1920 UK judicial secretary Carter wrote Sir Wilson head political officer warning Sunni-Shiite
unity would threaten British rule in Iraq
1920 Grand Ayatollah Shirazi issued statement that Baghdad Khadimiya Najaf Karbala and other
areas agreed on protests for Iraqi independence
1941 Italian planes got into dogfight with British planes over Baghdad 1 Italian and 2 British
planes shot down
(Musings On Iraq interview World War II In Iraq and Syria Interview With Case Western’s Prof Broich)
1941 British defeated Iraqi forces at Abu Ghraib Turned back at Abu Ghraib canal in push on
Baghdad 2nd time
1941 British forces defeated by Iraqi army at Kadhimiya, Baghdad
1941 PM Gaylani told military leadership had fled to Persia leading to his own escape there along
with Mufti of Jerusalem
1941 German ambassador to Iraq fled Baghdad for Kirkuk fearing British advance
1941 Governor of Baghdad captured by British on trip to Samarra
(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 Battle of Jenin between Jewish and Iraqi forces started 1st Arab Israeli War
1959 Communists marched for 2nd day Demanded appointments to Qasim’s cabinet He refused
(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)
1966 Israeli weekly story on immigration of Iraqi Jews to Israel Said underground Zionist
group in Baghdad sent by Israel was behind series of bombings against Jewish and US targets in 1950-51
1981 Iraq took Dehloran in Khuzistan province Iran attacked Penjwin Sulaymaniya but stopped
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1983 Tariq Aziz tried to open talks with Iran to stop bombing civilians area via UN Iran rejected
offer
1984 US backed UN resolution condemning Iranian attacks on Persian Gulf shipping Didn’t mention
Iraq’s attacks
(Musings On Iraq Review The Twilight War, The Secret History Of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran)
1987 US Asst Dep Sec of Def Armitage said U.S. couldn’t see Iraq defeated in Iran-Iraq War
(Musings On Iraq Review The Twilight War, The Secret History Of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran)
1988 Reagan-Gorbachev Summit Gorbachev said he would pressure Iran to end Iran-Iraq War if US
helped with Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
(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 Bush said sanctions wouldn’t be lifted as long as Saddam in power
(Musings On Iraq How Did America Move From Containing Saddam To Removing Him? Interview With Joseph Stieb Asst Prof at the US Naval War College)
1995 Saddam ordered Aziz to divulge biological weapons program to UN if inspectors gave positive
report on progress of inspections to Security Council
1996 PUK and KDP agreed to extend Kurdish parliament for another year hoping that assembly
would help end civil war
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
1997 Head inspector Ekeus wrote Iraq Said new inspections would began to investigate concealment
program to hide WMD
(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 UK Def Min official Kelly said Blair govt had spun WMD dossier on Iraq
2003 Bush said US found WMD because 2 alleged mobile WMD labs were found Were no labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 Retired CIA and State Dept officials sent memo to Bush saying they questioned intel cited by
White House for Iraq war
2003 BBC report Blair’s office had sexed up UK dossier on Iraq’s WMD
2003 Elections led to Abdul Rahman Mustafa a Kurd being elected mayor of Kirkuk
(Musings On Iraq How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In
2003)
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11
Restoring Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
2003 White House spokesman Fleischer said everything administration said about Iraq-Niger uranium
deal was accurate Never happened
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby asked Undersecretary of State Grossman about a former
ambassador going to Niger mentioned in Wash Post column Grossman told him it was Joseph Wilson
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
2004 Report incoming interim PM Allawi had links to CIA and MI6 since 1980s as opponent to
Saddam
2005 Op Lightning largest joint US-Iraq op so far Aimed at clearing Baghdad of insurgents
2005 Report May 2002 US and UK increased air strikes on Iraq using No Fly Zones in attempt to
provoke Saddam to justify invasion
2007 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq kidnapped 5 Brits from Finance Min in Baghdad 4 would be killed
Ransomed 5th Op planned by Iranian Revolutionary Guards
(Musings On Iraq 2007 Political Kidnappings In Iraq Involving Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
(Musings On Iraq New Challenges To Sadr’s Leadership)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Policy Towards Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
2007 Insurgents in Amiriya Baghdad told US they were going to attack ISI and needed help Gen
Petraeus said he would support them Became Sahwa
(Musings On Iraq Demise, But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)
(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Update)
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 US Amb to Iraq Crocker said ISI near defeat
2008 Interior Min fired 7500 police for corruption ghost officers negligence
2009 Video emerged of Trade Min Sudani and brothers drinking with prostitutes talking about PM
Maliki Sudani from Dawa
