1927 UK official wrote Foreign Sec Chamberlain saying UK got Mosul by trick Promised 25 yr Iraq
Mandate Now pushing Iraq independence
1939 King Ghazi’s death publicly announced PM Said resigned Queen Aliya and Princess Ragiha issued
statement that it was Ghazi’s dying wish that Ilah be made regent
1939 Mob in Mosul attacked UK consulate claiming it was behind King Ghazi’s death
1941 UK called new Gaylani govt illegal and distributed copies of message by Regent to resist
1941 Ultra intel in UK intercepted message from Italian amb in Tehran that Rome and Berlin were
going to send arms to Iraq via Syria
1941 UK Chiefs of Staff asked Middle East cmdr Gen Wavell how many troops he could spare for Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s First Battle Of Fallujah 1941)
(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings On Iraq review The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1948 Port of Basra strike against Anglo-Iraq Treaty Part of Wathba/Great Leap
1955 UK signed agreement to replace 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty Iraq got control of Habaniya and Shaiba air
bases UK would come to aid of Iraq in time of war and continue arming Iraqi army
1959 Qasim govt approved United Democratic Party of Kurdistan publishing a newspaper
1980 Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr arrested in Najaf by Saddam
(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)
1981 Iran bombed Iraq’s H3 airbase near Syria Destroyed 23 planes and 4 helicopters 15 other planes
damaged 6 senior Iraqi officers were executed after raid
1981 Iran said it wouldn’t negotiate a ceasefire with Saddam
1981 Head of US Interests Section in Iraq said that US and Iraq were growing closer
1983 Iraq offered 1 day ceasefire in order to clean up oil spill Iran rejected offer
(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)
1990 Report Iraq working on nuclear bomb Imported equipment from western companies 1984 ex-Italian
intel officers indicted for trying to sell plutonium and yellowcake to Iraq 1987 France offered to rebuild Osirak nuclear reactor 1985-88 Iraq might have built isotope plant Saudis said to be funding program
1991 Report Pres Bush gave CIA okay to support opposition in Iraq Led to creation of Voice of Free Iraq
radio station run by Saudis during Gulf War Didn’t allow support for 91 uprising
(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)
(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
1991 Britain offered $37 mil in humanitarian aid to Kurds
1991 Turkey said it couldn’t support Kurdish refugees flowing into country so shut border 10,000
crossed into Turkey 80,000 held at border
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
2002 UK intel officials claimed that PM Blair decided that WMD and Saddam were not good argument
for going to war in Iraq
2003 3rd Inf Div captured Saddam International Airport in Baghdad Fedayeen counterattack turned
back Took 3 days to clear airport Saddam finally accepted US would attack Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2003 US forces sent to southern Baghdad to destroy Republican Guard units but they fled instead of
fighting
2003 British army started assault upon Basra city hitting Baath offices
2003 Saddam appeared on Iraqi TV touring Baghdad neighborhood
2003 Information Minister Sahaf finally admitted US forces were in Baghdad at airport
2003 US forces hit by female suicide car bomb at Haditha Dam Women had made video beforehand aired on Al Jazeera
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2003 PM Blair sent letter to Iraqi people saying Saddam would fall and Coalition would not be in Iraq
longer than necessary
2003 Power surge knocked out most of the electricity in Baghdad Would be out for weeks after war over
2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice said US wanted a democratic Iraq with no WMD that would not be threat to
neighbors
(Musings On Iraq review America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Assassins’ Gate, America In Iraq)
2004 Sadrists rose up in Baghdad Najaf Kut Karbala Kufa Nasiriya against US Ambushed US patrol in
Sadr City Killed 8 Americans
(Musings On Iraq review Battle For The City Of The Dead)
(Musings On Iraq review Revolt On The Tigris, The Al-Sadr Uprising And The Governing Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 12 Things Fall Apart Apr 2004)
2004 80% of one Iraqi National Guard battalion and 70% of another deserted in Baghdad in 1st day of
fighting Mahdi Army
2004 40% of police in Najaf and Kut fled when Sadrists rose up in 2 cities
2004 Mahdi Army attacked Najaf Left 200 Iraqi casualties Spanish unit refused to fight and cmdr tried to
negotiate with Sadr
2004 Polish battalion held Karbala city hall but rest of city fell to Mahdi Army
2004 Italian governor of Dhi Qar made deal with Mahdi Army to stay in base while militia took Nasiriyah
2004 CPA created Ministerial Committee for National Security in Iraqi govt
2004 Operation Vigilant Resolve launched by Marines starting 1st Battle of Fallujah
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 12 Things Fall Apart Apr 2004)
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review No True Glory, A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah)
2005 Outgoing Inter Min Naqib warned US if SCIRI got Inter Min would fill it with Badr militiamen
which it did
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2006 Report Inter Min refused to deploy any police trained by US-UK mission in last 3 months because
didn’t control recruits
2007 Report US arrested Sadrist Dep Health Min Zamili in Feb Accused of taking kickbacks for
orders with money funneled to Sadrists 15 warrants for ministers for corruption not served MP Jabouri in hiding accused of stealing $7 mil for pipeline security force he created Allawi Def Min Shaalan facing $1 bil in corruption charges
(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)
2008 PM Maliki said he would stop raids against Sadrists
2008 PM Maliki said he didn’t negotiate ceasefire with Sadr but Iran did
2008 PM Maliki said he would recruit 10,000 local tribesmen into security forces in Basra
after Charge of Knights
2008 Report PM Maliki integrated 10,000 Dawa and Badr members into army
