1915 British forces captured Amarah after convincing Ottoman
garrison to surrender
1941 3rd train load of German military aid
arrived from Syria Stored in Mosul after war ended
1941 British troops occupied Mosul after overthrowing PM
Gaylani govt
1944 Hamdi al-Pachachi became premier of Iraq
1950 Grenade attack in Jewish neighborhood of Baghdad 3rd
of 7 such attacks on Jews 1950-51
1982 Iraqi intelligence made attempt on life of Israeli amb
to UK using Abu Nidal terrorist group
1982 Report Iraq tried to provoke Israeli invasion of
Lebanon to end Iran-Iraq War by uniting countries
vs Israel
1986 Iranian Rev Guard Cmdr Rezai said his forces didn’t
need tanks or advanced planning because
his infantry could overwhelm the
Iraqis and win the 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 Ali Hassan al-Majid ordered 1,000 Kurdish villages be
destroyed
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
1991 Survey found Gulf War damage to Iraq infrastructure far
more than originally claimed Destroyed most
of electrical grid 80% out of
service Affeced water purification and sewage system Led to increase in disease
Led to health crisis Also destroyed telecommunications system Est $1.5 bil to
repair oil industry
1991 Protests and clashes continued in 3 Kurdish cities
Dohuk 4 Kurds and 2 Baath officials killed as Kurds
demanded US forces stay in
Kurdistan to protect them
1998 Inspector report to UN Iraq not accounted for missiles
warheads VX amounts of ingredients and final
products made from them Russia
France China refused to approve the report
(Musings
On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
2001 Saudi Amb to US Prince Bandar gave presentation to Bush
saying Saddam taking advantage of
instability in Middle East
2002 Gen Franks briefed Sec Def Rumsfeld on new Running
Start war plan to begin before all forces in
theater Rumsfeld liked new war plan
and wanted more on it
(Musings
On Iraq review of Shaping the Plan
for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Sadrist marched in Baghdad against US occupation
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2003 Iraqi nuke scientist who day before turned over
centrifuge plans to CIA arrested by US Special Forces
2003 After trip to Iraq PM Blair met with officials Said
that CPA lacked organization UK should become
more involved in CPA Needed more UK
civilian officials in southern Iraq US and UK needed to speed up contracting
process UK companies should become involved in Iraq
2003 UK Under Sec Def Tebbit wrote to Def Min Hoon on his
trip to Iraq Said no integrated plan for
rebuilding Iraq Didn’t know whether
US would give Bremer authority to manage task Said Bremer wanted UK help with
police training
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2004 US forces attacked Mahdi Army at Kufa mosque
2004 US began extending tours of US units serving in Iraq to
maintain troop levels
2004 KRG hired Barbour Griffith & Rogeres to lobby US
govt
2005 US held secret talks with insurgents in Balad to try to
break them away from foreign fighters and Al
Qaeda in Iraq
2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq kidnapped and killed 4 Russian
diplomats in Iraq
2007 US claimed Iranian arms shipments to militias in Iraq
increasing including large caliber rockets
(Musings
On Iraq article on Iran’s Iraq policy)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms
shipments to Iraqi militias)
2008 Australian PM Rudd said reasons given by PM Howard to
invade Iraq were all wrong Didn’t stop
terrorist attacks No WMD found
Didn’t stop rogue states Intelligence abused
2010 Pres Barzani went to Turkey for first time in 6 years
Said he would stop PKK operations
2011 Suicide bomber in mosque in Tikrit during Friday
prayers and then suicide bomber on hospital where
casualties taken
2011 Diyala governor threatened to resign if federal troops
continued to carry out raids and arrests in
province
2011 PM Maliki led raid on Trade Bank of Iraq after it
refused to back deal he brokered with S. Korean
company
2011 VP Hashemi accused PM Maliki of monopolizing power
2011 Protest in Baghdad for better services
2012 Dep PM Mutlaq said no confidence vote against PM Maliki
would reflect popular mood in Iraq
2012 Sadrists again said they supported no confidence vote
against PM Maliki
2012 Ayatollah Haeri issued fatwa against voting for secular
candidates as pressure on Sadr to drop no
confidence vote vs PM Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
2013 Dep PM Shahristani claimed Iraq’s electricity crisis
would be solved by end of year
2013 Protests over lack of electricity started in Nasiriyah
2013 Kirkuk governor said all the displaced Arabs in
province fleeing violence should be made to leave
2013 Sadr issued statement accusing Asaib Ahl Al-Haq of
trying to assassinate one of his aides
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
2014 11 tribes in Fallujah district declared war on ISIS
2015 IS held ceremony in Ramadi where sheikhs gave it baya
2015 Badr’s Amiri blamed PM Abadi for fall of Ramadi
claiming he listened to US and kept Hashd out
of fight
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq asked govt to give its men immunity
before it attacked Fallujah
(Musings
On Iraq article on history of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
2015 Badr MP called for Fallujah to be destroyed
2016 Govt shut down social media in Baghdad to try to stop
organizing protests
2016 Protests in Baghdad Babil Karbala Dhi Qar Qadisiyah
Najaf Basra demanding political reform
2016 Reports Federal Police and Hashd executed displaced
fleeing IS from Sjar, Anbar
2016 Large number of displaced from Saqlawiya, Anbar stopped
by Hashd 1,300 men taken away and
beaten and tortured 643 men
detained by Hashd in Saqlawiya never seen again
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