1935 Iraqi army and air force began campaign to bomb tribal areas Destroyed towns and burned
crops to put down tribal revolt in Rumaitha
(Musings On Iraq review Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970)
1941 British force from Palestine took Rutba Strafed by Iraqi plane
1941 PM Churchill authorized British air force in Iraq to attack German planes in Syria
(Musings On Iraq interview World War II In Iraq and Syria Interview With Case Western’s Prof Broich)
1941 2 British fighters flew out of Iraq and attacked 2 German bombers in Syria damaging them
1941 German war planes began landing in Mosul Were attacked by British planes
1941 Finance Min Suwaidi met German amb Told to take up Turkish mediation offer to stall for
time until Axis aid could be organized
1941 German ambassador promised Iraq German planes were arriving and military aid coming from
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)
1948 Arab-Israeli War broke out Iraq sent forces to Palestine Iraqi forced moved towards Jordan
River Took Rothenberg hydroelectric plant Captured 40 Israelis
1948 Iraqi forces crossed Jordan River Shelled Kibbutz Gesher and bombed surrounding area 1st
Arab Israeli War
1948 Communists organized community protection groups to defend Jewish neighborhood as Arab-
Israeli War started
1959 Gen Qasim withdrew Iraq from anti-Communist Eisenhower Doctrine
(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)
1959 Qasim rejected idea of political parties Said partisanship would come later
1972 Baath brought Communists into govt after Iraq-Soviet 15 year Friendship Treaty
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
(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)
1986 Iraq captured Mehran Iran central front 1st Iranian city seized since 1980 Offered to trade it
for Faw Peninsula Rejected by Iran Was Saddam’s idea of regaining initiative after loss of Faw but failed
(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)
1991 UN nuclear inspectors arrived in Iraq
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq)
1992 Iraqi govt suspected of setting off car bomb in front of Dohuk hotel hosting foreign reporters
covering Kurdish elections
1997 Operation Hammer 50,000 Turkish troops invaded Kurdistan to attack PKK and support
KDP vs PUK
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
2002 UN Resolution 1409 created smart sanctions on Iraq to try to limit military and WMD related
imports but increased civilian imports Didn’t change system
(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.2 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, January to April 2002 – “Axis of Evil” to Crawford)
2003 Sadrists marched in Baghdad calling for an Islamic government in Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
2003 US officials said probably wouldn’t find WMD in Iraq Were now focusing on finding
documents about programs
(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 UK Foreign Sec Straw said finding WMD was not vital to justify war WMD #1 reason Blair
wanted Saddam removed
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Human rights group complained US forces not protecting 3,000 body mass grave found in Babil
2004 Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz and Gen Pace said prison abuse at Abu Ghraib violated Geneva
Convention
2004 Daily Mirror admitted pictures it published of alleged prisoner abuse by UK forces were fakes
2004 US told Iraqi National Congress funding would end in June 2004
2004 Maysan tribe set ambush for UK forces outside of Amara 20 tribesmen killed and others arrested
Head of tribe Hattab and brother of Maysan governor accused police chief of tipping off UK about ambush
2007 Prison riot at Camp Bucca almost took over facility
2007 UN reported number of prisoners held by Iraq went from 3,500 in Jan 07 to 20,000 in Mar US
held 3,000 prisoners in Feb 19,500 in May Increase due to Surge Prisoners overwhelmed Iraqi judicial system Insurgents recruited and organized in prisons
2008 ISI fighters crossed into Iraq from Syria and killed 11 policemen in their homes in Anbar
2008 Female suicide bomber killed Iraqi army commander in Yusifiya Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2008 Report Pres Talabani met with Iran’s Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleimani to broker ceasefire with
Sadr Suleiman said Sadr uncontrollable Promised to stop arming militias Suleiman wanted Mujahadeen e-Khalq expelled from Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2008 Interview with members of Iraqi delegation sent to Iran Said Tehran scolded them for selling out
