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1915 UK cmdr General Nixon said he could defeat the Turks and take Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1920 US Consul in Baghdad blamed UK High Commissioner Wilson’s heavy administration taxes
and bombing civilians for causing 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)
1942 PM Nuri al-Said formed a new cabinet Part of political instability during monarchy Were 10
elections and 59 cabinets from 1922-58
(Musings On Iraq review ‘Independent Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958)
1948 Export-import licenses for Jewish businesses forbidden after creation of Israel
1973 Saddam met with Syrians Said Iraq would send as much as it could as fast as possible
to Yom Kippur War
1973 Iraqi Hawker Hunter jets attacked and destroyed Israeli column in Sinai 2 planes shot
down 1 accidentally by Egyptians Yom Kippur War
1984 Iraq broke 3 week ceasefire in Tanker War with attack upon ship leaving Iran’s Kharg Island main
oil facility
1986 UN Res 588 said Iran and Iraq should follow Res 582 to resolve Iran-Iraq War Iran rejected UN Res
588 because didn’t blame Iraq for starting Iran-Iraq War
(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)
1991 Fighting broke out between army and Peshmerga in Sulaymaniya 400 killed before ceasefire
reached with army withdrawing
1994 Iraq’s 15th Mechanized Brigade was 20 km from Kuwait border Was protest against sanctions and
UN weapons inspections
1994 US France UK deployed troops to Persian Gulf in response to Saddam putting troops on Kuwait
border
1994 UN Security Council demanded that Iraq withdraw its troops from Kuwait border
1994 SCIRI asked international community to give it control of sections of southern Iraq
1997 IAEA Iraq started centrifuge program in 1987 but was way behind schedule Iraq might have had a
bomb by 96
(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)
1997 UK said that Iraq smuggling oil through Iran violating UN sanctions
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)
2002 White House posted pictures claiming to be Iraq working on three facilities for nuclear weapons
program
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 Bush US went to war with Iraq to deal with future threats with WMD and ties to terrorism Said found
Iraq’s WMD programs
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2004 Presidential debate Bush said Iraq invasion absolutely right Iraq was trying to end sanctions and
rebuild WMD programs
2004 Natl Sec Adv Rice said Iraq Survey Group proved Iraq wanted WMD and therefore was a threat
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2004 Family of British hostage Ken Bigley said he had been killed by insurgents
2006 Political parties agreed to PM Maliki’s plan for Central Comm for Peace and Security to help secure
Baghdad would have reps from each major party and coordinate with ISF and premier’s office
2008 Macedonia announced it would withdraw its 77 soldiers from Salahaddin by end of the year Sent
troops in 2003
2008 Female suicide bomber attacked courthouse in Baquba Diyala killing 9 wounding 21
(Musings On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2008 Report Militias forced more than 7000 Sunnis out of Hurriya Baghdad during civil war Some tried to
return 325 came back One family found house occupied and soldiers told them to leave Shiite police said would be long time before Sunnis could come back US military tried to have local reconciliation in Kadhimiya and allow Sunnis back Sunnis said afraid to return Shiites couldn’t promise them protection 1 warned Sunnis they could face retribution
2009 Report US set up neighborhood/local councils throughout Iraq Future up in the air Councils
said felt abandoned by US PM Maliki’s State of Law said it would disband some in Baghdad
2011 Report Parliament’s integrity comm said over 30,000 govt workers had fake degrees Included Dep
Ministers Director Generals Univ teachers, doctors, MPs
2012 PM Maliki went to Russia and signed $4.2 bil in arms deals Was accused of corruption afterward
(Musings On Iraq Russian Arms Deal Follows Pattern Of Corrupt Purchases By Iraq)
2012 Report After 03 US rebuilt Saddam’s General Security Service as National Intel Service Organized
and funded by CIA Ex-Gen Shahwani made head Involved in 96 coup attempt vs Saddam Shiite parties opposed to intel agency because included former regime members When Maliki became PM started undermining intel service Started arresting intel officers National Security Min said dozens of personnel killed by Iraqi parties and Iran
2012 Report Iran’s Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleimani visited KRG to try to mediate between Pres Barzani
and PM Maliki and between PUK and Gorran
