1919 UK India Office official Sir Hirtzel told chief political officer in Iraq Wilson there was
going to be an Arab state in Iraq or there would be a revolt
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)
1946 Strike by Iraq Petroleum Company workers in Kirkuk ended Some of their demands met
1954 Regent asked Nuri al-Said to form new govt Agreed to dissolve parliament Started issuing laws
without parliament to crackdown on opposition unions protesters
(Musings On Iraq review A History of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
1958 PM Said’s body dug up and dragged through streets of Baghdad and then burned in front of
Egyptian embassy
(Musings On Iraq review Three Kings In Baghdad, The Tragedy Of Iraq’s Monarchy)
(Musings On Iraq Is Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki More Like Premier Nuri al-Sa’id Than Saddam? An Interview With Historian Phebe Marr)
(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)
1958 Egyptian army officer arrived in Baghdad to set up communications between Iraq and Egypt
1958 Egypt’s Gen Nasser gave speech Said Iraq’s coup message to servants of US and British
imperialism Led Iraqi army units uncertain about coup to support it
1958 KDP declaration said it supported liberation of Iraq formation of republic withdrawal from
Baghdad Pact
1964 Barzani expelled Ibrahim Ahmad and Jalal Talabani and 4,000 supporters to Iran
Ahmad-Talabani tried to fight their way back into Iraq but were repelled and returned to Iran where disarmed and sent to Tehran
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70)
1968 Resigned PM Yahya formed new govt Increased drive to overthrow Pres Arif
1968 Pres Arif asked head of military intel Col Naif and Col Daud commander of Republican Guard
if they were involved in Baath coup They said no
1968 Baath meeting decided to send its militia to surround head of military intel Gen Naif’s house
and kill him if he resisted and didn’t join coup Got message from Naif and cmdr Rep Guard General Daud they would join coup if Naif became premier and Daud Defense Minister Baath decided to move ahead with coup
(Musings On Iraq review Socialist Iraq, A Study in Iraqi Politics Since 1968)
1970 2nd provisional constitution issued by Pres Bakr Said Iraq People’s Democratic Republic
committed to Arab unity and socialism Included 1970 Agreement with Kurds
1970 Pres Bakr refused to accept Habid Karim as Kurdish VP accusing him of being pro-
Iranian Also refused to allow Kirkuk city to be capital of Kurdish region
(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 Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1979 Saddam’s election to president of Iraq made public
1979 Nouri al-Maliki fled Iraq after his membership in Dawa Party was discovered by govt
(Musings On Iraq The Life Of Nouri al-Maliki An Interview With Journalist Ned Parker)
1980 Saddam told chiefs of staff that he was going to invade Iran Thought Iran weak but didn’t think
Iraq could fight a total war and reach Tehran Decided on limited war based upon seizing Shatt al-Arab waterway Saddam thought war would allow Iraq to assert its influence over Iran and deter Khomeini from exporting his revolution
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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)
1981 Saudis offered to finance reconstruction of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor destroyed by Israeli air
raid
1982 Iranian Op Ramadan attacked into Basra 2nd time towards Qurna hoping to cut Basra-Baghdad
highway and isolate Basra city
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1986 Saddam re-elected secretary general of Baath Party and president of Revolutionary Command
Council
1988 Iran began withdrawing from Sulaymaniya starting with Halbja Penjwin Haj Omran Rayat
1988 After capturing 30 mi of Iranian territory along the border Iraqi forces withdrew back into Iraq
Was meant to reduce Iranian military
1988 Iran’s Assembly of Experts agreed to present ceasefire proposal in Iran-Iraq war based upon UN
Res 598 to Khomeini Khomeini agreed to ceasefire
(Musings On Iraq Remembering The Iran-Iraq War Interview With Author Anthony Tucker-Jones)
(Musings On Iraq The Iran-Iraq War Interview with Author Tom Cooper)
(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 Saddam on TV accused Kuwait and UAE of breaking OPEC quotas and driving down oil prices
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
(Musings On Iraq review from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam’s War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Outlaw State, Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis)
1990 Iraq moved a division to border with Kuwait as feud between two escalated Saddam
wanted to see how west would react to his deployment of forces Detected by US intel
(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
1990 Arab League met Foreign Min Aziz accused Kuwait and UAE of deliberately driving down oil
prices Accused Kuwait of drilling into Rumaila oil field Wanted $2.4 bil in compensation Said Gulf States support during Iran-Iraq War was small contribution to what Iraq did Claimed Kuwait took Iraqi territory Called on Arab govts to forgive Iraq’s debt and help pay for rebuilding Demanded oil prices rise to $25/bar
1994 KDP-PUK talks in Paris led to draft constitution for Kurdistan
1996 Inspectors went to Special Republican Guard facility at Baghdad Airport Found nothing Were