2010 Sadrists said they would not allow dictatorship or autocracy to return to Iraq referring to PM
Maliki
(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)
2011 Iraqiya nominee for Def Min Obeidi escaped sticky bomb attempt on his life in Mosul
2011 Iraq and Jordan signed agreement to build railway connecting two Never went forward
2011 1 Baghdad activist released Said he was taken by 11th Div with no warrant Beaten by soldiers
2012 Basra council called for province to become federal region due to neglect by Baghdad
2012 PM Maliki held cabinet meeting in Mosul to try to undermine no confidence vote against him
Kurds boycotted meeting
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki Heading To Mosul To Challenge Speaker Nujafi)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Prime Minister Tries To Appease Sunni Provinces By Reinstating Saddam Era Soldiers)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
2012 Iraqi court found Hezbollah operative Daquq innocent of terrorism charges Was liaison between
Iran Hezbollah and militias
(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)
2012 Dep PM Shahristani denied that he ordered stop of fuel deliveries to KRG even though he did
in dispute over oil
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Government Tries To Punish Kurdistan For Independent Energy Policy)
2012 Dawa accused Kurds of working with Mossad Iranian intel reportedly gave info to National
Sec Adv Fayadh on Kurds
2014 Report National Alliance started talks about forming govt without Maliki being PM Said State
of Law said Maliki only candidate without talking with it
2015 Ninewa Gov Nujafi refused to give up office after parliament voted to remove him for fall of
Mosul Nujafi claimed there was a plot against him
2015 Report Hashd fighters again going to fight in Syria 2014 Returned to Iraq to fight IS New
recruiting drive to get men for Syria
2016 Western diplomat said Hashd executed 17 displaced men in Sjar Anbar 3 survivors said
Federal Police found 50 displaced Took men and shot 17 of them Officer then stopped executions 1 policeman arrested for killings Displaced then ran into Hashd
2017 Real estate value in KRG collapsing Built luxury apartments and gated communities that
didn’t sell People lost huge sums in investments
2017 Iran’s Foreign Min denied it was supporting Hashd offensive in west Ninewa Then said
advisers were with Hashd
2017 Report Hashd offensive in Ninewa reached Syrian border Feared Hashd would use it as new
route to Syria to support Assad It did
2018 Federal Police and Hashd clashed in Old City Mosul after Hashd tried to take over a police station 1 Hashd killed 1 police killed 3 wounded
2018 43 bodies pulled from rubble in Old City Mosul Mix of civilians and IS fighters Civil Defense said 1200 bodies found in Mosul in last 10 days
2019 Report PM Abdul Mahdi coming under pressure for budget payments to KRG KRG
supposed to export 250,000 bar/day in oil under 2019 budget but didn’t KRG supposed to turn over tariffs from border crossing but wasn’t
2019 Report North Oil Company sued KRG to try to get back control of Khurmala Dome
oil field in Kirkuk Field provided up to 1/3 of KRG’s oil production Dome used to be under Baghdad’s control 2008 Peshmerga seized it Oil Min made informal deal to allow KRG to maintain it
2019 Report Up to 1000 IS fighters entered Iraq after lost territory in Syria Had tunnel
networks Worked in small cells of 5-10 men
(Musings On Iraq Can The Islamic State Make A Comeback In Iraq Part 1? Interview With Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Michael Knights)
(Musings On Iraq Can The Islamic State Make A Comeback In Iraq Part 2? Interview With Il Foglio’s Daniele Raineri)
(Musings On Iraq The Islamic State’s Failed Comeback In Iraq)
2019 Protesters blocked roads to West Qurna 1 and 2 oil fields in Basra calling for more
electricity
(Musings On Iraq Summer Approaches And Early Protests Begin In South Iraq)
2020 Report After Iran’s Gen Suleimani killed US suspended cooperation with ISF Led to
decrease in raids vs IS US and Canadian special forces used to accompany ISF on raids 2nd half of 2019 Hashd accused US and Israel of airstrikes on its facilities Joint Ops Cmd put restrictions on US planes and drones afterward flying over Hashd areas ISF said Hashd repeatedly stopped Iraq-US convoys going through areas and blocked raids Hashd fired on convoy of US and Iraqi special forces
2021 Report Apr Hashd drone hit hangar at Irbil airport used by CIA Drone found afterward and
likely built in Iran May Ain al-Asad base hit by drone US considered strikes major escalation by Hashd
(Musings On Iraq Pro-Iran Hashd Becoming A Regional Force For Tehran)
2021 Muslih cmdr of Hashd Anbar ops had men set up tents near Karbala sit-in protest to kidnap
and arrest activists Blew up car of activist Tried to assassinate another Muslih threatened activist Wazni Then arrested for his murder
(Musings On Iraq New Wave of Protests In Iraq Over Executions Of Activists)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s PM Has 3rd Confrontation With Pro-Iran Hashd Factions)
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2021 Brother of activist wounded in grenade attack in Kufa Najaf
2021 Mass grave in Ninewa found with 500-600 victims of IS Believed to be victims killed at
Badush prison in 2014
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