tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19534107334938897282024-03-19T01:46:53.825-07:00MUSINGS ON IRAQIraq News, Politics, Economics, SocietyJoel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.comBlogger7947125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-51884868363344164122024-03-18T08:16:00.001-07:002024-03-18T08:16:16.293-07:00Security In Iraq Mar 8-14, 2024 <p>
</p><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNkWh30bqDgNl5mJNWWMUR2jEoUvjOQbpe2AANGqPSZkM-SphMhsTNn_81yO24hAN6xyhpPHAhOtrR2SEHz7dFhBnkIs3uSzsM1gp26iJjEjwzGJ8SennvqNCjCb8j5UhAlvc6WHjoa15k6i45ucN22nSogmWpkwIZBitStKaCd-PUa2i5umX_QocAoDi0/s600/Islamic%20State%20Attacks%20Per%20Wk%20In%20Iraq%202023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="600" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNkWh30bqDgNl5mJNWWMUR2jEoUvjOQbpe2AANGqPSZkM-SphMhsTNn_81yO24hAN6xyhpPHAhOtrR2SEHz7dFhBnkIs3uSzsM1gp26iJjEjwzGJ8SennvqNCjCb8j5UhAlvc6WHjoa15k6i45ucN22nSogmWpkwIZBitStKaCd-PUa2i5umX_QocAoDi0/w640-h396/Islamic%20State%20Attacks%20Per%20Wk%20In%20Iraq%202023.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />The Islamic State suddenly
lurched back to life in Iraq during the second week of March carrying out the
most attacks in a year. Pro-Iran groups also claimed another attack upon
Israel. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There were 7 possible attacks
by the Islamic State in Iraq from March 8-14. That compared to just 2 the week
before and 1 the last full week of February. It’s also the highest number of
incidents in one week since 8 in the last week of February 2023. That shows how
much the insurgency has fallen off over the last year. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Most of those occurred in
Anbar. That started with </span><a href="https://english.news.cn/20240309/d066a19e3cfd4706abb87e5663784711/c.html"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">an old IED going off</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> in the Rawa district that killed 2 Hashd and wounded 4 others. A
security sweep in that same area </span><a href="https://shafaq.com/ar/%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%80%D9%86/%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B4%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B6-%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B4-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%84-%D9%86%D9%81%D9%82-%D8%A8%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">led to a gun battle</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> with some insurgents. </span><a href="https://www.basnews.com/en/babat/841932"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">3
civilians were kidnapped</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> likely for
ransom. Finally </span><a href="https://www.basnews.com/en/babat/841932"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">another bomb went off</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> in the Wadi Thar Thar that wounded 3 soldiers. This
was a dramatic change for the province which has seen hardly any violence
besides the occasional IS infiltrators being caught attempting to sneak in from
Syria. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In Diyala a young man </span><a href="https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=1112772"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">was gunned down</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
in the Canaan area which could have been related to the insurgency as well. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Finally, in Kirkuk there was </span><a href="https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/34221-IED-explosion-kills-one-and-injures-another-in-Kirkuk-province-%C2%A0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">an IED</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> that
killed 1 civilian and injured 1 more and a </span><a href="https://shafaq.com/ar/%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%80%D9%86/%D9%87%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%AD-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%81-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">mukhtar’s house was attacked</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> with gunfire. The latter was probably an act of
intimidation against the local mayor to allow the militants to operate in his
area. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Last week it was reported
that </span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2024/03/security-in-iraq-mar-1-7-2024.html"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">a new IS commander had been identified in Iraq</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> and he was trying to reorganize the group. This
surprise jump in attacks could be his work. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Last pro-Iran groups continue
to </span><a href="https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=1111976"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">claim drone strikes on Israel</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> in retaliation for the Gaza War. This could have been
launched from Iraq or Syria and as usual there was no confirmation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Security Incidents In Iraq By Province </span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Mar 1-7</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Mar 8-14</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Anbar</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Baghdad</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Diyala</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Kirkuk</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">TOTAL</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4/2
Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">8/1
Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Casualties In Iraq By Province</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Province</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 1-7</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 8-14</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Anbar</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9 (2K, 7W)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Baghdad</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">6 (2K, 4W)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Diyala</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1 (1K)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Kirkuk</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2 (1K, 1W)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">TOTAL</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">6 (2K, 4W)</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">12 (4K, 8W)</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Security In Iraq 2022-23</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Week</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Security</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Incidents</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Total/By
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dead</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Total/By
IS)</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wounded</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Total/By
IS)</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JAN 2022</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">87/41 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">59</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FEB</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">42/14 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">29</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">46/12/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">19</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">21</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">APR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">111/22 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">34</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">103</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAY</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">73/13 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">41</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">51</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUN</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">40/14 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUL</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">43/6 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">54</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">AUG</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">57/7/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">24</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">54</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">41/1/3 M</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">64</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">28/2/3 M</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">17</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">45</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">23</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">28</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">42</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">38</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JAN 2023</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">29/4 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">12</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">15</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6/2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9/1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FEB</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">20/3 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">12</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">18</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">18</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">APR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">16</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAY</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">15</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">14</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUN</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3/2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUL</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11/2 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3/1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">13/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">23</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 29-30</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">SEP</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 1-7</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7/5 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">OCT</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">17/15 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11/9</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">12/10</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8 Amer</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">16</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">NOV</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">35/29 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">15</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">29</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10/8 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8/6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6/2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7/6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3 US</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">DEC</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">35/26 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2K</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">16W</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10/6 Pro-Iran/1 Iranian</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7/3 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11/10 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3 Pro-Ira</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">42/28 Pro-Iran/1 Iranian</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">14</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 8-14</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 15-21</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 22-29</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FEB</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4/2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8/1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">SOURCES</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">Bas News, "IS Abducts Two
Civilians in Anbar Amid Fears of Terror Group's Resurgence," 3/9/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">Kurdistan 24, "IED explosion
kills one and injures another in Kirkuk province," 3/8/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">NINA, "An officer and two
soldiers injured when an explosive device exploded in Wadi Al-Tharthar in Anbar
Governorate," 3/14/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">- "The Islamic Resistance targets
the Zionist Information Base No. 1 in the northern occupied Golan with
drones," 3/9/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">- "Unidentified gunmen
assassinated a young man in Canaan district of Diyala," 3/13/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">Shafaq News, "An armed attack
targeted the house of a village mayor in Kirkuk," 3/11/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">- "A force from the Mobilization
Forces engages in clashes with ISIS members inside a tunnel in Anbar
Governorate," 3/9/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">Xinhua, "2 tribal fighters killed
in bomb explosion in W. Iraq," 3/9/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-44090776517488005252024-03-18T08:16:00.000-07:002024-03-18T08:16:06.522-07:00This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 18 4 pro-Najaf Hashd units asked to join Defense Min to protest pro-Iran groups control of Hashd Commission <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPqCG_UAUDdR4DE24pWFZQ3Rbpr_EvK2RwNwfnOhXol82k0A8atVPfFGibhYPcPxqsXPA-B-VctwKd3zSmi8lUb4UTRmUeZwzVqSEJmhHZ-s6djhfd0vKQ7nVIo6gdkhm6tVJvqHJulKd_Ava_STgx7fkGu8ilDsjniYmMm5Ryg_UCr6xxeE25lhlePU0X/s894/Screenshot%202024-03-17%20at%2011.18.40%E2%80%AFAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="894" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPqCG_UAUDdR4DE24pWFZQ3Rbpr_EvK2RwNwfnOhXol82k0A8atVPfFGibhYPcPxqsXPA-B-VctwKd3zSmi8lUb4UTRmUeZwzVqSEJmhHZ-s6djhfd0vKQ7nVIo6gdkhm6tVJvqHJulKd_Ava_STgx7fkGu8ilDsjniYmMm5Ryg_UCr6xxeE25lhlePU0X/s320/Screenshot%202024-03-17%20at%2011.18.40%E2%80%AFAM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1914 US consulate in Baghdad reported Ottomans had
reconciled with Sayid Talib and Sheikh </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Ajaimi of Montafiq Confederation
They had de facto control of Basra vilayet </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1933 British official warned King Faisal was attempting to
make himself dictator of Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1933 PM Shawkat resigned over King Faisal trying to
manipulate his cabinet </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1948 Railway strike against Anglo-Iraq Treaty </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Barzani called for Kurdish conference without telling
KDP leaders to discuss </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">negotiations with Baath govt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/05/review-iraq-kurdish-question-1958-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1970 9 man committee of Arabs and Kurds formed to carry out
Kurdish autonomy deal </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/10/review-iraq-since-1958-from-revolution.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1973 Bakr govt rejected talks with Barzani over autonomy
deal </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/partial-review-blum-william-killing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-great-betrayal-how-america.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/02/review-people-without-country-kurds-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/when-shah-and-nixon-manipulated-kurds.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Barzani and KDP leadership met Barzani said revolt
would end and they would retreat to Iran </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 US senator told press Iraq was trying to build a
nuclear bomb </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iran attacked South Majnoon Island but gained nothing
Iraq counterattack regained most of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">the territory lost in the
Hoyezah marshes in Maysan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iraq bombed Tehran in retaliation for Iran bombing
Baghdad War of Cities </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/07/review-iraqi-mirages-dassault-mirage.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air
Force, 1981-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Pres Mubarak visited Baghdad to show support Asked
Gulf States to donate more money to Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">during Iran-Iraq War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1987 Revolutionary Command Council made Ali Hassan al-Majid
head of Baath Northern Bureau </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">covering Kurdistan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 PUK retreated from Jafati Valley Kurdistan during
Anfal campaign Iraq took PUK HQ </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Leveled the area destroying
villages </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/09/iraqs-anfal-campaign-and-destruction-of_05.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Sec of State Baker after tour of Middle East and
Soviet Union said most leaders thought Saddam </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">would be gone by end of year</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/review-united-states-and-iraq-since.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-out-of-ashes-resurrection-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Kurdish leader Rahman called for international help
with food and medicine during uprising </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">None came </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-us-helped-start-rebellion-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Report Bush admin expected Saddam gone by end of 91
Said expected Baathists to remain in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">power Didn’t support break up of
country Thought Shiite opposition pro-Iran </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 UK Amb Meyer met with Dep Sec of Def Wolfowitz who
said he was against going to UN against </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Saddam refuted Bush’s ultimatum to step down and leave
Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UN weapons inspectors ended work in Iraq Did 731
inspections at 411 sites and found no WMD or </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">nuclear programs </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/un-inspectors-were-right-iraq-was-not.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/iraqs-rejection-of-un-inspectors-led-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UN suspended Oil for Food program for Iraq due to
impending war</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 US reconnaissance found 6-7 oil wells in Basra set
afire by Iraqis Led Gen Franks to move up </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">invasion plan by a few days to
try to stop further fields being set on fire </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 US military official told CNN Iraqi troops had VX and
mustard gas munitions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/iraq-one-of-worst-intelligence-failures.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK military given official order to prepare for Iraq
invasion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/04/review-burning-horizon-british-veteran.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Burning Horizon, British Veteran Accounts Of The Iraq War
2003</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Joint Chief of Staff met to discuss withdrawal plans
for post-invasion Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Tragedy</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK Gen Cross warned PM Blair that there wasn’t enough
post-war planning for Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/08/chilcot-inquiry-section-65-planning-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 6.5 Planning And Preparation For A Post-Saddam Hussein
Iraq, January to March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 2 British ministers and legal adv to Foreign Office
resigned in protest against the war</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 British parliament voted 412 to 149 to endorse Iraq
invasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 US named 30 countries willing to join Iraq war Became
known as Coalition of the Willing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 CIA source claimed he saw Saddam and his family at
Dora farm south of Baghdad CIA Dir Tenet </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">told Bush </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 US rep Khalilzad went to Turkey offering to allow
Turkish troops to enter Kurdistan buffer zone </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">disarming Peshmerga ops vs PKK
if US could use Turkey for invasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-losing-iraq-inside-post-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/08/review-all-roads-lead-to-baghdad-army.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>All Roads Lead To Baghdad: Army Special Operations Forces in Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Abdul Aziz al-Hakim met with US rep Khalilzad and
State’s Ryan Crocker in Turkey </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Khalilzad said Turkey worried
that Turkmen not included in opposition leadership Turks worried about Kurdish
refugees trying to flee to Turkey during war Turks wanted committee to deal
with war issues Said all the opposition should issue statements that they didn’t
want Iraqis to take law into their own hands during invasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Fmr OHRA head Garner said he was replaced in Iraq
because wanted early elections to return </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">power to Iraqis </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 NSC report Iraqi army largely rebuilt but attacks not
decreasing War stalemated PM Jaafari </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">incompetent </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 Gen Casey and Marine Expeditionary Force I Cmdr Gen
Zilmer agreed Ramadi would be main </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">focus of Anbar campaign </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-confronting-al-qaeda-sunni.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/05/review-shultz-jr-richard-marines-take.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/09/review-illusions-of-victory-anbar.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-couch-dick-sheriff-of-ramadi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Sheriff of Ramadi, Navy SEALS and the Winning of Anbar</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 ISI set off chlorine bombs in Ramadi, Fallujah,
Amiriya Fallujah </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Report UK Chief of Def Staff Lord Boyce First Sea Lord
Adm West and head of army General </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Jackson were all unsure of
legality of Iraq invasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 IOM reported 2.7 mil displaced Iraqis Only 1% of
refugees returned Most couldn’t go back to homes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">because occupied or destroyed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-children-of-war-voices-of-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Sadr issued statement calling on his followers to give
up on violence</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report CPA got rid of Iraq’s tariffs and opened door
to flood of Iranian imports They </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">threatened sectors of Iraq’s
economy from bricks to food </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/irans-policy-towards-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Board of Supreme Audit reported that Salahaddin
council was stealing money </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-examples-of-corruption-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> New
Examples Of Corruption In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/01/corruption-in-iraq-interview-with.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/iraqs-troubles-fighting-corruption.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US
Anti-Graft Official) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 KRG said that it would form committee to deal with
protests in Sulaymaniya</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/06/view-from-northern-iraq-on-2011-kurdish.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-iraqs-kurdistan-broke-up-two-months.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Sadrists claimed they conducted 3 mil people poll
Results were close to protesters’ demands for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">better services Attempt to
co-opt demonstrations </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/sadrists-hold-survey-of-iraqis-trying.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Sadrists Hold Survey Of Iraqis, Trying To Take Over Leadership Of Protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/sadrist-referendum-on-services-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Sadrist Referendum On Services In Iraq Completed) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Police broke up protest in Fallujah calling for
release of prisoners held without trial Was another </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">protest in Baghdad calling for
reforms end of corruption and jobs </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/government-moves-to-suppress-protests.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Government Moves To Suppress Protests In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Report Education Min asked schools to start requiring
uniforms to stop spread of emo culture </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">amongst students Human rights
committee in parliament said it wanted to end emo movement and denied any
murders Reports anywhere from 15-100 emos killed by militias </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/al-jazeera-video-emo-youth-targetd-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Al Jazeera Video</span></a><span style="color: black;">:
‘Emo’ Youth Targeted In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/governments-role-in-recent-anti-emo.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Government’s Role In The Recent Anti-Emo Violence In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 From Dec 2011-Mar 2012 were 204 bombings in Iraq 70%
increase from same period last year</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Kurdish MPs met with Pres Barzani and agreed on
boycotting Iraqi parliament over disputes with </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">PM Maliki over oil and budget</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/04/whats-to-gain-from-kurdish-alliances.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
What’s To Gain From the Kurdish Alliance’s Boycott Of Iraq’s Government?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Sadr started sit in protests in Baghdad demanding
cabinet reforms </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/why-did-sadr-take-over-green-zone.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/05/sadr-trying-to-play-kingmaker-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Sadr
Trying To Play Kingmaker In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 US artillery base in Ninewa hit by IS rockets Killed 1
marine 1<sup>st</sup> US death since new war in </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Iraq </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 PM Abadi said Baghdad
would pay KRG salaries to try to settle oil and budget disputes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/baghdad-paid-half-of-krgs-salaries.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Baghdad Paid Half Of KRG’s Salaries, Kurdistan Didn’t Contribute Leading To</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Protests)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/baghdad-begins-lifting-sanctions-on.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Baghdad Begins Lifting Sanctions On Kurdistan) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Doctors and health
workers in Sulaymaniya did walkout over not being paid since 2016</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 4 pro-Najaf Hashd brigades asked to join Defense
Ministry to protest control of Hashd </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Commission by pro-Iran groups </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/pro-najaf-hashd-threaten-to-leave-hashd.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Pro-Najaf Hashd Threaten To Leave Hashd Commission) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/04/resigned-pm-abdul-mahdi-doesnt-accept.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Resigned PM Abdul Mahdi Doesn’t Accept Units Leaving Hashd Commission) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Brent oil price dropped to $26 per barrel lowest since
2003 due to dispute between Russia and Saudi </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Arabia along with COVID Led to
economic crisis in Iraq the most oil dependent country in world </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/oil-prices-collapse-and-iraq-has-no.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Oil
Prices Collapse And Iraq Has No Answers) </span></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a><br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1639 Treaty of Zuhab ended Ottoman-Safavid War and gave
Ottomans most of Mesopotamia</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/review-analysis-of-hanna-batatus-old.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>An Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary
Movements of Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1913 US consulate in Baghdad reported secret Arab committee
formed in Egypt that </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">advocated for Baghdad Basra
Mosul vilayets to be independent from Ottomans </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1913 US consulate report Basra petitioned Ottomans for all
taxes to remain in province </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1915 Another UK brigade from India arrived in Basra as
reinforcements </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1917 British forces captured Baquba from Ottomans </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1935 Yasin al-Hashemi became PM 2<sup>nd</sup> time Called
in sheikhs from Diwaniya and negotiated </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">end of revolt which he helped
organize Was feared that Hashemi wanted to become dictator of Iraq and make
King Ghazi figurehead Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and Hikmat Sulaiman both wanted to
be Interior Min Hashemi offered Sulaiman Finance Min which he refused and began
plotting to overthrow PM Hashemi </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-chatham-house-version-and-other.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1937 Gen Sidqi speech Said Communism would fail in Iraq Was
attack upon liberal Ahali </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">and reformers who were part of
govt Said they wanted to dissolve Iraqi society and politics </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/01/review-iraqs-democratic-moment.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq’s Democratic Moment</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1940 PM Said resigned due to disagreements with his cabinet
Also part of his plan to get MP </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Gaylani to be PM </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1941 After consulting with UK Foreign Min Suwaidi convinced
PM Hashemi and Regent to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">move against Golden Square
officers Golden Square called on army to overthrow Hashemi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/review-persian-gulf-command-history-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/05/review-hamdi-dr-walid-rashid-ali-al.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/09/review-role-of-military-in-politics.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-lyman-robert-iraq-1941-battles.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/10/simonreeva-spector-iraq-between-thetwo.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/08/review-my-memoirs-half-century-of.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>My Memoirs, Half a Century of the History of Iraq and the
Arab Cause</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1947 National Democratic Party and Liberal Party decided to
boycott new parliament after </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">election fraud by PM Said PM
suspended opposition and arrested leaders</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/01/review-iraqs-democratic-moment.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq’s Democratic Moment</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/review-history-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>A History of Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/08/review-independent-iraq-1932-1958-study.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Iraq and Iran Foreign Ministers signed agreement to
create three committees to resolve </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">outstanding issues </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 US Sec State Kissinger responded to Barzani pleas for
help saying that US understood </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">struggle Kurds were facing </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/partial-review-blum-william-killing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-great-betrayal-how-america.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/when-shah-and-nixon-manipulated-kurds.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Barzani sent Pres Bakr note that he would negotiate
over autonomy deal Desperation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">move after Iran ended aid </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/02/review-people-without-country-kurds-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1979 Arab foreign and finance ministers met in Iraq over
signing of Camp David Agreement </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Decided to expel Egypt from Arab
League </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1982 Iran launched Operation Fath with diversionary attack
towards Hoveyzah and Hamid </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">across from Maysan Worked as
Iraq sent reserves there </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 Belgian labs confirmed mustard gas used by Iraq from
samples taken from two wounded </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Iranians Iraq used tabun for
first time against Iran </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iran captured section of Basra-Baghdad highway for
first time</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iraqi army began assault to retake Karbala from Shiite
rebels</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/08/1991-shiite-uprising-in-southern-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
1991 Shiite Uprising In Southern Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Refugee claimed govt killed 250-300 people in Najaf
after uprising </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Kurds began fleeing Tuz Kharmato in face of govt
offensive to retake it</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Baghdad held 1<sup>st</sup> tribal loyalty ceremony to
shore up support during uprising</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Saddam said he would introduce democracy and create a
new constitution </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1992 Report in 91 Bush admin tried to block release of
information about White House </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">support for Iraq before Kuwait
invasion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1994 English scientists est 57% of southern marshes had
been drained by Saddam to drive </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">out displaced and rebels </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-saddam-destroyed-eco-system-and-its.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Saddam Destroyed An Eco-System And Its People In The Southern Marshes Of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1996 UN inspectors said work was moving forward and Iraq
was not hiding WMD as some </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">suggested </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/un-inspectors-were-right-iraq-was-not.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/iraqs-rejection-of-un-inspectors-led-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1999 Uprising in Basra after Saddam killed Ayatollah Sadiq
al-Sadr </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/07/legacy-of-ayatollah-sadiq-al-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with Univ of Haifa’s Prof Baram on legacy of Ayatollah
