1914 US consulate reported Ottomans reconciled with Sayid Talib who’d pushed for
autonomy in Basra vilayet
1958 Nuri al-Said became PM 9th time Held new elections where he picked winners so he had pliant
parliament
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Said with PM Maliki)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1970 Committee created for economic cooperation between Iraq and Soviet Union
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1973 Iraq offered trade agreement to Kuwait then withdrew it when Kuwait demanded no changes in
territory Bakr wanted Warbah and Bubiyan Islands
1974 Bakr govt said it would announce its own Kurdish autonomy plan without the KDP
1981 Islamic Conf Organization went back to Tehran to present its peace plan
1983 Iraq claimed it destroyed several Iranian oil rigs and 5 Iranian ships in Persian Gulf
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1984 US stopped company from selling products to Iraq that could be used for chemical weapons
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
1987 Iran attacked Iraqi lines in Basra Gained 3km
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
1987 Iran Op Karbala 7 in Haj Omran Kurdistan KDP took part Gained 10 miles heading towards
Rawandaz Turkey told Iran it would not allow it to take Kirkuk or Mosul Was diversionary attack from main operation in Basra
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1987 Gulf Cooperation Council condemned Iran’s occupation of Faw Peninsula Basra
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1991 Iraq signed ceasefire with US to end Gulf War
1991 Demonstrations against Saddam started in Najaf following Gulf War Fired upon by security forces
(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)
(Musings On Iraq Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)
1995 CIA told its team in Irbil not to support INC uprising plan
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
1999 Pres Clinton told Congress that Iraq violated UN sanctions by smuggling oil
(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)
1999 SCIRI’s Hakim claimed it attacked govt buildings in Karbala in revenge for murder of Ayatollah
Sadr
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
2002 60 Minutes ran story based upon Iraqi defector who said he was from Mukhabarat Said Iraq
had mobile WMD labs to hide program from UN inspectors Labs didn’t exist
2003 Russia threatened to use veto power in UN to stop any resolution authorizing war vs Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February to 7 March 2003)
2003 US and UK planes hit five targets in Wasit and Basra as part of no fly zone Were trying to weaken
Iraq’s air defenses before invasion
2003 IAEA told US that docs alleging Iraq-Niger uranium deal were forgeries
(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 ORHA head Garner went to UN to try to get support for postwar Iraq UN said no because White
House said it was opposed to any UN role
2003 UndersecDef Feith briefed Bush on Pentagon’s postwar plans Included creating democracy
winning intl support destroying WMD
(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)
2003 Pentagon postwar Iraq plans only outlined goals not how to accomplish them
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I: Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
2003 US memo on setting up an Iraqi interim govt after invasion Said that Iraqi govt had to promise
equal rights to citizens ban Baath party deBaathify security forces
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2004 Gen Taguba’s investigation into abuses at Abu Ghraib prison sent to military
2005 Kurds said parties had agreed on Talabani being Iraq’s president and Jaafari prime minister in new
govt
2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey claimed only 350 civilians killed since Feb Samarra bombing and
that crisis had passed It hadn’t Baghdad morgue recorded 1,300 deaths during same period Interior Min 1,077 deaths
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The Open, January-June 2006)
2008 Court dropped charges against Sadrist fmr Dep Health Min Zamili and fmr head of Health Min
Facility Protection Force Shammari for lack of evidence Several witnesses did not appear after death threats Charged with allowing Mahdi Army to use Health Min vehicles and kidnapping and killing Sunnis at hospitals Stealing from contracts
2008 Report Some estimated up to 30,000 Iranian operatives in Iraq Up to 1/3 of Iranian religious
students to Iraq were intel agents
2009 Report govt money for displaced returns caught up in bureaucracy and has not been
consistently paid out
(Musings On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)
2011 Gorran and 2 Islamic parties boycotted Kurdish parliament in support of protests
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2014 ISIS released statement telling people in Kirkuk not to vote
2018 Parliament voted on provincial election law including Kirkuk for first time since 2005
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Provincial Elections Set For Dec 2018, Includes Kirkuk)
2018 2018 budget passed for $88 bil with $10.6 bil deficit Kurds boycotted session because KRG didn’t
have usual 17% allotment
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s 2018 Budget Passed Angers Kurds And Hashd Questions IMF)
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