1638 Ottomans laid siege to Baghdad for 3rd time
1915 Battle of Ctesiphon/Salman Pak ended British lost and withdrew southwards to Lajj
1982 Iran launched 6th attack in Op Muharram in Maysan Iran lost 4,000 dead Iraq lost 3,000
dead 3,500 prisoners
1986 Iraq air strike on Larak Island oil facilities Longest air raid of war Used Saudi air base for
refueling Iran transferred loading tankers there after Kharg and Sirri Islands hit by Iraq Hit 5 tankers
(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)
1991 Report US companies sold Iraq equipment for nuke triggers 1984-90 US approved $25 mil in
computer sales to Iraq that helped nuke program EEurope helped Iraqi scientists with nuke research Yugoslavia built uranium enrichment lab in Baghdad Got uranium from Brazil Portugal Niger Germany Italy France Soviet Union Poland and Czechoslovakia provided explosives for program
1997 KDP broke ceasefire after 1 day by attacking PUK positions
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)
2002 UN Res 1443 extended Oil for Food program
2002 US Navy report claimed uranium from Niger was in a warehouse in Benin heading for Iraq
Report later found to be false
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
2002 Head weapons inspector Blix told Security Council inspections would begin in Iraq on 11/27/02
(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 US intelligence took pictures of trucks moving materials from Amiriya Institute In Feb 2003 UN
speech Sec State Powell claimed this was Iraqis hiding WMD before UN inspections restarted US analysts did not believe anything unusual was happening in photos
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld testified to Senate Said former Iraqi army officers could be called back into
service if they were not Baathists
2004 Defense Science Board report Iraq invasion gave jihadists around the world a cause and
supported their narrative
2006 ISI attacked Albu Soda tribe in Sufiya outside Ramadi for setting up checkpoints Tribe called
US for help and fought off insurgents Sheikh Suwadawi of Abu Soda tribe joined Anbar Awakening afterward
(Musings On Iraq Understanding Anbar Before And After The Awakening Part V Sheikh Jassim Mohammed Salah al-Suwaidi And Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Janabi)
(Musings On Iraq The 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 1st Inf Div Cmdr Gen Ham in charge of US training mission in Iraq said previous effort was
“hit and miss” US did poor job picking soldiers for mission No standardized training program for Iraqis Lacked support
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2007 Natl Sec Adv Rubaie suggested banning sahwa south of Baghdad except in Hillah over fears of
US recruiting Shiites
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2007 DeBaathification bill introduced in parliament Sadrists objected Bill withdrawn to be amended
Bill was agreed upon in Aug by major parties
2007 Report Surge was supposed to improve security and lead to political reform and reconciliation
Didn’t happen so Bush admin dropped benchmarks to show progress Hoping Iraq would spend budget and hold provincial elections as signs of progress
2008 BBC went to Rusafa Prison Baghdad Found it overcrowded Many prisoners never charged
Justice system overloaded with cases
2009 Sir William Ehrman director of international security at Foreign Office testified to Chilcot
Inquiry Said British intel on Iraq WMD was spotty before the invasion No strong evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda relationships
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2009 Tim Dowse head of counterproliferation at Foreign Office testified to Chilcot Inquiry that no
evidence Iraq was going to give its WMD to terrorists No evidence of relationship with Al Qaeda Said Saddam didn’t want to associate with it Thought Iraq’s nuke program dismantled by inspectors in 90s
2009 England got intel report that Iraq’s chemical weapons had been dismantled Dismissed
because British thought Iraq was lying and hiding its WMD
2010 Report PM Maliki began freeing Sadrists in return for his support for 2nd term US officer said
he had list of 15 Mahdi Army commanders released 2 of which got jobs in police and Justice Min Mahdi Army said they were gaining positions in Interior Min Sadrists got dep speaker of parliament
2012 Report Sadrist MP said PM Maliki’s son govt spokesman Dabbagh and State of Law MP Shabandar
all involved in corrupt Russian arms deal Dabbagh was being blamed for deal He claimed he warned Maliki about troubles but was ignored
2014 KRG received 1st payment from Baghdad for $280 mil as part of new oil-budget deal KRG
needed money to pay its govt workers KRG was to export 150,000 bar/day of oil in return
2014 Report Sep IS started major campaign in Anbar Oct executed members of Albu Nimr tribe
Killed Anbar police chief Took Camp Hit ISF responded by shelling Fallujah that had no effect on IS op IS tried to take Baghdadi but failed ISF tried to take Fallujah but failed IS brought in 3000 fighters from Syria into Anbar IS attacked Amiriya Fallujah Then Ramadi and Jazeera IS executed commander in Amiriya Fallujah Albu Nimr and ISF then attacked Hit but failed IS couldn’t take Amiriya Fallujah Led to mass executions of Albu Nimr members Nov ISF retook Camp Hit
2014 Peshmerga said Hashd started looting Jalawla Diyala after it was freed
2015 Report Were 4 days of fighting in Tuz Kharmato Salahaddin between Badr and PUK
Ceasefire stopped fighting 10 Hashd 5 Peshmerga killed Jun Peshmerga and Hashd fought in Jalawla Diyala Kurds dug ditches to stop Arabs from returning to town Fighting killed 3 Peshmerga 2 Hashd
2015 Report Peshmerga expelled 60 Arab families from Kirkuk village 50 Arab villages destroyed by
Kurds since Jul Families expelled because accused of being IS After Sinjar freed Yazidis and Peshmerga began looting towns
2015 Report Kurds divided in war vs IS KDP and PUK didn’t give weapons to rivals Sinjar
offensive delayed for yr due to Kurdish rivalries KDP against PUK PKK YPG Sinjar Protection Units being in Sinjar which was run by KDP before IS KDP wanted to control Sinjar to control Ninewa Plains PKK wanted base in Iraq for ops in Syria 11 Arab villages burned during Sinjar op Pres Barzani gave speech saying only KRG flag would fly in Sinjar as jab at PKK
2015 Sinjar Protection Forces and Peshmerga got into gun battle in Sinjar 5 Peshmerga wounded
2018 Protest at Basra Oil Company demanding jobs broken up by security guards and in
front of govt offices in Basra city over corruption
2018 Report Trump twice asked PM Abadi for Iraq’s oil in return for invading Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Why Did Trump Ask Iraq For Its Oil?)
2018 Report Rebuilding in Sinjar hindered by different armed groups in dist ISF People’s
Protection Unit Hashd Yazidi Protection Unit all in area Didn’t cooperate Hashd used dist to move men into Syria 3000 Yazidis still lived on Mount Sinjar and didn’t return home
2019 Interior Min spokesman said police were constantly attacked by protesters Said
demonstrators were trying to provoke police Said casualty figures of protesters was exaggerated
2019 Police stormed bridge blocked by protesters in Hillah Main roads in Basra and
Najaf blocked Highway blocked and houses of 2 politicians and Dawa office burned in Dhi Qar 1 demonstrator killed in Baghdad 2 activists in Baghdad escaped assassination attempt
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Protests Escalate Once Again)
2021 PUK commander killed in Sulaymaniya Was close to Lahur Talabani who was expelled from
PUK leadership
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