trying to discover Iraq’s 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 PM Blair told parliament Iraq’s WMD threat to world and had to be dealt with but no decision
for military action made
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Fadhila Party created in Basra as breakaway faction from Sadr movement Sheikh Yacoubi
claimed he was heir to Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr
(Musings On Iraq Legacy of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr, Interview With Univ of Haifa’s Prof Amatzia Baram)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present)
2003 Mayor of Haditha and his son assassinated by insurgents
(Musings On Iraq review The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014)
2005 Musayib Babil suicide truck bomb left 250 casualties
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2006 UK Gen Fry wrote War on Terror and Iraq War in Conflict Fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq alienated
Sunnis and led them to reject politics and led to more terrorism
2006 Police kidnapped head of Olympic Committee and 35 staff members in Baghdad Was originally
blamed upon insurgents
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2007 Suicide truck bomb hit PUK compound in Kirkuk killing 85 Insurgents in army uniforms
rounded up people in Adwala Diyala executed 49 left 4 wounded
2007 Report ISF in Abu Ghraib raided and arrested members of Sahwa Also carried out random
arrests and beat and killed prisoners
2007 Report Mahdi Army forced out almost all the Sunnis from West Rasheed Baghdad Sold stolen
cars Involved in weapons trafficking and kidnapping Extorted money from local businesses Rented homes of Sunnis who they forced out and sold their property
(Musings On Iraq review Death of the Mehdi Army, The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia)
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)
2008 US Surge officially ended
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq Inside The Surge An Interview With Prof Peter Mansoor Former Executive Officer To Gen Petraeus)
(Musings On Iraq Reassessing The US Surge, And Recognizing Iraqi Agency In Ending The 2005-2008 Civil War In Iraq An Interview With New America Foundation’s Douglas Ollivant)
2008 US turned over security for Qadisiyah to Iraqi forces
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Gains Control of Diwaniyah Province)
2008 Govt told squatters in two Baghdad neighborhoods had 3 days to leave Supposed to encourage
displaced to return Nothing happened
(Musings On Iraq Returns And Removals In Bahgdad)
(Musings On Iraq January 2009 U.N. Report On Iraq Refugee Returns)
2009 Sadr visited Abdul Hakim in Tehran Said he was willing to rejoin the United Iraqi Alliance
Came as a result of Iranian lobbying to re-unite the Shiite lists for upcoming elections
(Musings On Iraq United Iraqi Alliance Ready To Be Reconstituted)
(Musings On Iraq Trying To Revive the United Iraqi Alliance)
(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Role In The Revival Of The United Iraqi Alliance)
2009 Brookings Institute est 110,578 Iraqi civilians and 9,136 ISF killed since 2003
2010 Report Fire that broke out after ISI attacked Central Bank of Iraq in June done on purpose by
bank officials trying to cover up corruption involving ISI and senior govt officials
(Musings On Iraq Was Attack Upon Iraq Central Bank To Cover Up Corruption Case?)
2011 Report ISI ran legitimate business to raise money Recently ISI companies selling generators cars
and car parts were closed
(Musings On Iraq Analyzing The Finances Of Al Qaeda In Iraq Interview With RAND’s Patrick Johnson)
2011 Report During summer demand for electricity reached 14,000 mw while only 8,000 mw
delivered Heat also knocked out power grid Some provinces had 16 hr blackouts Govt said it would produce 27,000 mw by 2015 Experts said not possible because of costs
2011 Ayatollah Sistani representative gave Friday sermon criticizing ruling parties for making promises
they couldn’t meet
2011 MP on integrity comm said corruption cost around $59 bil Said no accountability
(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)
2012 Report Feb 2010 Ninewa Gov Nujafi decided to go to Kurdish area Kurds said he couldn’t US
said he could and worked out deal between 2 sides US escorted Nujafi who was met by Peshmerga Nujafi shot at US brought in tanks and flew jets overhead ISF arrested some Kurds accusing them of trying to assassinate Nujafi Kurds kidnapped some Arabs in retaliation US demanded that Kurds be tried for shooting at Nujafi KRG rejected idea Said no real of law in Iraq US negotiated deal to get Kurds released
2012 Dep PM Shahristani asked for $8.5 bil to be cut from KRG budget because it stopped oil exports
for Baghdad in Apr KRG said Baghdad owed it $1.5 bil
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Government Increases Pressure Upon Kurdistan For Its Oil Policy By Threatening To Cut Its Share Of The Budget)
2013 MP on integrity comm said fire at Industry Min was to cover up corruption files
2013 Report ISI able to rebuild After US withdrawal in 2011 prisoners released Some rejoined
insurgency ISF lacked intel to find networks ISI benefited from war in Syria Some Sunnis backed ISI because angry with govt ISF used mass arrests raids clear and leave tactics like US did before Surge that were ineffective
2014 Report IS Islamic Army Mujahadeen Army Naqshibandi Tribal Rebel Council Ansar al-
