This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 30 US govt report PM Maliki govt full of corruption and human rights abuses

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1919 War Min Churchill wrote that half the British forces in Mesopotamia should be sent home

(Musings On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)

1920 War Min Churchill denied Middle East commander Gen Haldane additional reinforcements to

put down 1920 Revolt

(Musings On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)

(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)

1962 Mustafa Barzani forces bombed Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline

(Musings On Iraq Explaining Kurdish Nationalism Interview With Teen Tech Univ Prof Michael Gunter)

1963 Mustafa Barzani rejected terms offered by Baath govt

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)

(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)

1968 Pres Bakr shut down Iraqi offices of Arab Socialist Union and ended Iraq-Egypt union plans

1986 Iran Op Karbala 3 attacked al-Amiq port in Basra Took partial control of facility

1987 Saddam speech Said Iraq would continue attacking Iran until it accepted UN Res 598 for

ceasefire

1987 Iraq air raid on Kharg Island Iraq’s main oil terminal Iraq also restarted attacks on Gulf shipping

after 7 week break

(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)

(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)

1992 Reports that govt arrested Shiites in south and moved them into camps

1996 State Dept attempted to mediate ceasefire between KDP-PUK with talks in London KDP

denied that it had any deal with Baghdad while preparing to work with Saddam to attack PUK

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

2000 US and Russians agreed not to send UN inspectors back to Iraq

2002 PM Blair decided UK strategy would be to get UN to issue resolution that would give ultimatum to

Iraq on inspectors or else

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.4 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, Late July to 14 September 2002)

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2002 UK Asst Head of Foreign Affairs told UK Amb to US Sir David Manning that Blair govt needed to

start postwar planning for Iraq Manning said it was too soon to do that

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 6.4 Planning and Preparation For A Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, Mid-2001 to January 2003)

2003 Iraqi Governing Council announced 17 candidates for first-post Saddam cabinet

2003 CIA report Security entering new phase after bombing in Najaf that killed Ayatollah

Hakim Foreign fighters flowing into Iraq to join groups that wanted to undermine US occupation Warned start of insurgency could reverse progress in Iraq and attacks would continue regardless of whether Saddam captured or not Bremer complained report too negative White House ignored it

2005 US Amb Khalizad said final draft of constitution with edits had not been submitted yet Never was

(Musings On Iraq How Faults With Iraq’s Constitution Undermines The Country, Interview with Constitutional Scholar Zaid Al-Ali)

2006 Bush said if US left Iraq before job done would become terrorist state and undermine US leadership

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

2006 Report Mahdi Army seized Sunnis in Baghdad hospitals and executed them Health Min run by

Sadrists Inspector General said investigation into matter found nothing IG was from Dawa who cooperated with Sadrsits

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

2007 Report US draft review of Maliki govt said corruption and abuses the norm Govt not

trying to stop them Said Interior and Defense Mins the worst Interior Min kidnapped and executed people Took bribes Acted like a mafia Oct 06 Interior Min officials killed brother of VP Hashemi Integrity Comm afraid to investigate Interior because afraid would be assassinated US advisors at Defense protected officials from investigations $850 mil missing from Defense budget and no effort to investigate Sadrists stealing from Trade Min and blocking investigations Different parties stealing from Transportation Min One party stole vehicles another party stole grain being shipped by ministry Oil Min couldn’t keep track of oil production or stop gangs militias insurgents from smuggling oil Integrity Comm officials needed armed guards to enter some ministries PM Maliki against investigations Cut funding and interfered in cases involving Shiites Maliki tried to gain control of inspector generals in ministries and filled staffs with Dawa Maliki brought back old law that said corruption cases couldn’t proceed without permission of ministries Maliki forbid any investigation of top officials without his permission Maliki ordered hacking of Integrity Comm website Integrity Comm staff under siege Head of commission lived in hiding US Embassy not helping fight vs corruption

(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Corruption)

(Musings On Iraq Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US Anti-Graft Official)

2007 Draft US GAO report on Surge leaked Said Iraq only passed 3 of 18 benchmarks Passed protecting

minority parties Autonomous region Agreed to spend $10 bil on reconstruction even though hadn’t spent much US agencies differed on whether sectarian violence down Attacks against Iraqis changed little PM Maliki govt not passed any major laws ISF not ready and infiltrated by militias Politicians interfered in military operations

(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)

2008 Integrity Comm head said no govt official had filled required financial disclosure form Said Jan 08

Amnesty Law threatened up to 700 corruption cases in Baghdad alone

2008 Sadr demanded blood oath from followers to resist U.S.

2009 Govt poll 78% optimistic about future of Iraq 67% said would vote in 2010 election 67%

supported strong central govt 69% against ethnosectarian quotas in govt

2014 Report Many Yazidis blamed Arabs in Sinjar for helping IS Some Arabs resented fact that KDP ran

Sinjar and wanted to annex it Felt marginalized by KDP

2015 People in Rutba Anbar protested after IS executed a man who killed an IS member IS arrested

70 people

2017 Salahaddin govt ruled that IS families should not be allowed to return and should be exiled

            from province for at least 10 yrs 2018 Protest northern Basra over water crisis

2017 Report Jurf al-Sakhr liberated in 2014 Completely empty of 30,000 residents because of pro-

Iran Hashd Badr Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Kataib Hezbollah who occupy it Some members of Babil govt said they didn’t want people back Babil govt controlled by State of Law said they would sue anyone who called for returns Located along route used by Shiite pilgrims

2018 Protest northern Basra over water crisis

2018 Asayesh member said his unit took 100-150 IS prisoners and executed them in Ninewa

2019 Kataib Sayid al-Shuhada secretary general said if there was a war with Iran Resistance

Factions would take Americans hostage in Iraq

2020 Gorran member said 650,000 ghost govt workers in KRG who got $450 mil in salaries

(Musings On Iraq Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US Anti-Graft Official)

2020 PM Kazemi said protest committee finished 1^st stage of work counting dead and wounded so

they could get compensation from govt

2021 Former member of Election Comm arrested for trying to fix Oct 2021 election

2021 Report Baghdad sent 2^nd budget payment to KRG despite it not following obligations PM

Kazemi in political deal with Sadrists and KDP to send money to KRG in return for political support and hope that he would get 2^nd term

(Musings On Iraq Baghdad To Send Budget Payment To KRG For 2^nd Time)

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