1920 US Consul in Baghdad said England hadn’t taken any serious steps to create an independent
Iraqi govt
1922 2nd Najd-Iraq agreement created neutral zone between two
1928 UK High Comm for Iraq Dobbs wrote conscription in Iraq would cause revolt Was already
problem in Basra Said authority of Iraqi govt depended upon British backing and military might
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)
1932 King Faisal speech praised his rule in Syria Said if he was still king Syria would be independent
like Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)
1948 PM Pachachi govt told oil companies they should not employ Jews after creation of Israel
(Musings On Iraq review Last Days in Babylon, The Exile of Iraq’s Jews, the Story of My Family)
(Musings On Iraq New Babylonians, A History Of Jews In Modern Iraq)
1974 French Pres Chirac visited Baghdad Try to sell Mirage F1 jets to Iraq
1980 Saddam accused US of helping Iran during Iran-Iraq war
1981 Iranian Op Tariq al-Quds Revolutionary Guard began 1st human wave attacks in war in Bostan
Suffered heavy losses
(Musings On Iraq review Armies of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)
(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)
(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)
1990 Iraq test fired 3 medium range missiles Meant to warn world about its military
capabilities after invading Kuwait
2001 Sec State Powell said no reason to believe Iraq didn’t have WMD
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2001 USA Today article said Iraq supported bin Laden when he was in Sudan in 1990s
2001 Ex-CIA Dir Woolsey said he believed Iraq involved in 9/11
2002 Bush VP Cheney Dep Sec Def Wolfowtiz gave speeches across US saying that Iraq would not
cooperate with weapons inspectors
(Musings On Iraq review Days Of Fire, Bush and Cheney in the White House)
(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 Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.6 Development of UK Strategy and Options, November 2002 to January 2003)
2002 White House spokesman said if Saddam said he had no WMD proved he was lying if he said he
had WMD he violated UN resolutions
2002 White House spokesman said Iraq bought aluminum tubes for its nuke program Were for rockets
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2002 White House officials told US News & World Report they were making extensive plans for
postwar Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I: Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)
(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 UK issued dossier on human rights abuses in Iraq Amnesty Intl attacked report as
opportunistic and selective
2003 Dep Sec State Armitage said US should not oppose Ayatollah Sistani who was pushing for
elections for new Iraq parliament
(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)
(Musings On Iraq review Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq)
2003 Bremer sent memo to Ayatollah Sistani Said agreed with his demand that constitution be written
by Iraqis but CPA plan for caucuses to pick interim govt that would then write constitution was best way forward
(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 11
Restoring Iraq’s Capacity to Govern)
2003 Top UK official at CPA Greenstock called PM Blair’s foreign policy adv Sheinwald Said opportunities
for terrorism growing If Coalition lost control Al Qaeda would grow in Iraq Would lead to terrorist attack in London
2005 Def Sec Rumsfeld told CENTCOM Cmdr Gen Abizaid and US Iraq Cmdr Gen Casey CIA
found insurgents infiltrating Iraqi army in Anbar
2005 Gen Dempsey in charge of US training mission for ISF said 100 Iraqi army battalions 33
operating on own 40 in the lead Said 27 Federal Police battalions on duty Said major problem was police were recruited locally and many were from militias
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
(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 War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)
(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil
War, 2003-2006)
2007 Gen Petraeus and Gen Odierno met with PM Maliki PM agreed to 103,000 Sahwa
20 would get jobs in ISF Rest would get other govt jobs US believed was step towards reconciliation Maliki got concession to end all Sahwa in south Iraq because he feared they would compete with Dawa
(Musings On Iraq What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?)
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
2007 Report Common for people to pay $500 bribe to join police Policeman said that
everyone in his class of 850 recruits paid bribes His commander collected salaries of ghost police as well
2008 US-Iraqi officials met about Sahwa PM Maliki said he agreed with US organizing Sunni tribes
but southern Iraq off limits Said southern tribes could threaten Shiite parties Came after US Marines were organizing Sahwa in Qadisiyah to counter militias
(Musings On Iraq Another Chapter In The Government’s Opposition To The Sons Of Iraq)
2008 Oil Min Shahristani demanded KRG void its oil contracts in return for deal to allow it to export
oil
(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)
(Musings On Iraq Baghdad-Kurdish Oil Export Deal Collapses)
(Musings On Iraq Baghdad-Kurdistan Rivalry Continues)
2008 Romania said it would keep its troops in Iraq until 2011
2008 European officials said PM Maliki had no real plan to help returning refugees Govt promised
money houses and schools but none of it happened
2011 Mobs attacked Christian and Yazidi businesses in several towns in Dohuk province selling alcohol
and running message parlors Incited by Islamist cleric
2012 Baghdad sent $ 1 bil to KRG as part of new deal where KRG would export oil for Baghdad
2015 Sec Gen of Sayid al-Shuahda Brigades said there were 20,000 Hashd casualties in war vs IS
2015 Kataib Hezbollah said it would fight any Americans in Iraq Came after Def Sec Carter said US
was sending Special Forces to Iraq to help with war vs IS
2018 Protest at West Qurna oil field in Basra led to clash with security forces
2019 Human Rights Watch Protesters were being disappeared in Baghdad Human Rights
Comm said some were kidnapped
2020 Kirkuk teachers protested over KRG not paying salaries
2020 Human Rights Watch Kazemi govt said it wanted to close 17 displaced camps holding 60,337
people Warned closing camps was leading to homelessness and poverty
(Musings On Iraq Kazemi Govt Runs Into Problems Trying To Close Displaced Camps In Iraq)
2021 Report Iraqi govt report said Tigris and Euphrates could run dry by 2040 Dams in Turkey
Syria Iran cut water Climate change also issue Water Min said water could decline by 30% by 2013 During summer Iraq got 40 bil cubic meters of water flow when needed 53 bil cubic meters
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