Thursday, October 6, 2022

This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 6 Iraq sent forces to Syria while Iraqi jets in Egypt bombed Israeli targets in the Sinai as 1973 Arab-Israeli War began


 

1915 Sir Percy Lake new Chief of General Staff in India said UK must take Baghdad because

it would be turning point in war in East

(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)

1920 Sheikhs and notables signed Protest of the Iraqi Nation statement going over crimes of UK in Iraq

Said UK and France promised independence during WWI which is what Iraq wanted Said UK referendum backing Mandate was a farse

1920 UK military relief column headed towards Samawa that was under siege Attacked by rebels

but drove them off during 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)

1921 Sir Percy Cox arrived in Baghdad to become High Commissioner of Iraq Had orders to end military

administration create constitution set up provisional Arab govt

1958 Mustafa Barzani returned to Iraq from exile in Soviet Union for talks with new Qasim govt

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

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

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

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70)

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

1973 Yom Kippur Arab-Israeli War began Iraq decided to send forces

1973 Iraqi Hawker Hunter jets attacked Israeli anti-missile sites in Sinai Peninsula Yom Kippur War

1980 Iraqi army surrounded Khorramshahr in Khuzistan Street fighting began Iraq bombed

            Esfahan and Qom in Iran Iraq unready for urban fighting Didn’t have maps of Khorramshahr

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1980 Iranian air force sunk ships to block Shatt al-Arab waterway to Persian Gulf

1982 Iranians withdrew outside Mandali Diyala Ended Op Muslim ibn Aqil Iran lost 6,000 dead 15,000

wounded Iraq lost 2,000 dead Iran only gained 1.8 mil strip of Iraqi territory in Diyala

1986 Iraq air strike on Kharg Island Iran oil terminal Only did minimal damage

(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)

1989 Foreign Min Aziz met with Sec State Baker in Washington Accused US of hostility towards

Iraq Claimed US agencies were destabilizing Iraq Aziz said US was only going to give Iraq $400 mil credit line which was a cut and sign of bad faith Baker offered $1 bil to maintain good relations

1990 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Schwarzkopf given first draft of Kuwait war plan He was unhappy with it

and asked for more options

(Musings On Iraq review Desert Storm, Volume 2: Operation Desert Storm and the Coalition Liberation of Kuwait 1991)

1991 Clashes between Kurds and Iraqi army in Kalar

1994 Iraq put troops on Kuwait border and threatened to stop working with UN weapons inspectors Was

meant to pressure UN to end sanctions

(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 review The Saddam Tapes)

1997 UN inspectors report Some progress on chemical and missile programs but nothing with biological

weapons Iraqis had also banned inspections at presidential sites

(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)

1997 IAEA provided last report on inspections Said if any info was left on Iraq’s nuclear program was a

political decision

1998 Inspectors report to UN Iraq had blocked disarmament and was now attempting to block monitoring

work

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

2002 Bush said Iraq could have a nuclear weapon in a year if got enriched uranium

(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

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

2002 Dep Nat Sec Adv Hadley asked CIA Dir Tenet if story of Iraq trying to buy uranium from Niger

could be put back in Bush speech Tenet said no

2002 CIA told NSC to drop mentioning Iraq-Africa uranium story in draft of Bush speech for 2nd time

(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)

2003 1st battalion of Mahdi Army graduated in Basra

2003 Iraq produced 4,518 megawatts of electricity exceeding CPA target by 118 megawatts

(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter

14 Rebuilding the Electricity Sector)

(Musings On Iraq Rebuilding Iraq’s Electrical Network In A Warzone 2003-2005)

2004 Iraq Survey Group report said Iraq’s WMD destroyed in 1991 Said no plans to revive programs

when US invaded in 03 Said Saddam wanted to restart WMD programs after sanctions ended Iraq tried to tell West it didn’t have WMD while also hinting that it still did to deter Iran WMD was aimed at Iran Iraq issued 1300 oil vouchers under Oil For Food Program that netted $11 bil in illegal funds 1990-03 Russian oil companies Lukoil Gazprom Zarbuezhneft Sibneft Rosneft Tatneft got 30 % of oil vouchers

(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

2004 Bush said Iraq didn’t have WMD stocks US intel thought but invasion still right because Saddam

wanted them

2004 Fallujah leaders offered to create joint security force for city made up of Iraqi National Guardsmen

and locals US and Allawi govt rejected offer

2005 PM Blair said new EFPs being used in Iraq pointed to Hezbollah or Iranian involvement

(Musings On Iraq How Iran Used Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) To Influence events In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq A History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s Galen Wright)

(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)

