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1915 Ottoman mayor murdered in Najaf for trying to draft men for war and taking money
from shrines
1917 Battle of the Boot at Band-i-Adhaim between British and Ottomans
1923 Iraq High Commissioners Sir Percy Cox recalled to London Issued protocol to shorten
Anglo-Iraq Treaty from 20 to 4 years to appease Iraq
1924 Baghdad said willing to give land to Assyrians
(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)
1941 PM Gaylani refused permission for British troops to land in Basra
1941 2 brigades of Iraqi soldiers surrounded UK Habaniya base ordered UK to cease operations
there Iraq had 9000 troops UK 2250
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Iraqi forces surrounded UK embassy in Baghdad
1941 PM Gaylani hoped to pressure UK to leave Iraq without a fight
1941 UK memo to Chiefs of Staff discussed destroying Iraq’s oil wells to deny them to Germany
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1948 Jewish forces took Jaffa, and 7 other towns held by Iraqi volunteers in 1st Arab Israeli War
1959 Qasim banned political organizing within army Was aimed at Communists to curb their power
(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 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad Meant to rally support for regime
1980 By end of April around 20 Iraqi officials had been killed in bombings by Shiite opposition parties
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1980 Arab Iranians seized Iranian embassy in London demanding sovereignty for Khuzistan province
Were trained and armed by Iraq
1982 Iran launched Op Bait al-Moqaddas to recapture Khorrmshahr across from Basra and liberate
Khuzistan province Iran had 12 divisions 200,000 soldiers vs 5 Iraqi divisions and 65,000 men Iran would gain 300 sq mi Iranian paratroopers dropped on Karun River near Darkhovin while engineers built bridge over river
(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 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(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)
1985 Sec State Shultz asked Def Sec Weinberger to speed up approval of technology exports to Iraq
Much of that would go to weapons programs
1985 State Dept intel reported no evidence Iraq had started on a nuclear weapons program It had
1990 Jordanian prosecutor report detailed fake bank accounts Ahmed Chalabi ran with his Petra Bank
(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)
(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)
1996 Turkey began bombing campaign along border against PKK
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
1997 Fighting broke out between PUK and Kurdish Islamic Movement
2001 NSC meeting on Al Qaeda threat Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz asked why US should focus on bin Laden
when Iraq terrorism real threat Brought up Mylroie’s conspiracy theories about Iraq being behind 93 World Trade Center bombing Dep CIA Director McLaughlin told Wolfowitz no evidence of Iraq terrorist threat to US Dep Sec of State Armitage told Wolfowitz Al Qaeda was the main threat to US
(Musings On Iraq review Against All Enemies, Inside America’s War on Terror)
(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Convoluted Iraq-Terrorism Conspiracy Theory)
(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq Conspiracy Theory Was Debunked By Captured Baath Documents)
2003 US forces ran into protesters that led to shooting for 2nd time in 2 days in Fallujah 2 killed
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld visited Iraq Realized rebuilding country would take years which was not his plan
2004 Marines withdrew from Fallujah turning over security to Fallujah Brigade proposed by Natl Sec Adv
Shirwani Bremer found out about it from CNN
2004 US met with Iraqi officials US cmdr in Iraq Sanchez said not consulted about Fallujah
Brigade Def Min Allawi objected Natl Sec Adv Shirwani admitted head of Fallujah Brigade ex-Rep Guard Ayad Allawi said brigade could be model for rest of Iraq
2004 Daily Mirror published what turned out to be fake pictures of UK forces abusing Iraqi prisoners
2004 Poll 71% of Iraqis saw US as occupiers 46% said invasion more harmful then good
