This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 20 Iran-Iraq War ended

 

1915 Gen Townshend given OK by Secretary of State in London to move on Kut

 

1924 Umma Party formed Mostly made up of lawyers

1974 Iraq deployed 84,000 troops and 20,000 Kurdish militia to fight KDP

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1987 Dawa set off car bomb in Baghdad killing 20

(Musings On Iraq Interview with Lowy Institution’s Shanahan on history of the Dawa Party)

(Musings On Iraq review The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq)

1988 Ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War announced 350 UN peacekeepers deployed along border

(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 NSD 45 signed saying U.S. would get withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait restore Kuwaiti govt

restore security of Gulf protect U.S. citizens in Kuwait and Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

1990 Iraq withdrew from last piece of Iranian territory taken during Iran-Iraq War Meant to secure

            east front

1990 Iraq sent Dep PM Hammadi to USSR to try to convince Soviets to block US moves to get UN

to enforce embargo on Iraq

1991 Barzani left Baghdad effectively ending autonomy talks with Baghdad

1995 Iraq admitted to UN inspectors that its crash program to build a nuclear bomb failed Said WMD

docs had been discovered at Hussein Kamil’s farm Blamed him for hiding materials form inspectors Obvious to inspectors were missing docs

(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 Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

1996 PUK attacked KDP positions in Sulaymaniya with Iranian artillery and helicopter support

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

1997 Iraq agreed to allow Iranian pilgrims to go to Najaf and Karbala as way to get around UN

sanctions

2002 Rumsfeld said Al Qaeda operatives were in Iraq and that US needed to launch pre-emptive

strike because couldn't wait for Iraq to get stronger

(Musings On Iraq review America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2002 UnderSecDef Feith’s intel group met with CIA to discuss Iraq-Al Qaeda ties Complained CIA

didn’t believe Iraq involved in 9/11 Brought up story that 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intel in Prague in 2001 False story

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

2003 Bush at NSC meeting said US had to re-evaluate enemy in Iraq after Zarqawi bombed UN in

Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2003 UN said bombing of its Baghdad offices wouldn’t stop reconstruction of Iraq UN would

withdraw most of its staff afterward

2003 Bremer told Iraqi Governing Council they had to act quicker to rebuild country and give public

confidence

2003 Report Claim up to 3,000 Saudis had gone to Iraq to fight U.S.

(Musings On Iraq The Saudi Role In The Iraqi Insurgency)

2003 Gen Sanchez email to CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid Went over pros and cons of going after

Sadr Sanchez believed would increase violence and he wasn’t an imminent threat Sanchez dealing with Zarqawi bombing of UN and didn’t want 2^nd front vs Mahdi Army

2004 PM Allawi called for Sadr to give up Imam Ali shrine in Najaf or face US-Iraq assault

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

(Musings On Iraq review Battle For The City Of The Dead)

(Musings On Iraq review US Marines in Battle An-Najaf August 20014)

2005 Report Islamic Party talked with insurgents to try to ensure large turnout in constitutional

referendum

2005 Report Shiite parties took over police in Basra Carried out assassinations of ex-Baathists Sunni

leaders and rival Shiites

2005 Report Peshmerga ran 5 prisons and carried out mass arrests of Sunnis Turkmen and minorities in

Mosul

2007 ISCI governor of Muthanna assassinated by Sadrists Sadr-Hakim rivalry

2007 Report Mahdi Army fighters said they’d gone to Lebanon to train with Hezbollah Sadr said

there was a formal alliance between the two groups

(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)

2007 Protest in Baghdad’s Ghazilyia against Sahwa there Ghazailya Guardians Said they were former

insurgents

2008 As part of Maliki-Pres Barzani deal Peshmerga began withdrawing from Qara Tappa and Jalawla

in Diyala after Baghdad sent in army and demanded them to withdraw from disputed area

(Musings On Iraq Khanaqin Deal Off?)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2008 Report PM Maliki opposed to Sahwa Accused them of being ISI Army considering Nov

deadline to arrest Sahwa that had not been integrated In Diyala committee set up to integrate 24,000 Sahwa but dissolved and then restarted US said hardly any Sahwa had been given jobs in govt recently

(Musings On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)

2008 Dep head of parliament’s migration committee said PM Maliki bringing back refugees from

Egypt was a PR move Criticized govt for providing no security for returning refugees/displaced especially in Baghdad where demographics had changed

2008 Son of Accordance Front leader arrested for planting IED in Baghdad aimed at returning

displaced Shiites Leader’s other son arrested Nov 07 for explosives

2008 Report Oil Min signed technical support contract with Chinese National Petroleum Company

for Ahdab field in Wasit Re-worked 1997 contract 1^st foreign oil deal since 03

(Musings On Iraq Was The Iraq War About Oil?)

2008 Report ISC Diyala police chief fired 4000 police tied to Sahwa Replaced with ISCI members

Feb 08 Sahwa protested against chief Diyala govt rejected chief when he was appointed Jan 07 by Interior Min Bolani Chief accused of sectarian attacks ISC Diyala gov wanted chief removed and supported sahwa

(Musings On Iraq Diyala Province Backgrounder)

2011 On ISI’s 5^th anniv released video with message that it was going to Syria

2012 US warned that oil companies signing deals with Kurds without Baghdad’s approval were

taking risks

2012 Parliament’s oil committee said politicians pressuring Electricity Min to sign deals with Turkish

companies not capable of finishing projects

2013 State of Law accused Saudi intel of being behind recent bombings in Iraq Said Foreign Min was

covering it up Claimed Qatar Jordan Turkey Saudis conspiring against Iraq and Syria ISI behind bombings

2015 Pres Barzani’s term expired but he refused to leave office

(Musings On Iraq Crisis Over Iraq’s Kurdish Presidency Favors Barzani)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Barzani Calls For Elections To Determine His Fate, May Mean 2017)

2017 Report KRG had $10-$12 bil debt Hadn’t paid govt workers and Peshmerga for months

Offered to postpone KRG independence referendum if got financial help from Baghdad

2018 Protests in Muthanna and West Qurna 1 oil field in Basra over services and jobs

2018 Iraq signed deal with Turkey to import 300mw of electricity for Mosul To upgrade power

stations Build electricity towers

2019 Israeli PM Netanyahu hinted that Israel behind attacks on Iraqi bases Talked about Iran’s

growing presence in Iraq

(Musings on Iraq Pro-Iran Hashd Brigades And Now Israeli Strikes Making A Joke Of PM Abdul Mahdi’s Claims Iraq Neutral In Regional Conflicts)

2020 KRG closed NRT media office in Irbil NRT office in Dohuk raided for covering protests

(Musings On Iraq Protests In Iraq’s Kurdistan Over Economic Conditions And Mismanagement)

2020 3 protest activists escaped assassination attempt in Babil

(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 Shammar tribe in Diyala said it opposed IS families returning to homes

2023 Parliament’s water committee said water storage levels reached dead level Blamed

govt for not making deals with foreign countries to increase water flow down rivers

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Water Storage Which Was Supposed To Help Get Through 3^rd Yr Of Drought Running Dry)

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