1919 France and England signed Long-Berenger oil deal France got 20% of Iraqi oil via Turkish
Petroleum Company
(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)
1919 France agreed to help build oil pipeline from Iraq to Mediterranean
1941 UK landed 20th Infantry Brigade in Basra in response to PM Gaylani and Golden Square
officers’ coup Basra dock workers went on strike
1941 British battalion from India completed deployment to Shaiba air base in Basra
1941 PM Gaylani asked Italian Amb if Axis would give Iraq military aid against British and Axis air
power 1st time Iraq asked for military intervention from Axis
(Musings On Iraq interview World War II In Iraq and Syria Interview With Case Western’s Prof Broich)
1941 PM Gaylani asked UK Amb that no more British troops land in Iraq and they all had to leave
(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(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 Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
1945 Baghdad railway strike for wage increase spread to Basra
1962 KDP’s Ibrahim Ahmed sent letter to Kurdish Major Karani saying Kurds wanted to live with
Arabs and ready to work with army to overthrow Gen Qasim if got democracy and autonomy for Kurds
1964 Egypt Iraq Syria issued statement that they intended to unify sometime in future
Nothing happened because of disagreements between Egypt and Syria
1966 New Pres Arif appealed to Kurds to unite Iraq and cooperate with govt to make a deal
(Musings On Iraq review of 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)
1980 Khomeini said Baath at war with Islam and called on Iraqi army and people to overthrow
Saddam
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
Musings On Iraq review Saddam’s War, An Iraqi Military Perspective of the Iran-Iraq War
1984 Iraq escalated its attacks on tankers heading for Iran
1988 Iraq recaptured Faw Peninsula in Basra 5,000 Iranians died 10,000 captured Iraq lost 800 dead
(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)
1990 Iraq test fired missile with chemical warhead
1991 Report 500-1,000 displaced Kurds were dying a day along Iraq-Turkey border
1991 First round of talks between Baghdad and Kurds over status of Kurdistan started with
Talabani heading delegation
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1991 Saddam agreed to UN setting up offices in Iraq to help displaced following Shiite and Kurdish
uprisings
1991 Iraq provided first weapons declaration to UN Was incomplete Said Iraq had 53 SCUD
missiles Said had chemical but not biological or nuclear weapons programs
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)
(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)
1996 State Dept official Deutsch went to Kurdistan to try to broker ceasefire in PUK-KDP civil war
2001 Iran fired 60 missiles at Iraq
2002 CIA report said Iraq might have been able to make chemical weapons since 1999
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 Sadrists held demonstration in Sadr City to condemn U.S. and western culture
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2003 Some American officials worried that Iraq had sent its WMD to other countries That’s why
wasn’t found
2003 INC’s Chalabi said he expected an interim govt to be formed soon to run most duties in Iraq
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said it would take time to find Iraq’s WMD
(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 Arabs that were expelled from Daquq Kirkuk by Kurds tried to retake town but driven off by
Kurds
2003 Suicide bomber hit Marines in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2003 ORHA’s Col Hughes had 1st conversation with Defense Min adviser Slocombe about plans to
bring back Iraqi army
2004 Bremer admitted that Iraqi forces would not be able to deal with insurgency on their own when
sovereignty returned in June 05
2004 Spain’s new PM Zapatero announced he would withdraw 1300 troops from Iraq
2004 British report said Coalition troops and Iraqi police would soon restore law and order in Iraq
2006 Report CPA plan to disarm and integrate militias never funded and followed through with
2006 Interior Min forces believed to be from Badr surrounded Adhamiya dist Baghdad When tried to
enter were expelled by force
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2007 5 car bombs in Baghdad killed 171 wounded almost 200
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2007 PM Maliki said ISF would take over security for entire country by end of year Didn’t happen for
several more years
2008 50 soldiers fled their posts in Sadr City rather than fight Mahdi Army
2008 Sadrists refused to disband Mahdi Army after PM Maliki threatened to ban any party with a
militia from elections
2008 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri speech said US had been defeated in Iraq
2008 Sheikh Abu Risha of Anbar Awakening complained that authorities were trying to stop him
organizing for 09 provincial elections by shutting down offices
2008 Suicide truck bomb hit funeral for Sahwa members killing 50 in Baghdad 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)
(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)
2008 US forces raided district in Muqdadiya Diyala to arrest Iraqi police involved in death squads
(Musings On Iraq Diyala Province Backgrounder)
2009 US and British officials went to Jordan to talk with ex-Gen Hamdani about reconciliation with
former regime members
2009 Report parliament looking into Trade Min for buying contaminated milk from China Parties
blocked no confidence vote against him Would be arrested few days later Stole up to $400 mil to fund Maliki’s State of Law party
(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)
2010 U.S. and Iraqi forces killed ISI leaders Abu Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi near Tikrit
(Musings On Iraq Al Qaeda In Iraq Takes More Losses, But Keeps On Ticking)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on who Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was)
2010 Kurdish Alliance announced of KDP PUK Gorran Kurdistan Islamic Union Kurdistan Islamic
Group Wanted to present united front to Shiite parties in govt formation talks Wanted 25% of all top posts Baghdad to pay peshmerga Implementation of Article 140 on disputed areas Broke apart in May
(Musings On Iraq Grand Kurdish Alliance Next Step In Forming A New Iraqi Government)
2011 Parliament repealed Article 136(b) that allowed ministers to stop corruption investigations
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Parliament Repeals Article Used To Block Corruption Investigations)
2011 Anbar anti-terror police arrested 12 officers involved with insurgents Some were working with
Syrian intelligence
2011 Protests in Mosul Baghdad and others Called for better services Release of prisoners Against US
occupation Some said PM Maliki should step down
2011 Delegation of tribes from Fallujah joined Mosul demonstration Included 76 sheikhs and imams
2011 Kurdish security forces moved to evict protesters from central Sulaymaniya city Police fired into
crowd 6 wounded 1 died Another 97 hurt by beatings Protest in Irbil broken up
(Musings On Iraq interview with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG protests)
(Musings On Iraq How Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests)
2011 Kurdish court sentenced spokesman for Sulaymaniya protests to one month in jail for defaming a
KRG MP
2011 Were first protests in Irbil Were beaten by police 22 wounded
2011 Report Integrity Comm said it believed 20,000 workers had fake diplomas Included high
officials and MPs Justice Min said 50,000 with fake papers Included high officials and MPs Sadr City sold forged papers Many forgers had contracts with govt offices to provide fake papers Could also get fake papers in Iran
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Tries To Tackle Bureaucratic Corruption By Addressing The Use Of Forged Papers)
2012 Dep PM Shahristani said Exxon would not start working in KRG until Baghdad approved
contract Exxon went ahead anyway
(Musings On Iraq Exxon Deal With Iraq’s Kurds Gains Powerful New Ally, Ninewa’s Governor, But Will It Backfire On Him?)
