1915 Ottomans attacked retreating UK forces from Ctesiphon/Salman Pak at Um at Tubul
Forced UK to retreat further south UK suffered 37 dead 218 missing 218 wounded 520 taken prisoner along with 2 ships Turks had 748 casualties
1918 UK India office authorized head political officer Wilson to hold plebiscite on future of
Mesopotamia Wilson made questions so would only support British rule and only administered to areas where people would respond positively
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1920 British said all of its colonial offices were under control of Iraq council of state
1971 Iran backed by UK occupied uninhabited Lesser Tunb Island and took Greater Tunb Island after
fighting with Iraq Baghdad condemned move
1973 Soviets said Bakr govt policies leading Iraq towards socialism
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1980 Iranian air force attacked Iraq’s nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha and Faw Peninsula in Basra
(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 Bush said he invited Foreign Min Aziz to Washington for talks
1990 Saddam asked how Iraq could not have coastline Accused UK of clipping off Iraq’s
access to sea by creating Kuwait
1991 After fighting ended Iraq and KDP restarted talks over Kurdish autonomy
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
2001 Def Sec Rumsfeld told press US knew Iraq had WMD because defectors said so
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 US soldiers repelled 3 ambushes on convoy in Samarra Iraqis later claimed US fired
indiscriminately killing civilians
2003 Senior CIA analyst said 2002 Nat Intel Est on Iraq’s WMD lacked specifics on the programs
2004 Report War mismanagement sanctions destroyed Iraq’s health care system
2005 Aide to PM Jaafari wanted to know whether KRG signing oil deal with DNO was constitutional
2005 White House released National Strategy for Victory in Iraq Lacked any substance on what
strategy was
2005 Bush speech announced new National Strategy for Victory in Iraq Said goal was to train Iraqi forces
to take over the war New US strategy was actually a withdrawal plan not one to win war
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2005 Pentagon contracted Lincoln Group to place pro-US stories in Arab media about Iraq
2006 Bush met PM Maliki Said he wanted more control over ISF Maliki also presented plan for ISF to
take control of Baghdad Bush said no Bush told Maliki he had lost control of Baghdad and about to lose Iraq Maliki agreed Bush told Maliki US was going to have troop surge Maliki had to back it and agree to reconciliation Maliki said yes
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2006 Sadrists walked out of parliament and cabinet for PM Maliki meeting with Pres Bush in Jordan
Sadrists had 30 MPs and 5 ministers Came after 6 car bombs killed 215 in Sadr City Sadrists blamed US for insecurity in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2007 US Govt Accountability Office report US designating ISF units as independent and fully
independent meaningless because still completely relied upon US for logistics intel and other services
2007 US military complained govt had no plan to help returning displaced/refugees No plans to settle
property disputes in Baghdad after major population changes No plans for aid shelter or services
(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)
(Musings On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)
(Musings On Iraq January 2009 U.N. Report On Iraq Refugee Returns)
2008 South Korea withdrew its military forces from Iraq
2008 5 committees created to try to work with KRG to pass oil law Baghdad said it would allow KRG to
exports its oil via Turkey if deal made Didn’t happen
2008 Report Honor killing of women up 70% in Basra 81 women killed there in 08 vs 47 women killed in
07 Police said they supported killings Could hire killer for $100 to kill a woman Some women killed for talking to a man in public 9 of 12 women groups in Basra closed
2014 IS put travel restrictions on people trying to leave Mosul
2019 Protesters in Najaf set entrance to shrine of Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim on fire
ISCI’s Ashura Brigades shot at crowd killing 3 Protests then turned on ISCI official in city
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
2019 Solidarity protests in Kirkuk and Mosul
View the Iraq History Timelines
No comments:
Post a Comment