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1914 India ordered 6th Div to seize Faw and clear Turks out of Shatt al-Arab before WWI
started
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In World War I, From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest)
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1918 UK-Ottoman armistice in WWI went into effect Turkish cmdr in Mosul asked UK
forces to retreat back to Qayara but they refused
1979 Saddam demanded end of Algiers Treaty Iran give up two border towns and give autonomy
to Iran’s Kurds and Arabs
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1980 Iranian navy made 2nd raid on Faw oil facilities in Basra
1982 Iran launched Muharram al-Haram attacking Diyala and Maysan Took back 120 sq mi of
Iranian territory 330 sq mi of Iraqi land Led Iraq to call up its reserves
(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)
1995 INC HQ in Salahaddin, Irbil bombed by Iraqi National Accord killing 28 At time Kurds
blamed Baghdad for bombing
1998 Iraq suspended all cooperation with UN weapons inspectors Demanded full review of its
disarmament and timetable for ending sanctions Led Clinton to order military build up in Gulf
(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 Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)
(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)
(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)
1998 Pres Clinton signed Iraq Liberation Act opening up $97 mil for opposition parties
(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
1999 INC held meeting in New York paid for by US Elected 7 member executive committee
with Chalabi and one member each from Iraqi National Accord KDP PUK and Monarchy Movement
(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)
(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)
2001 ABC withdrew story that Iraq might be behind anthrax letters sent to Wash DC
2002 Blair agreed to offer a division to US for invasion of Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 UK energy companies met with govt official complaining business deals being made for
postwar Iraq and they were being left out
2002 Iraqi opposition met in Salahaddin Kurdistan Said they were united to remove Saddam
Wanted to end sectarianism and create federal democratic state
2002 Head of UK Defense Staff Adm Boyce told PM Blair that if UK provided large military
force it would have less responsibility for postwar Iraq reconstruction UK officials had been saying opposite
2003 Attack on Fallujah govt center lasting for hours Destroyed complex Mayor Taha fled
2004 US Gen Sattler Unless US and Iraqi forces stopped insurgent intimidation campaign
against Iraqi civilians they couldn’t win
2004 Report US intel est 8,000-12,000 insurgents in Iraq and well financed Was far more than
previously believed
2004 Report US army overrode objections of contracting officers who complained about cost
overruns and non-competitive bids given to Halliburton in Iraq
2005 US report Iranian Revolutionary Guard Iraqi militias and police carrying out assassinations
in Basra IRGC gave assassination orders to Sayid al-Shuhada Iraq Hezbollah Thar Allah Fadhilah Badr and others
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
(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 Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2006 Iraq’s Health Min reported 3,590 civilians killed Jul 3,009 in Aug 3,345 in Sep 3,709 in Oct
06
2006 PM Maliki ordered US to remove checkpoints around Sadr City set up few days before
after US soldier kidnapped
2006 Sadr ordered start of strike in Sadr City against U.S. checkpoints Mahdi Army members
enforced strike
2006 ISI’s Furquan Institute for Media Production made its first release
2006 State Dep memo to Sec State Rice said ISF not capable of controlling violence Meant Clear
Hold Build impossible Said PM Maliki talked about being national leader but was proving sectarian
(Musings On Iraq 2006 Clear Hold Build: An Iraq Strategy That Wasn’t A Strategy)
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
2006 Iraq spokesman at donor-UN conference in Kuwait said Iraq needed $10 bil for rebuilding
over 4-5 yrs Said oil production not high enough to pay for reconstruction
2006 Report US soldier killed in Iraqi police ambush in Shula Baghdad in Oct Head of US
military training team said 70% of police infiltrated by militias Jr Iraqi police officers talked about militia control of police force in Baghdad neighborhoods
(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)
2008 600 Sahwa arrived at Al Furat Iraq Police Training Center in Baghdad to receive basic
training Was supposed to be 1,300
(Musings On Iraq Will Baghdad Pay For The Sons Of Iraq Update)
2009 Iraqiya list announced with Allawi and Mutlaq as co-heads Included VP Hashemi and Iraqi
Islamic Party Deputy PM Issawi Osama Nujafi List put together with help of Turkey and Saudi Arabia
