1918 British took Ana
1940 Nuri al-Said convinced Golden Square officers to get Gaylani to form new govt Said would
become Foreign Minister
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)
1987 Saddam was told 24,952 soldiers had deserted from 12/1/86-3/20/87 in Basra
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(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 US-UK officials seized equipment at Heathrow Airport meant for nuclear triggers heading to Iraq
1991 SCIRI head Hakim said Shiite rebels in south only fighting in rural areas after lost cities to Iraqi
army
(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)
1991 Iraqi intelligence memo said it had contacts with bin Laden
1997 Sec of State Albright said Iraq had lied and blocked UN inspections Said inspections and sanctions
had contained Iraq
(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 review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)
1998 UN Res 1154 okayed agreement between UN Sec Gen and Iraq to allow inspectors into presidential
palaces and other sites
(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 Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)
2002 Arab League called on Iraq to comply with all UN resolutions and end sanctions Rejected military
action
2002 Gen Franks briefed Joint Chiefs on Iraq war plans Said he would be ready by 10/1/02
(Musings On Iraq review 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 Gen Wallace Cmdr US V Corps told press war not going as planned due to resistance of Fedayeen
2003 Royal Marines attacked Abu al-Khasib Basra city suburb
(Musings On Iraq review Target Basra, The High Octane Story of the Royal Marine Commandos In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2003 US 173rd Airborne Brigade and Peshmerga took Irbil
(Musings On Iraq interview with Kevin Petit of 173rd Airborne Brigade)
2003 PUK and 10th Special Forces Group began main attack upon Ansar al-Islam camp in Halabja
(Musings On Iraq review Special Operations Forces in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Why Didn’t Bush Strike Zarqawi And Ansar al-Islam In 2002?)
2003 US and UK military meeting Surprised Iraqis weren’t rising up against Saddam
2003 UN Res 1472 extended Oil for Food program for 45 days after US invasion
2003 US forces received warning of imminent WMD attack
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld accused Syria of sending military aid to Iraq British accused Syria of allowing
foreign fighters to use its territory to enter Iraq
2003 Chief weapons inspector Blix said US gave up on inspections in early 2003
(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)
2003 Aid ship arrived in Um Qasr Basra with 200 tons of food medicine and blankets for Iraqis
2003 Bush told group of veterans important to win the peace after the war
2004 CPA shut down Sadr’s al-Hawza paper for inciting violence Helped lead to Sadrist uprising
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2006 Anbar Revenge Brigade claimed it killed 4 Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders and a member of Ansar al-
Sunna
(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)
2007 ISI set off chlorine bomb at Fallujah government center
2007 2 truck bombs hit market targeting Shiite Turkmen in Tal Afar leaving 152 dead 347 wounded
Militias and police went through Sunni district of town dragging people out of homes and executed up to 70 in the streets wounded 30 and kidnapped 40 Iraqi army arrived and got into shootout with police until revenge killings ended
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
2007 Report Iraqi observatory group said one prison in Mahmudiya held 705 Built to hold 75 Another
prison at Muthanna Air Base held 272 built for 50 Said ISF making mass arrests under Baghdad security plan but few released leading to overcrowding
2008 Report Govt invoking Sec 136B to avoid corruption cases Interior Min Bolani used it to stop case
against Gen Gharwari who ran secret prison in Baghdad Also used to stop 11 cases against ministers and Central Bank of Iraq
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)
2008 Report ISF made little progress in Basra 100s of police in city switched sides and joined Mahdi
Army
2008 UK report Charge of Knights op in Basra stalemated and likely protracted fight
2008 PM Maliki extended deadline for militias to turn over weapons in Basra until Apr 8
2008 US carried out air strikes in support of Charge of Knights campaign in Basra for 1st time
2008 Presidential Council KDP and PUK said they supported Charge of Knights campaign vs Sadr
2008 1000s marched in Sadr City calling for removal of PM Maliki
2008 Badr offices in Amarah Maysan attacked Sadrists arrested in Babil and Qadisiyah Mahdi Army
seized control of Nasiriya and Shatra in Dhi Qar Fighting in 13 parts of Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2008 Rockets fired at Green Zone by Mahdi Army
2008 Pres Talabani met with Iranian Rev Guards Quds Force Cmdr Gen Suleimani about stopping
fighting between govt and Mahdi Army
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2009 Counterterrorism Unit arrested Fadhil Sahwa leader in Baghdad on terrorism charges leading to
firefight
(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
2010 Supreme Court ruled that any coalition that gained a majority after elections could get 1st
opportunity to form a new govt Changed meaning of constitution and made election victory meaningless Ruling undermined Allawi’s Iraqiya right to form a new govt and gave it to Maliki’s State of Law
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2012 Baghdad said it would pay KRG $558 mil for Kurdish oil exports from budget
2013 Iran delivered bodies of Iraqi militiamen killed fighting for it in Syria
2014 Families from Qara Tapa, Diyala started fleeing militias
2016 PM Abadi said wanted 9 member cabinet with Electricity and Defense ministers staying
2017 Kirkuk council voted to fly the Kurdish flag over government buildings in province
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