1916 British attempt to re-supply besieged garrison at Kut failed
1920 UK gave France 25% of Turkish Petroleum Company in return for agreeing to British mandate in
Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)
1941 PM Gaylani and Mufti of Jerusalem met with Italian amb Told him they were angry Axis had
done nothing to help Iraq vs British
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1963 Kurdish delegation headed by Talabani met with govt PM Bakr talked about national
decentralization instead of Kurdish rights
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
1970 Mar Eshai Shimun religious leader of Assyrians invited back to Baghdad by Bakr Given back
citizenship Bakr promised cultural rights to Assyrians but talks failed Bakr tried to create buffer with Kurds using Assyrians and move them away from KDP
1974 Iraqi planes bombed Qala Diza during Kurdish rebellion killing 130
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1991 Kurdish leaders announced tentative deal with Saddam over autonomy and returning refugees who
fled during revolt
1999 Were clashes between Iraqi forces and Iraqi opposition in south
2002 Gen Franks me with commanders in Qatar Said they needed to start war preparations
(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 Bush said Iraq might have destroyed its WMD before invasion but US would find them
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2003 NY Times article Iraqi scientists said Saddam expanded WMD programs and secret facilities but
destroyed stocks Wasn’t true
2003 US seized warehouse in Baghdad thought to contain WMD agents Proved false
2003 Trailer found near Mosul was suspected of being mobile WMD labs Wasn’t
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
2003 Dep PM Tariq Aziz surrendered to US Said Iraq had no WMD
2003 INC’s Zubeidi declared himself mayor of Baghdad
2003 ORHA head Garner met with 60 Iraqis in Kut to talk about security and how city should pick city
council
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 ORHA head Garner said INC’s Chalabi was not US’s choice to run Iraq and Iraqis could pick their
own leaders
2003 Gen McKiernan ground commander in Iraq told ORHA’s Garner security #1 priority for postwar
Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld called Sec State Powell to propose Paul Bremer as new presidential envoy to Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld called Garner and told him he would be replaced by Bremer Garner said he
would quit Rumsfeld asked him to stay
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said that Iraqis could form any govt they wanted as long as it wasn’t a theocracy
like Iran’s
2003 UN Res 1476 extended Oil For Food Program past US invasion
2003 Was anti-American march in Kut Wasit 2 drive by shootings on US base in Kut ORHA head
Garner blamed Iran for demonstration
(Musings On Iraq Early Report On Iran’s Activities In Iraq)
2003 UK cabinet agreed to expand control from Basra and Maysan to Dhi Qar and Muthanna despite
warnings might not have capabilities to deal with them
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 UN SecGen Annan said US Coalition had to follow intl law as occupying power in Iraq US rejected
occupier title
2004 US reported that 40% of Iraqi police deserted during Sadrist uprising in Najaf and Kut
2004 Insurgents launched boat attack upon Basra oil terminal killing 2 US sailors
2006 Sunni politicians accused ISCI of taking over Interior Min and staffing it with Badr militiamen
and killing civilians
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2006 Zarqawi released video portraying himself as military commander in Iraq
2006 Fmr CIA officer Drumheller said Iraq war was a policy failure by White House not intel agencies
Said Bush committed to war no matter what the intel Part of White House and CIA blaming each other for war
2006 Iraqiya MP said new Maliki govt wasn't national unity one but just Shiite Kurdish and Sunni parties
dividing up ministries
2007 Report Anbar Salvation Front expanding from Ramadi to Amiriya Fallujah with alliance with Albu
Issa tribe
(Musings On Iraq 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 Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 ISF gained full control of central Basra Phase 4 of Charge of Knights began with sweeps through
5 Mile Market
2008 Captured ISI letters showed complaints about War Min Masri not consulting with others and didn't
take criticism Said ISI was passing off old Zarqawi videos as new operations
2008 US report Most Iraqi ministries were under control of militias Acquittal of Sadrist Dep Health Min
Zamili on charges of corruption and running death squads and senior officials tendency to protect their subordinates made officials believe they were above the law 11 of 32 ministries either had acting ministers or not top officials PM Maliki kept many ministries leaderless so he could directly run them Said US attempts at better governance were fragmented and incoherent US agencies and military did not cooperate Recommended removing Chief Justice Medhat for screwing up Dep Health Min case and lackluster approach to prosecuting govt officials
2009 2 suicide bombers targeted Baghdad’s Khadmiya shrine 60 killed 125 wounded
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2009 Report PM Maliki trying to gain control of ISF Put them under direct control of his office
even though not part of chain of command Personally ordered arrests and security operations
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2009 Report 06 insurgents leaders told reporter they were defeated Were pushed by Al Qaeda in
Iraq militias and US They said militias would win because had backing of ISF Led to Sunnis to try to make deals with US forming sahwa PM Maliki now playing divide and conquer with Sunnis to enhance his power
2009 Report Since 08 Foreign Affairs Min passed names of Iranian diplomats to US for vetting
Around 20% possible Quds Force/intelligence agents
2011 Ayatollah Haeri in Iran issued fatwa against extending US troop presence in Iraq past 2011
2011 Sadrists said they opposed any troops extension for US past end of year
2011 Kurd opposition parties said KRG could either negotiate with protesters or suppress them
2011 Press freedom group said 226 violations by KRG against media trying to cover Sulaymaniya protests
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2011 Bomb at Sacred Heart church in Baghdad
2011 6,000 protested in Mosul demanding reform and releasing prisoners
2012 Sound bomb at offices of Ayatollah Najafi in wave of attacks upon leading ayatollahs
2012 Pres Barzani said that Exxon would follow through with its contracts to work with KRG despite
threats from Baghdad
2013 PM Maliki called for dialogue with Sunni protests after raided and killed protesters in Hawija Also
called for law and order
2013 Mutahidun complained PM Maliki allowing militias to operate in Iraq
2013 Insurgents took control of Suleiman Beq Salahaddin after ISF attacked Hawija protest site
2013 Hawija protest group announced that it was joining Naqshibandi after ISF attacked protest site
2014 Was fighting between ISIS and Military Council in Fallujah
2015 Report that ISF was charging displaced Anbaris money to get into Baghdad
2020 Resigned PM Abdul Mahdi said he didn’t accept 4 pro-Najaf Hashd leaving Hashd
Commission Said he wanted to keep all Hashd united
(Musings On Iraq Resigned PM Abdul Mahdi Doesn’t Accept Units Leaving Hashd Commission)
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