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2008 Report 30% of soldiers went AWOL during Charge of Knights in Basra Mahdi Army was supplied
by Iran during fight
2008 Report National Intel Estimate said that Surge decreased violence but security fragile Insurgents
still capable of large attacks Slow progress towards reconciliation
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the Surge)
2008 Pres Talabani banned PUK members from criticizing govt in media or could be expelled Came after
PUK accused of corruption and power struggles
2009 PM Maliki said that Baathists and ISI had infiltrated Sahwa
2009 Sahwa leader in Baghdad said govt was out to destroy Sahwa Another leader in Muqdadiya
Diyala arrested 3rd leader said 500 of his 1,000 men fired and no sign others would get govt jobs
(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
2009 Sheikh Abu Risha said he would run with Maliki’s State of Law in provincial elections
(Musings On Iraq Anbar’s Forgotten Sheikh)
(Musings On Iraq Anbar Sheikhs Reach Out To Shiites)
2009 Report 2005-07 40% of development funds in Iraq given to insurgents as protection money
2010 3 car bombs on Iranian Egyptian and German Embassies in Baghdad killed 41
2010 Housing Ministry claimed housing crisis in Iraq would be solved by 2014 through foreign
investment Didn’t happen
2010 Transportation Min laid corner stone of Greater Faw Terminal Project Was supposed to be
finished in 4-5 yrs Only breakwater built Rest never completed
2011 Baghdad Operations Command accused Harith al-Dhari head of Muslim Scholars Association of
assassinations in Baghdad
2011 Day of Dignity protests in Baghdad
2011 Opposition parties walked out of KRG parliament when Peshmerga and Interior ministers refused
to appear for questioning over treatment of Sulaymaniya protests
2011 Sulaymaniya protesters called on KRG government to resign Accused KRG of injustice wasting
money lack of rule of law
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2012 Dep PM Shahristani told Kirkuk governor had to stop oil smuggling to KRG
2012 State of Law MP accused Kurds of trying to prevent army from buying new equipment
2012 PM Maliki sent envoy to try to improve ties with Turkey but failed
2012 Report KRG Natural Resource Min Hawrami admitted that KRG smuggling oil to Iran Said KRG
wanted to build its own oil pipeline to Turkey
2012 Report Saudi papers said there should be sanctions on Iraq to stop PM Maliki from becoming new
Saddam Said Maliki standing with Assad showed that he couldn’t be trusted Said Maliki was an Iranian puppet
2013 Turkey said it was willing to split payments of oil exports between Baghdad and Irbil Would mean
Turkey would handle finances for northern pipeline
2013 Report Protests for over 100 days PM Maliki didn’t trust protests Said they had legitimate demands
but were terrorists amongst them State of Law MP said ISI tried to manipulate protests to get them to join insurgency Different protest sites had different ideas Some called for Anbar to become region Others against
2015 Great Tikrit Mosque set on fire after city freed Tribes demanded Hashd withdraw from area
(Musings On Iraq Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit)
2015 ISF set up checkpoints to try to stop looting and burning of homes in Tikrit Hashd said to be
leaving city
2016 Kurdish Alliance said it would not vote on any ministers it didn’t nominate
(Musings On Iraq interview with Reidar Visser on PM Abadi’s reform program)
(Musings On Iraq Complaints About Iraq PM Abadi Undermine His Cabinet Reshuffle)
2016 Salah al-Mutlaq told PM Abadi changing ministers would not lead to real reforms Said other
grades of officials had to be included Parties controlled all the top officials in ministries meaning their control would not be changed if minister removed
2016 Allawi said if new govt was to be nonpartisan than PM Abadi had to resign too along with his
cabinet
2016 Iran cut off electricity supply to district in Sulaymaniya after KRG failed to pay $27 mil loan
to Tehran
2017 Kirkuk council called for referendum to integrate province into KRG
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)
2017 IS spokesman Abu Hussan released audio tape calling Trump an idiot who didn’t know what
Syria Iraq or Islam was
2018 Pres Masum filed lawsuit over 2018 budget saying it violated the constitution
2018 Report on IS Docs When took Mosul threatened govt workers to return to work Set up tax system that earned more than oil revenues Business and agriculture mostly taxed Seized land belonging to Shiites Christians Yazidis in conquered territories and sold it to farmers and followers Set up sharecropping for farmers who couldn’t pay for land
2018 Report Turkey building 8-12 new bases in Irbil to fight PKK
(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)
2019 Report State Dept said Iran killed 608 US troops in Iraq from 2003-11 Provided militias
with weapons and training Planned attacks upon US forces
(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias)
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2019 Saudis opened consulate in Baghdad 1st in 30 yrs Talked about investing in Iraq
2020 Badr claimed that US anti-missile defense emplaced to counter pro-Iran group rocket
attacks might be used to shoot at Iraqi planes
2020 Report 8 pro-Iran Hashd said US not withdrawing just consolidating in Iraq Said Kataib
Hezbollah not only faction that opposes US Claimed they worked for the clergy the Iraqi people and protesters
2020 Continued clashes between protesters and police in Nasiriya Threw gas bombs at police
Police shot at protesters 3 killed 22 wounded Curfew afterward March was called for aid to poor during COVID
2021 Gunmen shot at home of activist in Babil
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
2021 Report provincial budgets KRG 10.9 tril dinars Dhi Qar 1.3 tril dinars Babil 1.1 tril dinars
Diyala 867 bil dinars Najaf 757 bil dinars Diwaniay 732 bil dinars Karbala 704 bil dinars Wasit 653 bil dinars Maysan 478 bil dinars Muthanna 376 bil dinars Ninewa 124 bil dinars Anbar 95 bil dinars Salahaddin 68 bil dinars Budgets used to be based upon populations now politics with Sunni provinces getting least amount of money
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