Sunna all in Mosul IS Naqshibandi Ansar al-Sunna strongest Each had control of own section of city
(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 Report Meeting in Jordan said IS only small part of insurgency Said insurgency revolt
against PM Maliki 1 Sheikh said was a revolt of the oppressed and most fighting done by tribes
2014 ISF attack upon Tikrit ambushed by IS suicide bombers and turned back
2014 KRG said Dana Gas owed it $4.8 mil Dana said KRG owed it Oct 2013 Dana threatened to
get Turkey to seize KRG oil exports unless it was paid Dana went to arbitration in Dec 2013
2014 Report June Hezbollah’s Nasrallah said he was ready to protect shrines in Iraq 250
Hezbollah advisers in Iraq Coordinated with Iranian Rev Guards and Hashd
2014 IS captured 42 soldiers in Salahaddin and executed them Blew up Shiites mosques in
Kirkuk Mosul Sada Distributed flyers in Mosul telling Christians had to convert pay religious tax or be killed
2014 Spokesman for Ayatollah Najafi said PM Maliki should not be part of new govt Said Shiite
clerical establishment had all agreed upon that
(Musings On Iraq Pressure Grows On Iraq’s Premier Maliki To Give Up On A Third Term)
2014 Report 477,762 people displaced Jan-May mostly due to fighting in Anbar Jun-mid-Jul 408,294
displaced after Mosul and Tikrit fell to insurgents
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s New Refugee Crisis)
2015 Basra protest over services fired upon by police 1 Protester killed
2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq kidnapped 12 members of Khazraj tribe in Dujail Salahaddin
2017 Report Member of Organization of Fayli Kurds held press conference Said community
threatened over KRG independence referendum Said 3 recently killed Blamed Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Said State of Law member of Baghdad govt threatened to kick all Kurds out of capital over referendum
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2017 Shirqat Salahaddin began deporting IS families
2017 Report Tribes refusing to allow IS families back to Fallujah Supported by local officials
2017 Report Babil police said Khorasani Brigade Imam Ali Brigade Kataib Hezbollah Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq handed out flyers telling Sunnis they had 24 hrs to leave north Babil or be killed
(Musings On Iraq Islamic State Terrorism And Hashd Intimidation Returns To Babil)
(Musings On Iraq review A Stranger in Your Own City, Travels in the Middle East’s Long War)
2017 Association of Muslim Scholars accused Abadi govt of trying to change demographics of
Baghdad province Accused Baghdad Ops Command of forcing families out of Radwaniya Abu Ghraib Yusifya
2017 Sadr’s Saraya al-Salam closed its military academy Said it was done to strengthen the state
2018 Protests in Baghdad Basra Dhi Qar Karbala Muthanna Najaf 1 Killed in Baghdad’s Shula by
police gunfire Badr office stormed in Najaf 1 protester shot on Jul 15 died of wounds
2018 Abadi govt ordered arrest of activists and general protesters in Baghdad Basra Maysan
Muthanna as crackdown started on demonstrations
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Government Starts Crackdown On Protests)
2020 Report KRG contracted Pakistani businessman to handle deals with Rosneft and traders
that handled all KRG oil sales after 2017 Companies would pay businessman and he would disperse funds to the KRG along with paying oil companies Businessman had $1 bil in Lebanese bank that was probably KRG’s Was frozen after banking crisis in Lebanon that caused financial crisis in KRG
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2020 Protest activist kidnapped in Baghdad Would start new wave of repression against
demonstrators
(Musings On Iraq While PM Kazemi Visits Trump Pro-Iran Groups Target US And Kill Protesters To Embarrass Govt)
(Musings On Iraq Ebb And Flow Of Protests In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
2020 Report Finance Min had no database of all the govt bank accounts Each ministry and state
owned enterprise has its own financial structure Govt bank accounts supposed to have limits but never followed 04 govt was supposed to create Treasury Single Account to hold all govt money but didn’t happen 2016 loan from IMF included creation of Single Account but didn’t happen 2 largest banks Rafidain and Rasheed didn’t use modern banking techniques All branches not connected to each other
2021 Co-head of PUK Lahur Talabani said he was giving up on power struggle with co-head Bafel
Talabani
(Musings On Iraq Latest Dispute Over Control Of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan)
2021 PM Kazemi said police officer in Interior Min arrested for assassination of journalist
Hishamal-Hashemi Officer never showed up to court
2022 Recording of Nuri al-Maliki released Said UK wanted to put Sadr in power Then he would be
assassinated and Sunnis would resume control of Iraq Said Iran trying to make Sadr the next Nasrallah Called Sadr a murderer for all the people his Mahdi Army killed
(Musings On Iraq Leaked Recordings Of Maliki Increase Political Tensions In Iraq)
2023 Sadrists attacked 5 Dawa offices Badr offices in Baghdad and Najaf Grenade thrown at
Labor Min office who is from Coordination Framework
(Musings On Iraq Sadr Finally Returns To The Political Scene By Telling His Followers To Protest In The Streets)
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