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1920 War Min Churchill wrote PM George that he thought reinforcements would lead to victory
in 1920 Revolt
(Musings On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)
(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)
1922 King Faisal apologized to British Iraq High Commissioner Cox for Anti-British remark made
at a party
1922 3 weeks after being legalized leaders of Iraqi National Party exiled for opposing UK influence
in Iraq
1946 Interior Min Qassab resigned over PM Umari failing to punish Kirkuk police for shooting at
oil workers on strike
1968 Mullah Mustafa Barzani had his two ministers resign from Bakr govt because Baath was
backing Jalal Talabani
(Musings On Iraq Pres Bakr, Saddam, And Iraq’s Kurds Before The Anfal Campaign)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
1980 After Saddam visited Khanaqin Diyala Iraqi army started shelling Iranian border Was looking
for excuse to justify invasion
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1981 85 POWs exchanged between Iraq and Iran in Cyprus 2nd prisoner exchange of Iran-Iraq War
1987 Iraq demanded UN arms embargo on Iran for not accepting ceasefire deal and threatened new
air strikes
1987 U.S. signed 5 year trade agreement with Iraq mostly for farm products Some of the products
would be resold by Iraq to buy weapons Prices were also inflated so Iraqis could get kickbacks
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Review The Twilight War, The Secret History Of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran)
(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)
1988 End of 5th Anfal campaign
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
1988 UN Res 620 condemned use of chemical weapons in Iraq Was reference to Anfal campaign
1992 UN Res 688 said ethnic and civilian communities in Iraq need to be protected from
govt attacks
1992 US, UK, France started Operation Southern Watch creating southern no fly zone over Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)
(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
1994 Iraqi Vanguard for National Salvation took responsibility for car bomb in Baghdad
1996 CIA said Saddam was going to launch attack upon PUK in Irbil
1998 UN inspector Ritter quit after his anti-concealment unit was disbanded at request of Clinton
admin Ritter claimed from Nov 97-Aug 98 Clinton admin tried to block inspectors work 7 times Ritter’s claims about Clinton convinced many on UN Security Council US manipulating inspectors for its own aims Said Iraq lied about its WMD from start and still had stockpiles
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)
(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)
2002 VP Cheney speech at Veterans of Foreign War Called Iraq a mortal threat to US Said no doubt
Iraq had WMD and that it was good at deceiving weapons inspectors Said Hussein Kamil proved Iraq had renewed its nuke program Hussein said Iraq ended nuke program Killed in 1996 so couldn’t know what Iraq doing in 2001 Argued UN inspectors would fail in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2002 Sec State Powell argued that US had to go through UN to deal with Iraq at National Security
Council Said VP Cheney’s speech undermined policy Natl Sec Adv Rice agreed with Powell Said she would do something about Cheney Bush also angry with Cheney speech
(Musings On Iraq review Rise Of The Vulcans, The History of Bush’s War Cabinet)
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2002 Turkish Foreign Min official talked with Def Sec Rumsfeld who said Iraq war plans being
made but no final decision Invasion would include US using Turkey
2003 Report US left thousands of munitions dumps all over Iraq which were looted by
insurgents and militias
2003 Bremer said Iraq could not pay for its own reconstruction and US would have to put up
several billion dollars to do it CPA could not meet Iraq’s electricity needs until summer of 2004
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 US launched Op Ivy Needle to hunt down criminals and Baathists in Salahaddin
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2003 DepSecState Armitage said US might consider a multinational force under UN to help with
security after rejecting UN role
2003 Humanitarian aid groups announced pulling out workers from Iraq after terrorist attacks by
Zarqawi
(Musings On Iraq review The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014)
(Musings On Iraq review Black Flags, The Rise Of ISIS)
2004 US halted military operations in 2nd Battle of Najaf to allow negotiations to end fighting
(Musings On Iraq review US Marines in Battle An-Najaf August 20014)
(Musings On Iraq review Battle For The City Of The Dead)
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2004 Mahdi Army attacked Sistani supporters in Kufa killing 20
2004 CPA democracy official Diamond wrote memo to Sec State Rice on problems with Iraq Said
US had to follow through with disarming militias US should not seek military bases because would fulfill Iraqi fears Should talk about withdrawal instead of open ended US occupation Should move away from Iraqi exiles Rice never replied
