1948 PM Jabr returned to Iraq from England Met with Regent Blamed Dep PM Baban for protests Said
Baghdad Law College should have been closed and more force used against protests
1948 PM Jabr told Regent he would resign but got 24 hrs to take care of protests
1948 PM Jabr made radio broadcast Called for calm Said he would explain the new Anglo-Iraq Treaty to
public Told police to put down protests by any means
1955 Radio Cairo called on Iraqis to follow Portsmouth Treaty riots overthrow PM Said and withdraw from
Iraq-Turkey security agreement
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Under General Nuri, My Recollections of Nuri al-Said, 1954-1958)
1965 Pres Arif announced he was ending special powers given to him in May 1963
1982 Iran and Iraq agreed to family visits for prisoners of war
1987 Islamic Conference Organization invited Iran and Iraq to summit in Kuwait Iran said no
1987 UN Sec Gen de Cuella addressed Islamic Conf Org saying aggressor in Iran-Iraq War needed
to be determined
(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 Saddam lost confidence in Iraqi Air Force Ordered most of the fleet to be flown to Iran
in hopes that it could be saved and recovered later
(Musings On Iraq review F-15C Eagle vs MiG-23/25, Iraq 1991)
1997 Iraqi National Accord operative gave interview saying CIA behind bombing campaign in Iraq
from 1994-95
1998 Project for New American Century sent letter to Clinton demanding US overthrow Saddam
11 of 18 signatories would join Bush admin
(Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)
(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
(Musings On Iraq Was Iraq An Imminent Threat To The West?)
2003 Sec State Powell speech asked why Iraq tried to buy uranium Reference to Iraq-Niger uranium deal
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 review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 PM Blair said Iraq non-cooperation with UN inspectors was material breach of UN Resolution
(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 Japanese troops deployed to Iraq as part of Coalition of Willing
2004 Report CPA officials were questioning influence of Ayatollah Sistani and whether all major
CPA decisions would have to get his approval
(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 Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2004 Report Pentagon signed new $96 mil contract with Harris Co to set up Iraqi news outlet to
broadcast US messaging to Iraqis Previous company contracted by Pentagon for Iraqi news outlet couldn’t find equipment Didn’t pay Iraqi workers Made poorly produced news
2005 Insurgent umbrella group announced campaign to disrupt that year’s elections
2005 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey said US and Iraqi forces killing more insurgents and taking fight
to Sunni areas Said Iraqi forces could not secure country but could secure voting stations during elections
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
2006 Al Qaeda sent letter to Ansar al-Sunnah suggested it merge with Al Qaeda in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2007 US arrested Sheikh Daraji Sadr’s media director in Baghdad
2007 Report Bush authorized killing and capturing Iranians in Iraq Fall 06 US arrested dozens of Iranians
but released them White House believed hitting Iran hard in Iraq would make it step back from its nuke program Summer 06 US decided to confront Iran more directly in Iraq Said Iran had to pay price for interfering in Iraq and threatening US CIA Dir Hayden warned that new policy could just lead to Iranian retaliation Sec State Rice worried about policy escalating to direct confrontation with Iran Some wanted US to go after Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Iraq as much as Islamic State of Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards 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)
2007 Fmr Cheney media aide Martin said VP dictated talking points to his Chief of Staff Libby to use
with reporters to discredit fmr Amb Wilson on Iraq-Niger uranium story Talked about leaking info to reporters Cheney also ordered Martin to track news stories about Wilson Martin contradicted Libby’s claim that he found out Wilson’s wife’s name from journalist Wilson claimed he found no evidence of Iraq-Niger uranium deal Claimed Cheney knew about his findings and continued to lie about it Cheney didn’t hear about Wilson’s account Niger deal 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)
2007 UK report Security in Basra deteriorated Basrawis lived in fear due to Mahdi Army and other
militias British and ISF not seen as reliable by public
2008 FBI agent that interviewed Saddam after capture said he never expected a US invasion Thought
Bush would only bomb Iraq Saddam considered Iran real threat
2009 Yazidi MP from Ninewa accused KDP of attacking his family after he accused Kurds in 3rd
Army division putting up posters for Kurdish parties
2009 Report 16 Tribal Support Councils set up in Qadisiya Run by Dawa member Each member of
council able to hire up to 20 and give them govt jobs Part of patronage system for PM Maliki before 09 elections
2009 Report Late 07 and Dec 08 2 attempts at no confidence vote against PM Maliki Couldn’t agree
on who should replace him US also opposed
2009 Iran’s Foreign Min confirmed that it’s new ambassador to Iraq was a member of the Iranian
Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force
(Musings On Iraq New Iranian Ambassador To Iraq Confirmed As Revolutionary Guards Member)
2010 Parliament passed Iraq’s 2010 budget for $72.4 bil up from $58.6 bil in 2009 Largest budget since
03 70% of spending was for govt salaries pensions food ration system services Cut salaries of top officials by 10-20% Was so large because politicians wanted to use in 2010 election
(Musings On Iraq 2010 Iraq Budget Passed)
2010 Accountability and Justice Comm claimed Election Comm asked them to review 600
candidates to see if they had Baathist connections which led to banning 511 candidates
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2010 Human Rights Comm said on going abuses at Iraq’s jails/prisons due to justice system
relying upon confessions often obtained via torture Also overcrowding corruption lack of trials
(Musings On Iraq Report Of Continuing Abuse In Iraqi Prisons)
2011 Insurgents caught crossing from Syria to Anbar Said they got aid from Syrian govt
(Musings On Iraq More On Syria’s Support For Iraq’s Insurgency 2011-2012)
2015 After battle with IS in Barwanah Diyala Hashd killed 70 civilians
2017 All of east Mosul freed by Iraqi forces after PM Abadi declared it cleared already
(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 Govt crackdown on protests continued with attacks on sites in Baghdad Basra Nasiriya
with 12 killed
(Musings On Iraq New Govt Crackdown On Iraq Protests)
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
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