1930 UK High Commissioner Humphrys and PM Said signed agreement that RAF was to evacuate 2
bases and those be given to Iraq Iraqi Railways was to be turned over to a corporation Port of Basra was to be run by trust
1933 Iraqi army held victory parade and given award by Prince Ghazi for massacring Assyrians
in north Total 60 villages looted and destroyed Around 600 killed
(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Imagining The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1980 Iranian Navy cmdr gave orders In the event of war with Iraq to control all commercial
shipping traffic Ordered creation of Task Force 421 to command all naval ops during a war
1982 Iraq fired 27 SCUD missiles at Kharg Island Iran’s major oil port with little to no effect
(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 Saddam’s son in law Hussein Kamil met with nuclear scientist Jafar Told him with war
pending with US Iraq needed crash program to enrich uranium and make nuclear bomb Wanted it finished by Feby 91
1990 Iraq said foreign nationals in Iraq and Kuwait would be sent to strategic locations to
be human shields
1990 UN Resolution 664 demanded Iraq release foreign nationals it held
2002 VP Cheney met with Sen Lott who said US public wasn’t ready for Iraq war because case
hadn’t been made for why Cheney said case would be made soon
2003 Bremer told Rumsfeld gave order not to arrest Sadr to try to avoid further violence
(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)
2003 Gen Fry Dep Chief of UK Def Staff said that Iraqis had grown tired of Coalition
Said Shiite leaders warned that people could start turning on Coalition Said rebuilding ISF political development and providing services in southern Iraq was stalled
2003 Sunni-Shiite comm formed in Baghdad Agreed Shiites would return Sunni mosques seized
Sunnis would lead Shiites and Shiites lead Sunnis in prayers Sermons would share same political themes
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
2004 Iraq Survey Group head Kay testified to Congress Blamed Rice and NSC for not checking
WMD intel before war
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2005 Police report listed 18 Sunnis arrested in Baghdad 6 weeks later their bodies found along
Iranian border Showed torture
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)
2005 Anbar governor and other Sunni leaders fired upon in Ramadi during meeting over
constitutional referendum
(Musings On Iraq Anbar Before And After the Awakening Pt X, 2005-09 Governor Mamoun Alwani)
2006 Report 2 Iraqi army divisions in Anbar short 5,000 troops Soldiers not getting paid Defense
Min could not supply them
2008 Georgia withdrew its 1800 troops from Iraq Had deployed them in 2003 Lost 5 soldiers
2008 Report 2 Sahwa units in Diyala complained members arrested Offices closed PM Maliki said
he wouldn’t integrate Sahwa that were former insurgents Maliki aide said Sahwa were unacceptable Only 23,000 Sahwa had been accepted in ISF so far
(Musings On Iraq Sons of Iraq Update)
(Musings On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)
(Musings On Iraq Carrot and the Stick With Diyala’s Sons of Iraq, Or Just The Sticks?)
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2008 Suicide bomber dressed as a women killed deputy head of Adhamiya Baghdad sahwa 20
wounded Part of ISI campaign vs 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 Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2008 PM Maliki sent Special Forces to Diyala to arrest governor Arrested 2 Sunni councilmen and
president of Diyala Univ Beat deputy governor Got into gun battle with governor’s guards Killed governor’s secretary Wounded 4 guards On way out got into another gun battle with police backed by US advisors Killed 4 police Stole SUVs Fired on US helicopters Special Forces called Ground Forces cmdr Gen Ghaidan to get police to stop shooting Afterward Maliki denied he was behind operation and ordered investigation Nothing happened
(Musings On Iraq 08 Diyala Riad When Maliki Used Iraq’s Special Forces For Political Gain)
2009 PM Maliki told US officials he didn’t want sectarian alliance in 2010 election because
would lead Iraq towards being like Lebanon and parties would be backed by foreign powers
2009 Report US Cmdr Gen Odierno said more Asaib Ahl Al-Haq members would be released PM
Maliki promised all Asaib Ahl Al-Haq members would be freed Said made deal with group to stop attacks in exchange for prisoners being let go Said Asaib Ahl Al-Haq had truce with US Part of deal to get 5 kidnapped Brits released Maliki also wanted to use Asaib Ahl Al-Haq vs Sadr
(Musings On Iraq 2007 Political Kidnappings In Iraq Involving Asaib Ahl Al-Haq)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Iranians Planned Kidnapping And Held British Captives Taken In Iraq)
2010 Report Abu Dura Mahdi Army leader called the Shiite Zarqawi returned to Baghdad from
Iran Now commander of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in Sadr City Went back to carry out attacks
2011 Electricity Min Ani resigned over continued power shortages
(Musings On Iraq Maliki Fires Iraq’s Electricity Minister, As Scapegoat For Summer Blackouts)
2012 Report US sanctioned Elaf Bank for helping Iran smuggle oil Iran used Iraqi banks to escape
US sanctions and get dollars US didn’t think Iraq enforcing punishments for breaking sanctions Central Bank of Iraq said Elaf could buy dollars at bank’s auctions Obama admin said it wouldn’t punish Iraq for breaking Iran sanctions
2013 Mutahidun list said Maliki govt carried out military campaign vs Sunnis in Baghdad Diyala
Salahaddin
2013 Sadrist MP said PM Maliki should resign if he cared about the Iraqi people because he was a
failure
(Musings On Iraq Sadrists Increasing Their Attacks Upon Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki Once Again)
2015 IS second in command Abu Muslim al-Turkmani killed by US drone strike in Mosul
2015 KRG parliament finance comm said over $800 mil in oil revenue missing since Jul Said
Natural Resource Min didn’t put money in Finance Min bank account as it should have
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
2015 Report Maliki said Mosul fell to conspiracy between Turkey and Kurds Part of
recriminations over fall of city Investigation said Maliki didn’t understand situation in Mosul in 2014 because appointed incompetent and corrupt military commanders
2015 PM Abadi cut number of advisers in ministries Cabinet said it would retire 80 director
generals and 18 deputy ministers Part of reform program Really about cutting costs during financial crisis
(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)
2016 North Oil Company resumed sending oil to Turkey via KRG pipeline Stopped 5 months ago
New Oil Minister confirmed with backing of Kurds Part of US-Baghdad-KRG deal
2016 Local official said Hashd burned and looted 40 homes and govt offices and mosques in
Khalidiya Anbar
2017 Kirkuk Gov Karim rejected court order to remove Kurdish flag from government buildings in
province
2017 Report US Embassy official said 1400 ISF killed 7000 wounded in Mosul battle
2018 Dep head of Hashd Abu Muhandis ordered Hashd out of liberated cities after demands made
by Sunni politicians for it to withdraw Said no new offices or bases would be opened in certain areas Said Hashd were to have no ties to political parties or religious institutions Not enforced
2020 KRG security forces arrested protest activist in Dohuk as part of crackdown on
demonstrations
(Musings On Iraq Protests In Iraq’s Kurdistan Over Economic Conditions And Mismanagement)
2020 Report 2010 govt laid out Al-Faw port project Never finished Aug Transportation Min said it
would sign contract with Korean company to resume project Kuwait and Iran opposed project
2020 KRG Finance Min said KRG would have $138.8 mil budget deficit even if got monthly
payments from Baghdad KRG made around $614 mil Needed $753 mil just to cover govt salaries
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