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1932 Assyrian religious leader Mar Shimun presented petition to League of Nations Mandate
Commission demanding autonomy for his people
(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)
1957 Ali Jawadat became PM 3rd time Continued with anti-Communist pro-Western foreign policy of PM
Said
1964 New govt formed by PM Yahya
1972 Iraq and France signed deal to allow France to keep its share of Iraq Petroleum Company in return
for technical aid to run industry France also allowed to buy Iraqi oil at lower prices Agreed to major arms deal
1988 Iraq Op Fury starts working with Mujahadeen e-Khalq started attacking Iranian forces using nerve gas
to capture Mehran central front
1988 Iraq Op Fury killed nearly 3500 Iranians and destroyed an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Division Hit
10 oil fields
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
(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 Intl Islamic Popular Conf backed Iraq against Zionist aggression and conspiracy led by US and
England
1998 Inspectors report to UN Said Iraq not come clean on VX program 1st denied it worked with it Then
said produced experimental amount that was destroyed Later admitted it produced 1.7 tons of VX but didn’t weaponize it
(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)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)
2002 CIA Dir Tenet told Congress couldn’t find evidence for story 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intel
officer in Prague in 01 Story was false
2003 Gen Odierno 4th Inf Div commander said US wasn’t facing an insurgency in Iraq because wasn’t
organized opposition Said there were attacks on US troops but were insignificant overall
2003 DepSecDef Wolfowitz told Congress US facing an insurgency in Iraq but U.S. could beat it
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
2003 Bremer talked with Bush about troop levels in Iraq Bremer didn’t object to drawdown plan but said
they shouldn’t go too low Bush said plan was to rotate troops into Iraq not to withdraw them and agreed that troop levels had to be maintained
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
2003 2,000 fired Iraqi soldiers protested outside of Green Zone demanding pensions 1 speaker said they
would attack US forces for humiliating them Threw rocks US soldiers shot and killed 2
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2003 Ex-ORHA head Garner met Def Sec Rumsfeld in Washington complained about CPA policies
Garner told Rumsfeld deBaathifiaction disbanding military and Iraq leadership group all wrong but could be fixed
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld told ex-ORHA head Garner couldn't fix mistakes made by CPA could only move
forward in Iraq
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld held press conference for ex-ORHA head Garner who said everything going well in
Iraq Bremer doing good job
2003 Ex-ORHA head Garner met with Bush said that Iraq going well and Bremer doing good job
2003 David Kay new head of Iraq Survey Group looking for Iraq WMD left for Qatar to run search
2003 Kay switched Iraq Survey Group from search teams going to suspected WMD sites to intel op going
through Iraqi docs
2003 CIA informed House and Senate Intel committees that it no longer believed Iraq-Niger uranium story
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide car bombing at army recruitment center Baghdad killed 35
wounded 145
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2004 9/11 Commission spokesman said it found no evidence of cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda
2007 US started Operation Arrowhead Ripper to clear Baquba of insurgents
2008 LA Times interviewed CURVEBALL Iraqi defector in Germany who claimed Iraq had mobile WMD
labs Claimed everything he said was true and he should be treated like a king for helping overthrow Saddam Labs didn’t exist
(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)
2008 ISF launched Op Promise of Peace against Sadrists in Maysan Govt would create 17 tribal support
councils Became part of PM Maliki’s patronage network
(Musings On Iraq Operation Promise of Peace in Maysan Province)
(Musings On Iraq Sadr’s Leadership Or Lack Thereof)
(Musings On Iraq Disputes Over Tribal Support Councils)
2010 3000 protested in Basra over lack of electricity
(Musings On Iraq Basra Protest Over Lack Of Electricity Reflects Twenty Years Of Problems)
2011 Shooting between Sadrists and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in Sadr City
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2011 Report Azri Dir Gen of Trade Bank of Iraq said he met PM Maliki Jun 2 He asked for $6 bil in
financing for deal with SKorean company without any guarantees Afterward Maliki aide said bank under investigation Maliki then raided bank and Azri fled to Jordan Said all the charges were political
2012 Report Gov Nujafi and Hadbaa made deals with Kurds in Ninewa after two opposed each other
2012 2 suicide bombers hit Shiite funeral in Baquba killing 22
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2012 Dep PM Shahristani said by end of 2013 Iraq would ends it electricity problems Didn’t
2012 Report Sadr followed dual track policy Criticized PM Maliki while supporting him Starting Feb Sadr
began calling Maliki dictator Complained about lack of services Same time said PM should not be removed After Election Comm head arrested by Maliki Sadr increased his comments Started meeting with Barzani and Allawi Supported no confidence vote Iran pressured Sadr to stop
2013 Fmr Dep Gov of Central Bank of Iraq blamed political parties for problems with bank Said they had
no idea what bank did or how to run it Wasted money by putting their loyalists in bank Anti-money laundering unit didn’t do its job Governor of bank arrested for wasting public funds MPs criticized bank for selling too many dollars at auctions and bank officials charged with crimes for doing that
2014 Tal Afar, Ninewa declared cleared of insurgents but wasn’t
2014 PM Maliki said he would not step down in return for U.S. military aid
2014 Joint Chiefs head Gen Dempsey and Def Sec Hagel told congress Iraqi govt had to reach out to
Sunnis to end insurgency
2014 Insurgents kidnapped 17 Shiites from Tuz Kharmato and executed them
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
2014 Insurgents began attack upon Baiji refinery
2014 New security operation in Jurf al-Sakhr, Babil began
2014 Report PM Maliki said Saudis behind IS’s return Said Saudis were responsible for crimes close to
genocide in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, The Saudi Struggle For Iraq)
2015 Garma Anbar declared freed but fighting continued
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Government Offensive In Anbar And Salahaddin Dragging On For Weeks Or Put On Hold)
2016 Report ISF said taking Fallujah easier than Tikrit and Baiji IS concentrated on perimeter
After broke IS defense got to city center Forced IS to move opening them up to air strikes
2016 IS seized 3 villages in Tuz Kharmato dist When expelled Peshmerga tried entering 2 of the
villages but stopped by Hashd Led to gunfight Iranian official negotiated ceasefire
2016 Amerli police chief killed in ambush Badr raided Amerli jail and killed 7 prisoners in
revenge
2017 Syrian army met Hashd at Ninewa-Syria border 2 Kataib Hezbollah brigades met at Anbar-
Syria border 1 in Syria 1 in Anbar Pro-Iran Hashd would use border crossings to move men and material into Syria to support Assad
2017 PM Abadi said Hashd refused his orders
2018 Hashd accused US airstrike of killing 22 fighters in east Syria Imam Ali Brigade threatened to attack US for incident Was no airstrike
2018 Communist said it was leaving alliance with Sadr after he made deal with Fatah
2019 Rockets fired at Ninewa Operations Command Rumaila oil field and foreign oil
company compound in Burjesia Basra by pro-Iran groups due to Iran-US tensions
2020 PM Kazemi warned against outlaws threatening Iraqi security by firing rockets in
Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s PM Gives Warning to Kataib Hezbollah To Stop Rocket Attacks In Baghdad)
2020 Rockets fired at Green Zone by pro-Iran groups
2021 New Baghdad-Irbil budget deal made PM Kazemi wanted to start sending money to KRG
before it sent oil revenues to Baghdad Wanted Kurdish support for his govt
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