1915 UK War Ministry committee heard from Adm Slade leading UK oil expert Said if Ottoman
Empire divided UK had to get Mosul vilayet because had oil
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1921 UK officials offered Faisal throne in Iraq He said Iraq not ready for self-govt
(Musings On Iraq review Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923)
1947 Iraq and Jordan signed Treaty of Brotherhood Start of union between two countries
1959 Congress for Federation of Peasant Societies founded Communist organization meant to
organize peasants to back party’s demand for role in Qasim govt
(Musings On Iraq review The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology)
(Musings On Iraq review A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004)
(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)
(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)
1969 Iraq complained to Iranian ambassador that Tehran violating 1937 agreement over
navigation of Shatt al-Arab
1974 Barzani executed 21 Iraqi soldiers Retaliation for execution of 11 prominent Kurds
in Irbil day before
1974 During UN dinner Kissinger sat next to Iraqi Amb to UN Shibh and started discussion
about Iraq-US relations
1979 Pres Bakr welcomed new Islamic Republic in Iran and again asked for good relations Invited
PM Bazargan to Baghdad
1980 Iraqi opposition group attempted to assassinate Information Minister Latif al-Jassim
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1984 State Dept said that Iraq stopped using chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq War after U.S. warning
in 83 but started again in Feb 84
(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)
1987 Iraq attacked KDP HQ in Zewa Shkan, Dohuk PUK HQs in Sergalou and Bergalou,
Sulaymaniya with chemical weapons Chemical attacks retaliation for KDP and PUK helping Iranian offensive in Kurdistan
(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 Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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 Turkey told US Kurdish refugees should be settled in Iraq until security established
1991 Turkish army began moving 20,000 Kurdish refugees to a camp
1993 Iraqi army began two week operation to attack Kurdish towns 5,000 Kurds displaced
2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld claimed that UN inspectors in 90s were ineffective
(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)
2002 End of deadline set by Bush for invasion plan for Iraq to be completed
2003 CENTCOM commander Gen Franks told Iraq ground forces cmdr Gen McKiernan U.S. not
staying in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Ch 6 Lost In Transition May-July 2003)
2003 Coalition ground forces issued instructions for postwar Iraq plans So late each division
interpreted instructions how they wanted US military not ready to integrate ORHA
2003 ORHA head Garner met 100 Iraqi leaders in Nasiriya Called for democratic and federal Iraq
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 5 We’re Here, Now What?)
(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2003 Garner met with Chalabi after Nasiriya meeting Called him a thug afterward
2003 20,000 protested in Nasiriya against US Was another protest against Chalabi and INC
2003 Marines shot at 2nd day in Mosul Shooting so intense Marines withdrew from city to airport
2003 Bush reviewed US withdrawal plan that had most troops out by Sep 03
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2003 Bush talked about foreign peacekeepers taking over for US troops in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2003 White House thought countries would give up opposition to Iraqi invasion and offer troops
2003 Walter Slocombe said no organized Iraqi army anymore Was in Washington DC Would use
argument to justify CPA disbanding Iraqi military when became military adv to Bremer
2003 Joint Chiefs presented postwar plan Called for divisions from UK Poland Gulf to secure Iraq
Would ask for foreign police Wanted Italian Carabinieri to help Bush supported plan Wanted info campaign to publicize crimes of Saddam
2004 Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers said Sadr uprising and battle of Fallujah signs that US winning in
Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq)
2004 Ansar al-Islam called on Iraqis to join the jihad against the US
2004 UN Rep Brahimi announced plan to create interim Iraqi govt by May 04 and then conference to
elect parliament
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 13 The Changing Of The Guard, Again Spring-Summer 2004)
2007 Insurgents gave Christians in Dora Baghdad 24 hrs to convert to Islam or face death Led to
exodus of families Called Christians Crusaders
(Musings On Iraq review Christianity in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2007 Sunni families in Ghaziliya Baghdad asked for help to stop Mahdi Army taking their homes
2007 Insurgents told Sunni Turkmen to stop entering Shiite areas of Tal Afar and leave mixed parts
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
2007 Weekly Standard column claimed there was long time cooperation between Iraq and Al Qaeda
going back to 1990s Used a lot of refuted evidence
2007 Report Mahdi Army commanders went to Iran and basing operations out of there Also training
camps for militia near Tehran
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)
2007 Anbar Salvation Front held meeting of sheikhs Called for cooperation with US and Iraqi forces
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings On Iraq review The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2008 US began building wall around Sadr City to cordon off areas controlled by Mahdi Army
(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)
2008 Breakaway Mahdi Army faction said it would not disarm in Basra
2008 Report by refugee group said Maliki govt was not taking care of displaced and militias filling
vacuum
(Musings On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)
2009 US stopped Iraqi police from raiding Diyala prov council building and arresting new councilmen
on orders from PM Maliki
2009 Head of Sinjar said district should become independent and join Kurdistan to protest new
Hadbaa controlled Ninewa govt District run by KDP
(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)
(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)
(Musings On Iraq Ninewa Struggles Between Arabs and Kurds Continue)
2010 Report $4 mil in counterfeit US dollars circulating in Iraq since Dec 09 Some thought it was
printed by Iran and Hezbollah to influence Iraqi elections Others thought criminals responsible
(Musings On Iraq Counterfeit Dollars Used By Iran To Influence Election?)
