Friday, April 15, 2022

This Day In Iraqi History - Apr 15

 

1915 UK War Ministry committee heard from Adm Slade leading UK oil expert Said if Ottoman Empire

divided UK had to get Mosul vilayet because had oil

(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)

1921 UK officials offered Faisal throne in Iraq He said Iraq not ready for self-govt

1947 Iraq and Jordan signed Treaty of Brotherhood Start of union between two countries

1959 Congress for Federation of Peasant Societies founded Communist organization meant to

organize peasants to back party’s demand for role in Qasim govt

(Musings On Iraq review The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology)

(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)

1969 Iraq complained to Iranian ambassador that Tehran violating 1937 agreement over

navigation of Shatt al-Arab

1979 Pres Bakr welcomed new Islamic Republic in Iran and again asked for good relations Invited PM

Bazargan to Baghdad

1980 Iraqi opposition group attempted to assassinate Information Minister Latif al-Jassim

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1984 State Dept said that Iraq stopped using chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq War after U.S. warning in 83

but started again in Feb 84

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)

1987 Iraq attacked KDP HQ in Zewa Shkan, Dohuk PUK HQs in Sergalou and Bergalou, Sulaymaniya

with chemical weapons Chemical attacks retaliation for KDP and PUK helping Iranian offensive in Kurdistan

(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 Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

(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 Turkey told US Kurdish refugees should be settled in Iraq until security established

1991 Turkish army began moving 20,000 Kurdish refugees to a camp

1993 Iraqi army began two week operation to attack Kurdish towns 5,000 Kurds displaced

2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld claimed that UN inspectors in 90s were ineffective 

(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)

2002 End of deadline set by Bush for invasion plan for Iraq to be completed

2003 CENTCOM commander Gen Franks told Iraq ground forces cmdr Gen McKiernan U.S. not staying

            in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)

2003 Coalition ground forces issued instructions for postwar Iraq plans So late each division interpreted

instructions how they wanted US military not ready to integrate ORHA

2003 ORHA head Garner met 100 Iraqi leaders in Nasiriya Called for democratic and federal Iraq

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)

(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)

(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)

2003 Garner met with Chalabi after Nasiriya meeting Called him a thug afterward

2003 20,000 protested in Nasiriya against US Was another protest against Chalabi and INC

2003 US killed 7 Iraqis trying to break up demonstration in Mosul

2003 Bush reviewed US withdrawal plan that had most troops out by Sep 03

(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)

(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil

War, 2003-2006)

2003 Bush talked about foreign peacekeepers taking over for US troops in Iraq

2003 White House thought countries would give up opposition to Iraqi invasion and offer troops

2003 Walter Slocomb said no organized Iraqi army anymore Was in Washington DC Would use

argument to justify CPA disbanding Iraqi military when became military adv to Bremer 

2004 Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers said Sadr uprising and battle of Fallujah signs that US winning in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)

2004 Ansar al-Islam called on Iraqis to join the jihad against the US

2004 UN Rep Brahimi announced plan to create interim Iraqi govt by May 04 and then conference to

elect parliament

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 13 The Changing Of The Guard, Again Spring-Summer 2004)

2007 Insurgents gave Christians in Dora Baghdad 24 hrs to convert to Islam or face death Led to exodus

of families Called Christians Crusaders

(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)

2007 Sunni families in Ghaziliya Baghdad asked for help to stop Mahdi Army taking their homes

2007 Insurgents told Sunni Turkmen to stop entering Shiite areas of Tal Afar and leave mixed parts

(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)

2007 Weekly Standard column claimed there was long time cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda

going back to 1990s Used a lot of refuted evidence

2007 Report Mahdi Army commanders went to Iran and basing operations out of there Also training

camps for militia near Tehran

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)

2007 Anbar Salvation Front held meeting of sheikhs Called for cooperation with US and Iraqi forces

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)

(Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)

(Musings On Iraq review The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)

(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)

2008 US began building wall around Sadr City to cordon off areas controlled by Mahdi Army

(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)

2008 Breakaway Mahdi Army faction said it would not disarm in Basra

2008 Report by refugee group said Maliki govt was not taking care of displaced and militias filling vacuum

(Musings On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)

2009 US stopped Iraqi police from raiding Diyala prov council building and arresting new councilmen

on orders from PM Maliki

2009 Head of Sinjar said district should become independent and join Kurdistan to protest new Hadbaa

controlled Ninewa govt District run by KDP

(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)

(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)

(Musings On Iraq Ninewa Struggles Between Arabs and Kurds Continue)

2010 Report $4 mil in counterfeit US dollars circulating in Iraq since Dec 09 Some thought it was

printed by Iran and Hezbollah to influence Iraqi elections Others thought criminals responsible

(Musings On Iraq Counterfeit Dollars Used By Iran To Influence Election?)

