1917 British seized Sannaiyat outside Kut after 6 days of fighting British had 1,996 casualties
1935 PM Ayubi resigned King Ghazi asked Yashin al-Hashemi to form new govt but exclude Rashid Ali al-
Gaylani and Hikmat Sulaiman because behind mid-Euphrates tribal revolt Hashemi became disillusioned with Ghazi and proposed someone else from Hashemite family to take his place Hashemi dissolved political parties Spied on rivals Pushed authoritarianism 1922-58 were 59 cabinets
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1942 Al-Ahali party started publishing new paper Sawt al-Ahali Pushed for elections Freedom of press
Raising living standards Palestine
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
1946 Tawfiq Suwaidi became PM for 3rd time Was supposed to carry out Regent’s reform program Ended
martial law allowed limited political parties freed political prisoners lifted censorship 1922-58 were 59 cabinets
(Musings On Iraq review ‘Independent Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1959 Communists called for march in Mosul to counter rumors of military revolt against Gen Qasim
there
(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)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1980 Start of major military operation against Kurds
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1985 Iraqi military intel warned Iranian offensive would happen in Basra’s Fish Lake Was wrong
1986 Iraq’s southern front to retake Faw in Basra stopped by Iranian anti-tank missiles
1986 KDP launched preparatory attacks in Sulaymaniya to support Iranian offensive starting next
day in area
(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 Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(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)
1988 1st Anfal Campaign targeted PUK HQ in Jafati Valley, Sulaymaniya Yakhsamar Sergalou Bergalou
attacked
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
1991 Iraq said it agreed to Soviet peace plan and would withdraw from Kuwait unconditionally
1991 UN Security Council met Western countries said they weren’t interested in Soviet
peace plan
1991 Bush ordered Gen Schwarzkopf to expel Iraq from Kuwait
1992 Report when Bush elected senior officials pushed Agriculture Dept to give billions in loans to Iraq
to buy US farm products Dept was afraid Iraq could not pay back money and that some of it was being used for weapons Oct 89 Bush signed NSD 26 Said US had to maintain good relations with Iraq to secure Persian Gulf Nov 89 Bush okayed $1 bil aid package to Iraq Apr and Jun 90 White House rejected call to limit high tech sales to Iraq that could be used for weapons programs
1994 Saddam diverted Tigris into southern marshes to put down rebels there
1996 Hussein and Saddam Kamal killed by uncle Ali Hassan al-Majid and members of tribe after talked
into returning to Iraq
1998 UN negotiated Iraq working with UN inspectors again including unrestricted visits Immediately
afterward Foreign Sec Aziz sent letter to UN attempting to change the terms of the deal
(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 Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)
(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)
1998 Bin Laden issued fatwa against US sanctions on Iraq and called for attacks against it
1999 State Dept denied that US was using UN inspectors to spy on Iraq but it was
(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors and CIA Spying On Iraq In The 90s)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
2004 UN Rep Brahimi report said earliest Iraq could hold elections was late 2004-early 2005
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 11 The Gathering Storm)
2004 US killed Nidhal Mohammed Arabiyat Al Qaeda in Iraq’s top bombmaker Developed early car
bombs
2006 Iraqi govt ordered curfew in Baghdad Salahaddin Diyala Babil after Samarra bombing
2006 US report Sadr changed order to kill all Sunnis in east Baghdad Were to be taken to Sadr City to be
executed instead
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2006 US report Iraqi army and police assisting Mahdi Army to kill Sunnis in east Baghdad
2006 Insurgents stopped vehicles in Baquba and executed 47 people who were heading to protest against
Samarra bombing
2006 Sunnis withdrew from talks with United Iraqi Alliance over new govt saying authorities were not
preventing revenge attacks after Samarra bombing
2006 Sec Gen of Iraqi National Dialogue Front Hayan said revenge attacks after Samarra bombing were
how a civil war started
2006 Assoc of Muslim Scholars said 168 Sunni mosques attacked 10 imams killed 15 abducted after
Samarra bombing
2006 Interior Min said 18 Sunnis mosques in Baghdad attacked 1 imam killed 1 kidnapped
2006 US spokesman told press no civil war in Iraq No bodies in streets Iraqi govt was confident
and capable ISF were calming the streets Exact opposite happening
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The Open, January-June 2006)
2006 Sec State Rice said it was unfair to Iraqis to continually talk about civil war
2007 US Special Forces arrested Ammar Hakim on trip back from Tehran Was only released upon
protest of Gen Petraeus
2008 Sadr said he failed because US still occupying Iraq and many of his followers had left his
movement
2008 2 suicide bombers killed Sheikh Mutairi of Anbar Salvation Council in Fallujah Part of ISI
campaign against Awakening/Sahwa
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2008 US general in charge of Baghdad said attacks down 75% since June 07 90% drop in civilian deaths
85% drop in murders
2008 Report Basra beset by violence between militias Professionals politicians officials all subjected to
assassinations and kidnappings Many times police carried out murders Interior Min issued warrant for head of Basra Serious Crime Unit connected to Sadrists accused of running death squads but nothing done
2009 Report Ex-Salafi insurgent leader said Saudis funded his group from 03-06
(Musings On Iraq The Saudi Role In The Iraqi Insurgency)
2010 Report Maliki gotv refused to withdraw fake bomb detectors Govt spokesman Dabbagh said
that 50% of the devices didn’t work and those would be replaced with working ones
2011 National Reconciliation Min announced that 5 insurgent groups had agreed to join politics
2014 ISIS sent 2 suicide bombers to kill Al Qaeda representative Abu Khald al-Suri who was supposed to
moderate differences between ISIS and Al Nusra Front
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2016 Kurdish Alliance said they didn’t support Abadi’s reform program and wanted their quota of
positions in his new cabinet
(Musings On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
2018 Pro-Iran Hashd criticized US Said it had no right to demand that Abrams tanks Hashd had be
turned back over to Iraqi army
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Army Supplied Pro-Iran Hashd With US Abrams Tanks)
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