1953 Mohammed al-Jamali became PM Was a Shiite Cabinet included Kurdish Interior Minister 7
Shiites most ever and ministers from opposition United Popular Front and Independence Party Presented land and civil service reform which parliament rejected Landowners blocked land reform MPs blocked civil service reform accusing Jamali of sectarianism
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Statesman, A portrait of Mohammed Fadhel Jamali)
(Musings On Iraq review Relations Of The People to The Land In Southern Iraq)
1963 Communist Party split New group formed Iraqi Communist Party Central Command
which adopted Maoist platform and called for people’s revolution against Arif govt
(Musings On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings On Iraq A History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan Franzen)
1965 PM Razzaq attempted coup vs Col Arif discovered and had to flee Razzaq was mad at
Arif for not uniting Iraq with Egypt Ended Nasserites role in govt
1975 Iran and Iraq ratified border treaty between two
1980 Saddam called emergency session of parliament Announced 1975 Algiers Treaty on border
and Shatt al-Arab with Iran voided Blamed Iran’s constant violations of Iraqi sovereignty for failure of 1975 treaty Said Shatt al-Arab needed to be Arab as it had been throughout history
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1980 Saddam TV speech Said Iran violated 1975 Algiers Treaty Was backing Kurds Refused to
return Iraqi territory Saddam then abrogated the 1949 Treaty of Good Relations and 1975 Algiers Treaty Also claimed sovereignty over Shatt al-Arab waterway
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)
1980 Iran refused Saddam’s demands over border and sent forces to Iraqi border Said US backing
Iraq for a counterrevolution
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)
1980 Heavy fighting broke out between Iraqi and Iranian forces in Shatt al-Arab
1981 Secretary of State Haig met with Iraq’s Amb to UN Salah Part of Iraq courting new Reagan
admin for aid during Iran-Iraq War
(Musings On Iraq Review The Twilight War, The Secret History Of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran)
1988 Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamal wrote letter saying only way to deal with Israel was
through WMD
1993 Shroud material for burying bodies for Iraq blocked by US and UK in UN sanctions
committee Then approved by UK Then license revoked by UN sanctions committee
(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)
1995 SCIRI claimed it attacked 3 Iraqi army positions in Baghdad in September
1997 UN inspectors watched Iraqis moving files and burning documents while waiting for access to
a WMD site
(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 Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)
(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)
1998 Italian paper claimed Iraq offered bin Laden safehaven if he was expelled from Afghanistan
False story
1998 Talabani and Barzani met in Washington to announce power sharing deal in Kurdistan
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
2001 Iraq’s Foreign Minister Sabri said that Muslims and Arabs considered US a terrorist state
2001 NSC Bush said contingency plans should be drawn up for Iraq including seizing southern oil
field Said he agreed with Def Sec Rumsfeld and Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz that Iraq involved in
9/11 but wasn’t time to confront Saddam
(Musings On Iraq Was Iraq An Imminent Threat To The West?)
(Musings On Iraq review Bush At War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama)
(Musings On Iraq review The Next Attack, The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right)
(Musings On Iraq review The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America’s Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since 9/11)
(Musings On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review To Start A War: How The Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq)
2001 Bush signed order for war in Afghanistan that also called for Pentagon to look into plans to
seize Iraq’s oil fields Bush told Def Sec Rumsfeld Iraq plans weren’t a priority like Afghanistan
(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2001 Bush told Pentagon it needed to be ready to deal with Iraq if it acted against US interests
2001 Dep Sec of Def Wolfwotiz sent memos to Def Sec Rumsfeld advocating for attacking Iraq Said
better than 10% chance Iraq behind 9/11 Memo used Iraq conspiracy theorist Mylroie’s claim that Iraq behind 1993 World Trade Center bombing
(Musings On Iraq From 9/11 To The Invasion of Iraq: Analysis of Bush Administration Decision Making)
(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Convoluted Iraq-Terrorism Conspiracy Theory)
(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq Conspiracy Theory Was Debunked By Captured Baath Documents)
(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)
2001 Counterterrorism chief Clarke got memo on antiterrorism strategy back from president’s office
Added Iraq should be added to list of countries Pentagon should war plan for
2001 David Wurmser and Iraq conspiracy theorist Mylroie talked to media about possible Iraq role
in 9/11
2001 Sen Allen told CNN US might think of regime change in Iraq
2002 National Security Strategy for Bush admin released Called for preemptive war to deal with rogue states
(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)
2002 UnderSecDefense Feith aide told DepDefSec Wolfowitz Cheney chief of staff Libby
DepNatlSecAdv Hadley asked for chronology of 9/11 hijacker Atta’s travels after briefed by Feith’s staff that Atta met with Iraqi intel officer in Prague in 01 False story
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2003 Bush said no evidence Iraq involved in 9/11 but Iraq had ties to Al Qaeda
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2003 Saddam audio tape released on Al Arabiya called for US to withdraw from Iraq and to increase
