General in southern Baghdad said
same thing
2008 KRG signed oil deals with 2 Canadian firms to work in
disputed areas of Kirkuk
2008 Spokesman for Baghdad security plan said 9,000 Sahwa
had joined city’s police and more would be
integrated in future
2014 Al-Nusra commander on Syrian-Iraq border gave
allegiance to ISIS
2014 Ishaqi Salahaddin declared freed 3rd time in
just a few days
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Northern Front Stalemate In Salahaddin)
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