Sadiq al-Sadr) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/review-iraq-between-occupations.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920 to the Present) </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/09/review-muqtada-muqtada-al-sadr-shia.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Dep Sec Def Wolfowitz and PM Blair’s adv Manning
talked about building intl support </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">for military action vs Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/03/chilcot-report-section-32-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Report Section 3.2 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, January
to April 2002 – “Axis of Evil” to Crawford)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 UK Amb to US Meyer told Dep Sec Def Wolfowitz that if
US wanted military action </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">against Iraq it needed to go
through UN </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Dep Sec of Def Wolfowitz told UK Amb to US Meyer that
Iraq was linked with </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">terrorism and harboring member
of 1993 World Trade Center bombing Was based upon conspiracy theories of Laurie
Mylroie </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/09/laurie-mylroies-convoluted-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Laurie Mylroie’s Convoluted Iraq-Terrorism Conspiracy Theory) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/laurie-mylroies-iraq-conspiracy-theory.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq Conspiracy Theory Was Debunked By Captured Baath
Documents) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Times of London article quoted Iraqi defector provided
by INC that Iraq had WMD </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">programs </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Bahrain Foreign Minister Salamn ibn Hamda al-Khalifa
told press Arab world did not </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">see Iraq as the threat but
Israel for its actions against Palestinians</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UN Draft resolution saying Iraq in non compliance and
open to military action </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">withdrawn by US because couldn’t
be passed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush met with Congressional leaders telling them UN
route with Iraq was dead Blamed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">France Sen Byrd only one who
said he opposed war </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush in TV speech said Iraq had WMD and was hiding
them Gave Saddam and sons 48 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">hours to leave office or face
invasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/iraq-one-of-worst-intelligence-failures.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Policy</span></i><span style="color: black;"> <i>Tragedy</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/06/review-what-happened-inside-bush-white.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of
Deception</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/06/us-army-history-of-iraq-war-vol-1_28.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> US
Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter The Invasion of Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair gave Saddam ultimatum to comply with UN
resolutions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK Attny Gen Lord Goldsmith gave legal advice that war
with Iraq was legal </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UN Sec Gen Annan announced he would order withdrawal
of weapons inspectors due </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">to impending war</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 ORHA head Garner met with his oil team Said concerned
Sec Def Rumsfeld picked ex-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Shell CEO Carroll to join group
Oil team told Garner if Iraq oil sector destroyed by war would need someone
with standing of Carroll to deal with situation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Bombing of Mount Lebanon hotel in Baghdad killed 27
wounded 40 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Iraqi Governing Council asked UN to return to Baghdad
and advise the creation of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">interim govt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Report Education Ministry run by Shiite United Iraqi
Alliance refused to give any aid or </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">support to schools in Sunni
areas of Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Gen Odierno said Baghdad belts key to securing Baghdad</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Report captured ISI docs said 06 decided to fight
militias in Baghdad Wanted to force </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Shiites from west Baghdad and
attack Shiites in Anbar Diyala Salahaddin Mahdi Army took initiative and pushed
insurgents out of large parts of Baghdad Insurgents now operated out of Baghdad
belts more than Baghdad itself </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-caliphate-at-war-operational.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic
State</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-isis-reader-milestone-texts-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Clashes between Mahdi Army and police spread to
Karbala 35 killed 130 wounded </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Before was fighting in Diyala
and Wasit Sadr blamed PM Maliki for violence </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 ISCI and Dawa delegation made deal with Sadrists to
end week’s worth of fighting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">between ISF and Mahdi Army in
Kut Govt agreed to release Sadrist prisoners and only conduct raids with
warrants </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Female suicide bomber hit crowd of Shiites in Karbala
40 killed 65 wounded</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/07/rise-of-female-suicide-bombers.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/08/motivations-behind-female-suicide.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-isis-reader-milestone-texts-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/10/review-suicide-bombers-in-iraq-strategy.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 BBC ABC NK ARD poll found 55% of Iraqis said lives
were good vs 39% in Aug 07 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">62% said security better vs 43%
in Aug 07 45% said next year would be better vs 29% in Aug 07 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report Special Inspector General for Iraq
Reconstruction believed 15-20% of $21 bil </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">from Iraq Relief and
Reconstruction Fund wasted </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-hard-lessons-iraq-reconstruction.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Report Syria asked Iran Saudis Egypt Turkey to oppose
2<sup>nd</sup> term for PM Maliki </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 KRG said Exxon was still going through with its oil
contract after Oil Minister claimed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">it was suspending work in
Kurdistan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/exxon-mobile-trying-to-have-it-both.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Exxon Mobile Trying To Have It Both Ways In Iraq, Developing Oil Fields in The
South And North)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/06/exxon-deal-with-iraqs-kurds-gains.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Exxon Deal With Iraq’s Kurds Gains Powerful New Ally, Ninewa’s Governor, But
Will It Backfire On Him?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-new-chevron-deal-affects-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a><span style="color: black;"> How the New Chevron Deal Affects Oil
Dispute Between Iraq’s Central Government And Kurdistan) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-state-of-kurdish-regional.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
State Of The Kurdish Regional Government In Iraq, An Interview With National
Defense Univ’s Dr Denise Natali) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Chilcot Inquiry Lord Guthrie fmr chief of Defense
Staff said irresponsible for UK to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">have gone to war in Iraq without
thinking of consequences Lord Boyce chief of Defense Staff said he tried to
warn US invasion would not be seen as liberation Said PM Blair didn’t want to
tell parliament or public that he was going to war Meant couldn’t make plans
until very late Lord Dannat head of British army said US failed to prepare for
postwar Iraq Left vacuum Air Chief Marshall Sir Burridge said UK hadn’t
collected any good intel on Iraq since Gulf War Said after flying 13 yrs over
Iraq in No Fly Zones should have known more Criticized Bremer for not including
Iraqis in plans General Sir Jackson head of UK army in 03 said Def Sec Rumsfeld
and Bremer were intellectually bankrupt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 2 car bombs in Basra Killed 9 Wounded 24 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Report Jun 09 Iraq held first auction for oil fields
with Exxon Shell BP Held 4<sup>th</sup> auction </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">in May 2012 with no major oil
companies making bids Majors cooled on Iraq due to political conflicts bad
contracts infrastructure bottlenecks Exxon Chevron Total Gazprom Neft all
signed deals with KRG</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-state-of-kurdish-regional.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
State Of The Kurdish Regional Government In Iraq, An Interview With National
Defense Univ’s Dr Denise Natali) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Report Baghdad sent part of Feb budget payment to KRG
for govt salaries Budget crisis </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">showed how dependent KRG was on
Baghdad 70% of KRG budget went to govt workers KRG had to turn to loans and
business deals for money after Baghdad ended payments </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Sadrists and MP Alusi both accused PM Maliki of trying
to fix 2014 vote Said political </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">pressure on courts to ban
candidates </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/04/moqtada-al-sadr-ramps-up-campaign.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Moqtada al-Sadr Ramps Up Campaign Against Maliki Before Iraq’s Elections While
His Party is In Disarray) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report Tikrit op planned by Iran and Hashd without PM
Abadi or US involvement </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Originally was completely Hashd
op Army only added later </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/us-iranian-rivalry-behind-iraqs-tikrit.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
U.S.-Iranian Rivalry Behind Iraq’s Tikrit Operation) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/divisions-over-iraq-war-exposed-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Human Rights Report Jun 2014 IS surrounded Amerli
Salahaddin IS destroyed homes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">in area Aug Asaib Ahl Al-Haq
Peace Brigades Badr helped break siege Hashd began looting 30 villages
afterward 95% of homes in Hufriya 75% in 17 others villages destroyed by Hashd
Sep 2014 Salahaddin councilman asked gov to investigate destruction by ISF and
Hashd </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Report MPs said Transportation Electricity Defense
Water Ministries all had political </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">party offices that extorted
money from contracts </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/01/corruption-in-iraq-interview-with.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/iraqs-troubles-fighting-corruption.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US
Anti-Graft Official) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Gulf Keystone said KRG owed it $178 mil for exports
and costs Reported over $100 mil </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">in losses in 2015 KRG unable to
pay due to budget problems after Baghdad cut payments and bad contracts </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/iraqi-kurdistans-failed-independent-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Cabinet complained PM Abadi started reforms without
consulting with parties which he </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">needed to pass changes Sadr only
one to fully back Abadi </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-review-of-iraq-premier-abadis-reform.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Hashd leader Muhandis
said Coalition provided Iraq nothing in 2014 to fight IS Said Iran and
Hezbollah only ones to help No Coalition help to liberate Tikrit Not true
Accused Saudis and UAE of supporting IS </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 PM Abadi criticized
media for reporting on terrorist attacks Said they made up stories undermined
victory and supported insurgency with stories </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 Report PM Abdul Mahdi said intl community should pay
for rebuilding Iraq Most of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">West Mosul still destroyed 2
years after war ended Estimated $1-2 bil needed to rebuild city 2019 budget
only included $120 mil for reconstruction in Ninewa Intl donors had committed
hundreds of millions to Mosul Held up by govt red tape EU Amb to Iraq said govt
had no plan for rebuilding Mosul </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/03/iraq-has-no-reconstruction-plan-for-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Has No Reconstruction Plan For War Torn Areas) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 PKK Sinjar Resistance Units blocked army at checkpoint
in west Sinjar Led to 1 hour </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">gun battle </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Nasr MP and former governor of Najaf Adnan Zurfi named
candidate for interim </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">premier </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/iraq-names-another-candidate-for.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Names Another Candidate For Interim Premier) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Pro-Iran groups fired rockets at Green Zone </span></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a><br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-29530697888246646122024-03-16T10:25:00.000-07:002024-03-16T10:25:28.994-07:00This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 16 Iraqi WMD attack upon Halabja 5,000 killed<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFkhUs66sX2aAtTTGoc83CmHpjvSouaNdMfvmDUYDlwAoJYin7QQwn7lo4OCDy3Bl7Q1HIoSx3mnVN3ku_lpXzq5z96PGFHH1kIK0wSP7wSZfqv63166aMk-mswcpGBFtZiB3k50yp1dlIopHdeyrWdkGFpmkyVNfJB1e7u5VBP_cbAw2neqr6q2CG_KPt/s1840/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20at%2010.24.11%E2%80%AFAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1840" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFkhUs66sX2aAtTTGoc83CmHpjvSouaNdMfvmDUYDlwAoJYin7QQwn7lo4OCDy3Bl7Q1HIoSx3mnVN3ku_lpXzq5z96PGFHH1kIK0wSP7wSZfqv63166aMk-mswcpGBFtZiB3k50yp1dlIopHdeyrWdkGFpmkyVNfJB1e7u5VBP_cbAw2neqr6q2CG_KPt/w640-h360/Screenshot%202024-03-16%20at%2010.24.11%E2%80%AFAM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1917 UK War Cabinet created Mesopotamia administration
committee to decide on form of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">govt in captured areas</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-when-god-made-hell-british.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of
Iraq, 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1921 Colonial Sec Churchill told Foreign Secretary Lloyd
George there was no longer a plan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">for a Kurdish state Instead
Kurds would be included in new Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/churchill-in-his-own-words-on.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/review-churchills-folly-how-winston.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/02/review-people-without-country-kurds-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1933 Opposition National Brotherhood Party with backing of
King Faisal attacked cabinet’s </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">program for lack of reforms King
Faisal had just read cabinet program few days before showing he was trying to
manipulate cabinet</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1935 PM Midfai resigned over opposition of Ikha party and
tribal revolt in Diwaniya King </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Ghazi asked Yasin al-Hashemi of
Ikha to form new govt for 2<sup>nd</sup> time Hashemi plotted to bring down
Midfai by organizing revolt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-chatham-house-version-and-other.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1946 Govt legalized Communist Anti-Zionist League </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/06/review-peoples-history-of-iraq-iraqi.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party,
Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Gen Qasim signed economic agreement with Soviet Union
to move away from England </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">and West</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Nasser organized 50,000 for anti-Iraq protest in Cairo</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/10/revolutionary-times-gen-qasim-and-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western
Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1964 Arif govt granted amnesty to Kurds who took part in
Barzani revolt since 1961 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/01/review-journey-among-brave-men-travels.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Iraqi forces launched new offensive against Kurds
after Iran stopped supporting them as </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">part of Algiers agreement</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/partial-review-blum-william-killing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1982 Iraq’s Dep PM Yassin Ramadan said Iraq ready to
withdraw from Iran and would accept </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 Iran fought off Iraqi effort to free Majnoon Islands
in Basra </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 CIA Station Chief in Lebanon William Buckley kidnapped
by Islamic Jihad-Hezbollah and sent to Iran </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Was retaliation for US support
for Iraq in Iran-Iraq War Would also help lead to Iran-Contra</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-us-tilt-towards-iraq-in-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Tilt Towards Iraq In Iran-Iraq War Led To Iran-Contra Scandal)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-twilight-war-secret-history-of.html">Musings
On Iraq Review</a> <i>The Twilight War, The Secret History Of America’s
Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Republican Guard joined counterattack against Iran Op
Badr in south Iran threw in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">reserves Iraq recaptured Ajrada
Sabkha Beida 2,000 Iranians captured </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 Iraqi mustard and nerve gas attack upon Halabja Killed
5,000 Saddam would later blame Iraqi general </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">for ordering attack </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/09/iraqs-1988-assault-upon-halabja-and-its.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s 1988 Assault Upon Halabja, And Its Conflation With The Anfal Campaign) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/08/review-debriefing-president.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam
Hussein</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Saddam made 1<sup>st</sup> address since Gulf War
Blamed southern uprising on Iran Said Kurds </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">worked with foreigners and
always defeated </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-us-helped-start-rebellion-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/10/review-iraq-in-wartime-soldiering.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1992 Baghdad set off car bomb in Irbil after warning Kurds
not to ally with foreign powers </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1994 Ahmed Chalabi and Chibli Mallat created Iraq Trust
Claimed it wanted to settle Iraqi </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">exiles using frozen Iraqi assets
in US and England Was actually attempt by Chalabi to take control of money </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Azores summit with Bush Blair Portuguese Premier
Barroso Bush said that Iraq war </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">would start in days not weeks
Blair got transcript of 60 Minutes interview with Pres Chirac who said he
wanted 30 more days for UN inspections Blair Bush Barroso agreed to give 2<sup>nd</sup>
UN resolution 24 more hours and pull it if didn’t have enough votes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Policy</span></i><span style="color: black;"> <i>Tragedy</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-bush-administrations-and-saddam.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict</i>)<i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush and Blair gave UN 24 hour ultimatum to enforce
its own resolutions on Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">disarming or they would invade </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair complained that US screwed up a 2<sup>nd</sup>
UN resolution on Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 VP Cheney was on Meet The Press Tim Russert asked if
US ready for long and costly </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">war in Iraq Cheney said wouldn’t
happen because US would be greeted as liberators Said Army Chief of Staff Gen
Shinseki was wrong that US would need more troops to occupy Iraq than invade
Told NBC that if world didn’t deal with Iraq it would go back to producing WMD
Was already reconstituting its nuclear weapons program Claimed UN inspectors
were wrong about Iraq’s weapons program in general citing Iraq buying aluminum
tubes which US claimed were for centrifuges Said Iraq had long standing
relationship with Al Qaeda </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-contested-aluminum-tubes-story.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-us-intelligence-created-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/iraq-one-of-worst-intelligence-failures.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/un-inspectors-were-right-iraq-was-not.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/iraqs-rejection-of-un-inspectors-led-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-fiasco-american-military.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/06/review-what-happened-inside-bush-white.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of
Deception</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-hard-lessons-iraq-reconstruction.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/11/review-days-of-fire-bush-and-cheney-in.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Days Of Fire, Bush and Cheney in the White House</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 ORHA staff began leaving US for Kuwait Garner and his
inner circle went into their </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">hotel rooms and weren’t seen for
2 days </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/03/review-iraq-and-back-inside-war-to-win.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/05/special-inspector-general-for-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction <i>Hard Lessons</i> Chapter 4
Staging in Kuwait)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/overview-of-americas-policy-towards.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">The Sectarian War of 2006) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Report US and France sources for all of Iraq’s germ
samples for its biological weapons </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">program in the 1980s</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 UK Parliament report said British forces had bad intel
on Iraq and govt limited them </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">due to fears of anti-war
sentiment </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 DepDefSec Wolfowitz said Iraq invasion proved US
claims about Iraq’s links to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">terrorism</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 INC Chalabi aide Sabah who worked at Finance Min
accused of illegally recycling old </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">dinars that were supposed to be
destroyed Bremer sent case to criminal court </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/01/corruption-in-iraq-interview-with.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/iraqs-troubles-fighting-corruption.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US
Anti-Graft Official) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2005 New parliament met for 1<sup>st</sup> time month after
Jan election results certified 1<sup>st</sup> step in forming new govt</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 New Iraqi parliament seated after Dec 05 elections </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 2 PM Maliki aides said premier told Sadr to stand down
Mahdi Army at start of Surge In </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">return Maliki would push US to
focus upon insurgency rather than militias </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 ISI set off chlorine bombs in Amiriya Fallujah
Fallujah and Ramadi 2 Awakening </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">sheikhs killed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/demise-but-not-death-of-al-qaeda-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-change-in-perceptions-led-to-anbar.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/10/lasting-lessons-from-anbar-awakening.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Lasting Lessons From The Anbar Awakening Interview with
Carter Malkasian, Author of Illusions of Victory) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/fallujah-redux-interview-with-daniel.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Fallujah Redux Interview With Daniel Green On Fallujah
During The Surge) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/09/review-fallujah-awakens-marines-sheikhs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Fallujah Awakens, Marines, Sheikhs, and the Battle Against Al Qaeda</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-confronting-al-qaeda-sunni.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/05/review-shultz-jr-richard-marines-take.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/09/review-illusions-of-victory-anbar.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/03/review-iraqs-sunni-insurgency.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-couch-dick-sheriff-of-ramadi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Sheriff of Ramadi, Navy SEALS and the Winning of Anbar</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-fallujah-redux-anbar-awakening.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Fallujah Redux The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle With Al Qaeda</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Sadr called on followers to resist U.S. occupation
1000s of Sadrists marched </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 US-Iraqi meeting discussed security in Basra US said
couldn’t be taken care of until </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Mosul op over PM Maliki said he
was going to take on security in Basra and that he was going to lead effort
personally </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Mahdi Army fought police in 2 villages in Diyala </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/diyala-province-backgrounder.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Diyala Province Backgrounder) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Fmr head of Defense Policy Board Perle NYTimes OpEd
Said plan to turn over Iraq to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Iraqis right after invasion
Stopped by Sec State Powell Natl Sec Adv Rice CIA Dir Tenet Said US thought it
knew better than Iraqis Said Iraqi opposition should have run Iraq Said
underestimated how badly Bush admin could mess things up </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 CPA head Bremer NYTimes OpEd Said US didn’t have
postwar Iraq plan Didn’t have </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">counterinsurgency plan after
invasion Only sent half the troops necessary Regretted not pushing for better
military plan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-fiasco-american-military.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-losing-iraq-inside-post-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Policy</span></i><span style="color: black;"> <i>Tragedy</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Report 1/3 or more of fuel from Baiji refinery stolen
in 07 Believed worth $2bil ISI </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">thought to make up to
$100,000/day from refinery Feb 08 head of intel at refinery arrested for
smuggling and supporting insurgents </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Report PM Maliki advisor said would take years to
rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure Adv to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Electricity Min said budget for
reconstruction only half of what was needed Power plants only producing at 50%
capacity </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 PM Maliki said Saudi and UAE military deploying to
Bahrain could lead to sectarian </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">violence </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/05/iraq-will-have-to-wait-for-its-return.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Will Have To Wait For Its Return To The Regional Stage) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Oil Minister Luaibi claimed Exxon sent letter saying
it was suspending its contract in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">KRG Exxon continued work in
Kurdistan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/exxon-mobile-trying-to-have-it-both.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Exxon Mobile Trying To Have It Both Ways In Iraq, Developing Oil Fields in The
South And North)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/06/exxon-deal-with-iraqs-kurds-gains.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Exxon Deal With Iraq’s Kurds Gains Powerful New Ally, Ninewa’s Governor, But
Will It Backfire On Him?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-new-chevron-deal-affects-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a><span style="color: black;"> How the New Chevron Deal Affects Oil
Dispute Between Iraq’s Central Government And Kurdistan) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-state-of-kurdish-regional.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
State Of The Kurdish Regional Government In Iraq, An Interview With National
Defense Univ’s Dr Denise Natali) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Human Rights Watch blamed PM Maliki govt for attacks
on emo kids Interior Min </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">originally denied attacks Said
it would go after people spreading stories Called emo kids Satanists and threat
to Iraq Said it was going to crackdown on emos in Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/al-jazeera-video-emo-youth-targetd-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Al Jazeera Video</span></a><span style="color: black;">:
‘Emo’ Youth Targeted In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/governments-role-in-recent-anti-emo.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Government’s Role In The Recent Anti-Emo Violence In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Report ISI picked up ops since US withdrawal in 2011
Iraqi officials said more fighters </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Benefited from US prison
closures Start of 2011 were less than 200 incidents/month Now 800
incidents/month early 2013 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Human Rights Watch called for govt investigation into
shooting protesters Mar 8 in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Mosul Soldiers opened fire after
rocks thrown Then stopped ambulances from carrying wounded away Interior Min
claimed there were armed men in crowd who shot at ISF Demonstrators said police
opened fire on demonstrations in Mosul four other times Police also killed 9 at
Fallujah protest site </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/05/understanding-iraqs-protest-movements.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor
of Inside Iraqi Politics) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 PM Abadi asked US for airstrikes to help Tikrit
operation that was stalled Would put </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">ISF backed by Coalition
airstrikes in lead in war </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/us-iranian-rivalry-behind-iraqs-tikrit.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
U.S.-Iranian Rivalry Behind Iraq’s Tikrit Operation) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/divisions-over-iraq-war-exposed-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report Iran sent short range ballistic missiles to its
allies in the Hashd for Tikrit </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">operation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/12/news-of-iran-moving-missiles-into-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> News
Of Iran Moving Missiles Into Iraq Continue) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 KRG Natural Resource Min Hawrami claimed KRG would be
self-sufficient economically in months </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Didn’t happen </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report Hashd said they were fighting in Syria to
protect Sayid Zainab shrine but were </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">fighting all across country to
help Assad Fighters returned to Iraq after Mosul fell 2014 Then returned to
Syria in 2015 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Interview with Hezbollah al-Nujaba head Kaabi Said
group formed to fight in Syria </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Would attack US if around
Supported Iran’s vilyat al-faqih and Ayatollah Khamenei Said got aid from Iran
Fighting across Syria </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraqs-sheikh-akram-al-kaabi-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi and Hezbollah al-Nujaba) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Report Member of Integrity Comm said $130 bil missing
from Defense Min </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">contracts Said weapons contracts
with Eastern Europe for $350 mil corrupt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Iran’s asst ground forces commander said Iranian
Special Forces were going to deploy to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 US deployed Apache helicopters to support Iraqi forces
due to heavy fighting in Old </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">City Mosul ISF advanced stopped
due to bad weather </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/03/mosul-campaign-day-149-march-16-2017.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Mosul Campaign Day 151, March 16, 2017) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Report 320 schools reopened in east Mosul and nearby
towns 258,000 kids back in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">school </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Turkey launched operation against PKK moving 15km into
Irbil province </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/political-posturing-by-iraq-and-turkey.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Political Posturing By Iraq And Turkey) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/06/review-turkey-us-and-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Turkey, the US and Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Pro-Iran groups fired rockets at Besmaya base in
Baghdad where Spanish trainers </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">located</span></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a> <br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1915 Viceroy of India wrote UK interests were protecting
Persian oil concession which meant Basra </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">vilayet should be controlled by
UK while Baghdad vilayet should be ceded by Turkey and given native
administration under UK influence </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/02/review-enemy-on-euphrates-battle-for.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-when-god-made-hell-british.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of
Iraq, 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1917 British took Bhopal Hill from Turks Consolidated
position in Baghdad vilayet British suffered 518 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">casualties Turks 800-1,000</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1921 During Cairo conference Colonial Sec Churchill set up
committee of Sir Percy Cox Gertrude Bell TE </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Lawrence Hubert Young and Lt
Cmdr Noel to discuss future of Kurds in Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Nasser gave 5<sup>th</sup> speech against Iraqi
Communists Said party was anti-religious </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Differences within Baath over socialism led it to
issue announcement of a transitional program to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">focus on Arab unity and
development of Iraq and then move towards socialism </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1969 Bakr govt sent army brigade to Syria to protect
