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1935 Tribes seized Suq al-Shuyukh and cut railway between
Basra and Nasiriya during revolt
against govt
1941 German major arrived in Baghdad to lead Brandenburgers
Commandorecon along with
squadron of bombers and squadron of
fighters Met with PM Gaylani Decided priority blocking Transjordan force from
reaching Habaniya base Was too late to do that
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Germany had total of 24 fighters and bombers in Iraq to
help Gaylani govt fight German planes
were painted in Iraqi colors to
hide their origin
1941 British received intel that German planes flying to Iraq
from Syria
1941 German plane bombed British force from Palestine
heading towards Habaniya Anbar
1941 British bomber attacked Iraqi column outside Rutba,
Anbar
1941 Kurds began discussing revolt against PM Gaylani to
take advantage of crisis with British
(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 Rashid Ali al-Gailani,
The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(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)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
1948 Kirkuk oil workers protested against Anglo-Iraq Treaty Part
of Wathba/Great Leap
1948 Iraq Egypt Jordan Syria armies entered into Palestine
to join in 1948 Arab-Israeli War Iraqi army
attacked Kibbutz Gesher in northern
Palestine Were defeated
1948 PM Sadr declared martial law due to growing
pre-electoral violence Nuri al-Said and fmr PM-Jabr
used martial law to go after
opposition
1969 Bakr govt executed opponents in central Baghdad Meant
to rally support for regime
193 Kurdish villages in Sheikhan forced to cede land to
Arabs and population expelled
1986 KDP Peshmerga and Iranian paratroopers took Mangesh
north of Mosul near Kirkuk pipeline
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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)
1988 Start of 5th Anfal Campaign aimed at
destroying last of PUK’s bastions in Balisan Valley,
Sulaymaniya
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish
Opposition)
1990 West Germany seized parts headed for Iraq suspected for
130ft long supergun
1991 International Atomic Energy Agency started first
weapons inspection in Iraq
(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)
2001 Sec State Powell told Congress UN sanctions had
effectively contained Saddam
2003 2 most senior Iraqi biological scientists denied Iraq
was working on WMD before war
2003 UK Foreign Sec Straw Hard evidence of Iraq WMD may
never be found Not important Iraq
was in the wrong WMD was main
reason UK joined war
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Undersec of Def Feith told Congress US found evidence
of Iraq WMD and needed Iraqis to step
forward and tell them where it was
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings
On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings
On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a
War)
2003 Undersec of Def Feith told Congress US had commitment
to stay and to leave Iraq
Said CPA would create interim Iraqi
government
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 ORHA head Garner complained to Bremer about draft CPA
Order 2 disbanding Iraqi security forces
Garner talked Bremer out of
disbanding police and Interior Ministry
(Musings
On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
2003 CPA security adv Slocolmb told Garner Iraqi army had
disbanded itself Colluded in Saddam’s
crimes and needed to go
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with CSU San Marco’s Prof Marashi Development And
Setbacks Of The Current Iraqi Military)
2003 Bremer and CPA advisers reviewed CPA Order 1
DeBaathification
(Musings
On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The
Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings
On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons
Chapter 6 Charting A New Course)
(Musings
On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition
May-July 2003)
2003 CPA appropriated $2 bil for rebuilding Iraqi security
forces electricity oil
2003 US forces launched Operation Planet X to arrest
Baathists north of Tikrit
(Musings
On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion,
Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2003 Sadr cleric gave sermon in Baghdad accusing US forces
of being able to see through women’s
clothes and giving pornography to
children
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2004 US approved spending $1.9 bil in Iraqi funds for
rebuilding weeks before CPA was to end
2005 Sec of State Rice told Pres Barzani and PM Jaafari they
had to include Sunnis in new govt
2005 Salah al-Mutlaq said couldn’t unite Iraq without
including the Baathists
2007 Sadr returned from Iran to give sermon in Kufa
Dismissed number of officials he felt were disloyal
Then went back to Iran
(Musings
On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2007 Constitutional Review Comm submitted draft of changes
with no major issues dealt with Told
political parties they had to do
rest Deadline for final draft to include all issues extended until 7/31/07 Nothing
done
2008 Sahwa in Mosul complained ISF were arresting them
instead of insurgents during Mother of Two
Rivers Operation
(Musings
On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the
Remaking of the Iraq War)
2009 Mass grave found in Najaf with 3,000 Kurds killed
during Anfal
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish
Opposition)
2009 Oil Ministry said it wouldn’t pay oil companies
exporting oil from KRG because deals weren’t
approved by Baghdad
2009 PM Maliki called for majority government and ending
sectarian quota system
2009 PM Maliki claimed US releasing terrorists from prisons
resulting in increased in violence 2008
Maliki govt had negotiated quicker
release of prisoners by US
2010 Iraqi general said 32 of 43 ISI commander had been
killed
2011 Sheikh Sulaiman said that tribes and politicians would
make Anbar a federal region to protest PM
Maliki
(Musings
On Iraq Why Anbar’s Sheikh Ali Hatem Sulaiman Joined Iraq’s Protest
Movement)
2011 Salahaddin politicians met with Pres Barzani to discuss
making province a federal region to protest
PM Maliki
2012 Trial of ex-VP Hashemi began Bodyguard claimed Hashemi
implicated in 150 attacks from 2005-
11
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
(Musings
On Iraq Charges Against Iraq’s Vice President, And Why They Matter)
2012 Human Rights Watch Report Govt continued to arrest
without warrants Hold people without
charges or trials Run secret
prisons Govt said it closed secret prison at Camp Honor in Baghdad but still
open 2 other secret prisons in Green Zone ISF conducted mass arrests
(Musings
On Iraq Human Rights Watch reports On Two Mass Arrest Campaigns And
Continued Abuses By The Security Forces In Iraq)
2013 Report Attack upon Hawija protest camp could rally
insurgency It did 1st qtr 2011 358 incidents 1st
qtr 2012 539 incidents 1st
qtr 2013 804 incidents PM Maliki afraid of coup Picked cmdrs down to brigades
Controls federal court Moving awy from checks and balances on his power
2013 High Criminal Court reversed decision to drop
corruption case in Russian arms deal Feb arms deal
announced Mar Iraqi delegation went
to Russia Fmr govt spokesman Dabbagh said corruption in deal
2013 KRG facing labor issues Migration from rural to urban
areas Large number of foreign workers
Increasing university graduates
Graduates complain about lack of job opportunities Wait for govt jobs
2014 Water Dir workers in Sulaymaniya Medical Univ in Irbil
Teachers union in Kalar on strike over not
being paid KRG lacked money after
Baghdad cut off monthly payments over budget and oil dispute
2014 Babil police launched 2nd operation to clear
Jurf al-Sakhr
2014 Vide of State of Law MP in Qadisiya handing out land
deeds in return for votes Find by Election
Comm PM Maliki also handed out land
titles During 2012 no confidence vote MPs asked for patronage in return for
votes Maliki offered jobs for votes
2015 IS seized govt center in Ramadi with 10 suicide car
bombs in final drive to take city
Reinforcements sent to Ramadi to
stave off IS offensive Never arrived 50 police taken prisoner executed
(Musings
On Iraq Political Ramifications Of The Fall of Iraq’s Ramadi)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)
(Musings
On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of
Martyrdom)
2015 Abadi govt sent 3 units to relieve Ramadi Came too late
to stop IS taking city
2016 Govt officials
said govt reaching bankruptcy due to low oil prices Govt deficit growing
2016 Gorran-PUK
signed 33 point deal to cooperate Said would run together in next election
Gorran once PUK’s biggest rival
2016 Hashd leader
claimed it could free Fallujah in 7 days Said blocked by U.S.
2017 Tunisian paper
published interview with Naqshibandi leader Izzat al-Duri Apr 2015 Hashd
claimed Duri dead
(Musings
On Iraq Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)
2017 PUK official
said Turkey had set up checkpoints in northern Dohuk Sent in more troops into
KRG
2017 Hashd attacked
2 Yazidi villages Pres Barzani said Hashd should not enter area
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 211 May 15 2017)
2017 Secretary Gen
Kataib Hezbollah said people couldn’t return to Jurf al-Sakhr in Babil because
of security Said if allowed back terrorism would return Said area
threatens Karbala and Najaf Area turned into large Kataib Hezbollah base Banned
people returning to protect pilgrimage routes
2018 Large demonstration by Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk city
claiming voter fraud
2018 6 Kurdish opposition parties claimed cheating in Irbil
election
(Musings
On Iraq Growing Crisis Over Elections In Kirkuk and Kurdistan)
2018 Anbar
council said tribes had stopped 1000s of displaced returning because of ties to
IS
2019 State Dept ordered non emergency workers out of US
embassy due to threats from
Iran Germany and Holland suspended
training program for Iraqi army Exxon workers evacuated from Basra
(Musings
On Iraq Did The US Detect A Credible Threat From Iran Or React To Iran
Preparing For US Attack?)
2019 Sadr conducted another purge of his movement Dismissed
some of his leading aides
(Musings
On Iraq New Sadr Purge Of His Movement Leads To Violence In Najaf)
2020 IS released video announcing new battle of attrition
campaign in Iraq
(Musings
On Iraq Islamic State Calls For More Attacks During Covid Crisis In Iraq)
2020 Report F-16s largely grounded because Lockheed Martin
contractors withdrew due to Hashd
attacks
2020 Human rights activist called for protest in Dohuk after
govt workers protested not being paid
arrested Held for 2 weeks Released
then re-arrested Then released and re-arrested 2nd time
2020 Diyala governor asked for Baghdad’s help IS attacks
increasing in Khanaqin dist
2020 Demonstrators in Baghdad demanded Kazemi govt explain
kidnapping of woman who made
meals for protesters
(Musings
On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
2021 Oct-May UN documented 48 assassination attempts against
activists 32 died Govt did
nothing 20 protesters kidnapped
Protests met with excessive force arbitrary arrests torture limiting freedom of
expression and media UN counted 487 deaths 7715 injured
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