Tuesday, May 24, 2022

This Day In Iraqi History - May 24 Iran’s Op Beit al-Moqaddas pushed Iraq backed to border in Basra Iran-Iraq War

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1922 Cleric Khalisi informed southern tribes British were trying to get their way in new Anglo-

Iraq Treaty

1941 Mufti of Jerusalem told Italians Arab revolt hinged on Iraq and it needed more support

(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)

1973 Kurdish villages in Khanaqin forced to cede land to Arabs and population expelled

1982 Iran’s Op Beit al-Moqaddas ended Took Khorramshahr in south Iraqi forces pushed back to border

in Khuzistan province Regained 2,077 sq mi of Iranian territory Iraq lost 9,000 dead 15,000 wounded 19,000 prisoners Iran lost 12-15,000 dead 25,000 wounded Saddam had 20 senior officer relieved of command 10 executed

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)

1982 So far in war Iraq had lost 30,000 dead 35,000 prisoners 20% of its artillery 40% of its planes 60%

of its tanks Half its ground forces Iran has also recaptured 90% of the territory Iraq seized in 1980

1982 Israeli press reported US sent arms to Egypt which were then sold to Iraq

(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 US National Security Council deputies meeting told that US still sharing intelligence with Iraq

1999 Sec State Albright met with 7 Iraqi opposition groups receiving US funds Said US would provide

them nonlethal aid

2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld issued order to Joint Chiefs to begin Phase Four postwar planning for Iraq

(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 Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review Blood Money, Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq)

2003 1st time CPA paid Iraqi govt workers

2004 Bush said US would stay the course in Iraq and move towards returning sovereignty and creating

democracy in Iraq

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

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

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)

(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy)

(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)

(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from

George W. Bush to Barack Obama)

2005 SCIRI’s Hammoudi named head of constitutional drafting committee Deadline to finish

            document was August 15

(Musings On Iraq interview with constitutional scholar Zaid al-Ali on Iraq’s constitution)

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Struggle For Iraq’s Future, How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy)

2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey asked staff to see whether Iranian Rev Guard could be declared a hostile

force

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 20 Baghdad Burns, Summer-Fall 2006)

2006 Joint Chiefs intel report said insurgency enduring despite political progress and growth of ISF Said

violence would increase into 2007

2006 Report police and army full of militias insurgents and criminals carrying out abuses and sectarian

violence US officials and military apologized for former Inter Min Jabr from ISCI and Badr saying they weren’t responsible for police abuses

(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 PM Maliki said he wanted to reign in militias and demobilize them Went to Najaf to try to get

Ayatollah Sistani to make statements against militias

2006 Iraqi Army’s 16th Brigade in charge of Dora south Baghdad ran death squads and assassinations in

conjunction with insurgents Killed its own commander

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

2007 Funeral for Sheikh Issawi from Awakening hit by suicide car bomb in Fallujah 34 killed 66

wounded Part of ISI targeting Awakening sheikhs

(Musings On Iraq Demise, But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq How A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Fallujah Redux author Daniel Green on Fallujah during the Surge)

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)

2011 Anbar councilman blamed Syria for allowing insurgents to cross its border into Iraq

2011 Ex-Trade Min Sudani accused of wasting $245 mil while in office on vegetable oil Ministry paid

$1,332 per ton but then listed price as $2,400 per ton Part of schemes to enrich himself and fund State of Law

(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption) 

(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)

2011 Report US forces coming under increased attacks by militias as withdrawal date approached Feb 93

attacks on US 128 in Mar 162 in Apr

2011 US Def Sec Gates went to Iraq to lobby for US troop presence past end of year

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

(Musings On Iraq review Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary At War)

2011 Dep PM Sharistani complained KRG oil deals not transparent Didn’t have competitive bidding

Didn’t submit oil company bills to Baghdad to be compensated Said KRG acting autonomously and not thinking about Iraq as a whole

2011 Report Major bottlenecks to increase oil output Needed high volumes of water to increase pressure

in oil fields Lack of facilities at major ports Old infrastructure Many companies hit a production mark but couldn’t increase it because infrastructure couldn’t handle more

2011 Electricity Min said it would give free fuel to generator operators to try to maintain private power

production because state production inadequate to meet demand

2011 Human Rights Watch Report KRG not committed to media freedom Trying to crackdown on

journalists using lawsuits beatings arrests death threats

2011 Report Iraq wanted to develop Faw peninsula into major new port Kuwait began construction of

new port directly across from Faw in May Iraq only had plans for Faw

2012 KRG PM Barzani said that if Baghdad cut off fuel deliveries KRG would export oil independently

2012 Sadr asked National Alliance to replace PM Maliki

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

2013 Integrity Comm said it was opening investigation into buying fake bomb detectors Went nowhere

(Musings On Iraq Fallout In Iraq From Conviction Of Fake Bomb Detector Maker)

2013 Clash at Fallujah protest site between those for and against turning Anbar into federal region Imam at

Mosul protest site argued for making Ninewa federal region

(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Protest Movement Splits Over Federalism)

2013 Sadrist killed fighting in Syria had funeral attended by movement members Showed Sadr’s

participation in Syria war

2013 Report Pres Barzani pushing for referendum on KRG constitution without revisions Said parliament

didn’t have right to change document

2014 2 mass graves found in Najaf Were victims of govt putting down 1991 uprising

(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s Deadly Legacy Mass Grave Discovered In Najaf Dating From 1991 Uprising)

2015 Iranian Ground Forces commander said Iranian military moved 40km into Diyala to protect border

from IS

2015 KRG claimed it met its oil export quota set in 2015 budget and should get monthly payments from

Baghdad Pres Barzani said if didn’t KRG would export oil independently

2015 US Def Sec Carter questioned Iraqis’ will to fight after Ramadi fell to IS

(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)

2016 Badr’s Amiri said Hashd would not enter Fallujah

2017 Interior Min announced investigation into abuses by Iraqi forces during Mosul campaign in

response to Der Spiegel article Nothing came of it

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 220 May 24 2017)

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 221 May 25 2017)

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 222 May 26 2017)

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 223 May 27 2017)

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 224 May 28 2017)

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 232 Jun 5 2017)

(Musings On Iraq Review They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate)

2017 Report Amnesty Intl found Pentagon audit of US military aid to Iraq Lost track of over $1

bil in equipment Poor bookkeeping meant one aid delivered didn’t know where it went Hashd ended up with some US aid when shouldn’t have

2017 KRG Election Comm called on parties to prepare for Nov 2017 independence referendum KRG told

UN it would hold vote

2017 Planning Min said estimated $100 bil needed to rebuild freed areas

2017 Diyala politicians complained about deteriorating security in Abu Said Called on PM Abadi

to intervene Also IS cells in Baladrooz and Hamrin Mts

2018 Protests in Karbala and Dhi Qar over electricity shortages

2018 Civil Defense source said 1,199 bodies had been pulled from rubble in Old City Mosul in last

week

2019 Najaf activist’s house blown up

(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)

(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)

2019 Army complained Hashd smuggling food and drugs in Ninewa Stopped Hashd

vehicle led to gun battle in Baaj WNinewa

2020 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq HQ in Maysan burned by protesters Teachers and activists protested in

Sulaymaniya

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

2021 Protests in Dhi Qar Basra Maysan over electricity and jobs Tents burned in Nasiriya

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