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1946 Iraq-Turkey Friendship Treaty Would cooperate over Tigris and Euphrates security
education communication economies
1947 Sayid Salih Jabr became premier 1st Shiite PM Offered reform program Was actually picked by ex-
PM Said to continue his program revising 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1970 New cabinet announced and 5 Kurds included as ministers
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1982 Iraq set up new defensive line 6 miles from Maysan border Iran attacked towards Fakkeh breaking
through Iraqi lines Broken up by air strikes Lost 100 tanks Forced to retreat Ended Iranian Op Fath Iraq lost 8000 dead 12000 wounded 13000-20000 captured 400 tanks 3 divisions destroyed Iran lost 4,000 dead, 12,000 wounded, 200 tanks and APCs
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1982 Saddam offered to withdraw to international border between Iran-Iraq Rejected by Iran
1984 US intel found Iraq buying equipment from West German company to make chemical weapons W.
Germany denied story
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
(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)
1984 US intel reported Iraq had 5 sites producing chemical weapons for 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)
1987 Ali Hassan al-Majid given special powers over all govt agencies in northern Iraq to deal with Kurds
(Musings On Iraq Pres Bakr, Saddam, And Iraq’s Kurds Before The Anfal Campaign)
1991 Iraqi troops recaptured Kirkuk from Kurdish rebels
1991 Iraqi troops captured Tanuma, Basra from rebels
(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)
(Musings On Iraq When The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want)
1994 Saddam became prime minister of Iraq
2002 Gen Franks briefed military service chiefs on Iraq war planning
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
2003 UK Embassy in Washington reported Bush mad at press reports invasion not going according to
plan
2003 1st Suicide bomber in Iraq war hits US checkpoint in Najaf killing 4 soldiers
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2003 Iraq VP Ramadan said suicide bombers would become routine in Iraq and threatened England and
US with them
2003 VP Ramadan said that foreign fighters had arrived in Iraq to help defend it against Americans
2003 Iraqi govt removed commander of Iraqi air defense in Baghdad after missiles misfired and hit the
capital
2003 Iraq fired 2 SCUDS at Kuwait but shot down by US Patriot missiles
2003 British army took Abu al-Khasib, Basra
2004 20,000 Sadrists protested closing of their paper al-Hawza outside Green Zone Rocks thrown US
opened fire 2 Iraqis killed Also protest in Nasiriya
2006 US intel report said 1707 Sunni and Shiite families moved in Baghdad after Samarra bombing
Mahdi Army kidnapping and executing people
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2007 Operation Alljah launched to clear insurgents from Fallujah
2007 ISI began withdrawing from Ramadi leading to large drop in attacks
2007 2 suicide car bombs at Baghdad market killed 82 and wounded 100
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2007 National Police kidnapped 5 British security guards from Eastern Baghdad
2007 New US Amb Ryan Crocker arrived in Iraq
2007 Justice Min Shibli said govt approved recommendation that Article140 by implemented on future of
Kirkuk Nothing came of it
2008 PM Maliki’s deadline for militias to turn over weapons ended with few complying Was extended
until Apr 8
2008 Defense Min Obeidi said Charge of Knights had not gone as planned Was shocked by resistance
by Mahdi Army
2008 Sadr said he was talking with Ayatollah Sistani to negotiate ceasefire with PM Maliki Also called
for Qais Khazali and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq to rejoin his organization
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2008 PM Maliki delegation met with Sadr in Iran to work out ceasefire in Basra
2008 Gen Petraeus told Maliki govt had set goals in Basra it couldn’t achieve Natl Sec Adv Rubaie told UK
official PM Maliki had been led by his advisers into starting Charge of Knights by telling him Basra in more desperate situation than it was in
2008 More police in Basra switched sides to Mahdi Army Reports more than 100 police fired in Basra
due to losing weapons and fleeing
2008 Nasiriya retaken from Mahdi Army Fighting between ISF and Mahdi Army in Karbala Babil
Baghdad
2008 UK started air strikes on Mahdi Army in Barsa US carried out air strikes in Basra and Sadr City
2008 Rockets fired at Green Zone by Mahdi Army
2008 Report Iraqi army had no artillery planning communications system logistics transportation
service hospitals
2009 Provincial election results announced State of Law won 126 of 440 seats 28% ISCI went from 200
to 50 seats
(Musings On Iraq Official Iraqi Election Results)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s New Provincial Councils – Update)
(Musings On Iraq Governors, Heads of Councils, and Ruling Coalitions In Iraq’s Provinces)
2009 Maliki govt talking with Asaib Ahl Al-Haq to get 5 Brit hostages released Iraq UK US Iran
Hezbollah worked out deal to release Brits in return for AAH leaders Qais and Laith Khazali 300 AHH members Iranian operatives Hezbollah’s Daqduq held by US
(Musings On Iraq 2007 Political Kidnappings In Iraq Involving Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
(Musings On Iraq Sadr Tries To Reconcile With Breakaway League Of The Righteous)
(Musings On Iraq New Challenges To Sadr’s Leadership)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iranians Planned Kidnapping And Held British Captives Taken In Iraq)
