Security In Iraq Sep 8-14, 2024

There were 3 security incidents in Iraq again during the second week of September, the same number as the week before.

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 16 Iraq’s 1st PM Gaylani resigned over protests against Anglo-Iraq Treaty

 

1922 PM Gaylani resigned over protests over Anglo-Iraq Treaty

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 15 Bush said he thought Iraq involved in 9/11 and would be dealt with later

 

1934 PM Ayubi Jawadat called for new elections Hoped to pack parliament with his followers

who were loyal to King Ghazi by fixing vote Parliament criticized for being overly Sunni

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)

(Musings On Iraq review Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics)

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 14 Iraq helped found OPEC

 

1929 Acting Iraq High Commissioner Air Vice Marshal Brooke-Popham told King Faisal that UK

had not changed its position on new Anglo-Iraq Treaty or Iraqi independence

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 13 Iraq told inspectors in July 91 it secretly destroyed all its WMD

 

1929 Jews attended meeting of Arab nationalists in Baghdad against UK and Zionists in Palestine

Accused the Iraqi government of being under British influence

Review Expectation of Valor, Planning For The Iraqi War

Benson, Colonel Kevin, Expectation of Valor, Planning For The Iraqi War, Casemate, 2024

 

Colonel Kevin Benson who was the chief planner for the 3^rd Army wrote Expectation of Valor, Planning For The Iraqi War in response to the conventional wisdom that the U.S. military did not prepare for postwar Iraq in 2003. The author writes that the army did spend time coming up with ideas on how to secure and stabilize the country after the fall of Saddam. However he blames Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, General Tommy Franks and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) for undermining the work that was done.

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 12 Pres Bush asked govt to look into whether Iraq involved in 9/11

 

1915 British forces launched campaign to capture Baghdad starting in present day Wasit

(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)

Theft Of The Century Remains In Iraq’s Headlines

Nour Zuhair the main figure in the Theft of the Century was arrested, paid bail and then disappeared

The “Theft of the Century” where $2.5 billion was stolen from the government remains one of the biggest stories in Iraq. The main figure involved in the scandal Nour Zuhair was arrested, paid bail and then disappeared while the head of the country’s anti-corruption Integrity Commission claimed that one of the judges in the case colluded with Zuhair.

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 11 Bush and others immediately suspected Iraq involved in 9/11 terrorist attacks

 

1916 Retreating British attacked and broke up tribesmen harassing them in Sahilan, Dhi Qar

Iraq’s Oil Exports Dip 1st Time In 4 Months

Iraq’s oil exports and revenues dipped in August for the first time in four months.

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 10 1st Iraqi cabinet formed under new King Faisal govt

 

1921 1^st Iraqi cabinet formed under newly coronated King Faisal Abd al-Rahman al-Gaylani became

Iraq’s 1^st PM

(Musings On Iraq review The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)

(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)

Security In Iraq Sep 1-7, 2024

Both the insurgency and pro-Iran groups were active in Iraq during the first week of September.

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 9 Sheikh Abu Risha announced the Anbar Salvation Council to fight Al Qaeda in Iraq in Ramadi

 

871 Zanj slave rebellion returned to Basra city Offered amnesty to residents and then

massacred them Survivors hid in city for weeks and turned to cannibalism for food

Musings On Iraq review The Revolt Of African Slaves In Iraq in the 3^rd/9^th Century

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 8 King Faisal died of a heart attack in Switzerland

 

1922 Gertrude Bell wrote that while King Faisal was beloved he was also weak because he was

Oriental Was in relation to Faisal’s demand for Iraqi independence which Bell believed was due to Faisal’s nationalist advisers that she saw as troublemakers

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell And Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq review Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)

(Musings On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 7 New Al Qaeda in Iraq War Min Masri called on members to kill an American and a Shiite in next 15 days

 

871 Zanj slave rebellion seized Basra city Looted it Killed most of the population then left

fearing trap

Musings On Iraq review The Revolt Of African Slaves In Iraq in the 3^rd/9^th Century

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 6 Ali Hassan al-Majid ordered Kurdish families be deported and all males be arrested

 

1930 Riots in Sulaymaniya against parliamentary elections after some had called for boycott and

Baghdad replaced some local officials

Review Return to the Marshes, Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

Young, Gavin, Return to the Marshes, Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, Collins, 1977

 

Return to the Marshes, Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Gavin Young is a huge disappointment. On the one hand it contains a large number of color photos of the Iraqi marshes which are very impressive. On the other hand the text adds little to the book as Young got caught up giving a history of Iraq starting from ancient times rather than just focusing upon the Marsh Arabs.

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 5 PM Said broke relations with Nazi Germany Arrested all Germans in Iraq and deported them to India

 

1920 Gertrude Bell wrote that Iraq was in the middle of a jihad during 1920 revolt

(Musings On Iraq review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)

(Musings On Iraq review Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell And Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq review Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 4 Saddam mobilized armed forces and ordered seizure of disputed border towns to find excuse to invade Iran

 

1921 Colonial Secretary Churchill memo said he supported Iraqi govt and independence to

maintain British influence in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Britain In Iraq, Contriving King and Country)

(Musings On Iraq review Britain’s Informal Empire In The Middle East, A Case Study of Iraq 1929-1941)

(Musings On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)

US Army In The Iraq War Volume 2 Chapter 9 The Surge Culminates, Summer 2008

Chapter 9 of the U.S. Army’s second volume on the Iraq War focuses upon Iraqi security operations that were launched in the summer of 2008. Instead of being a sign of a new national leadership by the Maliki government the offensives highlighted the continued divisions within the country and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s first moves towards becoming an autocrat.

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 3 Qasim offered amnesty to Kurdish rebels Asked Barzani to return to Iraq

 

1920 UK army ordered two outer camps in Samawa be abandoned during siege of town Led to

heavy losses during 1920 Revolt

Americans Dominate Casualties In Iraq In Aug 2024

More than half of the casualties in Iraq in August 2024 were Americans. This resulted from an attack by pro-Iran groups and a joint Iraq-U.S. raid on an Islamic State camp. This was a decided change from previous months.

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 2 King Faisal left Iraq for his health Would die a week later

 

1922 Turkish troops tested border with Iraq Seized Rania in Sulaymaniya after four days of

fighting

This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 1 Colonial Sec Churchill argued for UK to withdraw from Iraq to save money

 

1919 Jews sent letter to two Iraqi papers declaring their support for Arabs against the Balfour

Declaration where UK said it supported creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine