1922 PM Gaylani resigned over protests over Anglo-Iraq Treaty
1959 Military court gave death sentences to leaders of Mosul revolt
1961 Iraqi military began offensive to put down Barzani revolt
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)
(Musings On Iraq Explaining Kurdish Nationalism Interview With Teen Tech Univ Prof Michael Gunter)
1961 Iraqi Air Force bombed Barzan base of Barzani clan for Arkou tribe attacking army
1980 Revolutionary Command Council met to discuss border skirmishes with Iran Saddam said Iran
vulnerable Time to seize control of Shatt al-Arab and disputed areas Said Iran wouldn’t fight because it was afraid Saddam told advisers that he would order invasion of Iran in coming days
(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)
1980 Ali Hassan al-Majid head of Mukhabarat only one of Saddam’s advisers to voice concerns
about going to war with Iran
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1980 Saddam told Def Min Khairallah “We will force their [Iran’s] head into the mud to enforce our
political will on them which can only happen militarily
1980 Iraqi army seized Iranian territory across from Maysan and Diyala
1983 Iranian Revolutionary Guard and KDP attacked Chwart Kurdistan
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1986 Iraq air strike on Iran’s Lavan oil terminal
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
1986 Iranian attack on Mehran Iran sector turned back by Iraqis
(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)
1988 Report Belgian and US companies sold chemicals to Iraq Used in WMD program West
Germany helped build plants used for WMD During Iran-Iraq War Western govts tried to set up export restrictions to stop their companies selling agents to Iraq that could be used for WMD but too many were dual use to be effective
(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)
(Musings On Iraq When The World Remembered It Armed The New Hitler Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin)
1990 Bush said sanctions on Iraq would end when it withdrew from Kuwait and released foreign
hostages
(Musings On Iraq review from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq)
1990 UN Resolution 667 demanded Iraq release foreign nationals it detained in Kuwait
1991 Mohammed Zubaidi became Iraq’s premier
1995 PKK ended its campaign against KDP
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
1998 Wolfowitz testified to House Committee that US should help Iraqis overthrow Saddam
2001 Bush said unless Iraq connected to 9/11 it would be dealt with diplomatically not
with force Told National Security Adviser Rice Iraq would be handled later
(Musings On Iraq review Bush At War)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2001 Def Sec Rumsfeld told Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz and Undersec Def Feith to meet with Gen
Newbold and Gen Abizaid from Joint Chiefs about Iraq
2001 VP Cheney on Meet The Press No evidence Iraq was linked to 9/11 Said focus was on Al
Qaeda
2001 Defense Policy Board’s Perle told CNN Iraq linked to Al Qaeda and Saddam backed terrorism
and states like Iraq had to be dealt with
(Musings On Iraq Iraq, 9/11 And The Bush Administration)
(Musings On Iraq From 9/11 To The Invasion of Iraq: Analysis of Bush Administration Decision Making)
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review The Next Attack, The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right)
2001 Fmr CIA Dir Woolsey said stories of 9/11 hijacker Atta meeting with Iraqi intel showed Iraq
needed to be investigated False story
2002 Iraq told UN it would allow new weapons inspections with no conditions
(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)
2002 VP Chief of Staff Libby and DepNatlSecAdv Hadley briefed by Pentagon on Iraq-Al Qaeda
connections Claimed over 2 dozen high level Iraq-Al Qaeda meetings for more than a decade Claimed Iraq played role in 9/11 Claimed 1 hijacker given money by Iraq Hijacker Atta met twice with Iraqi intelligence False stories
(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)
2002 New draft of UK dossier on Iraq said it had recently produced WMD but no evidence
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld said he believed US intelligence that Iraq had WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)
(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld said no evidence Iraq involved with 9/11
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld ordered US troops in Iraq to be cut from 125,000 to under 100,000 by March
2004
2003 NatlSecAdv Rice said one reason US invaded Iraq was because Saddam was from Middle East
where 9/11 attacks came from
2003 Senior Iraqi scientist said WMD programs dismantled by UN inspectors in 90s
2003 Bremer told CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid and Sec Def Rumsfeld would take at least a year to
build up police and not to believe numbers of police as sign of success
(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq American Negligence In Iraq Or How The United States Failed To Plan For Security The Country Part One Of A Two Part Interview With Jerry Burke Former Advisor To The Baghdad Police And Interior Ministry)
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 8 – Muddling Through August-October 2003)
