This Day In Iraqi History - Sep 29 Def Sec Rumsfeld ordered review of all Iraq war plans

 

1914 Royal Naval dispatched ships to patrol Shatt al-Arab to protect Persian oil concessions

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In World War I, From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest)

(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)

 

1915 British forces took Kut Suffered 1200 casualties

1917 2^nd Battle of Ramadi ended with Ottomans losing city to British

1947 PM Jabr suspended Shaab and National Union Party for sedition Communist leaders put on

trial Led opposition to unite against PM

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

(Musings On Iraq review A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004)

(Musings On Iraq review The Other Iraq, Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq)

1971 Bakr govt attempted to assassinate Mullah Mustafa Barzani

1980 Iraq took Geilan Zarb across from Maysan

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1981 Iran retook Abadan 2^nd largest city in Iran 2000-3000 Iranians & 600-1500 Iraqis died 5000

Iranian wounded 2500 Iraqis captured Opened road to allow supplies and reinforcements to western Iran Iraqi forces withdrew to Khorramshahr

1986 Heavy Iraqi air strikes on Kharg Island Iran oil terminal

(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)

(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)

1987 Ali Hassan al-Majid reduced food rations for Kurds outside govt controlled camps 

(Musings On Iraq Pres Bakr, Saddam, And Iraq’s Kurds Before The Anfal Campaign)

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

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

1997 Inspectors tried to inspect another Special Republican Guard facility and was stopped Trying to

discover Iraq’s concealment program to hide WMD

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

(Musings On Iraq review Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein)

1998 Iraq Liberation Act introduced into Congress Staffer who drafted act said he wrote it for the

INC

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)

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

Sectarian War of 2006)

2001 Def Sec Rumsfeld ordered review of all existing Iraq war plans

(Musings On Iraq From 9/11 To The Invasion of Iraq: Analysis of Bush Administration Decision Making)

(Musings On Iraq Was Iraq An Imminent Threat To The West?)

(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 Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)

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

Tragedy)

2002 CIA report Story by INC defector Abu Zainab Qairy that Iraq trained terrorists at Salman Pak

camp in Baghdad was embellished and exaggerated No Al Qaeda detainee said they were trained at Salman Pak

2003 Islamic Army of Iraq founded

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 7 Muqawama Wa Intiqaam (Resistance And Reprisals), May-August 2003)

2004 Briton Kenneth Bigley beheaded by Zarqawi

2005 Balad bombing killed 95

2005 NYTimes reporter Miller told grand jury VP Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told her fmr Amb

Wilson’s wife was a CIA agent Was retaliation for Wilson challenging White House over Iraq-Niger uranium story

(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)

(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)

2005 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid and US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey told Congress number of Iraq

army battalions that could operate independently dropped from 3 to 1

2006 Sadr told Mahdi Army commanders they needed to temporarily disarm Cut size of their units

to make them more manageable All militiamen to go through orientation and be issued new IDs

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

2006 Sadrist cleric gave sermon in Kufa saying patience running out for PM Maliki to bring about

security and stability

2006 Report Senior British officers were lobbying Blair govt to withdraw forces from Iraq Said

forces could achieve little and frustrated with slow development of new ISF

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2006 Report 3 Iraqi reporters in south arrested for accusing a governor a judge and police officers

of being corrupt

2006 Special Inspector Gen Iraq Recon Bowen testified to Congress Said 13 of 14 projects by

Parsons Corp were substandard and had serious problems Also criticized projects by KBR and Bechtel

2006 Accordance Front head Dulaimi’s bodyguard arrested on suspicion he was planning bombings

within the Green Zone

2007 PM Maliki repeated claim that he got promise from Tehran to stop Iranians arms shipments to

Iraq Never happened

(Musings On Iraq A History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s Galen Wright)

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2008 Report Diyala sahwa said PM Maliki tried to disarm them Many sahwa leaders had fled to

Syria because afraid govt would arrest them US tried to mediate between Sahwa and Maliki govt

(Musings On Iraq Carrot and the Stick With Diyala’s Sons of Iraq, Or Just The Sticks?)