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2012 Report Jun PM Maliki agreed to ship 720,000 tons/mo of fuel oil to Syria at half price Way to support
Assad during civil war
2013 Iraqi special forces unit got into gun battle with 300 insurgents in Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhr Area base for
attacks into Mahmudiya and Latifiya SBaghdad Mahmudiya likely care bomb factory
2013 Report 2012 Iraq surpassed Iran as 2nd largest OPEC producer Production 3 mil/bar/day Exports 2.4
mil/bar/day Had low production costs and easily accessible oil Lacked oil law infrastructure Suffered bottlenecks at every step from production to exports Attacks on pipelines Infrastructure could barely handle current production 2004 started work to renovate Basra export terminals 2012 added 2 mooring platforms to increase exports Exports still below predictions Pipelines in Basra corroding Can’t take full capacity Delay in building storage facilities in Basra Pipeline to Turkey also corroded and often attacked by insurgents Iraq needed massive water injection to maintain production Wasn’t exploiting natural gas from oil fields
2013 Report Turkey and Iran trying to influence forming new KRG govt Iran wanted PUK-Gorran
reconciliation Turkey wanted KDP and Kurdistan Islamic Union to unite
(Musings On Iraq Iran Tries To Influence The Next Kurdish Government In Iraq)
2013 PUK blamed sick Pres Talabani for it coming in 2nd to Gorran in KRG election Splits in leadership
Divisions over continued alliance with KDP
2013 Suicide bomber attacked Shiites in Adhamiya Killed 49 Wounded 75
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2014 IS issued another order for Mosul’s Christians to convert to Islam or leave
2014 Doc showed Al-Huda bank used forged papers to buy dollars at Central Bank of Iraq auction in
2012-2014 for total of $6.5 bil Sent money to Jordan
2014 Report Peshmerga and Hashd got into shootout in Tuz Kharmato Salahaddin Before two
cooperated to free Suleiman Beq and Amerli 2 competed for control of district Both killed civilians and forced people out Hashd tried to arrest man over car bomb Stopped by Peshmerga Led to gun battle Turkmen mad at Kurdish control of area
2015 Protests across KRG by govt workers over not being paid Clashed with police in Sulaymaniya
city
2017 Clash between Hashd and Peshmerga in two areas of Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2017 KRG Pres Barzani met Speaker Jabouri to try to de-escalate tensions after KRG independence
referendum
2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq’s Khazali threatened to invade Kirkuk to keep it an Iraqi city after KRG
independence referendum
2018 KRG found smuggling oil to Iran again
2018 Report Head of Zubayr security comm said oil smuggling rampant in Basra People
arrested for smuggling and then released Smuggling done by ruling parties with ministries and ISF
2019 Report Iran Qud Force cmdr Gen Suleimani went to Baghdad to help Hashd crackdown
on protests Gave orders to Hashd to use force to break up demonstrations Source said Suleimani behind shutting down Internet Attacks on journalists Closing TV stations Badr Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Sayid al-Shuhada Saraya al-Khorasani all used against protests
2019 Activist kidnapped in Maysan
2019 Protest in Sadr City immediately shot at and broken up by ISF
(Musings On Iraq Protests Continue In Baghdad But At Smaller Level As Iraqi Govt Promises Reforms)
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2019 PM Abdul Mahdi’s office claimed it made deal with organizers to hold off on
demonstrations until after Arbaeen ended Oct 20
(Musings On Iraq PM Abdul Mahdi Claims Deal Made To Hold Off Further Protests)
2019 Iraqi govt said 110 killed in protests Health Min official said it was 165
2019 Parliament voted to suspend provincial councils until 2020 elections funds for people
killed in protests unemployment benefits Some of these required legislation to go into effect
2019 State Dept statement called for restraint and accountability by ISF after protests were
over
2020 Report PM Kazemi asked Iran for 40 day ceasefire by pro-Tehran groups to halt attacks on US
targets in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq Oct 1-7, 2020)
2020 Report After Mosul fell Abu Muhandis organized distribution of Iranian weapons to pro-Iran
Hashd units Badr minister arranged Iranian shipments Iranian advisers arrived in Iraq Said to control some Hashd units Muhandis later organized Hashd to attack US targets in Iraq Also attacked demonstrators claiming part of US plot
2020 Hashd said more than 70 villages in central Diyala included in security belts to protect them
from IS
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