2004 UN Sec Gen Annan told BBC that US invasion of Iraq was illegal
2004 July Natl Intel Est on Iraq leaked to press Best case Iraq would remain unstable Worse Iraq
would break out into civil war
2004 US launched Op Hurricane to root out Zarqawi group from Ramadi
2006 Ret Gen Keane met with Def Sec Rumsfeld Said US facing defeat in Iraq Advocated for
counterinsurgency strategy
(Musings On Iraq review The Gamble, General David Petraeus And The American Military Adventure In Iraq, 2006-2008)
2006 Ret Gen Keane met with Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace Told him he had an F because he had no
idea what was going on in Iraq
2006 Report US officials said they were impatient with Maliki govt Needed to take action on
suppressing sectarian violence and moving towards reconciliation
2007 Blackwater guards fired at car in west Baghdad killing 17 civilians and wounding 20
2007 Sadrists told Gen Petraeus they were open to dialogue after Sadr froze Mahdi Army
2007 Report US tried to expand sahwa to southern Shiite tribes to counter militias
(Musings On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)
2008 Pres Barzani told US Amb Crocker that PM Maliki was beginning to act like a dictator
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)
(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)
2008 Gen Petraeus said ISF were ready to take on security throughout country
2008 Report 2 Sahwa leaders in Dora Baghdad arrested by govt as part of PM Maliki’s crackdown on
Sahwa while deadline to integrate them neared Sheikh said he felt US had betrayed them
2008 Syria announced it would be sending ambassador to Iraq 1st time since 2003 one appointed
2008 Report Iraqi army beat squatters to force them out of homes in Baghdad 600 families removed
from buildings Part of PM Maliki’s plan to remove squatters to encourage displaced and refugees to return
2009 US closed Camp Bucca prison which had served as recruiting ground for insurgents
2012 Science Report Surveyed Basra and Fallujah Found increase in birth defects Suspected metals like lead and mercury from munitions used were cause
(Musings On Iraq New Health Study On Birth Defects In Iraq’s Basra And Fallujah)
2013 ISIS blew up 22 homes in Qayara Ninewa
2013 Report Housing Min said it would only finish 5% of the 2.5 mil houses it needed by 2016
2016 Sadrists protested in Baghdad demanding political reform and end of corruption
2017 Akashat in west Anbar along Syrian border freed from IS
2017 State of emergency declared in Kirkuk province ahead of KRG independence referendum
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)
2017 MPs filed petition to dismiss Kirkuk council over KRG independence referendum
2017 PM Abadi said that Iraqi forces that carried out abuses during Mosul battle had been held
accountable Nothing actually happened
(Musings On Iraq Review Impossible Victory, How Iraq Defeated ISIS)
2017 US UK France UN made offer to KRG to discuss regional issues and independence
referendum at UN to postpone vote for 2 yrs KRG rejected offer
(Musings On Iraq What’s Next For Kurdistan After The Referendum?)
2017 Report PM Abadi said willing to use military if KRG independence referendum led to
violence Said vote was dangerous escalation
2017 Pres Barzani said no alternative to KRG independence referendum at rally in Dohuk Claimed
he hadn’t been offered any alternatives but had
2018 Protests at West Qurna 1 oil field South Gas Company for jobs and services and protest for
Basra governor in Basra city
2018 Basra activist claimed Hashd working with ISF to detain protesters without warrants
2018 Muthanna Human Rights Office said that ISF issued warrants for activists
2018 Report IS operating in rural Hawija in Kirkuk and Tuz Kharmato in Salahaddin
2018 Report IS fled Hawija dist in Kirkuk rather than fight when freed by Iraqi forces Now
operating there again Kidnapped several people
2018 Sadr and Ayatollah Sistani made deal to support Abdul Mahdi as next PM
2019 IS head Baghdadi released new recording Said group would break its members out of
prison and displaced camps
2020 Head of Baghdad’s Investment Commission arrested for corruption
2020 Report Hashd assassinated people ahead of coming elections New factions announced to
carry out attacks on Green Zone and bombing convoys in south working for US Fmr official in Salahaddin said Hashd set up fishing ponds in Samarra 2 Hashd units smuggling oil out of Samarra dist Also smuggling oil in Diyala Hashd acquired state land near Camp Speicher and sold it Hashd ran businesses in Tikrit Hashd accused of setting up fake checkpoints in south Kirkuk to charge people money Hashd controlled weigh stations for trucking
(Musings On Iraq Expansion of the Hashd al-Shaabi’s influence In Iraq, Interview With Clingendael’s Erwin van Veen)
2020 Head of National Security Agency and Natl Sec Adv Araji said killers of protesters would be
brought to justice Nothing happened
2021 Report National Investment Comm said more than 1000 projects with 0% completion rate
Another 800 with 5% completion rate PM Kazemi ordered projects stopped with less than 30% completion rate Led to 40-50 projects to be closed MP on construction comm said govt gave contracts to companies that couldn’t do work mostly to steal money
(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)
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