1915 UK committee wrote paper
advocating for break up of Ottoman Empire and creation of Iraq to
control its oil
and agriculture Cabinet didn’t agree
1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty agreed on
independence in Oct 1932 Allowed British to keep military in Iraq and
use Iraqi
territory for 25 years
(Musings
On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil,
Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1957 Ali Aiyubi became premier 3rd
time
1961 Kuwait asked British for
military aid to protect it from Iraq after Qasim claimed Kuwait part of Iraq
1973 Police Chief Kazzar
launched failed coup against Bakr Arrested Defense Minister Shihab and Interior
Minister
Ghaydan Failed to assassinate Bakr and Saddam
1973 Police Chief Kazzar was
captured trying to flee to Iran but not before he killed Def Min Shihab and
seriously
wounded Inter Min Ghaydan
1980 Newly elected parliament took office Naim Haddad of
Revolutionary Command Council elected
speaker
1986 Iran started Op Karbala 1 to recapture Mehran, Iran
from Iraq central front
1988 Iraq recaptured Mawet, Kurdistan from Iran
(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
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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 Saddam created special committee headed by Tariq Aziz
to conceal weapons programs from UN
inspectors
(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 Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
1993 Barzani and Talabani presented their differences to
Kurdish parliament Was mostly about grievances
over taxes collected from trade with
Iran and Turkey
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld said no guerrilla war or organized
resistance in Iraq
2003 Report IAEA had US British German experts look at
aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy All said they
were for rockets not centrifuges
2003 New Republic article quoted intel officials that Bush
admin exaggerated Iraq aluminum tubes story
(Musings
On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With
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
2007 Battle of Donkey Island US destroyed ISI force planning
to attack Ramadi Was first major attack upon
city since district secured by
Awakening
2008 IEDs targeted 5 judges in Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq article on attacks on judges)
2008 Iraq offered 8 oil fields and 2 gas fields for foreign
investment Wanted to sign deals in one month
Pre-approved 41 companies to bid on
fields Before said would have no bid contracts Wouldn’t happen until a year
later
2008 Report during ISF fighting Mahdi Army in Baghdad in
Mar-Apr Sunnis were expelled from 5 east
Baghdad neighborhoods by militias
2008 PM Maliki and VP Hashemi made deal to allow Iraqi
Accordance Front to return to govt Accordance
Front got nothing in return
Boycotted govt in Aug 07 to protest being excluded by Maliki
2009 US withdrew forces from Iraqi cities
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq After The U.S. Withdrawal)
2009 Iraq auctioned eight oil and gas fields to
international energy companies Rumaila only field
successfully auctioned Was
considered a failure at first further hurting standing of Oil Min Shahristani
that parliament was trying to remove
(Musings
On Iraq 1st Oil Bidding Round Flops In Iraq)
2014 ISIS killed Mohammed Khamis head of Ramadi Awakening
Council
(Musings
On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State
Movement)
2017 People in Hilla Babil blocked Baghdad-Babil highway
protesting lack of drinking water
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