2011 Protest in Baghdad demanding PM Maliki resign and prisoners released Was broken up by police
20 protesters arrested in Baghdad and taken to secret prison at Muthanna Airport
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Military Adds New Restrictions On Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2011 Turkmen Front said peshmerga and Asayesh not needed in Kirkuk and caused divisions
2011 Iraq signed deal with Italy’s Technital to build Faw Port Never finished
(Musings On Iraq Iraq-Kuwait Argue Over Competing Port Plans In The Persian Gulf)
2012 Head of Elec Comm released after being arrested on corruption charges trumped up by PM
Maliki to get rid of him
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Prime Minister Takes On Election Commission Once Again)
(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Prime Minister Becoming A Dictator? An Interview With Kirk Sowell Of Inside Iraqi Politics)
(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki More Like Premier Nuri al-Sa’id Than Saddam? An Interview With Historian Phebe Marr)
2012 Kurdish members of Ninewa council stopped from entering Mosul at army checkpoint
2012 Central Bank of Iraq set new rules on dollar auctions to try to stop large sales being manipulated
by insurgents foreign countries politicians banks Didn't work
2013 Basra Gas Company was supposed to start operation Was joint venture between Shell and
Mitsubishi to collect natural gas produced at Basra oil fields
2014 Jurf al-Sakhr in Babil fell to ISIS after PM Maliki ordered ISF to evacuate dist Families fled area
New security operation launched to free district
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Southern Front Babil Province Where The Islamic State Has Free Reign)
(Musings On Iraq Twelve Security Operations Later And Iraq’s Northern Babil Is No Less Safe)
2014 Flyers dropped over Fallujah telling people to leave due to impending security operation to free
city Wasn't taken until 2016
2014 US responded to PM Maliki’s claim that US lied that it provided military support to Iraq to fight
insurgency US said it gave everything Baghdad requested
2015 UN received reports that up to 700 homes had been looted and burned 200 blown up in Tikrit
area after it was freed
(Musings On Iraq Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit)
(Musings On Iraq Human Rights Watch Finds Iraq Government Forces Destroyed Tikrit Area After Its Recapture)
2015 IS took control of 1/3 of Baiji Refinery Also seized four towns around Ramadi Sufiya Albu
Ghanim Albu Mahal Albu Soda Army and Hashd withdrew from area northeast of Ramadi
(Musings On Iraq Iranian & Hezbollah Advisers Committed To Baiji Refinery And Ramadi Ops Leading To Another Loss For The Revolutionary Guard)
2015 Albu Ghanim tribal head called for Hashd to help fight IS in Anbar
2015 Report PM Abadi said there were 110 Iranian military advisers in Iraq
2016 Protests in 7 provinces against ethnosectarian quota system in govt
2017 Qatari delegation arrived with $360 mil as ransom for members of Qatari royal family
kidnapped in south Iraq by Kataib Hezbollah in 2015
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
2018 PM Abadi said that PM Allawi’s Defense Min official Qatan was arrested after being turned over by Jordan Was wanted for millions of dollars in corruption charges
(Musings On Iraq Ziad Qatan, Allawi Govt Defense Official Wanted For Corruption Extradited By
Jordan)
2018 Hezbollah al-Nujaba said it was ready to follow Quds Force Cmdr Gen Sulaiman’s orders to attack US forces in Iraq and Syria
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi and Hezbollah al-Nujaba)
2018 Human Rights Watch report KRG carrying out arbitrary arrests against protesters and journalists covering demonstrations
2019 Report 2012 Gazprom signed deal for 2 oil blocks in KRG Feb 2016 Rosneft signed $2.1 bil
deal to help KRG pay Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum that had taken KRG to court over $2.24 bil they were owed Mar 2016 KRG offered oil assets to Turkey in return for $5 bil in debt forgiveness and cash Turkey already lent KRG $1 bil to help with financial problems Sep 2017 KRG signed $1 bil deal with Rosneft for gas pipeline to Turkey which was never built Oct 2017 KRG said it sold 60% of its share of Turkish oil pipeline to Rosneft for $1.8 bil Rosneft didn’t make any money from any of its deals with KRG
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2019 Govt said Basra Maysan Anbar routes for drug trafficking across Middle East Said
increase in drug abuse in Barsa
2021 Pro-Iran groups fired rockets at Turkish base in Dohuk Killed 1 Turkish soldier
(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq Apr 15-21, 2021)
2021 Report Aug 2019 Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi
his successor Was born in Ninewa in a Turkman town Iraqi intel said he was kept away from the front to protect him Was judge and supervised Dept of Soldiers Set up institute to train judges and clergymen in Mosul when city occupied by IS He supported enslaving Yazidis He claimed he joined ISI in 2007
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