2006 National conference of Sunni sheikhs backed Maliki govt condemned violence called for
people to participate in politics
2007 PM Maliki Pres Talabani and VPs announced deal on provincial powers law and
deBaathifcation Maliki also agreed to share decision making with Presidency Council Didn’t happen
2007 Report insurgents were extorting money from companies that got contracts to work with
Anbar Awakening
2008 Kurds in Khanqin Diyala protested arrival of Iraqi forces leading them to withdraw
(Musings On Iraq Kurdish-Baghdad Tensions Over Diyala)
(Musings On Iraq Cold War Between Baghdad and Kurds Turn Hot)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2008 Car bomb hit new police recruits drawn from Sahwa in Diyala Part of ISI campaign against
Sahwa
(Musings On Iraq Behind The Revival Of The Islamic State in Iraq, Interview With Naval War College Prof Craig Whiteside)
2008 Member of United Iraqi Alliance said sahwa had helped fight ISI but there were some working
with insurgency
(Musings On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)
2009 Head of Qadisiya reconstruction comm said previous provincial govt issued $43 mil in
frivolous projects Some went to tribal figures others to corrupt persons others were political favors
(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)
2009 Report Lack of water threatening 2 mil people in south Iraq Losing electricity and drinking
water Nasiriya power production down 50% Basra hit with high salinity due to lack of fresh water 3000 people evacuated from north Basra due to lack of drinking water Dams in Turkey Syria Iran to blame
2009 Report Oil production and exports hit post-03 high in July Iraq exported 2.08 mil/bar/day
2010 Report Tribal Affairs Dept head of Interior Min recorded as saying 20% of Sahwa got jobs
in Interior and Defense Mins and 75% had other govt jobs Jul Spec Insp Gen for Iraq reconstruction found only 41,000 of 94,000 sahwa had govt jobs Interior Min was probably exaggerating numbers
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Officials Claim 80% Or More Of Sons Of Iraq Integrated)
2011 Sadr said his movement would start protests over lack of services
(Musings On Iraq Sadr Threatening Protests Again In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sadr Backs Down Again Over New Protests in The Face Of Premier Maliki)
2012 Report Shell supposed to produce 175,000 bar/day of oil at Majnoon field in 2012 Couldn’t
because of lack of pipeline Shell asked Baghdad for waiver on reaching target Had to reach mark to start getting paid Lack of infrastructure would hinder Iraq’s oil plans
2013 Tax Authority said oil dependence would undermine economy Said govt had no plan on how
to diversify Said regulations and rules blocked developing market economy Corruption held up spending by govt Tax income hardly amounted to anything Most companies and investors smuggled profits out of country to not pay taxes
2013 Report Maliki govt released low casualty figures as violence increased Attacked media for
covering violence Army officer said Maliki ordered ISF to only report on successes 1 day in Aug Interior Min said 3 killed in Baghdad Media reported 24 killed
2013 ISF arrested head of Scholars Council in Anbar Was a protest leader
2015 Pres Masum implied that some of PM Abadi’s reforms were unconstitutional
(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)
2015 Peshmerga offensive to free Daquq south Kirkuk began
(Musings On Iraq Kurdish Offensive Into Kirkuk’s Daquq Displaces Thousands)
2017 Mass grave in Tal Afar discovered by Iraqi forces Had bodies of 80 civilians and ISF killed by
IS
(Musings On Iraq Tal Afar Battle Day 7)
2018 Report IS leader Baghdadi released 1st recording in 11 months Said group should target tribal
Hashd Carry out targeted killings and recruit in Sunni community Said IS still a force in Mideast
2018 Protesters stormed Basra Health Directorate Officials said 17-18,000 hospitalized due to bad
water Health Directorate said Shatt al-Arab contaminated
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Failed To Prepare For Water Crisis)
2019 Fatah said US responsible for Israeli strikes on Hashd bases Said strikes declaration of
war vs Iraq
2019 15 families fled Shura dist south Ninewa due to IS attacks
2020 PM Kazemi created committee to investigate corruption Arrested fmr dir of national
retirement directorate Director of Qi Card Agricultural Bank director and head of Baghdad Investment Commission
2020 Report PM Kazemi said armed groups working outside the law would face crackdown Said
criminals behind attacks on protesters Said govt would reveal who they were Said govt had arrested people for rocket attacks Pro-Iran Hashd behind attacks on protesters and rocket attacks Govt would do nothing
2021 Oil Minister issued order for National Oil Company to take control of 7 state owned oil
companies
2021 Iraq signed deal to build solar power plants
2022 Iraq’s State Organization for Marketing Oil threatened new lawsuits against buyers of KRG
oil Said it was blocking loadings of illegal cargoes from Iraq meaning KRG exports KRG said its exports were unaffected
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