This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 14 Operation to free Tikrit stalled due to high Hashd casualties

(Tehran Times)

 

1921 Colonial Sec Churchill wrote PM Lloyd George Said making Faisal king of Iraq best

chance for UK to save money in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)

1925 Iraq deal gave Turkish Petroleum Company right to explore for oil in entire country

Was done before Iraq constitution finished so didn’t have to debated in parliament

(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Burdens, Oil, Sanctions and Underdevelopment)

1940 Regent called meeting of fmr PMs Got them to promise to work with Gaylani if he

became PM

1951 Grenade hit American Cultural Center in Baghdad wounding some Jewish visitors 5^th of

8 such attacks on Jews 1950-51

1959 Nasser gave 4^th speech against Iraqi Communists Said that he would stand against the

communist dictatorship

(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)

(Musings On Iraq A History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan Franzen)

1963 Iraq Syria and Egypt began talks about uniting

1974 Iraqi Air Force began air strikes on Peshmerga around Zakho

1981 Cuba’s foreign minister arrived in Lebanon as head of Non-Aligned Movement attempt

to negotiate ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War

1983 Sec of State Shultz ordered US diplomat in Baghdad to discuss US financing trade

deals with Iraq

1985 Iran fired SCUD missiles at Baghdad War of Cities 1^st time Iran used long range missiles

Saddam ordered retaliation Baghdad would bomb Tehran for 4 weeks

1986 UN mission found that Iraq had used chemical weapons several times in Iran-Iraq War

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)

1988 Iraq’s 43^rd Div destroyed and Iran captured Halabja Sulaymaniya Iran captured Dukan

Dam Turned back at Darbandikhan Dam

(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 Pres Bush warned Iran not to take advantage of Iraq uprisings to try to annex any

territory

(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)

(Musings On Iraq Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising)

2002 PM Blair Adv Manning said Natl Sec Adv Rice committed to regime change in Iraq

2002 PM Blair Adv Manning said US working on strategic decisions on how to remove

Saddam

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

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.2 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, January to April 2002 – “Axis of Evil” to Crawford)

2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Bush VP Cheney was going to give a speech about Iraq-Al Qaeda

ties that Sec State Powell dropped from his UN speech Tenet said speech would go beyond what intel showed and argued against it Bush got Cheney to cancel speech

2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told ORHA head Garner he was going to pick all the advisers that

were going to run Iraqi ministries

(Musings On Iraq on Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 3 The Department of Defense Takes Charge)

(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction Hard Lessons Chapter 4 Staging in Kuwait)

(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign

Policy Tragedy)

2003 Iran’s national security adviser said US would not have a happy ending in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2003 French Pres Chirac told PM Blair he would not accept a UN resolution that set an

ultimatum for Iraq disarmament

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20 March 2003)

2003 NSC decided on language for ultimatum to Saddam Included 48 hour deadline to leave

power pushed by Sec Def Rumsfeld

2003 UK Attn Gen Lord Goldsmith changed his mind again Said 2^nd UN resolution not

needed to authorize war vs Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 5 Advice On The Legal Basis For Military Action, November 2002 To March 2003)

2005 Netherlands withdrew its 160 troops from Iraq

2006 Report May-Jun 03 British worried about strategic failure in Iraq due to US mistakes

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

2007 Iraqi military announced deaths down 80% in Baghdad since start of Surge NYTimes

found higher number of deaths but still big drop US military said deaths in Iraq down since start of Surge but deaths up in Baghdad

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

(Musings On Iraq Inside The Surge An Interview With Prof Peter Mansoor Former Executive Officer To Gen Petraeus)

(Musings On Iraq Reassessing The US Surge, And Recognizing Iraqi Agency In Ending The 2005-2008 Civil War In Iraq An Interview With New America Foundation’s Douglas Ollivant)

2007 Pentagon report to Congress on last Qtr of 06 Said PM Maliki promised reform and

reconciliation but did nothing Oct-Dec 06 most violent period recorded in Iraq since 2003

2007 Report Dead bodies in Baghdad down from more than 200/wk in Dec 06 to 80/wk Mar

07 # of dead from bombings in Baghdad went from 528 in Dec 06 to 370 in Jan 07 Mahdi Army off streets of Baghdad Many insurgents said to have withdrawn to Diyala

