1920 UK forces withdrew from Najaf turning over city to rebels who set up their own govt
(Musings On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)
(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)
1948 1st Arab-Israeli War restarted Iraqis took 7 Palestinian villages in Jenin area
1959 Communists announced they would no longer call Qasim “Sole leader” as gap between two grew
1962 Iraqi planes bombed Turkish border post during operation against Mustafa Barzani rebels
killing 2 Turkish soldiers
(Musings On Iraq Explaining Kurdish Nationalism Interview With Teen Tech Univ Prof Michael Gunter)
1963 Soviet Union accused Baath govt of genocide against Kurds
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
1973 Another 36 coup plotters tried including Baath Regional Command members Samarriea and
Fadil and given death sentences
1978 Former Prime Minister after 1968 Baath coup Naif shot in London by Iraqi agents on orders
from Saddam
1980 Former Shah generals launched failed coup vs Khomeini Iraq blamed
1982 Pres Rafsanjani said Iran would accept peace if 1975 border treaty retained $100 bil in
reparations Saddam tried as war criminal
1988 Iraq recaptured Penjwin 23 mountain peaks in Mawet area of Sulaymaniya Pushed towards
Iranian border
(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 US Amb to Iraq Glaspie said that US working on releasing 2nd half of $1 bil loan guarantees to
Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)
(Musings On Iraq review The Outlaw State, Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis)
(Musings On Iraq review Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)
1992 20 Democrats on House Judiciary Comm wrote letter to Attorney Gen Barr Cited potential
criminal conduct by high Bush admin officials over giving credit to Iraq some of which used to buy arms and tech for WMD nuclear missile programs
1996 UN Sec Council asked US for info about Iraq smuggling to get around sanctions
(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)
1997 KDP accused PUK of breaking ceasefire attacking its positions with help of PKK
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
2002 Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers said Gen Franks had to deal with civil affairs after invasion
2003 CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Franks told Congress violence in Iraq meant no US troop withdrawal
anytime soon
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told Senate Iraq invasion showed overwhelming force with large ground
forces no longer necessary in war
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter The Invasion of Iraq)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld told Congress Iraq was costing US around $3.9 bil a month
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld told Congress Iraq war wasn't because new evidence about Iraq’s WMD but
because saw Iraq differently after 9/11
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2003 Fmr State Dept Military Intel officer Thielman told Congress US govt misrepresented intel
about Iraq threat
2004 Ex-INC member Zubaidi claimed INC embellished reports of defectors about Iraq’s WMD INC
denied story
2004 Bush said everyone believed Iraq had stocks of WMD and Saddam wanted those WMD
programs
2005 Al Qaeda’s 2nd in command Zawahiri Iraq strategy letter to Zarqawi Wanted to expel US from
Iraq Declare an emirate that would develop into the caliphate Extend jihad to neighboring countries Attack Israel Zawahiri also wanted Zarqawi to include more Iraqis in Al Qaeda in Iraq to not alienate the population Zawahiri also told Zarqawi that continued attacks upon Muslim civilians could cost heart and minds and support
(Musings On Iraq Tracking Al Qaeda in Iraq’s Zarqawi Interview With Ex-CIA Analyst Nada Bakos)
(Musings On Iraq The Rise And Rebirth Of The Islamic State Interview With Author Michael Weiss)
(Musings On Iraq U.S. Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 16 – Going West, April-August 2005)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
(Musings On Iraq review ISIS The State of Terror)
2006 PM Maliki announced Op Together Forward 2 to try to secure Baghdad again Failed in days ISF
actively involved in sectarian civil war attacking Sunnis and allowed militias to expel Sunnis
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 20 Baghdad Burns, Summer-Fall 2006)
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
2006 Mahdi Army in Jihad Baghdad pulled Sunnis from cars attacked market invaded homes
Killed at least 50 in retaliation for mosque being bombed day before
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2006 Dep PM Zobai accused Defense and Interior Ministries of working with militias to carry
out attacks
2006 Article on State Dept report on Interior Min Said corruption human rights abuses sectarian
violence connections to insurgents and militias undermined ministry
(Musings On Iraq From Bad To Worse How Military Moved Into The Iraqi Police Force And The United States Failed At Nation Building Part Two Of An Interview With Jerry Burke Former Advisor To The Baghdad Police And Interior Ministry)
2006 US officials said Jadriya prison in Baghdad run by Mahmoud Waeli Badr’s intel head and
renegade faction of Interior Ministry Wasn’t renegade
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2006 Federal court charged 4 soldiers from 101st Airborne Div with rape and murder of 14 year
old Iraqi girl and killing 3 of her family members
(Musings On Iraq review Black Hearts, One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness In Iraq’s Triangle Of Death)
2008 Interview with Sherman fmr US adv to Interior Min 04-06 Said effort to rebuild police
disjointed Excluded Interior Min which caused anger US pushed for as many police as possible Weren’t given adequate training or equipment High turnover amongst US advisers so no continuity in policy Allawi and Jaafari govts purged Interior Allawi and Interior Min Naqib formed Commandos from ex-Saddam era soldiers Had human rights abuses Under PM Jaafari ISCI took over Interior Purged commandos of fmr regime members ISCI tried to block Sadrists getting police jobs Sherman wanted Iraqis to come up with own training program Vetoed US military took over police turning it into paramilitary force Interior overwhelmed by number of personnel Found police stations arresting people torturing and killing them then dumping bodies Found many of the prisoners at secret Jadiriya prison in Baghdad run by Badr controlled unit were fmr soldiers who put down 1991 uprising Were arrested and tortured in revenge
2009 US released 5 Iranians captured in 2007 including head of Iranian Rev Guard Quds Force
Zafr Command Ali al-Lami frm deBaathification head 3 militia cmdrs also released Part of deal to get 5 Brits kidnapped by Asaib Ahl Al-Haq released
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq 5 Revolutionary Guards Members Let Go By U.S.)