2005 Bush said there was no peace in Iraq without victory and that US would win At time US had no

strategy to win war

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

(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)

(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from

George W. Bush to Barack Obama)

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2006 Bush told PM Maliki had to ignore news coming out of US because domestic politics Maliki said he

couldn’t ignore talk about dividing Iraq or immediate withdrawal Maliki said he was going to push reconciliation fighting terrorism and militias

2006 US Amb Khalilzad said US had acted arrogantly rebuilding Iraq Ignored Iraqis

2007 Sadr and Hakim announced truce after months of fighting between Mahdi Army and Badr topped off

by Aug battle in Karbala that left 250 casualties Didn’t stop fighting Deal brokered by Iran

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

2008 Report Christians Turkmen Yazidis said Kurdish parties blocked many of them from voting in 05

            elections

2008 Iraq said it would hold two rounds of auctions for its major fields covering 115 bil/bar of oil in 2009

Happened after attempt to sign quick oil contracts failed

2008 Maliki govt offered free bus and plane rides from Syria to Iraq for refugees to return

(Musings On Iraq Baghdad Continues To Encourage Return Of Refugees)

2009 DNO said KRG allowed it to restart work KRG suspended it after Natural Resource Min

Hawrami implicated in insider trading scandal involving DNO

(Musings On Iraq Norwegian Company Has Final Word In Kurdish Oil Scandal)

2009 Sahwa in southwest Kirkuk held protest for not being paid for 3 months

2009 Ayatollah Sistani publicly came out for open list system in next election that allowed voters

to pick candidates instead of just parties

(Musings On Iraq Ayatollah Sistani’s Influence On The Open/Closed List Voting System Debate In Iraq)

2010 Obama adm review of Iraq policy VP Biden said wanted Maliki to stay as PM Obama agreed

Would give Allawi presidency Talabani Foreign Min Biden believed Maliki would give US deal to keep US troops in Iraq past 2011 withdrawal Dep Sec of State didn’t believe plan would work Talabani refused plan

(Musings On Iraq How Did The United States Do In Iraq? An Interview With Emma Sky)

(Musings On Iraq Former Ambassador Robert Ford Reflects On U.S. Policy Towards Iraq And Syria)

(Musings On Iraq review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from

George W. Bush to Barack Obama)

2010 Report Insurgency went through 3 phases 1st led by Zarqawi 2nd Led by Abu Masri and Abu

Omar al-Baghdad 3rd by men who worked for Zarqawi Don’t have as much intl financing Not as many foreign fighters

2015 Badr’s Amiri criticized PM Abadi’s reforms as full of mistakes and disorganized

(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)

2015 Teachers in Sulaymaniya and Halabja struck over unpaid wages

2015 Report KRG Natural Resource Min Hawrami coming under pressure for mismanagement and

corruption 2 KRG MPs accused him of sending fuel to company that didn’t exist Opposition attacking Harwami to attack Pres Barzani KRG owed oil companies $1.5 bil for oil exports Oil companies took KRG to London Intl Arbitration court over not being paid KRG borrowed billions to help with financial crisis caused by war with IS and budget/oil dispute with Baghdad Sep Finance Min took control of Turkish bank account where Natural Resource Min put oil revenues in Only had $14 mil in it Min claimed it put money in German bank and then to KRG bank

2018 KDP said strategic agreement with PUK ended PUK leadership council said it wanted

to maintain partnership with KDP Occurred after KRG elections

2019 Sadr City only area in Baghdad with protest ISF fired into crowd even using RPGs 12

killed Another TV station attacked Protest in Nasiriya broken up Major arrest campaign in city Qadisiya people shot at 96 protesters killed so far PM Abdul Mahdi said he would investigate violence Nothing happened

(Musings On Iraq Govt Repression Working Against Iraq’s Protest Movement)

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

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

2019 Baghdad governor resigned over protests

2019 Interior Min spokesman claimed they had nothing to do with shootings of protesters

in Baghdad when they did

2019 PM Abdul Mahdi announced 17 pt program to deal with protests Included subsidized

housing for poor money for jobless job training mini-loans enlistment in army compensation for dead in protests

2019 Report authorities said unidentified snipers were shooting at protesters Were from pro-

Iran Hashd supported by Iran’s Quds Force

2019 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq bombed Al Forat TV station office for covering protests

2020 PM Kazemi created committee to investigate attacks on Iraqi bases housing US forces Nothing

happened

2020 KRG Teachers’ Union demanded KRG pay salaries on time and in full Teachers in

Sulaymaniya on strike

2020 Protests in Karbala and Dhi Qar over killed demonstrators Hashd beat people in Karbala

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