1930 Riots in Sulaymaniya against parliamentary elections after some had called for boycott and
Baghdad replaced some local officials
1939 Said govt told UK it would declare war on Germany for concessions such as not having to send
troops for war financial aid move towards independence for Palestine and Syria UK refused
(Musings On Iraq review Britain’s Informal Empire In The Middle East, A Case Study of Iraq 1929-1941)
1961 General strike by Kurds in Sulaymaniya and parts of Baghdad over Qasim govt not moving on
Kurdish demands
1967 Baath demonstration called for renewing war with Israel after Khartoum resolution called for
continued confrontation
1967 5 ministers objected to Iraq restarting oil sales to West and 6th minister upset with Kurd policy
quit Arif govt
1980 Ayatollah Khomeini approved National Security Council authorizing Pres Banisadr to
activate the armed forces for coming Iraqi invasion
1980 Iran shelled more borders towns in Iraq from Zain al-Qas
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1980 Iraq threatened to seize Zain al-Qas area if Iran didn’t cede it in a week
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1980 Orders given for Iraq to prepare for war with Iran
1987 Ali Hassan al-Majid issued order to deport Kurdish families and arrest all males from age 12-
50
(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)
1988 Revolutionary Command Council offered amnesty to all Kurds in Iraq and Turkey after Anfal
campaign Amnesty led to release of most Kurdish women and children captured during Anfal Feb-Sep some 50,000 killed during Anfal campaign
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)
1990 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia promised $15 bil to help pay for Operation Desert Storm to protect the kingdom from Iraq
1991 4th WMD inspection team arrived in Iraq Baghdad refused to allow them to use their own
helicopters Offered to have Iraqi army fly them around
1993 Report Even if inspectors said Iraq was cooperating Clinton admin wanted track record of
compliance before even thinking about ending sanctions
(Musings On Iraq review The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003)
1996 Report Baghdad was selling weapons to KDP in its conflict with the PUK
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
2002 Sec Def Rumsfeld and Gen Franks briefed Bush and NSC on latest war plans Gen Franks said
US had been looking for Iraq SCUDs and WMD for 10 yrs and hadn’t found any Franks believed Iraq had WMD but hadn’t found any to target 2002
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)
2002 NSC met without Bush VP Cheney argued going to UN was waste of time and said Bush just
needed to give speech at body saying Iraq was a threat Powell argued for new UN resolution to win support Warned of consequences of war Cheney said Saddam was a threat and nothing else mattered
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
(Musings On Iraq review Rise Of The Vulcans, The History of Bush’s War Cabinet)
(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The
Sectarian War of 2006)
2002 Putin told Bush skeptical about use of force against Iraq but willing to work on new UN
resolution demanding inspectors
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.4 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, Late July to 14 September 2002)
2002 UK Treasury Office paper said rebuilding Iraq could cost more than $10 bil
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 6.4 Planning and Preparation For A Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, Mid-2001 to January 2003)
2002 US officials told Knight Ridder no increase in threat from Iraq
2002 Report IAEA report found Iraq rebuilding buildings at nuclear site IAEA said no evidence
work had to do with nuclear program but not included in article
2002 Bush and VP Cheney had dinner with PM Blair and spokesman Campbell Blair said had to go to UN over Iraq to win intl support
(Musings On Iraq review A War Of Choice, The British In Iraq 2003-9)
2002 Joint Chief’s Strategy Plans and Police dir said CENTCOM didn’t understand importance of
the Iraqi opposition to stabilize Iraq after invasion
2006 Judge Radhi head of Integrity Comm said $4 bil had gone missing due to corruption Said
included 25% of reconstruction funds Said endemic throughout govt and country
(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)
2006 PM Maliki sent Judge Radhi head of Integrity Comm letter accusing him of corruption and
unaccounted expanses at commission Part of Maliki’s attempt to hinder corruption investigations
2007 Integrity Commission head Judge Radhi resigned after 2 rocket attacks upon his house Said
PM Maliki had tried to stop his work
2007 Ramadi mayor hosted race through city center Sign of improved security
2007 Dep Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction told House committee provincial reconstruction
teams failing Expanded from 10 to 25 during Surge Only 29 of 610 workers Arab experts/speakers Problems coordinating between PRTs and US military PRTs not getting orders from leadership Poor coordination with Iraqi govt
(Musings On Iraq How The Civilian Surge In Iraq Didn’t Quite Meet Its Mark)
2007 Bremer wrote NYTimes OpEd Said most major decisions by CPA made in Washington and he
got blamed Disbanding Iraqi army came from DC Said Iraqi army disbanded itself which made all pre-war plans for it useless DeBaathification came from Pentagon
(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)
2007 Jones report on ISF Said not ready to protect country Army wouldn’t be ready until 2018
Could carry out counterinsurgency more Lacked logistics leadership Police lacked equipment Infiltrated by militias insurgents gangs National Police most sectarian Recommended replacing more than half National Police Corruption in both Interior and Defense Ministries
2008 Report Sawha cmdr said ISF closing down sahwa in Diyala Started in Jul during security op
Diyala police chief admitted to closing sahwa Said was part of plan for govt to establish control of Diyala Govt spokesman Dabbagh said Sahwa had links to insurgency
(Musings On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)
(Musings On Iraq Carrot and the Stick With Diyala’s Sons of Iraq, Or Just The Sticks?)