against Israel </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1980 Ayatollah Khomeini called on Iraqis to rise up against
Saddam </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/10/review-saddams-war-iraqi-military.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Saddam’s
War, An Iraqi Military Perspective of the Iran-Iraq War</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Saddam said unless Iran agreed to ceasefire he would
aid Iranian opposition groups</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iraq carried out air raid on Tehran Iran fired SCUDs
at Baghdad in War of Cities </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/07/review-iraqi-mirages-dassault-mirage.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air
Force, 1981-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iraq launched counterattack against Iran Op Badr
Pushed Iranians back across Tigris </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 Iran seized areas south of Mawat Kurdistan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 First detention center for Kurds displaced during
Anfal campaign set up</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/09/iraqs-anfal-campaign-and-destruction-of_05.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Anfal Campaign And The Destruction Of The Kurdish Opposition)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1990 Iraq executed UK journalist Bazoft for reporting on
missile program Condemned in West Saddam </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">believed West plotting against
Iraq and Bazoft’s execution would be sign to them to stop Saddam said Bazoft’s
death was punishment for PM Thatcher plotting against Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Rebels in Diwanaiya attempted and failed to take
Hillah </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Saddam declared southern revolt over </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iraqi govt forces began operation to retake Tuz
Kharmato from Peshmerga </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 US met with Iraqis Told them they could not fly planes
Objected to Iraqis using </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">helicopters to put down Shiite
uprising Iraq said rebellion led by Iran </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 US shot down Iraqi fighter after warned it no flights
allowed during uprisings </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-us-helped-start-rebellion-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Saddam finally
realized war inevitable Divided up Iraq into 4 districts with loyalists in
control of each </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Iraqi state TV said country was on a war footing
Baghdad had been divided into four military </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">districts </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Special Republican Guard withdrew $1 bil from Central
Bank of Iraq under Uday Hussein to pay </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">off sheikhs to put down expected
rebellions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Iraqi security forces tried to stamp out signs of
Kurdish opposition in Kirkuk City</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 VP Cheney told NBC that UN weapons inspectors had
missed Iraq’s nuke program in 1990s and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">they weren’t going to do better
this time Said Iraq could have a nuclear bomb soon Said Iraqis defying
inspections again </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/08/interview-with-vp-dick-cheney-on.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Interview With VP Dick Cheney On Weapons Inspections March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-us-intelligence-created-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/un-inspectors-were-right-iraq-was-not.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/iraqs-rejection-of-un-inspectors-led-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/11/review-days-of-fire-bush-and-cheney-in.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Days Of Fire, Bush and Cheney in the White House</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 ORHA head Garner told Sec Def Rumsfeld plan was only
to dismiss top two officials from each </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Iraqi ministry and not carry out
any deBaathification policy Rumsfeld okayed plan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Tragedy</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld complained Garner picked non-Pentagon
people to run some Iraqi ministries </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Wanted them all from Defense</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/04/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_22.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> on
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction <i>Hard Lessons</i> Chapter 3
The Department of Defense Takes Charge)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-state-of-denial-bush-at-war-part.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 CIA gave explosives to Kurdish team which blew up
Mosul-Baghdad railway starting covert action </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">campaign before invasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found 51% of Americans
believed Saddam involved in 9/11</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Bush told Blair Chalabi up to no good using
deBaathification committee for his own ends </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2005 Mahdi Army attacked co-ed Basra Univ engineering
student picnic Beat female student and stripped </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">her She later committed suicide
2 male students shot Led to protests vs Sadrists </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2005 Report leaked that Halliburton overcharged US for fuel
imports to Iraq by more than $108 mil </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2005 Italy announced it would withdraw its approximate
3,000 troops from Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2005 Ukraine withdrew 130 of its soldiers from Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 Iraq Study Group began creating alternative Iraq
strategy for Bush admin </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey created task force to look into
sectarian violence and come up with</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
targets to bring it down </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Report White House said Surge would lead to political
benchmarks by Mar 07 Were none Cabinet </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">approved draft oil law US
officials said they were backing off pushing Maliki govt on changing
deBaathification law in fear of backlash </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/06/review-surge-my-journey-with-general.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq
War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report Iraq didn’t have good investment rules Had to
get okays from every ministry involved in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">investment and they didn’t have
same rules Used paper system which meant everything went slowly Investments
often got stuck in bureaucracy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report Kurdish newspaper fined 10 mil dinars for story
that Pres Talabani worth $400 mil Editor </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">fined 3 mil dinars for saying
PUK got $30 mil/yr from KRG budget Examples of how politicians used defamation
laws to silence critics </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 King Abdullah told US he didn’t trust PM Maliki
because he was an Iranian agent </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/review-self-fulfilling-prophecy-saudi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, The Saudi Struggle For Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Report election monitoring groups found ISF telling
who to vote for at polling stations People voting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">for absent or dead family
members Families and tribes selling votes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Report Iraqi border guards charging $1,500 per truck
to enter with produce Some trucks </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">held at border for days until
they paid</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-examples-of-corruption-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> New
Examples Of Corruption In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Kirkuk governor and provincial councilman resigned due
to protests </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/possible-power-sharing-deal-between.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
Possible Power Sharing Deal Between Kurds And Turkmen Could Upset The Status
Quo In Iraq’s Tamim Province) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 One of VP Hashemi’s guards who accused him of
terrorism died in custody Authorities </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">claimed kidney failure but
pictures showed torture</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-iraq-from-war-to-new.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/12/charges-against-iraqs-vice-president.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Charges Against Iraq’s Vice President, And Why They Matter) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Report oil companies in Kurdistan cut back production
because owed money by KRG Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">stopped monthly budget payments
to KRG over oil dispute </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/iraqs-kurds-push-for-more-oil.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Kurds Push For More Oil Production, While Bickering With Baghdad Over
Exports) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/iraqi-kurdistans-failed-independent-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Report US asked Iraq to stop flights from Iran to
Syria using air space Used to send weapons to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">support Assad Maliki govt
refused </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Police stopped protesters in Baghdad praying at Abu
Hanifa mosque Report ISI flags seen at Fallujah </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">protest site </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/05/understanding-iraqs-protest-movements.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor
of Inside Iraqi Politics) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Report insurgents skimmed salaries from ISF in Mosul
and Tikrit Charged taxes on imports to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">cities Got protection money from
businesses and generator operators Kidnapped for ransom Believed to earn $8
mil/month from extortion in Ninewa </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/03/insurgent-financing-in-iraqs-ninewa.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Insurgent Financing In Iraq’s Ninewa Province) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/analyzing-finances-of-al-qaeda-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Analyzing The Finances Of Al Qaeda In Iraq Interview With RAND’s Patrick
Johnson) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report 800 Hezbollah advisors sent to Iraq to help
plan ops against IS </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/07/hezbollahs-role-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/divisions-over-iraq-war-exposed-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Head of Samarra Ops Command asked Defense Min to
request Coalition air strikes to help </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">with Tikrit op Came after attack
on city slowed due to Hashd casualties Hashd claimed Tikrit would fall in 3
days Didn’t happen </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/us-iranian-rivalry-behind-iraqs-tikrit.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
U.S.-Iranian Rivalry Behind Iraq’s Tikrit Operation) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Report KRG hadn’t paid
govt workers since 2016 due to falling oil prices and budget dispute with
Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Def Sec Mattis accused
Iran of sending money to Iraq to sway May elections </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Kataib Hezbollah threatened ISF political parties and
companies to stop working </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">with US by this date or else
Said it was fighting US occupation of Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/instrument-of-irans-power-in-iraq-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2021 Report Split within protest movement over whether to
take part in elections or boycott </span></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a><br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-74984406949915885532024-03-14T08:21:00.000-07:002024-03-14T08:22:19.918-07:00Review Mugged By Reality, The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions<p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Agresto, John, <i>Mugged
By Reality, The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions</i>, New
York: Encounter Books, 2007</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">John Agresto worked for the
Coalition Provisional Authority from 2003-2004 as the advisor to the Ministry
of Higher Education. The book covers two themes. The main one is the author giving
a neoconservative argument for why he supported the Iraq War. The second is
what were the root causes for the failure of the U.S. occupation sprinkled with
anecdotes about the people he met in Iraq. The book is about how the author
struggled to hold onto his ideas as they were confronted by the occupation. Some
of his criticisms are poignant but too many times he rambles on and contradicts
himself. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The author repeats many of
the Bush White House and neoconservative reasons for the invasion of Iraq. First
he thought that overthrowing Saddam would be a setback for terrorists and could
create an American ally in the heart of the Middle East that would transform
the entire region. Agresto held the common American belief that all people want
freedom and democracy and therefore after the dictatorship was removed Iraqis
would naturally move in that direction. These are all themes which President
Bush and his advisors pushed as justifications for the war.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The book also goes into some
of the inane beliefs of the administration. For instance the author said that
America isn’t hated because of its policies but because the U.S. wants to free
people around the world and believes in bringing equality to the downtrodden.
This he said greatly angered Islamists. Then he writes that Iraq proved to be
the central front on the war on terror because of all of the attacks upon U.S.
troops. He ignores the fact that there was no terrorism in Iraq until the 2003
invasion and that showed that America’s actions do cause reactions rather than
hatred for freedom or equality. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some of his writing about why
the U.S. failed in Iraq go over much better. For one he said that too many
pushed democracy as an end rather than a means to create a just and stable
society in Iraq. The U.S. repeatedly said that voting would create stability
but that didn’t happen after three rounds of balloting in 2005. Agresto argued
that a democratic culture and institutions needed to be created for the
political system to work but the Americans never put any effort into that and many
times ignored them. The author saw that elections put in power mostly religious
parties that didn’t care about freedom and rights but only their sect and
imposing their ideas upon society. Too few realized the shortcomings of this
policy especially President Bush. He was a true believer that democracy would
lead everyone towards a society like America. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Other times the book goes
into how Saddam’s dictatorship debilitated Iraqi society. For one public
workers rarely showed any initiative. Instead they were afraid to act by
themselves fearing they might anger a superior. Therefore the smallest acts
required the authorization of the highest leaders in the government which meant
things worked at a snail’s pace. Baghdad also used its oil wealth to subsidize
many things like fuel and electricity so many goods were considered free making
the public feel dependent upon the state. Again this created a culture where
Iraqis didn’t believe they had to do anything because the government was
supposed to do things for them. Agresto didn’t touch on this but these ideas
were also held by the new elite which was put into power by the Americans and
undermined democracy. The political class didn’t feel like they should serve the
public but the people should serve them since they controlled the government
and its vast resources. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Last, <i>Mugged By Reality</i>
goes into how Iraq’s universities were quickly transformed for the worse after
2003. At first, the U.S. held elections for new presidents of all the colleges
and believed this was the start of a new era of academic freedom in the
country. The first Minister of Higher Education however fired all the
presidents to try to put his party’s people into office. The U.S. reversed that
order but ended up trying to limit the minister’s power because he was only
interested in patronage and imposing his party’s rule. Then many of the schools
were taken over by students and militias who segregated male and female
students, made women cover themselves, and carried out a wave of assassinations
of the faculty. Sometimes they were killed for being Baathists but as time
passed they were gotten rid of because they weren’t the right sect or because
they gave a bad grade. The universities were supposed to help create a new
educated class of Iraqis but quickly fell into terror and disarray just like
the rest of the country. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This is what made Agresto
feel like the U.S. failed in Iraq. Washington simply didn’t understand what it
took to rebuild a country and had no comprehension of Iraq’s culture which
shaped how people acted. He thought that religion was the overriding influence
because of the Islamist terrorists and religious parties that took power but it
was actually because he didn’t know Iraqi history. He mistook Iraq during the
occupation as how the country always was which was not true. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The author and the White
House went into Iraq with the belief that Iraqis would act like Americans
because they epitomized universal ideas of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness but that proved false. Both struggled to hold onto their philosophies
while dealing with Iraq. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mugged By Reality</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> doesn’t add much to the knowledge about the U.S.
