This Day In Iraqi History - May 30 UK-Turkey deal Turkey got 10% of Mosul oil in return for giving up claim to province

 

1920 Head political officer in Iraq Wilson got report that revolt in Mosul being planned

1926 Verbal agreement made between British and Turks to give Turkey 10% of Mosul oil

revenues for 25 years in return for giving up claims to province

(Musings On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation of Iraq)

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

(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)

(Musings On Iraq review Turkey, the US and Iraq)

1941 Last brigade of British 10^th Infantry Division from India landed in Basra

(Musings On Iraq interview World War II In Iraq and Syria Interview With Case Western’s Prof Broich)

1941 British troops reached Baghdad Iraqi army barracks bombed leading it to ask for peace

Baghdad mayor and army officers approached British embassy asking for armistice

1941 German Amb to Iraq Grobba fled to Mosul Told German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop Iraqis

still in the fight

1941 Ger Foreign Min Ribbentrop told Ger Amb to Iraq Grobba that more planes arriving Jun 1

Grobba said because of lack of fuel German planes would have to be based in Syria

(Musings On Iraq review Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)

1946 PM Suwaidi resigned over controversy over Iraq-Turkey Friendship Treaty Nuri al-Said

negotiated treaty without consulting with govt

1959 Last British soldier departed Habaniya base in Iraq as English military withdrew from country

1967 Egypt’s Nasser and Jordan’s King Hussein called Pres Arif asking him to deploy Iraqi forces to

Jordan for war with Israel Arif agreed to send 1 armored div and 3 squadrons of jets

1968 Iraqi army arrived in southern marshes to put down Communist uprising

(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)

1972 Pres Nixon visited Shah in Iran who asked for US aid in arming Barzani

(Musings On Iraq review Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)

(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 The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

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

(Musings On Iraq When The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)

1982 Protests and riots in Karbala Basra Nasiriyah Baghdad over battlefield losses in Iran-Iraq War

1985 Iraq carried out heavy air raid on Iran oil terminal at Kharg Island

(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 Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)

(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 General Colin Powell said Op Provide Comfort would end as soon as diplomatic solution to

            Kurdish refugees reached

1997 Iraq asked for new inspections to be delayed or canceled Said investigating WMD concealment

program invalid Chief inspector Ekeus said inspections would proceed

2003 Gen Conway 1^st Marine Expeditionary Force surprised hadn’t found any Iraq WMD in searches

Said intel about Iraq having ready to use WMD was wrong

2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld announced new Iraq Survey Group would be formed to take over search for

Iraq’s WMD

2003 Coalition forces looking for Iraq WMD increased to 1300 personnel

2003 Final report of UN inspectors found no evidence of WMD programs

2003 UN inspectors said soil samples helped back Iraq story that they destroyed anthrax

(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)

2003 PM Blair said he was sure evidence of Iraq’s WMD would be found

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

2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said war was not based upon lies because both US and England said Iraq

had WMD

(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)

2003 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD labs were found Inspection found

not labs

(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)

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

2003 UnderSecDef for Intel Cambone said only 70 of roughly 600 suspected WMD sites in Iraq had

been inspected

2003 CIA Dir Tenet said that its Iraq intelligence was not politicized by Bush admin

2003 US report on Iraqi police Said they were corrupt and needed reform Called for 6,000 advisers

which US didn’t have

(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq) 

(Musings On Iraq American Negligence In Iraq Or How The United States Failed To Plan For Security The Country Part One Of A Two Part Interview With Jerry Burke Former Advisor To The Baghdad Police And Interior Ministry)

(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 8 – Muddling Through August-October 2003)

(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 12 Reconstructing Iraqi Security Forces)

2004 US Op Smackdown to probe Mahdi Army defenses of Kufa mosque began

2004 7 US soldiers disciplined for not stopping Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal

2004 Leaked parts of Ryder report on Abu Ghraib found 100s of Iraqi prisoners were held despite

lack of evidence

2005 VP Cheney said Iraq in “last throes” of an insurgency

2006 US-Iraqi team inspected 1^st Natl Police Div Site 4 in Baghdad Found 1,845 prisoners who’d

been tortured and abused Juvenile prisoners used as sex slaves

2006 Pentagon report to Congress said violence increased since 2004 from avg 400 attacks/wk spring

04 to 550 attacks/wk Aug 05-Feb 06 to 600 attacks/wk Feb-May 06

2007 US turned over security for Kurdistan to Peshmerga

2007 Op Alljah started to clear Fallujah

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Green on Fallujah during the Surge)

(Musings On Iraq review Fallujah Redux The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle With Al Qaeda)

2007 Graffiti appeared in Baghdad’s Amiriya saying down with ISI It attacked a mosque associated

with Islamic Army in retaliation killing its local commander Islamic Army then attacked an ISI mosque leading to 4 hr gun battle

(Musings On Iraq The Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2007 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq arms supplier Abu Abdullah captured by U.S. forces

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

2008 ISF raided Iraqi National Gathering HQ in Basra

2008 CIA Chief Hayden said ISI near strategic defeat in Iraq

2008 Ayatollah Sistani aide said he was opposed to Status of Forces Agreement with U.S.

2008 Report Fmr White House spokesman McClellan said Bush White House so caught up in

pushing war ignored intel that didn’t fit argument Said media didn’t do its job questioning war Katie Couric and Jessica Yellin said pressured by their bosses to support war Brian Williams said Pentagon would call and complain about any story critical of war