(Musings On Iraq US Army In The Iraq War Volume 2 Chapter 9 The Surge Culminates, Summer 2008)
2009 Dep Transportation Min arrested for taking bribe from security contractor
2010 Report ISI turned to robbery for funding May robbed jewelry shops in Baghdad Jun attacked
Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad Aug $400,000 stolen from convoy in Anbar
2010 Report ISI extorted money from most businesses in Mosul Trucks into city paid fee to pass
checkpoints Controlled smuggling to Syria Charged taxes on people
2012 Report Chevron Total Gazrpom signed oil deals with KRG Jul Dep PM Shahristani met with
Exxon over KRG Threatened to blacklist company that also had deal to develop West Qurna I field in Basra Iraq didn’t have any leverage over oil majors
(Musings On Iraq The State Of The Kurdish Regional Government In Iraq, An Interview With National Defense Univ’s Dr Denise Natali)
2014 Report Iraq renegotiated deal with BP-CNPC by lowering production targets for Rumaila oil
field Also protected companies if govt didn’t provide water to boost production Sign that Iraq couldn’t meet oil targets it set
2015 Judiciary said it would increase number of judges dealing with corruption as its reform effort
Nothing happened
(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)
2016 Report Turkey shelled IS in Bashiqa Ninewa for months Trained Hashd al-Watani of ex-
Ninewa Gov Nujafi Peshmerga general said Kurds would seize area around Mosul and Hashd al-Watani could take city
2017 Report KDP proposed another 2 yr extension for Pres Barzani in return for delaying KRG
independence referendum
2017 Reporter attacked after wrote article about corruption in KRG
2017 Report UN rebuilt 78% of 15,000 homes damaged in Fallujah during war vs IS People
complained govt wasn’t helping no jobs no compensation no services
2017 Report KRG told PM Abadi Peshmerga would take part in Hawija op Didn’t want Hashd
involved
(Musings On Iraq Arguing Over The Upcoming Hawija Operation)
2018 Sadr’s Sairoon and Amiri’s Fatah came to agreement to form largest bloc to create next govt
Quds Force Gen Suleimani involved in talks
(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)
2018 Protests in Qadisiya and Muthanna Riots in Basra city govt building municipalities building
governor’s home Badr Fadhila Hikma Asaib Ahl Al-Haq Dawa Khorasani Brigades Imam Ali Brigades offices all burned Um Qasr port shut down Protest at West Qurna 2 and Majnoon fields Zubayr 1 protester killed by Kataib Hezbollah guard 3 others died from fires
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)
(Musings On Iraq Khorasani Brigade Another Iraq Militia That Returned Home From Syria To Fight The Insurgency)
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2018 4 intel officers charged with blackmailing families Didn’t release arrested relatives until they
were paid bribes Tampered with docs Made up evidence
2019 Report Iraq had record high oil production despite OPEC+ agreement reducing
production Iraq never followed quota
2019 Human Rights Watch KRG stopped 4,200 Sunnis from returning to 12 villages east of
Mosul 1 area KRG only allowed displaced connected to KDP to return Most families fled in 2014 KRG claimed displaced free to return Then said 6 villages were off limits
2020 Protests in Diyala 4 parts of Dhi Qar Baghdad Basra Muthanna over jobs services not
being paid
2021 Politicians warned that 6 mil voting cards were missing and could be used to fix
upcoming election
2021 Report Sadrists began campaign amongst followers to educate them on how where and who to
vote for Created phone app
2022 Report Less than 4 yrs after buying $27 mil mansion in Beverly Hills Barzani family was selling
it KRG PM Barzani believed to be owner
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