1920 Ex-Ottoman soldiers led by Jameel al-Midfai reached
Mosul with about 1,000 men hoping to
start revolt against British
1967 Iraqi air force turned back Israeli attack upon H-3 air
base in western Anbar
(Musings
On Iraq Review Hawker Hunters At War, Iraq and Jordan , 1958-1967)
1967 Iraq broke diplomatic relations with U.S. after defeat
in Arab-Israeli War
1975 Iran-Iraq agreed on Shatt al-Arab border Shah would
stop arming Kurdish revolt neither would
support opponents of each other
(Musings
On Iraq review Killing Hope, U.S.
Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)
(Musings
On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern
History)
(Musings
On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy
and Hope)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Great Betrayal,
How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings
On Iraq article on Nixon admin support for Kurdish revolt)
1981 Israel bombed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha
to stop Saddam’s bomb program Destroyed
facility
1983 Saddam offered 1 month ceasefire for Ramadan Rejected
by Iran
1984 Soviets delivered new missiles to Iraq which Baghdad
said it would use against Iran’s oil industry
(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)
1991 UN began taking over camps run by US military to help
Kurds following 91 uprising
2003 Bremer met with exile leaders and told them they didn’t
represent Iraq
2003 Sadrist march in Basra against British occupation
2003 Sadr travelled to Iran to talk with Iranian officials
and met Ayatollah Haeri
2003 ISCI threatened to boycott of CPA’s Iraqi Governing
Council
2003 CPA Order 12 ended all of Iraq’s tariffs leading
country to be flooded with cheap imports closing
down many Iraqi businesses
2003 DIA chief Adm Jacoby said couldn’t find specific WMD
sites in Iraq in 2002 but didn’t mean Iraq
didn’t have WMD program
(Musings
On Iraq article Iraq, One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a
War)
2003 Iraq Survey Group took over US search for WMD
2003 Report US and British analysts said captured Iraq
trailers were not WMD mobile labs as suspected
(Musings
On Iraq article on mobile labs story)
2003 White House spokesman said WMD would be found
2003 Report 2002 DIA report said no reliable intel that Iraq
was producing or had stocks of WMD
2004 CPA Transition and Integration law banned militias All
parties had to list militia members to be
integrated into govt Sadr refused
to follow law saying Mahdi Army legitimate resistance movement to US Never
implemented
(Musings
On Iraq article on CPA militia policy)
(Musings
On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the
Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2006 Zarqawi killed by U.S. F-16 jet north of Baquba
(Musings
On Iraq interview with ex-CIA analyst Naa Bakos on tracking Zarqawi)
2006 Natl Sec Adv Rice said White House agreed on Iraq
policy Privately Rice working on new one
2008 Poland announced that it would withdraw its forces from
Iraq by Oct 08
2008 Female suicide bomber hit police station in Khalidiy
Anbar
(Musings
On Iraq article on female suicide bombers)
2008 5 years after invasion Oil Min Shahristani announced
Iraq reached pre-war level of oil production
2009 Inter Min said it would investigate torture charges in
Maysan and Qadisiyah Nothing happened
2010 Oil Min said oil production would reach 12 mil/bar/day
by 2017 Didn’t happen
2011 PM Maliki’s 100 day deadline to reform ministries ended
with no changes Was to appease
protesters
2011 Army started withdrawing from Fallujah as part of deal
with Anbar govt to pull out of urban areas
2012 PM Maliki welcomed new breakaway party that had 7 MPs
that didn’t sign no confidence vote
against him
2014 ISIS stormed Anbar Univ in Ramadi taking hostages and
stole 15 bil dinars
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)
(Musings
On Iraq How Northern Iraq Fell To The Insurgency)
2014 US warned Baghdad that ISIS moving forces from Syria to
attack Mosul
(Musings
On Iraq article on start of ISIS attack upon Mosul)
(Musings
On Iraq article on IS attacks upon ISF that set stage for fall of Mosul)
2014 US wanted Peshmerga to move into eastern Mosul Pres
Barzani offered PM Maliki said no
2014 PM Maliki told US 9 brigades would be sent to Mosul US
said wouldn’t arrive in time
2014 Gen Ghidan ground forces commander Gen Qanbar chief of
staff took over defense of Mosul
2014 Badr said it would protect Askari shrine in Samarra
against insurgent threat
(Musings
On Iraq article on the history of Badr Organization)
2015 KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani accused Baghdad of breaking
constitution by not giving Kurdistan
budget payments
2016 Protests in Dhi Qar and Baghdad calling for reform
2016 PM Abadi said people would be arrested for abusing
displaced in Fallujah op Nothing happened
2016 UN called on Baghdad to protect displaced from abuses
by govt forces
2017 KRG announced independence referendum would take place
9/25/17
(Musings
On Iraq review The Great Betrayal,
How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings
On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)
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