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

2009 ISI head Abu Omar al-Baghdadi said claim Baghdad had arrested him was a lie to bring him

out in public Said he would only appear when he wanted to

(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi)

2009 Ex-Trade Min Sudani tried to leave Iraq but plane turned around and arrested at Baghdad

airport on corruption charges $4-$8 bil missing from ministry Bought expired food and charged Ministry full price Bought food and kept it to sell on black market Bought goods for double the prices Sudani signed contract with company owned by his son for $50 mil for old tea that was only worth $20 mil Bought contaminated milk from China Found $8 mil in expired food in warehouse Sudani’s brother and nephew got $40 in kickbacks from every ton of sugar imported by ministry Sudani used some of money to fund PM Maliki’s State of Law in 2009-10 elections

(Musings On Iraq Half Of Corruption Cases Against Iraq’s Former Trade Minister Dropped)

(Musings On Iraq Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US Anti-Graft Official)

2010 Diyala police chief said his force infiltrated by insurgents Arrested some as a result Tried to

do background checks

(Musings On Iraq More Diyala Police Arrested For Alleged Ties to Al Qaeda In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Police In Diyala Province Infiltrated By Insurgents)

2011 Ninewa Gov Nujafi escaped bombing of his motorcade in Mosul

2011 Maysan council voted to keep US forces out of province as objection to a US raid

2011 VP Abdul Mahdi resigned saying position no longer held power and Najaf objected to way

VPs elected

2012 PM Maliki said he was reinstating Saddam era army officers as concession to Sunni parties to

stop no confidence vote against him

2012 Pres Talabani met Pres Barzani Allawi Speaker Nujafi Dep PM Mutlaq in Sulaymaniya and

refused to back no confidence vote vs PM Maliki Talabani said to be under Iranian pressure to end no confidence move

(Musings On Iraq Iran Tries To Mediate Iraq’s Political Crisis, But Can They Overcome The Deep Divisions In The Country?)

(Musings On Iraq How The No Confidence Move Against Iraq’s Premier Split The Kurdish Parties)

2012 Sadr said if Iraqiya and Kurdish Coalition backed no confidence vote against PM Maliki he

would support it Sadrists said replacing PM Maliki only solution to political crisis in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq What Does Iraq’s Sadr Want?)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sadrist Back Off Attacks Upon Prime Minister Maliki For Now)

2012 Badr and Fadhila wrote letter to PM Maliki saying they supported him during no confidence

move against him

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2012 Iraq Oil Ministry held 4^th auction for 12 oil and gas fields Only 1 winning bid

(Musings On Iraq Map Of Iraq’s Fourth Oil And Gas Auction, May 2012)

(Musings On Iraq Disappointing Fourth Oil And Gas Auction For Iraq)

2013 3 Reports militias killing civilians kidnapping people manning checkpoints with ISF in Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq Rumors Spread Of Militias At Work In Iraq)

2013 Anbar governor escaped car bombing in Ramadi

2014 Ramadi protest leader said Sunni autonomy was way to go and rejected armed struggle

2014 Protest in Qadisiyah over lack of services and development

2014 Report Iran funding Asaib Ahl Al-Haq operations in Fallujah and Jurf al-Sakhr

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

2015 IS held ceremony where Ramadi sheikhs gave it allegiance after city fell

(Musings On Iraq interview The Political Fallout From The Loss Of Iraq’s Ramadi Interview With EPIC’s Ahmed Ali)

2016 Hashd and Federal Police stopped displaced fleeing Sjar Anbar Executed 12 men Anbar

official said Hashd executed civilians in Saqlawiya

2016 Warrant issued for fmr Ninewa Gov Nujafi involved 1.2 bil missing dinars

2016 Report Iran ran info campaign that it and Hashd were leading Fallujah campaign when

they weren’t May 25 Iranian media claimed Iran Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleimani commanding Fallujah operation Iran also claimed it led Ramadi op After Sadrists took over Green Zone and chanted anti-Iranian slogans Tehran started Thank you Suleimani campaign on social media saying general saved Iraq from IS

(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Propaganda Work In Iraq Interview With Tel Aviv Univ’s Dr Raz Zimmt)

(Musings On Iraq What Was Behind Iran’s Social Media Campaign Promoting Gen Suleimani In Iraq?)

2017 10 mass graves found in Sinjar with IS victims

2017 Peshmerga command said Hashd broke Irbil-Baghdad agreement during op to free west

Ninewa by entering Sinjar dist

(Musings On Iraq Sinjar Dispute Between The Hashd and Kurdistan Democratic Party Interview With Journalist Wladimir van Wilgenburg)

2017 Report France providing intel to Iraq to hunt down French nationals that joined IS Up to 30

French nationals killed Around 1700 French joined IS France had 1200 troops in Iraq as part of Coalition

2018 Election Commission threw out votes from 1021 voting stations in Irbil Anbar Baghdad Diyala Dohuk Irbil Kirkuk Ninewa Salahaddin Sulaymaniya

(Musings On Iraq Iraq Election Commission Discards 1,000 More Voting Stations)

(Musings On Iraq Growing Crisis Over Elections In Kirkuk and Kurdistan)

(Musings On Iraq No Major Changes In Results After Election Recount In Iraq)

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