1916 British attacked Ottomans at Wadi River but stopped 1,613 British casualties 2,000
Turkish ones Ottomans retreated next day
1968 6 ministers from Pres Arif’s govt resigned after anti-govt protests demanded return to democracy
1972 Bakr govt said it would take power away from Iraq Petroleum Company
1983 Report China was supplying both Iraq and Iran with weapons during Iran-Iraq War
1987 Iran Op Karbala 5 Used night attack to advance 2 miles towards Basra city Caused 1000 Iraqi
casualties Iran accused Iraq of using poison gas to repulse attack Iranian casualties so high called for volunteers
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1987 Iran started Op Karbala 6 in Qasr-e-Shirin central Iran to divert Iraqi forces from Basra Goal
was to seize Mandali Diyala Freed 100 sq mi of Iranian 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 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)
1991 UN Sec Gen deCuellar went to Baghdad to try to avert Gulf War
1993 US UK and France carried out air and missile strikes on Iraq for not cooperating with UN
inspectors
(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 Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
1994 US UK French planes bombed Amara Basra Najaf Samawa Talil to knock out air defense
systems and telecommunications Missed ½ the targets 19 killed
1998 Iraqis objected to UN inspectors having too many Americans and British and refused cooperation until
team changed
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)
2003 Bush met Saudi Amb Bandar Gave assurance that US would remove Saddam
2003 Bush told Sec State Powell he’d decided on war and needed his support Powell said he would back
president Powell reminded Bush that if US invaded Iraq it would have to run the country
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)
2003 Sec State Powell decided he had to play out diplomacy with Iraq at UN despite Bush’s decision to
go to war
2003 NSA Dir Adm Hayden ordered decentralization of intel so that it could be distributed to
combat units during Iraq invasion
2003 PM Blair TV speech said Iraq could give WMD to terrorists and US and UK could act against Iraq
without 2nd UN resolution
2003 Lord Goldsmith told PM Blair and Foreign Sec Straw that there needed to be a 2nd UN resolution
against Iraq to go to war
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings On Iraq Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February to 7 March 2003)
2003 State Dept intel analyst told other analysts Iraq-Niger uranium docs were probably fake 2
CIA analysts said they saw problems with docs but didn’t think they were fakes They were 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)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 UnderSecDef Feith called ex-Gen Jay Garner to run postwar Iraq and he accepted 2 months
before invasion
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 IAEA head El Baradei said inspectors needed a few months to finish work in 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)
2004 US soldier in 800th Military Police reported abuse by his unit at Abu Ghraib prison and
handed over photos
2004 CPA meeting decided it had to push forward with its sovereignty transition plan despite
Ayatollah Sistani’s objections Bremer sent note to Sistani that early elections not possible
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 11 The Gathering Storm)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)
2005 Fmr Sec State Baker said US occupation of Iraq undermined US support for war and made
US look imperialist in Middle East
2005 Ayatollah Sistani representative assassinated in Baghdad
2005 US National Intelligence Council Iraq became new terrorist training ground in world
replacing Afghanistan
2006 Report after US forces handed over Saddam palace in Tikrit in Nov 2005 Iraqi forces and
Salahaddin officials looted facilities
2008 Sadrists Iraqiya, National Dialogue List signed agreement to maintain national control of Iraq’s oil
and oppose independent Kurdish oil contracts Nothing came of agreement
2009 Spec Insp Gen Iraq Recon report Found projects over budget little oversight potential of
projects unfulfilled Warned Iraqis not willing or capable of maintaining many US funded projects KBR worked on $146 mil project to improve gas plants in south Brought rotors for gas compressors but didn’t install them Iraqis had no plans to install rotors Plant working at under capacity as a result Jan 05 Iraq ordered KBR to stop project to improve loading arms at Basra Oil Terminal Didn't want project and didn’t maintain improvements KBR made at facility US built power plant in Baghdad that Iraqis abandoned because turbines broke because Iraqis couldn’t operate them
(Musings On Iraq Iraqis Unwilling Or Incapable Of Maintaining U.S. Reconstruction Projects)
2010 Joint Iraq-Peshmerga-US checkpoints opened in Diyala’s disputed territories to increase
cooperation amongst parties
(Musings On Iraq Joint Iraq-Peshmerga-U.S. Patrols Begin In Disputed Territories)
2010 Dep head of Karbala council claimed Baathists were destabilizing Iraq Part of push by Shiite
parties to make Baathists main issue of 2010 election
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2010 Oil Min inspector general accused ISF of oil smuggling Found army units involved Pipelines
in Salahaddin and Ninewa being tapped into
2014 Tribal Military Council tried to unite all the insurgent groups in Fallujah
2018 Dawa announced members could run separate in elections PM Abadi formed Nasr VP Maliki
would run with State of Law
(Musings On Iraq It’s Official PM Abadi and VP Maliki Will Run Separately In 2018 Elections)
(Musings On Iraq interview with IRIS-Chatham House’s Mansour on 2018 elections)
2021 US sanctioned Hashd Commission chief of staff Abu Fadak
(Musings On Iraq Pro-Iran Groups Name New Acting Head Of Hashd)
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