1939 King Ghazi summoned army chief of staff Fawzi and ordered invasion of Kuwait PM Said
reversed order
(Musings On Iraq review Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam’s War)
1949 PM Said said Jews had been mistreated in Iraq and warned that things could get worse for them
due to Israel
1963 New Arif govt started talks with Barzani to end Kurdish rebellion Kurdish delegation
led by Jalal Talabani
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
1986 Iraq counterattack to retake Faw Peninsula in Basra called off
1986 US condemned Iraq’s use of chemical weapons against Iran in Faw Peninsula in Basra
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1987 Iranian Rev Guard broke through Iraqi defenses Now 5 miles from Basra city
(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)
1987 NSC official said US attempted to assist Iraq in Iran-Iraq War without providing it with arms
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1990 Saddam demanded that US warships leave the Persian Gulf
1991 US 1st Cav division launched probing attack into Kuwait to fool Iraq about where real offensive
would begin
1995 Saddam representatives met with bin Laden in Sudan who asked for broadcast of jihadist lectured
and asked for joint ops against Saudis Meeting confirmed in Iraqi intel report Only confirmed meeting between two sides
1996 Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamal sent letter to Iraq asking about returning to country after
defected to Jordan
1998 PM Blair said UN weapons inspections had to continue or action would be taken against Iraq
(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 Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
1998 Comm for Peace and Security in the Gulf published letter to Clinton saying US should overthrow
Saddam and support INC
1998 Richard Perle moderated meeting at American Enterprise Institute on Iraq featured Ahmed
Chalabi Wolfowitz fmr Rep Stephen Solarz
(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)
(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)
1998 Richard Perle had Ahmed Chalabi address House Republican Policy Committee Chalabi said
Saddam was coup proof and only a revolt led by INC could unseat him but was sabotaged by CIA 1 of attendees staffer Rademaker drafted Iraq Liberation Act after meeting
1998 Report Al Qaeda operative was to travel to Iraq to talk with govt False story
1999 Followers of Ayatollah Sadr met in Saddam City after his assassination by govt Fired upon by army
80 killed Led to more protests Sadrists took over Nasiriya
(Musings On Iraq interview with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr)
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
2001 Richard Perle wrote letter to Def Sec Rumsfeld Said he’d been friends with Ahmed Chalabi
for years Attacked CIA for incompetence dealing with Iraq and was trying to discredit Chalabi Called out CIA Dir Tenet for being opponent of Chalabi Argued for US to back Chalabi’s revolt plan
2002 CIA met with fmr Amb Joseph Wilson to ask if he would go to Niger to investigate alleged Iraq
yellowcake deal Story fake
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
2002 Sen Graham visited CENTCOM Gen Franks said if war on terror was to fight Al Qaeda US
should focus on Somalia and Yemen after Afghanistan not Iraq
2003 ORHA head Garner briefed Natl Sec Adv Rice to use Iraqi army and police to help rebuilding Iraq
after war
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Ahmed Chalabi OpEd in Wall St Journal Said Iraqis would welcome US liberation but needed
to include them in administration and decision making
(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)
(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)
2004 UN endorsed CPA’s timetable for transferring power back to Iraqis in June 2004
(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 CPA had to abandon idea of unelected caucuses choosing interim govt to write new Iraq
constitution due to objections of Ayatollah Sistani
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2007 VP Hashemi told Al Jazeera militia leaders told about Surge plan beforehand so they could avoid it
2007 2 suicide car bombs hit Awakening head Sheikh Abu Risha’s compound Ramadi district
(Musings On Iraq The Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings On Iraq review The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq review The Sheriff of Ramadi, Navy SEALS and the Winning of Anbar)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2008 1st day of trial of Sadrist fmr Dep Health Min Zamili and ministry security chief Gen Shammari
accused of killing and kidnapping Sunnis in hospitals 7 of 9 witnesses threatened Judge in case accused of agreeing to acquit 2 before trial
2009 Provincial Election results announced PM Maliki’s State of Law won in 9 of 14 provinces
ISCI biggest loser as lost control of south
(Musings On Iraq Official Iraqi Election Results)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s New Provincial Councils – Update)
(Musings On Iraq Governors, Heads of Councils, and Ruling Coalitions In Iraq’s Provinces)
2009 Electricity Min Wahid said power production passed pre-war levels Took 6 years Production
still didn’t meet demand
2009 Report PM Maliki wanted to undermine Iraqi Islamic Party Said party couldn’t have both
vice presidency and speaker of parliament Thought Islamic Party wanted no confidence vote against him along with Kurds and ISCI
2009 US found new Iranian weapons in south Iraq dated 2008
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
2009 2 Baath era generals in exile said they told officers not to take up PM Maliki’s offer to have
them rejoin into army unless deBaathification law nullified
2010 Salah al-Mutlaq’s Iraqi National Dialogue Front announced boycott of 2010 election because
he was banned Said Iran behind banning of candidates
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2010 Iraqiya said it would end its ban of 2010 election and go back to campaigning
2011 Sulaymaniya protesters went to KDP headquarters to protest shooting of demonstrators on Feb 17
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2017 Attack on West Mosul began by Iraqi forces
(Musings On Iraq Review They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate)
(Musings On Iraq Review Shatter the Nations, ISIS and the War for the Caliphate)
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