2010 ISI attacked Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad Took 100 hostages Goal was
publicity and gain donations 68 killed
(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
2011 Iraqiya came out against Salahaddin wanting to be autonomous region
2012 Report Eni wasn’t as excited about Iraq’s oil as before CEO complained about bureaucracy
lack of infrastructure politics Eni invested $4-$5 bill Originally planned on $18 bill
2013 Report Dep PM Shahristani against KRG independent oil pipeline to Turkey Said only
central govt could export oil
2013 Report KRG said it was going to build 2nd oil pipeline to Turkey in 2 yrs Said was needed
with increased production KRG wanted to export 3 mil/bar/day Didn’t happen
2014 ISF started 3rd attack on Baiji
2014 IS executed head of Abu Nimr tribe in Anbar
2015 Report KDP Yazidi politician said Sinjar belonged to KDP Said PKK was an occupier
2015 Albu Faraj north of Ramadi attacked by ISF after it was declared freed 3 times
2015 KDP MP said Gorran had no role in KRG anymore because violated all political
agreements Came after KDP blocked Gorran speaker of parliament entering Sulaymaniya and 4 Gorran minister dismissed
2016 Report KRG MP said 90% of disputed areas taken by Kurds fighting IS Pres Barzani said
KRG would not withdraw from any area it liberated
2016 Iraqi forces attacked Gogjali eastern suburb of Mosul
(Musings On Iraq Review They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate)
2016 Report Head of Karbala Real Estate Registration Dir sentenced for tampering with real estate records Another real estate corruption case in Babil Gangs involved in illegal real estate deals esp in Baghdad Forced people to sell property Property also used by political parties as patronage
2017 VP Maliki said if Assad fell then the entire region would fall
2017 PM Abadi said Peshmerga had to come under Baghdad control or be downsized Didn’t happen
2017 Report KRG oil dependent Produced 610,000 bar/day of oil Exported 560,000 bar/day
before independence referendum Lost 280,000 bar/day of production from 2 fields in Kirkuk Left with 327,000 bar/day in production 280,000 bar/day in exports mostly from 2 fields Reduced investment in oil Had payment problems Low oil prices Problems with environment all limited KRG oil development KRG $20 bill in debt Signed deal with two oil trading companies Owed $1 bill to 1 trader Russia invested $4 bill in oil and gas 85% of KRG budget came from oil When KRG had money squandered it rather than invested in economy Non-oil economy poorly developed and lacked infrastructure
2017 Report KRG Pres Barzani announced stepping down after KRG independence referendum
and govt forces took most disputed areas KRG thought US support during war with IS meant it would support independence but didn’t
2018 Basra Human Rights Commission said that activists were going to restart protests inprovince
(Musings On Iraq Protests Return To Iraq’s Basra After Having Failed To Achieve Goals During Summer)
2019 IS named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraayshi new caliph to replace Baghdadi Was from
Tal Afar Ninewa
2019 Pres Salah said that PM Abdul Mahdi was ready to step down Replacement needed to
be found New election law passed by parliament
(Musings On Iraq PM Abdul Mahdi Ready To Step Down Will It Satisfy The Protests?)
2019 Report Iran tried to keep PM Abdul Mahdi in power Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleimani was
in Baghdad Asked Badr to maintain support for PM
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2019 1 protester died in Baghdad from wounds Sit ins continued in Baghdad Babil Basra Dhi
Qar Maysan Muthanna Wasit Um Qasr port continued to be blocked Also protests in Qurna in Basra Rifai and Shatrah in Dhi Qar Karbala and Qadisiya
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2019 Solidarity protests in Baquba and Jalawla in Diyala Another in Ninewa broken up by 30th
Brigade of the Hashd
2020 Report IS killed sheikh and booby trapped body in town in Diyala IS operated in 5 empty
villages in central Diyala Around 50 villages in Muqdadiya that were off limits to Iraqi forces
2020 Basra governor ordered closing down of sit-in square there
(Musings On Iraq Swan Song Of Iraq’s Protest Movement?)
2020 Protest in Dhi Qar Basra governor ordered ISF to clear sit-in camp Led to clashes
2020 Tribes and Hashd extorting money from businesses Petronas threatened to leave Gharraf oil
field after tribes threatened company Armed group raided investment complex in Salahaddin and held workers for 3 hrs Jul PM Kazemi told investors extortion going on Tribes claimed companies operating on their land and demand money Demand companies hire their men Many are unskilled
2021 Sadr Tweet called for majority govt Could’t form one
2021 Pro-Iran group fired rockets at intelligence HQ in Baghdad while PM Kazemi visiting
(Musings On Iraq Oct Saw Another Drop In Violence In Iraq)
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