invasion and occupation of Iraq. It’s more of a personal story of someone who
had big ideas and hopes for Iraq which got crushed by the reality that he
found. The book comes down to Agresto trying to hold onto his ideals while
amending how they could be implemented using Iraq as a lesson about how not to
do things. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/book-reviews-by-topic.html"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Link to all of
Musings On Iraq’s book reviews</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> listed by topic</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-38491647883606449572024-03-14T08:19:00.000-07:002024-03-14T08:19:50.810-07:00This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 14 Operation to free Tikrit stalled due to high Hashd casualties <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoqK4z8APyFELKVeJRm3zZdQlZz3jBpg9otdgF4gs1AzheynfjBpz-KkOS2N9kK0sKKIslBODOD0sIWCyp03gKHkfLeHQic_jX3N5gMaBdDgOz4UYoN_A_F9JFIHxFSX0n8Iym0tlzt_zFc6aCJ0IYPqc_bOyQ8fxvHmV54SC0FW1zK6647q37I9pGQ67N/s594/Screenshot%202024-03-14%20at%208.19.16%E2%80%AFAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="594" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoqK4z8APyFELKVeJRm3zZdQlZz3jBpg9otdgF4gs1AzheynfjBpz-KkOS2N9kK0sKKIslBODOD0sIWCyp03gKHkfLeHQic_jX3N5gMaBdDgOz4UYoN_A_F9JFIHxFSX0n8Iym0tlzt_zFc6aCJ0IYPqc_bOyQ8fxvHmV54SC0FW1zK6647q37I9pGQ67N/w640-h360/Screenshot%202024-03-14%20at%208.19.16%E2%80%AFAM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1921 Colonial Sec Churchill wrote PM Lloyd George Said
making Faisal king of Iraq best </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">chance for UK to save money in
Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/06/review-empires-of-sand-struggle-for.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1925 Iraq deal gave Turkish Petroleum Company right to
explore for oil in entire country </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Was done before Iraq
constitution finished so didn’t have to debated in parliament </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/10/review-creation-of-iraq-1914-1921.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/02/alnasrawi-abbas-iraqsburdens-oil.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq’s Burdens, Oil, Sanctions and Underdevelopment</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1940 Regent called meeting of fmr PMs Got them to promise
to work with Gaylani if he </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">became PM </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1951 Grenade hit American Cultural Center in Baghdad
wounding some Jewish visitors Might’ve been done </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">by underground Zionist group sent
by Israel </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/08/review-iraqi-jews-history-of-mass-exodus.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Iraqi Jews, A History of Mass Exodus</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Nasser gave 4<sup>th</sup> speech against Iraqi
Communists Said that he would stand against the </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">communist dictatorship</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Iraq Syria and Egypt began talks about uniting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1974 Iraqi Air Force began air strikes on Peshmerga around
Zakho </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Cuba’s foreign minister arrived in Lebanon as head of
Non-Aligned Movement attempt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">to negotiate ceasefire in
Iran-Iraq War </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1983 Sec of State Shultz ordered US diplomat in Baghdad to
discuss US financing trade </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">deals with Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/05/review-spiders-web-secret-history-of.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House
illegally armed Iraq</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-twilight-war-secret-history-of.html">Musings
On Iraq Review</a> <i>The Twilight War, The Secret History Of America’s
Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iran fired SCUD missiles at Baghdad War of Cities 1<sup>st</sup>
time Iran used long range missiles </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Saddam ordered retaliation
Baghdad would bomb Tehran for 4 weeks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1986 UN mission found that Iraq had used chemical weapons
several times in Iran-Iraq War </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 Iraq’s 43<sup>rd</sup> Div destroyed and Iran captured
Halabja Sulaymaniya Iran captured Dukan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Dam Turned back at Darbandikhan
Dam </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Pres Bush warned Iran not to take advantage of Iraq
uprisings to try to annex any </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">territory</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 PM Blair Adv Manning said Natl Sec Adv Rice committed
to regime change in Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 PM Blair Adv Manning said US working on strategic
decisions on how to remove </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Saddam </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/03/chilcot-report-section-32-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Report Section 3.2 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, January
to April 2002 – “Axis of Evil” to Crawford)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 CIA Dir Tenet told Bush VP Cheney was going to give a
speech about Iraq-Al Qaeda </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">ties that Sec State Powell
dropped from his UN speech Tenet said speech would go beyond what intel showed
and argued against it Bush got Cheney to cancel speech </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld told ORHA head Garner he was going to
pick all the advisers that </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">were going to run Iraqi
ministries </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/04/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_22.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> on
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction <i>Hard Lessons</i> Chapter 3
The Department of Defense Takes Charge)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/05/special-inspector-general-for-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction <i>Hard Lessons</i> Chapter 4
Staging in Kuwait)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-state-of-denial-bush-at-war-part.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Policy</span></i><span style="color: black;"> <i>Tragedy</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Iran’s national security adviser said US would not
have a happy ending in Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/irans-policy-towards-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 French Pres Chirac told PM Blair he would not accept a
UN resolution that set an </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">ultimatum for Iraq disarmament </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 NSC decided on language for ultimatum to Saddam
Included 48 hour deadline to leave </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">power pushed by Sec Def Rumsfeld
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK Attn Gen Lord Goldsmith changed his mind again Said
2<sup>nd</sup> UN resolution not </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">needed to authorize war vs Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/06/chilcot-inquiry-section-5-advice-on.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 5 Advice On The Legal Basis For Military Action,
November 2002 To March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2005 Netherlands withdrew its 160 troops from Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 Report May-Jun 03 British worried about strategic
failure in Iraq due to US mistakes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Iraqi military announced deaths down 80% in Baghdad
since start of Surge NYTimes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">found higher number of deaths
but still big drop US military said deaths in Iraq down since start of Surge
but deaths up in Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/06/review-surge-my-journey-with-general.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq
War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/12/inside-surge-interview-with-prof-peter.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Inside The Surge An Interview With Prof Peter Mansoor Former Executive Officer
To Gen Petraeus) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/02/reassessing-us-surge-and-recognizing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Reassessing The US Surge, And Recognizing Iraqi Agency In Ending The 2005-2008
Civil War In Iraq An Interview With New America Foundation’s Douglas Ollivant) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Pentagon report to Congress on last Qtr of 06 Said PM
Maliki promised reform and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">reconciliation but did nothing
Oct-Dec 06 most violent period recorded in Iraq since 2003 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Report Dead bodies in Baghdad down from more than
200/wk in Dec 06 to 80/wk Mar </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">07 # of dead from bombings in
Baghdad went from 528 in Dec 06 to 370 in Jan 07 Mahdi Army off streets of
Baghdad Many insurgents said to have withdrawn to Diyala </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/diyala-province-backgrounder.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Diyala Province Backgrounder) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-voices-from-iraq-peoples-history.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Basra commander Gen Mohan outlined security plan to US
Would start in March Gen </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Petraeus was unhappy with plan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Justice Min said it would close Camp Honor secret
prison in Baghdad run by PM </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Maliki that used torture on
prisoners Was not closed</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 KRG PM Salih said he agreed with all the demonstrators
demands Were calling for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">political reforms better
services rise in living standards No serious changes made </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/06/view-from-northern-iraq-on-2011-kurdish.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-iraqs-kurdistan-broke-up-two-months.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Peshmerga found mass grave south of Kirkuk with 2,300
bodies Victims of Saddam </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Ninewa council voted to freeze Article 140 that was to
determine future of disputed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">areas </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Baghdad police held Russia Today reporters for 3 hrs
because were doing story on </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">militia attacks on emos and gays
in Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/al-jazeera-video-emo-youth-targetd-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Al Jazeera Video</span></a><span style="color: black;">:
‘Emo’ Youth Targeted In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/09/is-iraqs-dawa-party-returning-to-their.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Is
Iraq’s Dawa Party Returning To Their Islamic Roots Or Just Trying To Shore Up
Their Base? Attempts To Ban Alcohol, Set Public Dress Codes, And Attack Emos
And Gays Raise The Question) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 PM Maliki went to Kuwait to improve ties Was dispute
between two over </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">compensation for stolen and
destroyed airplanes from 1990 invasion Maliki said he resolved problem </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 5 suicide bombers and a car bomb hit Justice and
Foreign Ministries, Communications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
Institute in central Baghdad 26 killed 63 wounded</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/10/review-suicide-bombers-in-iraq-strategy.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Operation to free Tikrit from IS stalled due to high
Hashd casualties Iran was hoping to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">push Hashd allies into lead in
war but failed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/us-iranian-rivalry-behind-iraqs-tikrit.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
U.S.-Iranian Rivalry Behind Iraq’s Tikrit Operation) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/divisions-over-iraq-war-exposed-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report Badr head Amiri said some Iraqi parties were
sucking up to US and getting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">nothing while Iranian support
was unconditional Said US threat to Iraqi sovereignty Hashd spokesman said 40
Iranian advisers helping with Tikrit op</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report IS selling looted artifacts on eBay Was looting
historic sites Imposed taxes on </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">artifacts to maintain control
over trade Had connections to crime rings in Turkey Lebanon and Jordan to sell
items Money used to finance group </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/destruction-of-historic-sites-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Destruction Of Historical Sites In Iraq Hides Looting Campaign By Islamic
State) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Peshmerga found mass grave with 50 bodies in Shamsa
Kirkuk Victims of IS </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-goes-on-offensive-in-salahadin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Goes On The Offensive In Salahaddin, Kirkuk and Anbar) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 IS moved back into Rutba Anbar after leaving it day
before Was meant to lure ISF into </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">city and then entrap them
Fighting continued in Hit </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 State of Law MPs said Sadr’s protests in Baghdad could
be infiltrated by terrorists </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-review-of-iraq-premier-abadis-reform.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Oil Ministry ordered North Oil Company to stop sending
oil to Kurdish pipeline to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Turkey Part of on going dispute
between Baghdad and KRG over oil </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Report KRG stopped sending oil money to Baghdad and
Abadi govt stopped sending </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">budget payments to Irbil KRG in
financial crisis Signed contracts with oil traders to deliver set amount of oil
each month which it didn’t meet 2014 Kurds took control of Kirkuk oil fields
after ISF fled due to IS Kurds kicked out North Oil Company and had Kurdish
company run fields </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/04/collapse-of-iraqs-kurdish-oil-economy.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Collapse Of Iraq’s Kurdish Oil Economy) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/iraqi-kurdistans-failed-independent-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Report Captured IS document said it knew it would lose
Mosul and Raqqa Said loss of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">territory wouldn’t end Caliphate
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/03/mosul-campaign-day-147-march-14-2017.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Mosul Campaign Day 149, March 14, 2017) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights reported 439
civilians killed in battle to take West </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Mosul from IS Thought 700 more
had died but couldn’t confirm </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Mass grave found near Al Houd 118 people disappeared
from town under IS rule </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/03/mosul-campaign-day-148-march-15-2017.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Mosul Campaign Day 150, March 15, 2017) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Sulaymaniya teachers promised to continue their strike
over not being paid since </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">November 2017 due to KRG
austerity measures </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 Saudi Trade Minister arrived in Baghdad Said Arar
border crossing would re-open </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Closed since 1990 invasion of
Kuwait </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2021 Report Hashd factions in Albu Dora Salahaddin blocked
displaced from returning </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Controlled trade Extorted money
from people Controlled fishing and farms south of Tikrit </span></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a> <br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-51068395525243753802024-03-13T08:19:00.001-07:002024-03-13T08:19:19.433-07:00Iraq’s Largest Refinery Refinery Back To Full Capacity After 9 Yrs Of Rebuilding <span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWe-DhW-B00C7ZxW-ulky1fRwkIyjw2jSOacS1Y8_1KBMLmcA5ggYoJjBxfi8Q7ngc32mw_iJY26CoqY8IY_KLAAIK1Dfrdn5k0riZMaCit2zAysBzQbSP10uawZlaOasIjayWV5n9kd1f3KJi3ssyYRA_vrSFSogvXN_7ARrEg5KIWoa3yQCaUdyIZ_fp/s520/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%206.26.09%E2%80%AFPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="520" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWe-DhW-B00C7ZxW-ulky1fRwkIyjw2jSOacS1Y8_1KBMLmcA5ggYoJjBxfi8Q7ngc32mw_iJY26CoqY8IY_KLAAIK1Dfrdn5k0riZMaCit2zAysBzQbSP10uawZlaOasIjayWV5n9kd1f3KJi3ssyYRA_vrSFSogvXN_7ARrEg5KIWoa3yQCaUdyIZ_fp/w640-h380/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%206.26.09%E2%80%AFPM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />On February 23 Prime Minister Mohammed Sudani </span><a href="https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/230220241"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">announced that the Baiji Refinery</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> in
Salahaddin province was completely re-opened. The facility was the site of
fierce fighting during the war against the Islamic State. Afterwards it was
looted by Hashd forces. It took 9 years after its liberation to be fully
operational again highlighting the shortcomings with the Iraqi government. </span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">In the </span><a href="http://www.iraqoilreport.com/security/energy-sector/key-energy-facilities-isis-control-12517/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">summer of 2014</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> the Islamic State seized
most of Baiji Refinery as it swept across the northern provinces after taking
Mosul. It took over a year of intense fighting </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5179479/Reconstruction-starts-Iraqs-biggest-oil-refinery.html"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">to free it</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Immediately afterwards pro-Iran Hashd </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-baiji-20160611-snap-story.html"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">units</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span><a href="http://aliraqnews.com/نائبمليشيات-العصائب-وكتائب-حزب-الله-و/"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">looted</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> the </span><a href="http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0YP2DO?il=0"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">facility</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">. Most of the heavy
equipment was sold to buyers in Kurdistan and Iran. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Despite that, in January 2016 the Oil Ministry sent a
team to assess the refinery and announced that it would be </span><a href="http://www.iraqoilreport.com/news/fixable-baiji-refinery-plundered-beyond-repair-17812/"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">back at work in a few months</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">. That
was contradicted by an Oil Ministry official that told Iraq Oil Report that $12
billion was necessary to fix everything. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t until April 2018 that </span><a href="https://almasalah.com/ar/news/133382/%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%81-%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%81-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-4-%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">part of Baiji was re-opened</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">. That
was because Baghdad did not prioritize rebuilding after the war with the
Islamic State was over. It </span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/11/cost-of-rebuilding-iraq.html"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">had no plans</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> and failed to garner much
international aid for the effort. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Baiji is Iraq’s largest refinery for a country known for
shortages in oil derivatives. Yet it took another 6 years for the entire
refinery to be working again. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">SOURCES</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Agence France Presse, “Reconstruction starts at Iraq’s