to US and forgetting how Iran helped Shiites Iran’s Quds Force cmdr Gen Suleiman said Iraq was going to allow US permanent bases that would threaten Iran Denied arming militias Said Mahdi Army was Iranian ally Said Mahdi Army needed to counter US-backed sahwa
2009 Trade Min Sudani resigned before having to appear before parliament for corruption
charges $4-$8 bil missing from ministry Bought expired food and charged Ministry full price Bought food and kept it for themselves 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)
2009 Fmr Sec of State Powell’s chief of staff Wilkerson said that VP Cheney pressured Al Qaeda
interrogators to find connections with Iraq Army psychiatrist at Guantanamo Bay said interrogators were looking for Iraq-Al Qaeda connections
2009 Report Maliki’s State of Law won most seats in 09 election but mismanaged victory Said
would pick technocrats and most able to be governors but chose Dawa loyalists Wasn’t able to get all its governors elected Led to disputes with other parties
2009 Iranian Pres Ahmadinejad visited ISCI’s Hakim Pushed for Shiites parties to reform United
Iraqi Alliance before 2010 vote
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Role In The Revival Of The United Iraqi Alliance)
2010 Election Comm finished recount in Baghdad requested by PM Maliki who claimed cheating
Found no problems
(Musings On Iraq No Change in Iraq’s Election Results After Recount, But It Still Served Its Purpose)
(Musings On Iraq The Conspiratorial Mind of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki)
(Musings On Iraq review The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq)
2010 Abu Suleiman became new War Minister for ISI after Masri killed by US April 2010
2012 Human Rights Ministry said 70,000 Iraqis had been killed since 2003 250,000 had been
wounded
2013 Anbar protesters claimed militias were working for Maliki govt and killed an organizer in Diyala
(Musings On Iraq Rumors Spread Of Militias At Work In Iraq)
2015 IS leader Baghdadi released 34 min long address 1st one in 6 months Came during reports he was
injured in air strike
2015 IS attacked Ramadi govt center with car bombs and infiltration in final drive to take city
(Musings On Iraq interview The Political Fallout From The Loss Of Iraq’s Ramadi Interview With EPIC’s Ahmed Ali)
(Musings On Iraq Political Ramifications Of The Fall of Iraq’s Ramadi)
(Musings On Iraq Why Did Iraq’s Ramadi Fall To The Islamic State?)
2018 PM Abadi ordered manual recount in Kirkuk balloting after widespread charges of cheating
State of Law claimed fraud in Dhi Qar PUK accused KDP of cheating in Ninewa
(Musings On Iraq Growing Crisis Over Elections In Kirkuk and Kurdistan)
(Musings On Iraq No Major Changes In Results After Election Recount In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with IRIS-Chatham House’s Mansour on 2018 elections)
2019 Speaker Halbusi referred several MPs to Anti-Corruption Council claiming they were involved in
bribing Ninewa councilmen to vote for new Gov Marid Led to MPs leaving Axis Alliance and others to call for removing Halbusi
(Musings On Iraq New Ninewa Governor Surrounded In Bribery Accusations Over His Election)
2019 Kataib Hezbollah launched drones from Babil that hit 2 Saudi pumping stations
(Musings On Iraq Pro-Iran Hashd Brigades And Now Israeli Strikes Making A Joke Of PM Mahdi’s Claims Iraq Neutral In Regional Conflicts)
(Musings On Iraq Pro-Iran Hashd Becoming A Regional Force For Tehran)
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
2019 IS burned fields in Makhmour Ninewa
2021 PM Kazemi ordered army to find protesters held in Hashd prisons and release them
2021 IS started campaign against Iraq’s power grid blowing up two power towers in Anbar Would
be attacks over next few months in Anbar Baghdad Diyala Kirkuk Ninewa Salahaddin against infrastructure
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Electricity Grid Shuts Down During Summer Heat)
2021 Ashab Ahl Kahf connected to Asaib Ahl Al-Haq claimed it fired missiles from Syria into
Israel
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2021 Protests in Karbala Baghdad Dhi Qar over assassinated activist
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2023 PUK ended boycott of KRG cabinet Started in 2022 over rivalry with KDP over
controlling region PUK gained nothing
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