2009 PKK rejected call by Pres Talabani and Pres Barzani to disarm
2009 Sahwa in Dora Baghdad protested over not getting paid by govt
(Musings On Iraq Budget Problems Affecting Integration of Sons of Iraq)
2009 US and ISF disarmed Sahwa in Fadhil Baghdad after fighting broke out day before when its
commander arrested
(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Integration Update)
2010 Peshmerga withdrew from Jalawla Diyala after argument over control of disputed areas with
Maliki govt
2010 Panel of experts and oil executives said impossible for Iraq to reach 10-12 mil/bar/day in
production in 10 years as Oil Ministry claimed Iraq didn’t reach that mark
(Musings On Iraq More Analysts Say That Iraq’s Oil Goals Are Too Ambitious)
2011 ISI attacked Tikrit provincial council building dressed in ISF uniforms Took people hostage 3
councilmen executed Then killed themselves and all hostages with suicide belts 55 dead 95 wounded
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Insurgents Aim To Grab Headlines Again With Attack Upon Salahaddin Provincial Council Building)
2011 Parliament human rights committee found chronic abuses in Diyala prisons including torture
2011 Opposition parties boycotted KRG parliament because govt hadn’t responded to protest demands
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
2011 Turkish Premier Erdogan went to Kurdistan 1st Turkish leader to visit region
(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)
2011 Justice Min said that all prisoners at secret prison at Camp Honor would be transferred to prisons
run by ministry PM Maliki claimed there were no secret prisons or any abuse
2011 Report 70% of people in KRG either worked for govt or received state subsidies
2011 PM Maliki said he wanted a majority govt Said national unity govt a mockery
(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)
2012 Report Maliki govt going after insurgent financing in Mosul ISI said to earn $200,000/mo from
extorting businesses Private generators had to pay $200/mo Pharmacies had to pay $100/mo Sources said Asiacell paid ISI Built towers on property owned by ISI
(Musings On Iraq Analyzing The Finances Of Al Qaeda In Iraq Interview With RAND’s Patrick Johnson)
2013 Iraqiya MP from Anbar said Salah al-Mutlaq betrayed the list Made fun of him after Anbar
protesters ran him off
2014 Protest in Babil against worsening security due to ISIS ISIS threatened Qara Tappa Diyala 100s fled
10 villages as a result
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Southern Front Babil Province Where The Islamic State Has Free Reign)
2015 Most Hashd had pulled out of Tikrit op to protest US airstrikes PM Abadi met with them to
hear their complaints
(Musings On Iraq Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit)
2015 Hashd claimed U.S. bombed Hashd and Federal Police in 3 parts of Tikrit
2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said it would not join future ops in Anbar and Ninewa if US involved It did
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2015 Report Hashd assassinated two aides to Diyala governor to warn him to work with it or else Badr’s
Amiri in charge of security in Diyala Hashd had blown up houses in two towns in March
2016 Deadline set by Sadr for PM Abadi to announce new technocratic cabinet
(Musings On Iraq interview with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM Abadi’s reforms)
(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)
2017 Report Sec State Tillerson told anti-IS conference US was not into nation building or
reconstruction Tillerson wanted US to withdraw from Iraq after war with IS ended Def Sec Mattis and National Sec Adv McMaster wanted continued US presence
2017 Ninewa health official said 250 bodies had been pulled from building hit in US airstrike in Mosul
2017 US Gen Votel said 490 ISF killed and 3,000 wounded taking East Mosul from IS
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 164-65, March 29-30, 2017)
2017 Report Battles of Fallujah Ramadi Tikrit Baiji Iraqi forces allowed escape route for IS to flee
When east Mosul attacked allowed IS to retreat to west Mosul Now not happening in West Mosul Iranians and Hashd allies didn’t want IS to escape to Syria
2017 Report PM Abadi said any group that used arms outside govt were outlaws Warning
to Hashd Hezbollah al-Nujaba created Golan Liberation Brigade Said it would fight Israel and Turkey Said it would never give up weapons as long as region threatened
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi and Hezbollah al-Nujaba)
2018 Report Hashd taking people’s voting cards Let some displaced return home if agreed to vote for Hashd Threatened to expel others if didn’t vote for them
2018 Human Rights Watch accused govt of covering up execution of IS detainees in Mosul Removed 80 bodies thought to be IS prisoners from house and burned it
2020 Report When COVID hit Iraq Health Min asked for $5 mil in emergency funds Abdul
Mahdi govt didn’t have money Curfew closed down many businesses and left non-govt workers unemployed Govt running $2 bil/mo deficit
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Faces The Abyss With Coronavirus And Oil Collapse)
2021 Report Competition to get security contracts for convoys carrying supplies for US Some
attacks on convoys part of negotiations to get hired Security companies connected to political parties Gang connected to Asaib Ahl Al-Haq arrested in Basra for bombing convoys but more than half escaped thanks to AAH
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
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