biggest oil refinery,” 12/14/17</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bulos, Nabih, “Iraqi forces took Baiji
from Islamic State, but the former boom town may be doomed,” Los Angeles Times,
6/11/16</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Iraq News Network, “Deputy: Al-Ubeib
militias, Hezbollah Brigades, and Martyrs stole equipment from Baiji refinery,”
1/6/19</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Iraq Oil Report, “Baiji refinery begins its comeback,”
9/10/18</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Al Masalah, “Baiji refinery reopens after 4-year hiatus,”
4/13/18</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Al-Najaf, Kamaran, Lando, Ben, Van Heuvelen, Ben, “Key
energy facilities under ISIS control,” Iraq Oil Report, 6/13/14</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Parker, Ned and Landay, Jonathan,
“Exclusive: U.S. falters in campaign to revive Iraqi army, officials say,”
Reuters, 6/3/16</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Rasul, Azhi, “Iraq reopens largest oil refinery after
decade-long shutdown,” Rudaw, 2/23/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Xinhua, “Iraq restores part of largest oil refinery after
4-year hiatus,” 8/27/18</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Zaki, Mahmoud, Osgood, Patrick, Van
Heuvelen, Ben, Lando, Ben, “Once fixable, Baiji refinery plundered beyond
repair,” Iraq Oil Report, 1/28/16</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-41908383953839443492024-03-13T08:19:00.000-07:002024-03-13T08:19:10.744-07:00This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 13 Barzani officially ended his revolt after Shah of Iran cut off aid <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7YVMBbLHwckxS9-O960QI4QJO0zj9NW9j_F4aMzA2pRtfrtLGhPVYKth81Gkpc80ytE27GQof5zKADKrIzh32R8tbNa9_6UkazcprQXpJzL-MC9RcFQG-NhFQ5dPlE1Y7vvRBa8soqeyLhiohDwGgGweYzU5HjRju0ymtxTHPMyAzXK0j1daf3DsUBPt/s442/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%206.17.45%E2%80%AFPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="442" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7YVMBbLHwckxS9-O960QI4QJO0zj9NW9j_F4aMzA2pRtfrtLGhPVYKth81Gkpc80ytE27GQof5zKADKrIzh32R8tbNa9_6UkazcprQXpJzL-MC9RcFQG-NhFQ5dPlE1Y7vvRBa8soqeyLhiohDwGgGweYzU5HjRju0ymtxTHPMyAzXK0j1daf3DsUBPt/w400-h326/Screenshot%202024-03-12%20at%206.17.45%E2%80%AFPM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1910 Ottoman army defeated Montafiq tribal confederation in
present day Maysan province for rejecting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">taxes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1917 British started Samarra offensive against Ottomans
after taking Baghdad</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-when-god-made-hell-british.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of
Iraq, 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1933 UK Amb to Iraq told King Faisal that trying to control
opposition by including it in govt only created </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">dysfunctional govts and
opposition were opposed to Iraq’s alliance with UK and should be excluded</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1935 PM Midfai sent army unit from Hillah to Diwaniya to
crush tribal uprising Head of army Hashemi said </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">army too weak to deal with
uprising Revolt instigated by politicians opposed to Midfai </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-chatham-house-version-and-other.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Nasser gave 3<sup>rd</sup> speech attacking Iraqi
Communists Said Communists wanted to spread their ideas </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">across the Arab world </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 KDP announced ceasefire with Baghdad after Iran said
it would stop giving it aid following Algiers </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Agreement Amnesty offered which
led most Kurdish refugees in Iran to return to Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/partial-review-blum-william-killing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-great-betrayal-how-america.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/05/review-iraq-kurdish-question-1958-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/when-shah-and-nixon-manipulated-kurds.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1984 UN team arrived in Iraq to investigate use of chemical
weapons while Iran made new claims its forces </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">hit with mustard gas in Manjoon
Islands Saw patients suffering from mustard gas Forensic tests on Iraqi bombs
found mustard gas and tabun nerve gas </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1984 CIA predicted Iraq would use mustard gas on large scale
vs Iran by summer 1984 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iraqi commandos airlifted into Hoveyzah marshes to try
to cut off Iranian Op Badr forces</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1986 Iraqi counterattack to retake Faw in Basra stopped in
middle of island Iraqis dug in Iran 10,000 dead </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">25,000 wounded Iraq 3,000 dead
9,000 wounded 1,500 captured Iran still in control of Faw</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 Iran launched Op Zafar 7 in Khurmal Sulaymaniya with
Badr Op Bait al-Moqaddas 3 in Sulaymaniya </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Op Wa al-Fajr 10 in Halabja Goal
was to capture two dams Captured 7 Kurdish villages</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 Iraq restarted attack upon Iranian cities just 2 days
after ceasefire in War of Cities </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1991 Pres Bush said Iraqi helicopters should not be used to
put down Shiite and Kurdish uprisings </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Said impossible to normalize
relations with Iraq as long as Saddam in power</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-us-helped-start-rebellion-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Kurdish uprising spread to Zakho</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Kurdistan Front announced council to run Kurdish areas
during uprising </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 325 Iraqi opposition leaders from 23 factions met in
Beirut to discuss uprising in Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Led to Free Iraqi Council led by
Saad Salih Jabr</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/08/origins-of-iraqs-ethnosectarian-quota.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s Ethnosectarian Quota System) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Was anti-govt protest in Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1995 UN Security Council reviewed sanctions US argued Iraq
violating human rights missing </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Kuwaiti nationals and Iraq not
fully disclosed WMD programs to maintain embargo </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/11/review-invisible-war-united-states-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 PM Blair Foreign Pol Adv Manning met with Natl Sec Adv
Rice’s staff Manning said </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">US not considered problems with
going to war with Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK Foreign Office legal adv Brummell wrote Attny Gen
Lord Goldsmith saying didn’t </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">need 2<sup>nd</sup> UN
resolution to go to war with Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Attny Gen Lord Goldsmith changed his opinion saying 2<sup>nd</sup>
UN resolution not needed for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">action against Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair told Bush not to give ultimatum to Saddam
until he had dealt with parliament </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Bush said OK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair told still hope that 2<sup>nd</sup>
resolution authorizing force against Iraq could be passed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">in UN</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2003 Last meeting of Iraq Working Group USAID official
Chamberlain said Iraq war would be </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">quick US would meet immediate needs
of Iraqis Would withdraw within a year </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/04/special-inspector-general-for-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> on
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction <i>Hard Lessons</i> Chapter 2
The Agencies Engage)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Policy</span></i><span style="color: black;"> <i>Tragedy</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2005 Dep Industry Min said there was systematic looting of
factories and weapon sites after </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">03 invasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 Bush said Iraqi forces would take over most security
jobs by end of 2006 and that way </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">forward would continue to be
difficult </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/did-us-ever-have-strategy-to-win-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Did
the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/04/review-war-within-secret-white-house.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-endgame-inside-story-of-struggle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">George W. Bush to Barack
Obama</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 PM Maliki and Gen Petraeus went to military base in
Ramadi met Awakening sheikhs </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Petraeus said city example of
successful counterinsurgency Maliki promised services and reconstruction
Sheikhs asked for new Anbar elections so they could take govt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/demise-but-not-death-of-al-qaeda-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-change-in-perceptions-led-to-anbar.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/10/lasting-lessons-from-anbar-awakening.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-confronting-al-qaeda-sunni.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/05/review-shultz-jr-richard-marines-take.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/09/review-illusions-of-victory-anbar.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/03/review-iraqs-sunni-insurgency.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-couch-dick-sheriff-of-ramadi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Sheriff of Ramadi, Navy SEALS and the Winning of Anbar</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/06/review-surge-my-journey-with-general.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq
War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi released tape refuting
criticism of his group </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/who-was-al-qaeda-in-iraqs-abu-omar-al.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on ISI leader Abu
Omar al-Baghdadi) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Report CURVEBALL source of claim Iraq had mobile WMD
was still under German </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">intel protection living outside Munich
Fmr CIA’s Europe ops chief Drumheller claimed he tried to remove CURVEBALL info
from Sec State Powell’s Feb 03 UN speech Drumheller claimed he met with Dep CIA
Dir McLaughlin to complain about including CURVEBALL in Powell’s speech
McLaughlin denied that Powell said he never heard any questions about CURVEBALL
before his speech Labs didn’t exist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-iraqi-defector-curveball-became.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/look-who-los-angeles-times-dug-up.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Look
Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/02/story-of-curveball-and-iraqs-mobile.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/06/review-curveball-spies-lies-and-con-man.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Dep PM Salah said strong military presence needed in
Basra to get rid of militias Natl </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Sec Adv Rubaie said Basra Gov
Waeli had ultimatum to fight militias or lose backing of Baghdad Waeli replied
Baghdad didn’t understand situation and neglected province Lead up to PM
Maliki’s attack upon Mahdi Army </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Army and US Special Forces deployed to take Kut back
from Mahdi Army after it had </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">expelled police following raid
on Sadrists areas of city Was 3<sup>rd</sup> day of fighting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Gen Petraeus complained that Iraqi leaders were not
taking advantage of improved </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">security in Iraq to move forward
on reconciliation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 US military said that ISI could be reduced but would
not go away because it was so </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">adaptable</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Head of Baghdad Operations Command Gen Qanbar said
sectarian violence down 90% </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">in capital </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Body of Chaldean Archbishop of Iraq Raho found outside
of Mosul after being </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">kidnapped </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report PM Maliki transferred Kurdish officers and
units out of north Replaced army’s </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">4<sup>th</sup> Div with 12<sup>th</sup>
in Kirkuk Transferred Kurdish officers out of 2<sup>nd</sup> Div in Ninewa
Welcomed by al-Hadbaa who complained 2<sup>nd</sup> Div mostly Kurds </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Pres Barzani said as long as Oil Min had a bad policy
KRG could follow its own</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report UK started talks with Hezbollah to try to get
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq to release 5 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Britons it kidnapped from
Finance Min in 2007 UK wanted them released before it withdrew from Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-challenges-to-sadrs-leadership.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> New
Challenges To Sadr’s Leadership) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/asaib-ahl-al-haq-from-breakaway-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Report parliament investigating up to 20,000 govt
workers suspected of having fake </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">diplomas Went all the way to
some ministers Buying fake diplomas common in Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/05/iraq-tries-to-tackle-bureaucratic.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Tries To Tackle Bureaucratic Corruption By Addressing The Use Of Forged Papers)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Report Iraqi army had $27 mil worth of Humvee parts at
depot in Taji Received parts </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">twice a year General in charge
of facility valued parts on shelves over sending them to units Many units had
to buy parts locally because couldn’t get them from army Units had to request
parts from division HQ where general had to sign off on every order Army had
gas ration for units based on working vehicles Incentive for commanders not to
report broken vehicles and therefore not fix them Army didn’t value parts
logistics or repairs US found 80% of Humvees in 2 Iraqi divisions needed new
tires and batteries </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Report KRG Natural Resource Min didn’t have good
records on imports of fuel or </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">export of oil KRG imported large
amounts of counterfeit and expired medicine Health Min not fighting corruption
in health care system Little transparency in contracts signed Many contracts
signed by Pres Barzani’s office or cabinet without showing ministries </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 1<sup>st</sup> oil tanker loaded at new floating oil
terminal in Basra Would help greatly increase </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">exports </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Oil Ministry told KRG not meeting its 175,000 bar/day
oil export quota KRG was to get </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">monthly payments from Baghdad in
return Exports had decreased for months </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/iraqs-kurds-push-for-more-oil.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Kurds Push For More Oil Production, While Bickering With Baghdad Over
Exports) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/04/kurds-may-be-fighting-losing-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Kurds May Be Fighting Losing Battle With Iraq’s Central Government Over Oil
Exports) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/iraqi-kurdistans-failed-independent-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Sahwa in Salahaddin complained hadn’t been paid since
Dec 2011 Was not being </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">integrated into govt as promised
All sahwa were supposed to get govt jobs by end of 2010 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Report PM Maliki retired Dep Gov of Central Bank of
Iraq Maliki had arrested him in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Jan on corruption charges Part
of Maliki’s effort to control bank </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/03/prime-minister-maliki-completes-his.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Prime Minister Maliki Completes His Clear Out Of Central Bank of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/06/argument-for-maliki-being-iraqs-next.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/07/review-iraq-after-america-strongmen.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-iraq-from-war-to-new.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/06/is-iraqs-prime-minister-becoming.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Is
Iraq’s Prime Minister Becoming A Dictator? An Interview With Kirk Sowell Of
Inside Iraqi Politics) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/05/is-iraqs-prime-minister-maliki-more.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Is
Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki More Like Premier Nuri al-Sa’id Than Saddam? An
Interview With Historian Phebe Marr) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Anbar Tribal Chiefs rejected idea of turning Anbar
into a region Had been pushed by </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">some politicians and protest
leaders </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Report ISIS tried to storm several villages in recent
weeks Included Suleiman Beq in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Salahaddin Azim and Sadiya in
Diyala Jurf al-Sakhr and Musayib in Babil Radwaniya and Abu Ghraib in Baghdad
Also building up bases in Baghdad belts Part of buildup to assault on Mosul </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 PUK MP said KRG lost control of its finances Said even
if Baghdad restarted budget </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">payments KRG couldn’t meet its
debts KRG Finance Min ordered not to pay high level officials so low level ones
could get salaries but didn’t happen High officials still paid Low levels ones
not </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report IS started new rules to keep people in Mosul
Orders said people could only leave </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">to collect pensions Travel by
non-Muslims was banned Said if someone left Mosul could not take family with
them </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 UN human rights report ISF and Hashd carried out
extrajudicial killings torture </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">abductions forced displacement
No punishments Jun 2014 ISF burned army base with 53 prisoners inside Jun 2014
43 prisoners in Baquba police station executed Aug Hashd and police attacked
Diyala mosque twice killing 34 civilians Aug 2014 Hashd kidnapped 7 men in
Salahaddin and executed them Jan 2015 Hashd and ISF killed 70 civilians and
arrested more who had not been heard from since ISF and Hashd arrested Sunnis
at checkpoints in Salahaddin and tortured them Sep 2014 security operation in
Salahaddin Hashd forced people from homes and burned them accusing them of
being IS Reports of looting in two cities in Salahaddin</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report Iran launched info campaign over Tikrit op
posting pictures of Quds Force Cmdr </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Gen Suleimani on social media as
if he was leader of op</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/10/iranian-revolutionary-guards-commander.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq,
An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/irans-propaganda-work-in-iraq-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iran’s Propaganda Work In Iraq Interview With Tel Aviv Univ’s Dr Raz Zimmt) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-was-behind-irans-social-media.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> What
Was Behind Iran’s Social Media Campaign Promoting Gen Suleimani In Iraq?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 IS withdrew from Qaim Hit Kubaisa Rutba in Anbar </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Mass grave with 160 bodies found in Mosul Mostly