2004 New Yorker published photos of Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 13 The Changing Of The Guard, Again Spring-Summer 2004)
2005 Mass grave with up to 1,500 Kurds killed by Saddam during Anfal campaign found outside Samawa
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
2006 Fmr Sec State Powell told UK TV he advised CENTCOM cmdr Gen Franks US needed more troops
before invasion but advise ignored
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
2006 Pres Talabani said 7 insurgent groups might be able to be talked into joining political process
2006 US Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction report said attacks still retarding rebuilding
projects but real progress being made Said attacks on infrastructure down 60%
2006 US audit found effort to protect power and oil infrastructure largely failed Questioned 2 foreign
security companies contracted to train guards
2006 Class of new police recruits from Fallujah graduated Told they would serve outside Anbar 600
refused to do so
2007 Parliament voted to keep US troops away from Khadmiya shrine Baghdad after US got into gun
battle with Mahdi Army and Iraqi soldiers in district PM Maliki didn’t sign bill
2007 Anbar Awakening claimed to have killed ISI War Minister Masri Didn’t happen
2007 Report PM Maliki and ministers used Article 136B of Criminal Code to block corruption
investigations
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)
2007 Report Maliki using PM and Commander in Chief offices to remove and arrest army and National
Police commanders for going after Mahdi Army or being Sunni US officers complained Maliki politicizing officer corps
2008 PM Maliki said Mahdi Army had to be disbanded because couldn’t have militias and state
2008 Govt spokesman said out of 77 trucks carrying oil to Sadr City 55 hijacked by Mahdi Army
2008 Sadr spokesman said Iranian weapons in Iraq was normal because Tehran would sell to anyone
2008 Turkey said it would resume diplomatic relations with Kurdistan
2008 Study said Surge didn’t achieve political goals Reconciliation had been between insurgents and US
not with Iraqi govt Still threat of violence if no political accommodation
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 Another Iraqi delegation headed by Dep Speaker of Parliament Attiya sent to Iran to negotiate
ceasefire with Sadr Met with Iran’s Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleiman
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2009 Muthanna last to name new govt after Jan provincial elections PM Maliki’s State of Law won in 9 of
14 provinces Got ruling coalitions in Babil Baghdad Basra Dhi Qar Qadisiya Wasit Maysan Najaf Karbala
(Musings On Iraq All Of Iraq’s New Provincial Councils Named (UPDATED))
(Musings On Iraq Breaking Down Iraq’s New Provincial Councils)
2009 Report Maliki govt claimed displaced/refugees going home Not true Migration Min said only
1% of refugees had returned to Iraq 18% of displaced had returned home Were still 1.2 mil refugees just in Syria
2009 Report PM Maiki concentrating power Appointed loyalists as ISF commanders Created separate
intel service Controlled Anti-Terror Unit and Baghdad Brigade Surrounded himself with family and small group of Dawa members
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2009 US report attacks at lowest level since 2003 Violence down 90% since Surge
2009 UK held ceremony announcing all combat operations over in Iraq
2009 US govt report As of Apr 1 5000 sahwa given jobs in ISF Sep 08 Baghdad took over sahwa
Mar and Apr 09 govt did pay sahwa because budget didn’t include salaries
2010 Def Min said that ISI had lost its direction after 2 leaders Masri and Baghdadi killed
2010 PM Maliki claimed foreign countries were plotting coup against him
(Musings On Iraq review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq)
2010 Iraqiya threatened boycott after courts banned winning candidates for Baathist past
2010 Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction report Said 37,041 sahwa had been given govt
jobs 4565 in ISF 32,476 in ministries Jan Maliki govt claimed it had given 50,000 sahwa jobs 15,000 in ISF 33,000 in ministries
(Musings On Iraq How Many Sons of Iraq Have Actually Been Integrated By Baghdad?)
