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1927 Iraqi cabinet resolution said Assyrians would be settled in the country
(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)
1941 British Arab Legion left Palestine to take back Fort Rutba, Anbar from Iraqi police
One regiment refused to cross Transjordan border into Iraq
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 British Royal Air Force reported Iraqi air force combat ineffective Lost 25 planes Another 20-30
heavily damaged
1941 Vichy France agreed to transfer weapons from Syria to Iraq to use its air fields and okayed
landing of German planes
1941 Iraq Def Min Shawkat went to Turkey for talks Ankara offered end of fighting permission for UK to
use bases in Iraq In return UK would recognize Gayalani’s govt
1941 Iraq Finance Min Suwaidi went to Saudi Arabia to explain conflict with UK and ask for
mediation Ibn Saud said Iraq should end war
1941 UK Mideast Cmdr Gen Wavell said not enough troops to take Baghdad and fight Iraqi and Axis
forces
(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)
1982 Iran announced it had reached pre-war border with Iraq Iran-Iraq War
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1982 Saddam ordered retreating Iraqi forces to rally in Khorrmshahr in south dubbing it a Stalingrad
(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 138 Kurdish villages in southern and central Sulaymaniya abandoned due to Anfal campaign
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
1990 Saddam claimed Iraq could build high tech capacitors for use in nuclear triggers
2002 UK Foreign Sec Straw told Sec State Powell if Bush decided on military action against Iraq PM
Blair would back him
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 3.3 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options April to July 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Sec State Powell said US and UK would go to UN to authorize occupation of Iraq
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told staff rebuilding Iraq would not be fast or easy and needed time
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 UK parliament announced review of pre-war intelligence on Iraq
2003 ORHA met with ex-Iraqi army officers 2nd time Said they could bring back 137,000 soldiers
2003 Def Min memo called for Iraqi soldiers to return to duty and cooperate with ORHA
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld gave Bremer memo on DeBaathification
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)
2004 Bush said US goal was to build a free and peaceful Iraq that was not a threat to its neighbors
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
2004 Sec Def Rumsfeld told Congress that Iraqi victims of Abu Ghraib prison abuse should be
compensated
2004 Pentagon est by end of 2005 Iraq war would cost US $150 bil 3 times higher than White House
prediction before war
2004 Mahdi Army fought with British troops in downtown Basra
2004 US forces moved into Karbala and Amarah setting off clashes with Mahdi Army US forces seized a
govt complex in Najaf fighting Mahdi Army
2005 Battle of Qaim began
2006 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid wrote Def Sec Rumsfeld about Iranian interference in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
2008 Iraqi army began telling Sadr City residents to leave as ISF prepared assault on city during Charge of
Knights vs Mahdi Army
2009 Ninewa Gov Nujafi stopped by Peshmerga from going to hot air balloon festival in Bashiqa Part of
Kurd-Hadbaa List dispute
(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
2009 KRG said they would start exporting oil from Taq Taq and Tawke fields after Oil Min okayed
connecting them to Turkish pipeline Oil Min said it wouldn’t pay oil companies however
(Musings On Iraq Breakthrough On Oil Deal Between Baghdad and Kurdistan? Not Quite)
(Musings On Iraq Companies Exporting Oil From Kurdistan Without Getting Paid)
(Musings On Iraq Kurdish Oil Exports To Start Again)
2009 Report ISF lacked men equipment logistics Suffered from corruption and political
interference US set up programs to train Iraqis in logistics but largely failed Relied upon US for intelligence air support medical care
2009 Trade Min Sudani’s brother arrested on corruption charges Caught in Basra with $150,000 in
cash Tried to bribe police to let him escape
(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)
2010 Pres Barzani set up investigation into murder of journalist Zardasht Osman KDP was accused of
involvement
2011 Anbar councilman complained that ISF continued arrest of former ISF members after PM Maliki
promised to end them
2011 Report Dep PM Shahristani said Iraq had no plans on cutting its oil production goal of 12 mil/bar/day
In Apr Shahristani said prediction should be revised to 8.5 mil/bar/day Iraq didn’t meet either goal
2012 PM Maliki held cabinet meeting in Kirkuk to highlight problems between Arabs and Kurds
(Musings On Iraq Maliki’s Visit To Kirkuk Meant To Divide Iraqi National Movement And Kurdish Coalition)
2012 Allawi said PM Maliki was becoming an autocrat
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Inside Iraqi Politics’ Sowell on whether Maliki became a dictator)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Maliki with MP Said)
2013 Iraqiya said PM Maliki was allowing militias to operate in country
2013 Electricity Minister said power imports would end in 2014 Didn’t
2014 US restarted training for Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service in Jordan
2014 Anbar council again denied stories that ISF launched operation to free Fallujah
2015 IS broke out 30 prisoners from facility in Diyala posing as inspectors
2016 Report Hashd post videos claiming US dropping supplies to IS Iraq media spread conspiracy
theories that US created IS US tried to counter stories with own information campaign
2017 Report Interior Min Araji arrested twice in 03 and 07 by US Charged with smuggling
weapons used to attack US and assassinations Was trained by Iran’s Quds Force Fought in Iran-Iraq War for Iran with Badr
2017 Report People asked PM Abadi to free 700 families held by Kataib Hezbollah and Badr since
2014 in Babil from Jurf al-Sakhr Are suspected IS sympathizers
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2018 Parliament’s integrity committee said $320 bil had gone missing over last 15 yrs due to
corruption
(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)
2018 Report Smear campaign against women candidates 20 women had withdrawn from vote 1
woman withdrew accusing her opponents of threatening to make up a video that would humiliate her 4 videos posted on social media to embarrass females New fake sex video being spread against another candidate
2019 Pro-Iran Hashd said they would attack US if it attacked Iran Came after Sec State
Pompeo threatened retaliation if Hashd killed any Americans in Iraq
2020 Report US defense official said IS picking up attacks to take advantage of COVID Coalition
cmdr Gen White said same number of attacks as 2019 Said majority are small scale incidents Said IS lacked money fighters and popular support
2021 Protest leader Wazi in Karbala assassinated Would lead to new wave of demonstrations
(Musings On Iraq New Wave of Protests In Iraq Over Executions Of Activists)
2021 Report US Delta team and Kurdish Counter Terrorism Group assassinated Gen Soleimani and
Abu Muhandis in 2020 US started planning to kill Soleimani in 2017 White House began talking about assassination in 2018 Pentagon opposed Plans to kill Soleimani sent to Trump Dec 2019 after Hashd rocket attack killed a US contractor
2021 Pro-Iran Hashd hit Ain al-Assad base in Anbar with a drone
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