This Day In Iraqi History - May 26 Jamil Midfai led Al-Ahd forces to attack Tal Afar in attempt to start revolt vs UK Mandate in Iraq

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1915 US consulate report Discontent in Baghdad against draft for war growing UK trying

to bribe tribes south of Baghdad to turn on Ottomans

1920 Nationalist Haras al-Istiqlal held Sunni-Shiite protest against British in Baghdad

1920 UK intel in Mosul got report 1,000 Arabs under fmr Ottoman officer and nationalist al-Ahd

member Jamil al-Midfai was west of Tal Afar waiting to attack

1921 Govt passed law allowing for enlistment to new Iraqi army

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)

1941 2^nd trainload of German military aid arrived from Syria Stored in Mosul but never used

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)

1941 12 Italian planes landed in Kirkuk from Syria to operate under Germans Immediately attacked

British forces in Anbar

1941 Mussolini met with German military attache and expressed concern about Iraq Asked whether

Berlin would give substantive or symbolic support to Iraq

1941 Mussolini told German military attache Iraq could turn tide in Mediterranean Attache said Berlin

serious about Iraq

(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)

1964 Iraq and United Arab Republic announced Joint Presidential Council Supposed to

lead to unification of 2 countries

1981 Iraqis forced to withdraw from around Susangard Khuzistan in south due to Iran Op Imam Ali

1983 French Pres Mitterand agreed to rent 6 Super Etendard jets to Iraq for 2 years Iraqi pilots went to

France for training

1986 Iran launched 2^nd counterattack in Faw Peninsula Basra

1988 Iraq Op Tawakalna ala Allah reached Iranian border in Basra Also forced Iranians out of southern

marshes north of Basra city 6,000 Iranian casualties 3,000 Iraqi casualties

1988 Saddam had meeting with military staff Decided next offensive would be to recapture Majnoon

Islands in Basra

(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)

2002 During trip to France Bush said he had no Iraq war plans Part of strategy to work on war plans

while publicly denying it  

(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 Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)

(Musings On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq)

2003 Ex-Iraqi general addressed protesters outside Green Zone saying Iraqi govt needed to be formed

security established salaries paid to soldiers or would be resistance to US occupation

2004 NYTimes said some of its reporting on Iraq before war was questionable and not sufficiently vetted

2004 Bremer met with UN election expert Pirelli and UN rep Brahimi Decided on one national voting

constituency for Jan 05 election because no voter roles voting districts etc

2004 CIA retracted all its reports based upon Iraqi defector CURVEBALL who claimed Iraq had mobile

WMD labs

(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)

(Musings On Iraq Look Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)

(Musings On Iraq Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)

(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)

2005 PM Jaafari said govt would crackdown on those taking law into their own hands in response to

reports of Shiite death squads

(Musings On Iraq U.S. Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 16 – Going West, April-August 2005)

2006 Pentagon report to Congress on Iraq said insurgency had not started civil war Said violence only in

4 provinces Said insurgency would decline in early 2007

2006 Sec State Rice said 48 US govt workers signed up to work in Iraq Gen Casey said not enough Rice

told him he was out of line

2006 Report PM Maliki wanted to increase number of Iraqi forces from 250,000 to 325,000 by end of

year Said he would purge militias from Iraqi forces

2006 Report PM Maliki wanted Iraqi forces to control all of Iraq’s provinces except Baghdad and Anbar

by end of 2006

2008 US military reported attacks in Iraq at lowest level since May 2004

2008 ISI elements that that fled Mosul during govt crackdown began attacking Yazidis

            in Sinjar Ninewa

2008 Pentagon report Couldn’t account for $15 bil spent in Iraq Of $8.2 bil in contracts reviewed $7.7

bil didn’t follow accounting rules Distributed $1.8 bil in Iraqi money with no accounting

2009 Head of parliament’s integrity comm attacked PM Maliki for allowing Trade Min Sudani to

resign Said it helped him escape questioning for corruption $4-$8 bil missing from ministry Bought expired food and charged Ministry full price Bought food and kept it for themselves to sell on black market Bought goods for double the prices Sudani signed contract with company owned by his son for $50 mil for old tea that was only worth $20 mil Bought contaminated milk from China Found $8 mil in expired food in warehouse Sudani’s brother and nephew got $40 in kickbacks from every ton of sugar imported by ministry Sudani used some of money to fund PM Maliki’s State of Law in 2009-10 elections

(Musings On Iraq Half Of Corruption Cases Against Iraq’s Former Trade Minister Dropped)

(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)

2009 Baghdad Brigade raided HQ of National Dialogue Front headed by Salah al-Mutlaq

Arrested Baghdad party leader

2010 Report ISF members said secret prison at Muthanna Army Base that held women and

children 2 women were wives of ISI leaders Other women held to pressure male prisoners Torture used

2010 ISCI’s Hakim rejected Maliki’s claim that only State of Law would be able to name next PM

Said that was up to the National Alliance

2011 Interior Ministry Explosive head Gen Jabri released after arrested for involvement

in buying fake bomb detectors Interior Min Inspector General believed 75% of money spent on devices went to kickbacks

(Musings On Iraq Fake Bomb Detectors At Center Of Corruption Case At Iraq’s Interior Ministry)

2011 ISI killed Accountability and Justice Comm head Ali al-Lami in east Mosul

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Divisive DeBaathification Official Gunned Down In Baghdad)

2011 Sadr told BBC that his militia was attacking US forces as they were withdrawing from Iraq Sadrists

held rally in Baghdad against US occupation

2011 Report Iraq has been talking about developing Faw port since 2004 No construction Planned $6 bil

port 1^st stage of construction supposed to be done by 2014 Feb 2010 Transportation Min said it would lay cornerstone Didn’t happen until April 2011

2011 Speaker Nujafi rejected PM Maliki’s claim only cabinet not parliament could make law Nujafi said

parliament could draft bills and send them to cabinet

2012 Report KDP-PUK tried to monopolize market in largest businesses in KRG PUK runs Asia Cell

since 90s PUK places fees on profits from companies it doesn’t control Also own front companies Nokan Group worth $4-5 bil Largest landowner in Sulaymaniya

2013 Allawi said that militias were increasing violence Iraqiya MP from Anbar said militias were

operating with backing of govt Were kidnapping people and setting up fake checkpoints

2013 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq denied that it ran fake checkpoints in Baghdad and that it was killing people

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

2014 Jihadist intellectual Maqdisi said talks to heal ISIS-Al Qaeda rift had failed Said Abu Bakr al-

Bahgdad and his followers were deviants and called on ISIS members to join Jabhat Al-Nusra

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2014 Report Analysts think rift between National Alliance and PM Maliki will grow State of Law MP

said since it had most seats it would not listen to others about giving Maliki 3^rd term Sadrist spokesman said entire alliance would decide PM

2015 Op to free Ramadi from IS started

2015 IS executed Iraqi soldier from Sadr City in Fallujah Hung him from bridge Hashd used it to justify

attacking city in July

2015 Report over 400 buildings in Dour district in Tikrit destroyed by Hashd after

            city freed 90 more buildings destroyed in another neighborhood since Apr

2015 Report IS withdrew from Baiji Refinery day it took Ramadi Tried to destroy as much of

facility as it could Badr Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Khorasani Brigade Kataib Imam Ali Jund al-Imam in area with Iranian and Hezbollah advisers Were operating artillery mortars anti-tank missiles UAVs 

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(Musings On Iraq Khorasani Brigade Another Iraq Militia That Returned Home From Syria To Fight The Insurgency)

2016 PM Abadi called on reform protests to stop due to Fallujah operation Activists criticized

Abdai govt for attacking demonstrators

2016 Report KRG oil sales went down in Apr Meant could only make partial payments to oil

companies Feb KRG started regular payments to companies to restore confidence after period where couldn’t pay them Hasn’t paid govt workers KRG debt growing Problems started when KRG got into budget and oil dispute with Baghdad

2017 IS executed 27 people trying to flee Mosul

2017 Report KDP Zebari said independence referendum would happen in 2017 Gorran Kurdistan

Islamic Union Kurdistan Islamic Group said KRG parliament had to approve referendum 1st

2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq cmdr said it could enter Sinjar and control areas it took Didn’t need ok of

KRG Said Hashd worked for govt Barzani under foreign influence

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

2017 Report Member of Baghdad Security Council said Der Spiegel article on abuses of Rapid

Reaction Div in Mosul was spreading IS propaganda Said footage Spiegal had was from Syria not Iraq

2017 Report Family that lived next door to building destroyed by US bombing in Mosul refuted

US claim that it was filled with explosives Head of Civil Defense in Mosul said when excavating building didn’t see any signs of explosives either US pilot said US was playing down potential of bomb to destroy building

2017 Badr’s Amiri said Coalition only gave modest support to Iraq and that was why it was

taking so long to free Mosul

2017 Maliki said IS part of US plot vs Iraq Claimed Obama planned fall of Mosul from KRG

Blamed Speicher massacre upon army division withdrawing on orders from a political party

2019 Farms burned in 4 districts of southern Kirkuk Hashd spokesman said IS was

burning fields to make farmers pay taxes which they refused

2020 Report IS governor of Iraq and head of foreign operations Jabouri killed in Syria by

Coalition air strike Was assisted by Counter Terror Service

2020 Report PM Kazemi announced committee to investigate murders of protesters More than

700 killed 25,000 injured PM Abdul Mahdi had his own committee which did nothing Sadrists and Fatah said they would block any attempt to blame Abdul Mahdi for deaths

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

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

2021 Muslih cmdr of Hashd Anbar ops arrested for killing of Karbala activist Attacks on other activists

Hashd and Badr’s Amiri in talks with PM Kazemi over arrest Rocket attacks on Ain Al-Asad base in Anbar

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s PM Has 3^rd Confrontation With Pro-Iran Hashd Factions)

2021 Hashd forces inside and out of Green Zone mobilized in show of force to demand Hashd

cmdr Muslih be released PM Kazemi called out security forces as well

2021 2 NRT journalists arrested in Sulaymaniya for reporting on PUK officials and Asayesh

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