This Day In Iraqi History - Oct 11 Sir Percy Cox arrived to create an Arab govt to run Iraq

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1920 UK military force set out from Hillah to relieve garrison at Kufa Burned houses of Fatla tribe

along the way during 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)

 

1920 Sir Percy Cox arrived in Iraq to be High Commissioner Was to create an Arab govt to run

country

1958 Col Arif called to Defense Min by Qasim Got into heated argument that included Arif drawing

his pistol At end agreed to become ambassador to Germany

1961 Qasim said he would give up demands on Iraq Petroleum Company if it gave up 90% of

the territory it was not developing and gave Iraq larger share of profits Iraq Petroleum Company refused to give into Qasim’s demands

(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)

1964 Mullah Mustafa Barzani accused Arif govt of failing to follow through with promises

and Arabizing oil areas of Irbil and Kirkuk

(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 Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)

1973 Iraqi 12^th Armored Bgd of 3^rd Armored Div was 1^st Iraqi unit to arrive in Syria’s Golan

Heights Put under command of Syrian 9^th Armored Div Yom Kippur War

1973 Syria lost Golan Heights Started retreating Stopped giving clear orders Told Iraqi

pilots to attack whatever they could find

1980 Iraqis made 2^nd crossing of Karun River cut off road to Ahwaz and surrounded Abadan in

south

(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)

1989 Asst US Attorney McKenzie told 2 Agriculture Dept officials that Iraqi govt officials

were involved in BNL bank and Agriculture Dept credit program BNL funds were used to buy equipment for Iraq’s missile and nuclear program Kickbacks were involved US agricultural sales to Iraq widely inflated

1990 CENTCOM presented war plan to White House to expel Iraq from Kuwait Natl Sec Adv

Scowcroft asked why US planned frontal assault on Kuwait instead of flank attack After briefing Pentagon began planning for flank attack on Kuwait

1990 Pres Bush decided to give up on sanctions and use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait

(Musings On Iraq review from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)

1991 Iraq rejected UN Resolution 715 which extended UN weapons inspections and created

permanent monitoring system at Iraq’s weapons sites

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(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)

1995 UN inspector report Iraq developed more WMD than thought before and worked on missile

program Required more investigations

1996 Inspector report to UN Secretary General said Iraq had not fully disclosed its WMD and

missile programs

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

2000 Candidate Bush at presidential debate said he didn’t believe in nation building and military

should only be used for war and could overthrow dictators

2001 Blair told Bush talk of war with Iraq was undermining war in Afghanistan and

Iraq could come later Said if US pivoted to Iraq would lose Arab world and prove bin Laden’s claim that War on terror was against Arabs

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 3.1 Development of UK Strategy and Options on Iraq, 9/11 to Early January 2002)

2002 Putin said he supported new inspections in Iraq but doubted Saddam had WMD

2002 Senate passed resolution allowing use of force against Iraq 77-23

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

2002 CIA analysts complained to press they were being pressured by Pentagon about their Iraq

assessments

2002 UK intel report said Iraq would hide its WMD from UN inspectors Said Iraq had extensive

program to hide WMD in residential buildings schools private homes Also had mobile labs that could move around Iraq Worried UN didn’t have enough intel on Iraq to be effective

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 4.3 Iraq WMD Assessments, October 2002 to March 2003)

2002 UK Foreign Office paper said UN should administer postwar Iraq Needed coalition to be in

charge of security

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 6.4 Planning and Preparation For A Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, Mid-2001 to January 2003)

2002 UK Amb to US said Bush was very suspicious of UN but thought it was worth trying to get

international support for action against Iraq

2003 Sadrist funeral in Sadr City turned into anti-US demonstration of 10,000

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

2003 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid told Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz US could seize Sadr in 3-4 days

Was against idea fearing escalation in violence

2004 IAEA warned that nuclear materials had been looted in Iraq after invasion

2004 Mahdi Army began turning over heavy weapons to US forces as part of peace deal with Allawi

govt Didn’t last

2005 US agreement created committee to amend new constitution after it was passed to get Sunni

support Amendments never happened

(Musings On Iraq How Faults With Iraq’s Constitution Undermines The Country, Interview with Constitutional Scholar Zaid Al-Ali)

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Struggle For Iraq’s Future, How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy)

2006 Parliament voted on law allowing for formation of federal regions Backed by SCIRI Sadrists

and Fadhila didn’t vote on bill

(Musings On Iraq history of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

2006 NSC aide Luti presented paper to Natl Sec Adv Hadley calling for surge of troops to secure

Baghdad Diyala Anbar

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

(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)

2006 Bush said reason violence up in Iraq because US and Iraqi forces were on the offensive

2006 US Iraq Amb Khalilzad said US didn't have forces to make new Baghdad security plan work

2006 Report in Lancet estimate approx 655,000 Iraqi deaths due to US invasion from Mar 2003-Jun

2006 Report gained huge press coverage Has since been thoroughly debunked by experts

(Musings On Iraq Comparing Surveys of Iraqi Deaths During The War)

(Musings On Iraq Major Flaws With The Lancet Reports On Iraqi Deaths Part I)

(Musings On Iraq Major Flaws With The Lancet Reports On Iraqi Deaths Part II)

(Musings On Iraq New Survey On Estimated Deaths In Iraq Refutes Lancet Reports)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mark Van Der Laan on Lancet Reports)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Michael Spagat on Lancet reports)