(Musings On Iraq Iranians Planned Kidnapping And Held British Captives Taken In Iraq)
2011 Hundreds protested in Baghdad demanding reforms and services release of prisoners US
withdrawal 7 arrested 5 taken to Muthanna airport beaten and tortured Told not to protest again
2012 KRG announced it was trucking oil to Turkey Said it got refined products in return Dep PM
Shahristani said it was illegal
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Government Tries To Punish Kurdistan For Independent Energy Policy)
2014 Human Rights Watch recorded 61 Sunni civilians killed by Hashd in last month Found 48 killed
from Mar-Apr
(Musings On Iraq review A Stranger in Your Own City, Travels in the Middle East’s Long War)
2014 Report IS smuggling oil to KRG Made up to $1 mil/day Stole oil from pipelines storage tanks oil
fields Took over trade by pushing out competitors Peshmerga initially allowed trade then tried to stop it
2014 Report Naqshibandi carrying out assassination campaign vs IS in Diyala Last 2 weeks 2 IS
leaders killed Also gun battles between the two in Salahaddin Kirkuk Anbar Ninewa
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)
(Musings On Iraq Precarious Relationship Between The Islamic State of Iraq And The Baathist Naqshibandi)
(Musings On Iraq Rise Of The Islamic State And the Fading Away of the Rest of the Iraqi Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi)
(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)
2014 Ayatollah Sistani wrote not to PM Maliki saying Iraq needed a leader with popular support
2014 PM Maliki attacked Kurds accusing them of supporting insurgency
2014 Report 53 bodies found blindfolded and shot in Babil Asaib Ahl Al-Haq blamed
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2014 IS kidnaped 60 ex-soldiers from three neighborhoods in Mosul IS took Ziwiya Salahaddin
Killed 50 villagers Destroyed 25 homes IS took Azwip Salahaddin executed 15 civilians and started destroying houses
2015 Report KRG tried to control Kirkuk oil sales Took oil production from North Oil Company
and shipped it to Turkey via KRG pipeline KRG reduced its exports for Baghdad at same time Oil Min Abdul Mahdi said KRG wouldn’t get its monthly budget payments until KRG fulfilled its oil export quota
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Reaches Another New High In Oil Exports As Budget Deal With Kurds Breaks Down)
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2016 Report Hashd took part in Fallujah battle Weren’t supposed to Spokesman for Emergency
Response Brigades said they were first in city then Badr and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq followed
(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq, Jun 22-28, 2016)
2016 Head of Anbar council said 6 mosques burned in Fallujah after city liberated Demanded
investigation
2017 State TV claimed Mosul liberated while PM Abadi visited city Fighting continued
(Musings On Iraq Mosul Campaign Day 266 Jul 9 2017)
2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq’s Khazali claimed Mosul would have ended sooner if Hashd involved Said
Anbar proved excluding Hashd made battles harder Hashd derailed govt liberation plan for Anbar
2017 Human Rights Watch KRG punishing Yazidis for joining Hashd in Sinjar dist Threatened
families Kicked some out
2017 Ninewa opened 1st camp for IS families
2018 Protests in 3 parts of Basra and Muthanna demanding better services and jobs from
oil companies Also against water shortage and killing of protesters day before Blocked entrances to West Qurna 1 and Rumaila oil fields
(Musings On Iraq Summer Protests In Iraq Turn Deadly In Basra)
2018 Report Gorran splintering Some complained founder’s sons monopolizing power
2020 Protests in 3 parts of Dhi Qar and Wasit over lack of electricity and delayed
salaries to govt workers
(Musings On Iraq Protests Return To Southern Iraq Over Electricity Shortages And Delayed Salaries)
(Musings On Iraq Ebb And Flow Of Protests In Iraq)
2020 Cabinet passed austerity measures including cutting govt worker benefits cutting unessential
spending to deal with economic crisis
2021 Protests in Karbala Maysan Wasit over electricity shortages
2021 Baghdad activist kidnapped and tortured after wrote online about assassinations of protesters
2021 Report Quds Force head Gen Qaani met with Hashd in Jun Told them to stop attacks on US
while nuclear talks happening 1 leader refused to
2021 Journalist/activist kidnapped in Baghdad after receiving threats Was released later that day
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)
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