2008 Report Special Groups that fled during Charge of Knights returning from Iran via Maysan

Already suspected of two attacks on Interior Min officials

2009 Report Basra govt wanted to declare province disaster area because of high salinity levels in

water that was forcing people to leave

2009 Report PM Maliki appointed his office director Najm as head of Iraqi intel service Another

move to control govt offices

2010 Report Oil Min said it wanted to produce 10 mil/bar/day of oil by 2017 Would require

7000km of new pipeline and $12 bil Had to repair northern and southern pipelines Build 2-3 new ones Analysis didn’t include additional infrastructure Never done

2010 UN said refugee returns went from 15-20,000 in 18 months before 2010 election to 10,000

since Said people waiting for new govt

2010 Report Iraqiya said that it and Kurds would support Abdul Mahdi for next PM to block PM

Maliki from 2^nd term Didn’t happen

2013 Report Sadrists and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq in power struggle Were clashes between the two in Aug

Sadr called Asaib Ahl Al-Haq people of the falsehood

(Musings On Iraq Sadrists-League of the Righteous Clash In Iraq During The Summer)

2013 Election Comm announced results of KRG voting KDP 1^st Gorran 2^nd PUK 3^rd

(Musings On Iraq KRG Elections Change Region’s Politics, But Will It Change The Government?)

(Musings On Iraq Complete 2013 Kurdistan Regional Government Election Results)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Patriotic Union Of Kurdistan Faces The Abyss)

2013 ISI assassinated four mayors Attacked Irbil Asayesh HQ with car bomb 4 suicide bombers

ambulance bomb

(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)

2014 Kurdish MP said PM Abadi agreed to pay salaries of KRG govt workers for Aug and Sep

KRG said Baghdad owed it $9 bil Was goodwill gesture by Abadi after being elected to office KRG was in oil/budget dispute with Baghdad

2014 PM Abadi repeated claim that civilians would not be bombed Continued anyway

(Musings On Iraq Review Impossible Victory, How Iraq Defeated ISIS)

2016 Report Kurdish MP said budget covered all of Iraq so Baghdad should pay KRG govt workers

KRG had 1.3 mil govt workers Hadn’t been paid since Feb 2014 due to budget/oil dispute with Baghdad drop in oil prices and war vs IS

2017 Pres Barzani’s office threatened unilateral independence if talks with Baghdad weren’t

opened immediately

(Musings On Iraq What’s Next For Kurdistan After The 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 Secretary of State Tillerson issued statement that US didn’t recognize the KRG referendum

2017 Intl flights cancelled out of Irbil airport after travel ban imposed by Baghdad in retaliation for

referendum

2017 Iran threatened to ban fuel shipments to Kurdistan in retaliation for referendum

2017 New campaign to free Hawija dist in Kirkuk began

2020 Report Preliminary parliamentary investigation into Electricity Min contracts from 2005-19

Found up to $30 bil had been lost due to corruption

2020 PM Kazemi spokesman said 19 people arrested for rocket attacks on Green Zone Nothing

            happened to them

2020 MP on finance committee said Kazemi govt would send $269 mil to KRG to pay for its govt

workers PUK MP said KRG couldn’t pay workers even with money from Baghdad because in so much debt

2020 Report Iraq needed $6.8 bil for govt salaries and other expenses Was making less than $3

bil/mo from oil 2020 budget never passed because PM Abdul Mahdi resigned Meant govt working on 1/12 rule where could only spend 1/12 of 2019 budget

2021 Police tried to stop Hashd cars from going wrong direction on road Led to gun battle 6 police

wounded in Karbala

2021 Female candidate in Basra said candidates were buying voter cards for more than $200/each

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