This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 8

 

1922 Gertrude Bell wrote that while King Faisal was beloved he was also weak and that was

because he was Oriental Was in relation to Faisal’s demand for Iraqi independence which Bell believed was due to Faisal’s nationalist advisers that she saw as troublemakers

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell And Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)

1933 King Faisal I died of heart attack in Europe

1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad

1980 Iraq demanded Iran surrender frontier towns that Iraq claimed

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1980 2 Iraqi MiGs shot down an Iranian fighter that was shooting at Iraqi tanks along the border

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1985 Iranian Op Al Quds 5 Took Rayat Advanced towards Rawanduz in Kurdistan KDP seized large

amount of land

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1988 US State Dept announced Iraq had used WMD on Kurds Sec of State Shultz said relations with US

were hurt as a result

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)

1994 UK intel report said that it didn’t think Iraq had declared all of its chemical weapons programs

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

1996 KDP objected to Turkey’s plan to create security zone in northern Kurdistan against PKK

2001 German intel terminated CURVEBALL as a source Continued to be used by US intel as source for

            Iraq having mobile WMD labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)

(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)

(Musings On Iraq The Story Of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)

2002 Day 1 of White House PR campaign about Iraq WMD and nuclear threat

(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2002 White House told NYTimes Iraq trying to secretly buy materials like aluminum tubes for its nuclear

program Times quoted Iraqi defector saying Iraq renewed WMD program Had large stockpiles 2^nd Iraqi defector said Saddam wanted to restart nuke program Quoted White House official who said sign of Iraq’s nuclear program may be a mushroom cloud

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

2002 Natl Sec Adv Rice and VP Cheney went on TV repeating claim Iraq rebuilding nuke program Used

            aluminum tubes as proof Cheney quoted NY Times article on topic

2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld Sec State Powell Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers all appeared on talk shows

promoting Iraq as a threat due to WMD and nuke program

2002 1^st time admin officials said proof of Iraq’s nuke program “may be a mushroom cloud” that would be

repeated by others later on Came from Bush speech writer Gerson at White House Iraq Group meeting

2002 VP Cheney told Meet The Press 9/11 hijacker met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague in 2001

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

(Musings On Iraq review The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America’s Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since 9/11)

2002 Ex-Pres Clinton OpEd in Observer said Iraq was a threat but didn’t know if it required an invasion

2002 Former UN inspector Ritter addressed Iraq’s parliament Said US about to launch historically mistaken

war on Iraq without presenting hard evidence of its claims Ritter said only way for Iraq to avoid war was to allow uninhibited UN inspections

2003 Iraq constitutional commission endorsed general elections for new constitution

2003 Bremer OpEd in Wash Post Iraq had to go through 7 steps taking 2-3 yrs for it to regain sovereignty

(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)

2003 UK Def Min Hoon said Britain would send 1000 more troops to Iraq to help with security

2005 Sec State Powell said some US analysts pre-03 knew intelligence on Iraq was bad but didn’t say

anything Said he never saw any evidence linking Iraq to 9/11 Said US made mistake of not imposing its will upon Iraq right after invasion

2006 Report US military said sectarian deaths in Baghdad down 52% from July to August Did not count

victims of car bombs and mortars

2006 Health Min said it was going to build 2 branch morgues in Baghdad to deal with bodies from civil war

Morgue reported 1,536 bodies received in August 2006 Many dead not taken to morgue so only partial count

(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

2006 US military said IEDs four times higher in summer 2006 vs January 2004

2007 Iraqi National Dialogue Front ended boycott of parliament Had 11 MPs Said PM Maliki agreed to work

on oil law security and give money to displaced

2007 PM Maliki govt reported violence cut in half by Surge Deaths went from around 4000 civilians killed

            in Dec 06 to around 2000 in Aug 07

(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)

(Musings On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the Surge)

2008 PM Maliki said govt would take responsibility for Baghdad Sahwa and integrate them into govt

Claimed US figures on Sahwa were too high and wanted audit to confirm their identities before they would be paid

(Musings On Iraq Will Baghdad Pay For The Sons Of Iraq?)

(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)

(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)

2008 Speaker of KRG parliament asked US to promise that weapons sold to Iraq would not be used

against Kurds Claimed Baathism making a comeback within Iraqi govt Said PM Maliki had no right to send ISF into Khanaqin district Diyala Part of Pres Barzani’s dispute with Maliki

(Musings On Iraq Kurds Come Out Swinging)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

2008 Iraq cabinet approved natural gas contract with Shell in Basra

(Musings On Iraq Iraq Signs Natural Gas Deal As Half Of Oil Plan Is Dropped)

2011 Gunmen killed radio personality Hadi Mahdi after he posted on Facebook that he was receiving threats

from pro-Maliki loyalists for supporting protests

2014 Haidar al-Abadi became new Iraq premier

2018 Sadr and Fatah called for PM Abadi to resign due to Basra protests

2018 Protests at West Qurna 2 field Shorash fmr MPs house burned in Zubayr in Basra Some pro-Iranian

Hashd groups threatened to send forces to put down protests in Basra Interior Ministry sent large forces to province to restore law and order in province

2018 Pro-Iran Hashd fired missiles at Basra airport in retaliation for Iranian consulate burning in Basra

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