2006 Displacement Min Sultan said more than 300,000 Iraqis had been displaced since 03 AP

estimated 890,000 Iraqis fled to Jordan Iran Syria since 03

2006 Report PM Maliki govt barred Baghdad morgue and Health Min from reporting on Iraqi deaths

US military claimed Iraqi govt figures were too high

2006 US Embassy estimated 5-30 Iraqis were kidnapped each day

2006 Report 135 judges removed for corruption and Baathist ties Judges said crime rate far higher

than official figures because most incidents not reported Judges had been killed and no one arrested

2006 Iraqi soldiers arrested 17 other soldiers in Baghdad for raiding Sunni home Were on secret

mission for PM Maliki who demanded they be released or brigade commander in charge of arrests would be arrested

2007 6 insurgent groups formed Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance Was accused of being

secular by Islamists

2008 Ninewa Gov Nujafi said 3000 Christians had fled Mosul after 14 people killed in city since

Aug

(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Bad Times For Iraq’s Christians)

2009 Insurgents attacked Anbar provincial council building in Ramadi 23 killed 65 wounded

2010 Report IMF signed deal with Iraq in Feb to reform budgeting spending accounting Asked

Finance Min where $40.3 bil in outstanding advances went Ministry never responded

(Musings On Iraq Iraq Won’t Say Where Its Money Has Gone)

2011 Dep PM Shahristani said Iraq banned companies working in KRG from working in rest of Iraq

Said KRG oil deals were illegal

2011 PM Maliki ordered Kurdish officials in Khanaqin dist Diyala to lower KRG flag and only fly

Iraqi flag Kurds refused Khanaqin disputed area Maliki had tried to take control over before

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Prime Minister Makes Feeble Attempt To Regain Rhetorical Standing Over Khanaqin District)

2012 Report Est 30,000-60,000 squatters in Basra 150 families added each month Some politicians

allowed squatters in return for their votes Developers complained about shanty towns holding up projects

2012 Report Around 36,000 killed in PUK-KDP civil war in 90s Over 200 went missing during war

Oct were protests by relatives over missing

2013 Electricity Min claimed there was uninterrupted power supply and that demand was met

Claimed all provinces got 24 hrs of power Untrue

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Electricity Ministry Claims 24 Hours Of Power Achieved)

2013 Report PUK still split over leadership since Pres Talabani became ill in 2012 Had party

meeting but nothing resolved

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Patriotic Union Of Kurdistan Faces The Abyss)

2014 Peshmerga began op to free Sinjar Ninewa from IS

2015 KDP security refused to allow KRG Speaker of parliament from Gorran to enter Irbil city and

attend parliament in dispute over Pres Barzani’s term

2015 Protesters burned KDP HQ in Halabja Were protesting KRG not paying salaries KRG security

forces closed 3 offices of TV station and attacked another for covering protests

2016 Pres Erdogan said Turkey didn’t need to ask for Iraqi permission to operate in its territory

Told PM Abadi he needed to stay in his place

2016 Report McGurk US envoy to anti-IS Coalition Was in KRG when Mosul fell Told PM Maliki

Mosul under serious threat Wanted him to move army units to city Maliki wasn’t concerned After Mosul many were afraid Baghdad would fall to insurgents Were reports US didn’t provide Iraq with military aid until Maliki removed US did provide aid Tikrit op led by Hashd and Iran got bogged down PM Abadi asked for US help to free city US said it would help but ISF had to be in lead Sunni tribes Hashd ISF all took part in revenge attacks after Tikrit freed

2017 Warrants issued for 3 members of Kurdish referendum organizing committee for breaking

court injunction against holding vote

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)

2017 Report 72% voter turnout for KRG independence referendum Dohuk and Irbil 80-90%

turnout Only 50% in Sulaymaniya and Halabja Tuz Kharmato no voting stations in Turkmen areas PUK leadership was split over vote

(Musings On Iraq Fighting Breaks Out Between Federal Forces And Peshmerga In Salahaddin And Kirkuk)

2018 Activist in Basra shot in the face by gunmen

2019 Ayatollah Sistani’s Friday sermon blamed the government for deaths during protests

(Musings On Iraq Crackdown Continues Against Protesters While Iraq Govt Announces Investigations)

2019 Human Rights Commission reported 108 killed in protests Baghdad had the most

with 63 dead

(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)

(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)

2019 Iraqi Observatory for Press Freedom said that PM Abdul Mahdi should apologize for

the attacks upon the media during the protests

2019 Report IS limited to rural areas of Iraq Had underground bases and buried caches of

weapons Lost most of its networks Extorted money and did kidnappings for ransom Worked in small groups which meant small attacks Few car/suicide bombings Aimed to isolate people from govt and ISF Exploited gap between ISF and peshmerga in disputed areas Hadn’t been able to penetrate cities IS said it was in long struggle and war of attrition Not as many Sunnis supported IS

2019 Report PM Abdul Mahdi’s Supreme Anti-Corruption Council given 9 corruption cases

Involved former ministers and governors

2020 Kataib Hezbollah announced Resistance Factions of Hashd agreed on ceasefire to allow US

withdrawal Followed order by Ayatollah Khamenei to halt attacks

(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)

(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq Oct 8-14, 2020)

2020 Report High ranking security source said that PM Maliki made deal to buy 24 Su-25 jets from

Russia in 2014 Never completed Iraq got scraps

2020 Sulaymaniya Real Estate and Tax dept went on strike over not being paid by KRG

2021 Election Comm said voter turnout 41% Based on registered voters rather than eligible voters

to raise % 2018 voter turnout 44%

2021 Kataib Hezbollah claimed voter fraud in election

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