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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