1914 Ottomans agreed to oil concessions for British and
Germans in Mosul and Baghdad
provinces Never happened because
WWI
1920 Was meeting in Mishkhab Najaf to plan for revolt
against British
(Musings
On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq,
The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
1940 Italian Amb told Iraq it wanted an independent Syria
Lebanon and Iraq as well Ambassador
didn’t check with foreign office
beforehand
(Musings
On Iraq review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941,
The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1961 Kuwait brought up Iraq claims to Kuwait with UN
Security Council
1961 British intel concluded that Iraq was going to invade
Kuwait after Qasim claimed Kuwait part of
Iraq
1969 Baath created Dohuk province as part of 1966 June
Declaration on Kurdish rights
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1981 Iraq offered Ramadan ceasefire but rejected by Iran
1982 Saddam dismissed all the members of the Revolutionary
Command Council
1985 Iran Op Al Quds 1 north of Majnoon Islands Basra ended
with nothing gained
1986 Iraqi planes attacked Sardasht Iran using mustard gas 1st
civilian town attacked by WMD 133 killed
1988 Iraq gained bridgehead in Iranian territory for 2nd
time that year 3,000 Iranians dead 8,000
wounded 4,000 captured Defeat at
Fao and Majnoon led to collapse of morale in Iran Revolutionary Guard asked
govt to end war
(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)
(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 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)
1987 Iran accused Iraq of killing and wounding 650 Kurdish
civilians in mustard gas attack in northwest
Iran
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1991 UN inspectors denied access to Fallujah nuclear site
while trucks took equipment out
(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)
1992 Report 2 yrs before Gulf War US intel was warning about
Iraq’s WMD nuclear and missile programs
Jan 89 Congress got briefing on
Iraq’s weapons procurement programs Spring and summer 89 intel reports warned
about Iraq’s networks Nov 89 CIA told Bush White House Iraq using front
companies to buy tech for nuke program Had no effect on Bush’s policy to
improve relations with Iraq
2004 CPA disbanded Iraqi sovereignty returned to interim
govt led by Premier Allawi
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq,
from
George W. Bush
to Barack Obama)
2004 Bremer said CPA accomplished almost everything it set
out to do including a peaceful democratic
and pluralistic society
2004 US created Multi National Security Transition Command
Iraq to train Iraqi forces
(Musings
On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq,
from
George W. Bush
to Barack Obama)
2004 Sistani fatwa said no guarantee US process would create
constitutional convention that represented
the Iraqi people
(Musings
On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq)
2005 Bush speech War in Iraq about fighting terrorism
creating democracy advancing freedom in Mid
East Rejected timetable for
withdrawal Said when Iraqi forces stood up US forces would stand down which was
a withdrawal plan
(Musings
On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings
On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and
Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
(Musings
On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq,
from
George W. Bush
to Barack Obama)
2008 Accountability and Justice law amended to stop former
ISF officers for being fired
for
Baathist past and those that quit could now get jobs with govt
(Musings
On Iraq DeBaathification and Elections Update)
2008 PM Maliki met with Ibadah tribe Offered it limited
autonomy in return for joining Tribal Support
Council to support him
2008 Baghdad-Irbil formed committee to work out oil law
Nothing came of it
2008 Sahwa in Adhamiya Baghdad protested after army arrested
their leader on kidnapping charges Part
of PM Maliki intimidation campaign
vs Sahwa
(Musings
On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the
Remaking of the Iraq War)
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