attacks
2004 British forces raided Sadrist headquarters in Basra city Found 15 tons of weapons and ammo
leading to temporary halt in Mahdi Army attacks
2004 Draft of Iraq Survey Group report said Saddam wanted to produce WMD but had no stocks or
programs Said only WMD Iraq had were poisons for assassinations by Iraqi intelligence
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2005 SAS arrested Mahdi Army commander in Basra Fartusi Led to retaliation by militia
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 18 – Defeated By Democracy, Winter 2005-2006)
(Musings On Iraq How Iran Used Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) To Influence events In Iraq)
2006 Anbar Salvation Council issued ultimatum for Al Qaeda in Iraq to leave Anbar
(Musings On Iraq Demise, But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq How A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)
(Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)
(Musings On Iraq review The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2006 Report Inter Min didn’t have political backing to purge police of militias US commander said
5-6 of 27 National Police battalions were sectarian and criminal US began reform of National Police giving each battalion an inspection and training Maliki govt stopped Iraqi-US inspections of Iraqi prisons No officials charged with prisoner abuse despite lots of evidence Interior had fired 1500 police since June 2006 Fingerprint campaign found 1,228 police and Inter Min workers had been convicted of violent crimes under Saddam
(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 The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2006 Report Pentagon tried to hire Republicans to staff CPA Hired many unqualified personnel
Thomas Foley in charge of privatizing state owned enterprises was a Republican donor who went to college with Bush Foley put Jay Hallen former real estate agent in charge of Iraq’s stock market Hallen tried to reform market that Iraqis didn’t want so change rejected
2007 Report Mahdi Army had 17,000 men in Basra Controlled hospitals police schools ports oil
terminal electricity Received food from Iran that it sold for a profit ISCI and Badr controlled customs police intelligence border crossings to Iran and Kuwait that it kept duties from Fadhila party controlled governorship force protection police PM Maliki appointed new Basra commander and division commander in bid for power Competition between parties increased with UK withdrawal
2008 ISCI accused PM Maliki of creating Tribal Support Councils to bolster his support
(Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman)
(Musings On Iraq Disputes Over Tribal Support Councils)
(Musings On Iraq Maliki’s Tribal Support Councils Appear To Be Paying Off)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2010 Human Rights Watch PM Maliki moved to stop protests Interior Min issued new rules
limiting gatherings Required organizers to get written approval by Interior Min and governor and then ask police 72 hrs beforehand Interior also told police to use force to break up any protest that turned violent Maliki issued secret order to Interior to refuse protest permits
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Government Banned Electricity Protests)
2013 ISI put up flyers in Shura Baghdad telling people not to work for govt Blew up 6 homes in
Qayara Ninewa Attacked Fallujah police station with 2 suicide bombers
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2013 Protest in Basra City against attacks on Sunnis
(Musings On Iraq Security Going From Bad To Worse In Iraq)
2013 Report 17 Sunnis killed in Basra in Sep Received threats for attacks on Shiites in Iraq Sunni
Endowment head in Basra said closing mosques due to threats and killings
2014 Report Water shortages could threaten oil production Water shortages to maintain output
already hurting West Qurna 1 and Zubayr fields Seawater project to boost output stalled Was supposed to be finished in 2013 Exxon was in charge of project Removed in 2012 over disagreements with govt South Oil Company put in charge
2014 Obama had war council Agreed to retake Baiji refinery Salahaddin Qayara airfield in Ninewa
and eventually Mosul by Dec 2014 or early 2015 Planned to train and equip up to 8 Iraqi army divisions and 3 peshmerga divisions Agreed small number of US forces would be used because threats from pro-Iran militias and ISIS Also realized timetable would probably take longer than planned
(Musings On Iraq review Degrade And Destroy, The Inside Story Of The War Against the Islamic State, From Barack Obama To Donald Trump)
2015 KDP said it refused any deal that would lesson president’s powers Said wanted elections for
president PUK Gorran Kurdistan Islamic Union Kurdistan Islamic Group said Barzani could be elected by people with limits on his powers or elected by parliament with more powers
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Barzani Calls For Elections To Determine His Fate, May Mean 2017)
2017 Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Council said Tehran would cancel all agreements with
KRG if it separated from Iraq
2017 Secretary General of UN called on KRG to hold off on independence referendum
(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)
2018 Activist in Basra said that ISF were carrying out arbitrary arrests of demonstrators without
warrants
2019 PM Abdul Mahdi issued Order 331 trying to re-organize Hashd Comm and take powers away
from deputy head of Comm Abu Muhandis Never implemented
2020 IS held parade on Diyala-Salahaddin border MP said 15 villages along border with no security
Many villages were empty of people
2021 Report new restrictions on foreign ownership of Iraqi companies deterred investment 2019
law said foreigners could only own 49% of a company After Stock Exchange enforced law trading went down Contradicted claim by Kazemi govt it was trying to increase private sector
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