1969 Former MP Bajari during spy trial claimed opposition leaders were trying to
overthrow Pres Bakr’s govt
1970 42 more sentenced to death for coup plot against Pres Bakr
1970 Bakr govt said it supported Arif govt’s 12 point program for Kurds Said willing to grant Kurdish rebels
amnesty
(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1991 Iraq tried to bomb Saudi oil refinery but planes shot down by Saudis Only offensive
airstrike during war by Iraq
1991 Mubarak said Saddam watched US debate on war on CNN Believed arguments meant
US would never go to war Mubarak warned Saddam US was going to war Saddam didn’t listen
1999 US leaked story to Sunday Times that it would back small groups of Iraqis to infiltrate into
Iraq and carry out sabotage in the hopes of starting a revolt
2003 Gen Franks presented final war plan to Sec Def Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 PM Blair sent note to Bush suggesting delaying Iraq invasion for a month to allow more time for
postwar planning
2003 UK Foreign Office legal adv Sir Wood told Foreign Sec Straw that Britain could not go to
war with Iraq without a 2nd UN resolution
(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 IAEA told Wash Post aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were wrong for nuke program Were for
rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 Archaeologists and scholars briefed Pentagon about historical sites in Iraq that should be
spared from bombing
2003 DIA report repeated CIA reporting on Iraq-Niger uranium deal and Navy reported uranium
was in a warehouse in Benin Said Iraq could have gotten uranium Niger deal fake story
(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)
2003 2nd NYTimes article on Iraqi defector Haideri provided by INC Said that he’d led to dozens of
DIA reports on Iraq’s WMD DIA labeled him a fabricator May 02 story continued to be used
2003 Defense Policy Board’s Richard Perle accused CIA of being biased against INC so it wouldn’t
interview people like Iraqi defector Haideri on WMD
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
2004 Iraq Survey Group took INC provided defector Haideri to sites he claimed were WMD and
found nothing May 02 labeled fabricator by DIA but story continued to be used
2004 7,000 Kurds marched for a new federal Iraq
2004 Sadr rejected UN supervised elections Said UN legalized US occupation Called for Shiite clergy to
oversee voting and Islamic constitution
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
2006 Report Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction found disputes lack of staff and rules caused
huge delays completing projects
2007 Amb Khalizad asked British to stop troop withdrawal plans UK Foreign Sec Beckett said
drawdown would continue
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2007 UK intel report Mahdi Army and Badr behind most attacks upon Sunnis Were powerful groups
with positions in govt and influence in security forces PM Maliki wanted Sadr to rein in Mahdi Army so US didn’t go after militia Maliki opposed any major US ops vs Mahdi Army in Baghdad Maliki wanted to maintain his Shiite base which meant keeping ties to Sadr Maliki govt seen as linked to militias which hindered reconciliation with Sunnis
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2008 Report 200 Sahwa killed and 500 wounded Jun-Dec 2007 by ISI 100 were killed just in Jan in
Baghdad and Diyala Increased after Dec 29 message by bin Laden against Awakening/Sahwa
2008 Report 4 yrs after 2 battles of Fallujah city still largely destroyed Only 4 hrs of power Little
running water Sewage system didn’t work 70% unemployment Lack of fuel Tight security hindered trade and development US reconstruction projects small and local and couldn’t address large problems with services Fallujah blamed Baghdad neglect
2009 Basra Ops Cmd began crackdown in province before Jan provincial elections Continued
until Apr
(Musings On Iraq Massive Security Raids In Basra)
2009 Yazidi MP accused 3rd Army Division of putting up posters for Kurdish parties in Ninewa
2009 Report Integrity Comm found Basra oil workers stealing up to 500K bar/day in oil in early 08
Head of Integrity Comm said corruption deterred foreign investment in Iraq PM Maliki declared 08 anti-corruption year then pardoned 1,023 govt officials who were investigated for corruption Included Interior Min officials who were collecting salaries of 50,000 fake workers and Defense Min official who skimmed money from arms deals
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption)
(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)
2010 PM Maliki met with Speaker Samarrai and Presidential Council Said Cassation Panel under
Accountability and Justice Act would determine future of banned candidates for Baathist ties
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2010 Report Iraq bought $85 mil in bomb detectors that didn’t work for approx $40,000 a piece Iraq
investigated devices Said they generally work Still being used by ISF
2011 2 bombs hit Shiite pilgrims during Arbayeen
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
2011 Deputy Justice Min denied report prison at Camp Honor Baghdad was under PM Maliki’s control
Said run by Justice Min Said Red Cross and Human Rights Min visited facility and found no torture or abuses Said families and lawyers could visit prisoners Red Cross said they were denied access
(Musings On Iraq New Complaints About Iraqi Prison Abuse)
2014 As fighting and insurgency took off in Anbar when PM Maliki shut down protest sites mass
displacement started UN said 140,000 displaced from Anbar up from 65,000 week before
(Musings On Iraq Major Displacement In Iraq’s Anbar Due To On Going Fighting)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2015 Kurdistan Security Council announced 23 IS leaders killed in fighting Peshmerga Included
Abu Muslim al-Turkmani member of IS Shura Council highest body in group Said to be one of Baghdadi’s top deputies
(Musings On Iraq The Islamic State’s Leadership Losses In Iraq And Syria)
2017 East Mosul officially declared liberated by PM Abadi
(Musings On Iraq Review They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate)
(Musings On Iraq Review Shatter the Nations, ISIS and the War for the Caliphate)
2020 Sadr and pro-Iran Hashd held anti-US march in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq Sadr Holds Anti-U.S. Rally, Tilts Towards Iran, Then Crackdown On Protests)
2020 Sadr withdrew support for protests and his followers began leaving sit-in sites
2021 Qi Card head Hussein found guilty of abusing public funds Qi Cards used to distribute govt
salaries and pensions Up to 70,000 fake Hashd fighters registered to company allegedly by Abu Muhandis to steal money
(Musings On Iraq Qi Card Allegedly Involved In Ghost Hashd Fighter Scheme)
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