2011 Hundreds demonstrated in Kut for better services and against corruption
2011 Asayesh arrested four protest organizers trying to start demonstration in Sulaymaniya
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2011 Interview with member of PUK politburo Said Islamic parties took over protests Claimed they
wanted to turn Sulaymaiya city into a war zone and that was why peshmerga deployed to city Said govt not PUK deployed security forces
2011 US said Iranian investment projects in Karbala and Najaf were fronts for supporting Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq and Kataib Hezbollah
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
2011 US Army accused Asaib Ahl Al-Haq of missile attacks on US bases Said it and Kataib Hezbollah
supported by Iran’s Quds Force
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
2011 US Special Insp Gen for Iraq Reconstruction report Iraq anti-corruption agencies faced political
interference lack of experiences judges that didn’t act on cases Head of Integrity Comm said certain officials off limits because of politics Said no transparency in govt spending Said commission could only go after low level officials Inspector generals at ministries said they would be fired if did high level investigations
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)
2012 KRG said Baghdad should pay foreign oil companies working in Kurdistan Wanted independent oil
contracts but for Baghdad to pay its bills
2012 Allawi said he wouldn’t go to national conference to resolve differences with PM Maliki
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2012 4 bodyguards of fmr Speaker Mashadani arrested for terrorism VP Hashemi and bodyguards charged
with killing 6 judges and other murders
2012 MP on integrity committee said Anbar Gov Fahadawi sent $52 mil in stolen funds to Dubai Govt
sued MP Integrity Commission opened case against Fahdawi on 44 charges of corruption
2013 Report Islamic Army met with Kirkuk tribes to form armed group after ISF attacked Hawija protest site
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)
2013 Govt Media Commission closed 10 satellite TV channels for covering Hawija protests and govt
attack upon it Claimed they were inciting violence
2013 Report ISF claimed they were attacked by protesters at Hawija site Parliamentary investigation
found ISF came in shooting Found some shot in head execution style
(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics)
2013 Sheikh Sulaiman said that protesters would go to war with govt after crackdown on Hawija protest
site
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Protest Movement And Insurgency Split About Response To Hawija Raid)
(Musings On Iraq Why Anbar’s Sheikh Ali Hatem Sulaiman Joined Iraq’s Protest Movement)
2013 Insurgents attacked Wasit municipal council building
2014 Iraq parliamentary elections PM Maliki’s State of Law would win but he would be denied a third
term due to his handling of the Islamic State 60% voter turnout
(Musings On Iraq Opinions On The 2014 Elections By Iraq Observers)
(Musings On Iraq Another Election Surprise For Iraq?)
(Musings On Iraq Interview A Look At Iraq’s 2014 Election Interview With Reidar Visser)
2014 KRG parliamentary elections 1st in 8 years
2014 Anbar tribes claimed Baghdad agreed to some of protesters’ demands to end fighting Didn’t happen
2014 ISIS ideologue Binali said that group didn't have to hold territory for Muslims to pledge allegiance to
it Was setting stage for declaration of Islamic State
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2014 Report KRG govt workers not paid March and April Blamed Baghdad for not sending monthly
budget payments Withheld due to disputes over budget and oil
2014 ISCI’s Hakim called for National Alliance of Shiite parties to be reformed
(Musings On Iraq Re-Forming National Alliance May Be Waste Of Time For Iraq’s Shiite Parties)
2015 Head of Salahaddin council said Hashd were looting and burning buildings in Tikrit
2015 City worker in Tikrit said 300 buildings in northern section of city had been destroyed including 2
mosques after city liberated
2015 IS seized half of Baiji refinery 250 ISF held out within facility
2015 Report PM Abadi agreed to deploy Hashd to Anbar Badr’s Amiri had info campaign
pushing for Hashd to be sent Hashd were already in Anbar Just way to criticize PM Abadi
2016 Parliament refused to meet over PM Abadi’s technocratic govt Sadr called for popular
revolution Sadrists stormed Green Zone Chanted anti-Gen Suleimani slogans Entered parliament building Attacked some MPs Sadr withdrew his bloc from parliament Attempt by Sadr to control govt reform process
(Musings On Iraq Sadr Trying To Play Kingmaker In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2018 Report Hacked messages showed millions in ransom for kidnapped Qataris went to Kataib
Hezbollah leader
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