1915 UK troops and ships attacked Turks and Arabs in Ruta Creek, Basra Turned back Did wound Ottoman
commander in Basra who was sent to Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1917 British made rare bombing raid on Baghdad
1929 PM Sadoun resigned because no progress in talks over new Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1943 Fmr PM Gaylani in exile in Germany made radio broadcast claiming Iraq still in state of war with
England
(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
1948 March by railway workers and students against Anglo-Iraq treaty fired upon by police killing 4
(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi Communist Party)
1970 Failed military coup against Pres Bakr led by ex-Gen Rawi and Col Samarraie backed by Iran
1970 Iran expelled Iraq’s ambassador military attache and four embassy staff over failed coup
1970 Shah of Iran opposed to Baathism’s Pan-Arabism and socialism Moved troops to border after
coup leading to war scare
1988 Iraqi air raid on Lavan oil refinery led to fuel shortages in Iran Trapped majority of Iranian
Revolutionary Guard units in north and couldn’t move for rest of war
(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 Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
(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 Saddam said Iraq’s army hadn’t started fighting but when it did Coalition would suffer heavy
casualties and leave
1991 Iraq put 3 US 2 UK 1 Italian 1 Kuwait pilot on TV Talked about tought Iraqi air defense was Said they
were against war
1991 60 Minutes interviewed man said he was former Saddam bodyguard Said he planted
bomb on Def Min Khairallah’s helicopter that killed him in May 1989
1992 Report UN inspectors found equipment to build 2,000 centrifuges German and Austrian companies
sold parts for program Iraqi scientists said Saddam wanted nuclear bomb to compete with Israel
(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 Bush and VP Cheney met with Joint Chiefs Bush asked if anyone had any concerns about the
invasion No objections made
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 Military Industrialization Commission ordered its director generals to come forward with any
info on WMD Gen Amin told military leaders to completely cooperate with inspectors
2003 White House gave report to Congress on Iraq’s noncompliance with UN inspectors Included
Iraq not mentioning trying to buy uranium from Africa Didn’t happen
(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 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 WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 National Security Presidential Directive 24 gave Pentagon control of postwar Iraq
Pentagon would dismiss previous NSC planning and kick out State Department officials
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) created to run post-war Iraq
2 months before invasion
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
(Musings On Iraq Only 3 of 13 Reconstruction Contracts Were Signed Before War)
(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)
2003 UK announced it deployed ground forces for Iraq War
2003 France’s Foreign Min deVillepin said there was no justification for war against Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February to 7 March 2003)
2003 Sec State Powell furious at French statement because took threat of war off table at UN and
strengthened Saddam
2004 Bush’s State of the Union said US was committed to spreading democracy to Iraq Said Iraq
Survey Group found Iraq’s WMD programs and if US hadn’t invaded Iraq would still have them
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2004 CENTCOM emailed dir Joint Chiefs Adm Keating Def Sec Rumsfeld’s military aide Gen Craddock
US Iraq Cmdr Gen Sanchez that abuse happened at Abu Ghraib and were photos of it
2004 Sadrists marched in Baghdad Najaf Karbala against Kurdish federalism and US occupation
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
2006 Dec 05 election results announced United Iraqi Alliance 128 seats Kurds 53 Accordance Front 44
Iraqiya 25 National Dialogue Front 11
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq said Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi had become emir of new Mujahedeen
Shura Council
2006 Amb Khalizad met with Iyad Allawi and Fadhila head Jabiri Jabiri promised PM spot if he
broke with United Iraqi Alliance and backed Allawi Sunnis and Kurds
2006 Iyad Allawi told his followers he would get Fadhila head Jabiri to back him as PM after he
broke with United Iraqi Alliance
2006 Report Allaw’s Def Min ran front companies Made cash payments Bought equipment never delivered
Had rest houses for army cmdrs Cmdrs stole salaries of soldiers US couldn’t verify what happened to $8.8 bil given to Iraqi ministries under CPA and Allawi
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 17 Innovation In The Face Of War, Summer-Fall 2005)
(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)
2007 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in an Iranian Revolutionary Guard planned op attacked Karbala Center and
kidnapped and killed 5 US soldiers Was retaliation for US arrests of Iranian operatives in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Iranians Planned Kidnapping And Held British Captives Taken In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(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)
2008 US general said number of EFP attacks down but Iran showed no sign of ending supplies and
training to militias
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)
2009 Iraq Election Comm announced autonomy plan in Basra failed to gain enough signatures to
hold referendum on issue
(Musings On Iraq Basra Federal Region Plan Fails)
2009 VP Abdul Mahdi said PM Maliki was trying to be an autocrat Accused him of blocking
development in south Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2009 Pres Barzani attacked PM Maliki’s Tribal Support Councils again Said any Kurd that joined
one was a traitor Said council would not be allowed in KRG Compared Maliki to Saddam
(Musings On Iraq Disputes Over Tribal Support Councils)
2009 New poll of Iraqis 73% said they would vote in 09 provincial elections 42% said would vote
for secularists 31% said supported religious parties
2009 Report All the major Awakening heads Abu Risha Hayes etc were running in 09 provincial
elections against each other
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2010 VP Hashemi said banning candidates for Baathist ties illegal Said Accountability and Justice
Comm had no authority because never approved by parliament
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2010 VP Biden criticized Accountability and Justice Comm Report that Obama admin told
Baghdad new govt won’t be recognized if bans stayed in place
2010 PM Maliki sent army unit to occupy Salahaddin govt building to stop new governor from
taking office
(Musings On Iraq Struggle Over Control of Salahaddin Province)
(Musings On Iraq Maliki Steps Into Middle of Governor Dismissal In Salahaddin)
2010 PM Blair’s Communications Dir Campbell told Chilcot Inquiry Blair wrote letter to Bush UK
shared US concerns about Iraq and UK would join war if diplomacy failed Said Blair believed Iraq intl problem that needed to be confronted Denied he changed anything in WMD dossier
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2010 US turned over Baghdad airport convention center to Maliki govt partially completed Never
finished Equipment stolen
2015 IS suicide car bomb and assault on Nikhaib Suicide truck bomb in Albu Ghanim Suicide car
bomb and assault upon Abu Risha 7 suicide car bombs in Ramadi
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Insurgents Pick Up Attacks In New Year)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2015 60 members of the ISF were executed in Mosul by IS
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