2011 Protest in Baghdad demanding PM Maliki resign and prisoners released Was broken up by police

20 protesters arrested in Baghdad and taken to secret prison at Muthanna Airport

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Military Adds New Restrictions On Protesters)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

2011 Turkmen Front said peshmerga and Asayesh not needed in Kirkuk and caused divisions

2012 Head of Elec Comm released after being arrested on corruption charges trumped up by PM Maliki

to get rid of him

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Prime Minister Takes On Election Commission Once Again)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Inside Iraqi Politics’ Sowell on whether Maliki became a dictator)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Maliki with MP Said)

2012 Kurdish members of Ninewa council stopped from entering Mosul at army checkpoint

2012 Central Bank of Iraq set new rules on dollar auctions to try to stop large sales being manipulated by

insurgents foreign countries politicians banks Didn't work

2013 Basra Gas Company was supposed to start operation Was joint venture between Shell and

Mitsubishi to collect natural gas produced at Basra oil fields

2014 Jurf al-Sakhr in Babil fell to ISIS Families fled area New security operation launched to free district

2014 Flyers dropped over Fallujah telling people to leave due to impending security operation to free

city Wasn't taken until 2016

2014 US responded to PM Maliki’s claim that US lied that it provided military support to Iraq to fight

insurgency US said it gave everything Baghdad requested

2015 UN received reports that up to 700 homes had been looted and burned 200 blown up in Tikrit area

after it was freed

(Musings On Iraq Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit)

2015 IS took control of 1/3 of Baiji Refinery Also seized four towns around Ramadi Sufiya Albu

Ghanim Albu Mahal Albu Soda Army and Hashd withdrew from area northeast of Ramadi

2015 Albu Ghanim tribal head called for Hashd to help fight IS in Anbar

2015 Report PM Abadi said there were 110 Iranian military advisers in Iraq

2016 Protests in 7 provinces against ethnosectarian quota system in govt

2017 Qatari delegation arrived with $360 mil as ransom for members of Qatari royal family

kidnapped in south Iraq by Kataib Hezbollah in 2015

(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)

2018 PM Abadi said that PM Allawi’s Defense Min official Qatan was arrested after being turned over by Jordan Was wanted for millions of dollars in corruption charges

(Musings On Iraq Ziad Qatan, Allawi Govt Defense Official Wanted For Corruption Extradited By

Jordan)

2018 Hezbollah al-Nujaba said it was ready to follow Quds Force Cmdr Gen Sulaiman’s orders to attack US forces in Iraq and Syria

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi and Hezbollah al-Nujaba)

2018 Human Rights Watch report KRG carrying out arbitrary arrests against protesters and journalists covering demonstrations

2019 2012 Gazprom signed deal for 2 oil blocks in KRG Feb 2016 Rosneft signed $2.1 bil

deal to help KRG pay Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum that had taken KRG to court over $2.24 bil they were owed Mar 2016 KRG offered oil assets to Turkey in return for $5 bil in debt forgiveness and cash Turkey already lent KRG $1 bil to help with financial problems Sep 2017 KRG signed $1 bil deal with Rosneft for gas pipeline to Turkey which was never built Oct 2017 KRG said it sold 60% of its share of Turkish oil pipeline to Rosneft for $1.8 bil Rosneft didn’t make any money from any of its deals with KRG

2019 Govt said Basra Maysan Anbar routes for drug trafficking across Middle East Said

increase in drug abuse in Barsa

2021 Pro-Iran groups fired rockets at Turkish base in Dohuk Killed 1 Turkish soldier

(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq Apr 15-21, 2021)

2021 Report Aug 2019 Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi

his successor Was born in Ninewa in a Turkman town Iraqi intel said he was kept away from the front to protect him Was judge and supervised Dept of Soldiers Set up institute to train judges and clergymen in Mosul when city occupied by IS He supported enslaving Yazidis He claimed he joined ISI in 2007

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