(Musings On Iraq How the New Chevron Deal Affects Oil Dispute Between Iraq’s Central Government And Kurdistan)
(Musings On Iraq The State Of The Kurdish Regional Government In Iraq, An Interview With National Defense Univ’s Dr Denise Natali)
2012 Report Dep PM Shahristani revised prediction for future Iraq oil production from 12 mil/bar/day
by 2017 to 8.5 mil/bar/day Didn’t meet either mark
2012 Allawi said PM Maliki was trying to destroy the political system Said Kurds ISCI Communists
and others felt excluded from govt
(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)
2013 Dep PM Shahristani said there would be no more electricity blackouts after 2013 Didn’t happen
(Musings On Iraq Iraq No Closer To Solving Its Electricity Problems)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Government Failing Again To Solve Country’s Power Outages)
(Musings On Iraq More Hollow Promises By Iraq’s Electricity Ministry)
2013 Militia attacked café in Baghdad Killed 27
(Musings On Iraq Rumors Spread Of Militias At Work In Iraq)
2013 Report Dec 2012 arrest of Finance Min Issawi’s bodyguards began Sunni protests Salah al-
Mutlaq heckled by protesters in Anbar Then called PM Maliki a dictator to try to win over protests Then worked with Maliki to gain concessions Ramadi and Kirkuk open to talks with govt Samarra called for removal of Maliki ISI banners seen in Fallujah and calls for jihad
(Musings On Iraq Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor of Inside Iraqi Politics)
2014 ISIS commanders killed fighting Ansar al-Sunna in Rashad, Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq More Reports Of Insurgent In-Fighting In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Infighting Between Iraq Insurgent Groups)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2014 Al Qaeda’s Abu Qatada said ISIS was misguided liars and ignorant
2014 Report Anbar council asked if ISF were competent enough to retake Fallujah
2014 Former Diyala governor and Mutahidun MP said militias were trying to take over Mukhisa and
force people out of town
2014 PM Maliki gave speech in Babil calling for majority govt after elections
(Musings On Iraq Interview A Look At Iraq’s 2014 Election Interview With Reidar Visser)
2014 Report 1976 Iraq-Turkey treaty said that Turkey could not sell Iraqi oil without Baghdad’s
approve Put Turkey’s sale of KRG oil into question Iraq has threatened Turkey and oil companies if they bought KRG oil
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2015 Khorasani Brigade pledged allegiance to Ayatollah Khamenei and said it followed vilayat al-
faqih Said didn’t take orders from Iran but Khamenei
(Musings On Iraq Khorasani Brigade Another Iraq Militia That Returned Home From Syria To Fight The Insurgency)
2015 Govt claimed it fully controlled Baiji Refinery but IS still held sizeable amount of complex
2016 Def Sec Carter said US would send 217 more troops to Iraq Were around 5,000 US troops in
Iraq Would provide $415 mil to help KRG pay peshmerga Said PM Abadi approved using Apache helicopters against IS
2016 US and KRG special forces killed IS commander in charge of operations in Makhmour
Ninewa Was member of military council
2017 Gorran MP said KRG not ready for Kurdish referendum Said it was just part of election
campaign
(Musings On Iraq What’s Next For Kurdistan After The Referendum?)
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq claimed US dropped aid to IS in Tal Afar Part of pro-Iran Hashd info
campaign vs US
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2017 IS admitted to using chlorine gas in Battle of Mosul
2017 Hashd commander said that battle of Mosul would have been over in record time if Hashd
allowed to participate Said it had special skills in street fighting
2018 Report IS went back to insurgency Pushed losses as victories Would use past to keep up morale and support Said losing land not defeated
(Musings On Iraq The Islamic State’s Failed Comeback In Iraq)
2021 Iraq Human Rights Commission said ISF carrying out arbitrary arrests and torture mostly in
Sunni areas Denying family visits to prisons
2023 Displacement Min closed displaced camp in Ninewa Said it was part of govt plan to
end displacement Gave 300 families 2 days notice Locked aid workers out of camp
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Govt Wants To End Displacement In 6 Months)
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