(Musings On Iraq Diyala Province Backgrounder)

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

2008 Basra commander Gen Mohan outlined security plan to US Would start in March Gen

Petraeus was unhappy with plan

2011 Justice Min said it would close Camp Honor secret prison in Baghdad run by PM

Maliki that used torture on prisoners Was not closed

2011 KRG PM Salih said he agreed with all the demonstrators demands Were calling for

political reforms better services rise in living standards No serious changes made

(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)

(Musings On Iraq How Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests)

2011 Peshmerga found mass grave south of Kirkuk with 2,300 bodies Victims of Saddam

2012 Ninewa council voted to freeze Article 140 that was to determine future of disputed

areas

2012 Baghdad police held Russia Today reporters for 3 hrs because were doing story on

militia attacks on emos and gays in Baghdad

(Al Jazeera Video: ‘Emo’ Youth Targeted In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Dawa Party Returning To Their Islamic Roots Or Just Trying To Shore Up Their Base? Attempts To Ban Alcohol, Set Public Dress Codes, And Attack Emos And Gays Raise The Question)

2012 PM Maliki went to Kuwait to improve ties Was dispute between two over

compensation for stolen and destroyed airplanes from 1990 invasion Maliki said he resolved problem 

2013 5 suicide bombers and a car bomb hit Justice and Foreign Ministries, Communications

            Institute in central Baghdad 26 killed 63 wounded

(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)

2015 Operation to free Tikrit from IS stalled due to high Hashd casualties Iran was hoping to

push Hashd allies into lead in war but failed

(Musings On Iraq U.S.-Iranian Rivalry Behind Iraq’s Tikrit Operation)

(Musings On Iraq Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit)

2015 Report Badr head Amiri said some Iraqi parties were sucking up to US and getting

nothing while Iranian support was unconditional Said US threat to Iraqi sovereignty Hashd spokesman said 40 Iranian advisers helping with Tikrit op

2015 Report IS selling looted artifacts on eBay Was looting historic sites Imposed taxes on

artifacts to maintain control over trade Had connections to crime rings in Turkey Lebanon and Jordan to sell items Money used to finance group

(Musings On Iraq Destruction Of Historical Sites In Iraq Hides Looting Campaign By Islamic State)

2015 Peshmerga found mass grave with 50 bodies in Shamsa Kirkuk Victims of IS

(Musings On Iraq Iraq Goes On The Offensive In Salahaddin, Kirkuk and Anbar)

2016 IS moved back into Rutba Anbar after leaving it day before Was meant to lure ISF into

city and then entrap them Fighting continued in Hit

2016 State of Law MPs said Sadr’s protests in Baghdad could be infiltrated by terrorists

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

2016 Oil Ministry ordered North Oil Company to stop sending oil to Kurdish pipeline to

Turkey Part of on going dispute between Baghdad and KRG over oil

2016 Report KRG stopped sending oil money to Baghdad and Abadi govt stopped sending

budget payments to Irbil KRG in financial crisis Signed contracts with oil traders to deliver set amount of oil each month which it didn’t meet 2014 Kurds took control of Kirkuk oil fields after ISF fled due to IS Kurds kicked out North Oil Company and had Kurdish company run fields

(Musings On Iraq Collapse Of Iraq’s Kurdish Oil Economy)

2017 Report Captured IS document said it knew it would lose Mosul and Raqqa Said loss of

territory wouldn’t end Caliphate

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 149, March 14, 2017)

2017 Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights reported 439 civilians killed in battle to take West

Mosul from IS Thought 700 more had died but couldn’t confirm

2017 Mass grave found near Al Houd 118 people disappeared from town under IS rule

(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 150, March 15, 2017)

2018 Sulaymaniya teachers promised to continue their strike over not being paid since

November 2017 due to KRG austerity measures

2019 Saudi Trade Minister arrived in Baghdad Said Arar border crossing would re-open

Closed since 1990 invasion of Kuwait

2021 Report Hashd factions in Albu Dora Salahaddin blocking displaced from returning

Controlled trade Extorted money from people Controlled fishing and farms south of Tikrit

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