former ISF executed by IS after </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">took city in 2014 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/03/mosul-campaign-day-146-march-13-2017.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Mosul Campaign Day 148, March 13, 2017) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 PM Abadi ended ban on flights to KRG airports started
in Sep 2017 over independence </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">referendum </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/baghdad-begins-lifting-sanctions-on.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Baghdad Begins Lifting Sanctions On Kurdistan)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Anbar official said
Badr Kataib Hezbollah Asaib Ahl Al-Haq refused to withdraw from areas in
province and blocking displaced returning </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/instrument-of-irans-power-in-iraq-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/01/badr-organization-view-into-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Badr
Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/asaib-ahl-al-haq-from-breakaway-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2018 Report IS killing and kidnapping sheikhs in south
Ninewa to assert control Sheikh and son killed </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Next day sheikh and sons kidnapped</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-islamic-states-failed-comeback-in.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> The Islamic State’s Failed Comeback In Iraq) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Camp Taji in Baghdad hit with rockets by pro-Iran
groups 3 US soldiers and 3-4 ISF </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">wounded 2<sup>nd</sup> time hit
in Mar </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/tit-for-tat-between-us-and-pro-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Tit
For Tat Between U.S. and Pro-Iran Hashd Continues) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2022 Iran fired missiles at Irbil claiming they were
targeting Israeli center Iranian ambassador </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">to Iraq threatened more attacks
saying there were Mossad bases in Irbil Likely threat to KDP for aligning with
Sadr in govt formation process </span></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a><br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-14396075595066772542024-03-12T08:19:00.001-07:002024-03-12T08:19:25.507-07:00Iraq’s Oil Exports Remain Steady Last 10 Months <span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3cuWQd_E2dDNjaTPIPvtrA9y0k1_WxboGAk-EnZtLX1pI179l_GQBVle2kV2ROsz79oA_11-Tpr_fbIgx7XjTCypJumlSdYT1rQ89Cd6bulsApNKZpV2KmG_VBXGCP24FJIbLdaLgw-4LwBqlhM4glAbcWLURU4vKw2b2biWQ4IGJcLWNVN4an58EolCn/s546/Oil.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="546" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3cuWQd_E2dDNjaTPIPvtrA9y0k1_WxboGAk-EnZtLX1pI179l_GQBVle2kV2ROsz79oA_11-Tpr_fbIgx7XjTCypJumlSdYT1rQ89Cd6bulsApNKZpV2KmG_VBXGCP24FJIbLdaLgw-4LwBqlhM4glAbcWLURU4vKw2b2biWQ4IGJcLWNVN4an58EolCn/w640-h424/Oil.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />Iraq’s Oil Ministry released incomplete statistics for
its February oil exports. What it did reveal was that exports were up from
January but revenues were down because February is the shortest month of the
year. </span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">In February Iraq </span><a href="https://www.iraqoilreport.com/news/february-oil-exports-rebound-46294/"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">exported an average of 3.434 million barrels of oil per day</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">. That was up from January’s 3.339 million. From July to
December 2023 the country was selling 3.4 million barrels or more per month. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Iraq has agreed to follow a new set of export quotas by
OPEC+ so it’s an open question whether exports will be maintained or dip in the
coming months.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">No information was given about Iraq’s revenues for the
month. Iraq Oil Report estimated that the country made around $7.6 billion.
That was below $8.026 billion January but that was because February has fewer
days. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Federal Oil Exports, Prices, Revenues 2020-2022</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Month</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Avg
Export (Mil)</span></b></p>
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<td style="background: #00B0F0; border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Avg
Price</span></b></p>
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<td style="background: #00B0F0; border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Earnings
(Bil)</span></b></p>
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</tr>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jan 2020</span></p>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.306</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$60.14</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$6.163</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.391</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$51.37</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$5.053</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mar</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.391</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$32.73</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$2.962</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Apr </span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.438</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$13.80</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$1.51</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">May</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.212</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$21.00</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$2.136</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jun</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.816</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$33.86</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$2.871</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jul</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.763</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$40.70</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$3.492</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Aug</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.597</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$43.69</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$3.492</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sep</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.613</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$40.40</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$3.173</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oct</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.876</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$38.48</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$3.457</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nov</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.709</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$41.77</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$3.404</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dec</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.846</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$47.76</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$4.235</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td style="background: yellow; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2020 Avg</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.996</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$38.80</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$3.493</span></b></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jan 2021</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.868</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$53.29</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$4.765</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.96</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$60.33</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$5.013</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mar</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.946</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$63.32</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$5.787</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Apr</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.947</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$62.77</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$5.549</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">May</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.899</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$65.84</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$5.917</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jun</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.892</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$70.77</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$6.143</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jul</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2.918</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$72.00</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$6.476</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Aug</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.054</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$69.01</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$6.553</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sep </span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.081</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$73.32</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$6.777</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oct</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.12</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$79.27</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.666</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nov</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.272</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$77.33</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.611</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dec</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.277</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$72.80</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.391</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td style="background: yellow; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2021 Avg</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.019</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$68.33</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$6.303</span></b></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jan 2022</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.203</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$83.82</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.323</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.314</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$92.08</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.544</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 29;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mar</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.244</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$110.09</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$10.913</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 30;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Apr</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.38</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$104.09</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$10.554</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 31;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">May</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.3</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$111.79</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$11.44</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 32;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jun</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.373</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$113.70</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$11.505</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 33;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jul</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.303</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$103.60</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$10.608</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 34;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Aug</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.286</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$96.05</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$9.784</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 35;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sep</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.292</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$89.56</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.845</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 36;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oct</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.382</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$88.31</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$9.258</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 37;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nov</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.329</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$82.41</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.231</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 38;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dec</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.332</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$73.64</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.709</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 39;">
<td style="background: yellow; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2022 Avg</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.311</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$95.76</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$9.64</span></b></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 40;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jan</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.266</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$75.69</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.663</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 41;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.184</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$76.75</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.081</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 42;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mar</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.255</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$73.43</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.506</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 43;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Apr</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.288</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$79.04</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.699</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 44;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">May</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.305</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$71.49</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.325</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 45;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jun</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.335</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$71.11</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.115</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jul</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.444</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$77.69</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.295</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Aug</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.423</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$83.35</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.998</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 48;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sep</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.438</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$91.35</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$9.422</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 49;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Oct</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.534</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$87.57</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$9.594</span></p>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 50;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nov</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.433</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$82.66</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.512</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dec</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.486</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$77.63</span></p>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.316</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 52;">
<td style="background: yellow; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2023 Avg</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.365</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$78.98</span></b></p>
</td>
<td style="background: yellow; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.127</span></b></p>
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<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jan</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.339</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$77.53</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$8.026</span></p>
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<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.25pt;" valign="top" width="64">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 86.75pt;" valign="top" width="116">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3.434</span></p>
</td>
<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.55pt;" valign="top" width="95">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 82.25pt;" valign="top" width="110">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">$7.6</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">SOURCES</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></p>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1914 UK sent ultimatum to Ottomans If they wanted to
increase tariffs had to allow merger </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">of Turkish Petroleum Company
that was going to get oil concession in Mosul vilayet with Anglo-Persian Oil
Company 1<sup>st</sup> sign UK wanted to control Mesopotamian oil </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1917 Gen Maude ordered to maintain Ottoman administration
in Baghdad vilayet Replace </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Turkish bureaucrats with Arab
ones </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1921 Start of Cairo Conference where UK decided on its
future MidEast policy with </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Mesopotamia being centerpiece
Colonial Sec Churchill’s main concern was cutting costs for London Said UK
troops would be withdrawn in Mesopotamia as quickly as possible Air power would
be used for control Sir Percy Cox and Gen Haldane objected to Churchill’s
troops reduction plan saying soldiers still needed in Mesopotamia Royal Air
Force said it would need another year to set up in Mesopotamia Meant Churchill
could not withdraw UK troops as quickly as he wanted Most at conference
supported a Hashemite either Faisal or Abdullah becoming ruler in Mesopotamia
Churchill said putting Faisal in power in Mesopotamia would be part of larger
policy to have Hashemites beholden to UK in Mecca and Transjordan Churchill
believed putting Faisal in power would lead to Mesopotamian govt that could run
things and save UK money Churchill was open to creating a Kurdish state Thought
would be a buffer between Turkey and Mesopotamia Sir Percy Cox and Gertrude
Bell argued for a unitary Mesopotamian state that included Kurds </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-england-chose-feisal-as-1st-king-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
England Chose Feisal As 1<sup>st</sup> King Of Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-iraq-artificial-state-interview-with.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation
of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/churchill-in-his-own-words-on.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/07/review-britain-in-iraq-contriving-king.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Britain In Iraq, Contriving King and Country</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/review-churchills-folly-how-winston.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/review-gertrude-bell-and-iraq-life-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Gertrude Bell And Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/review-gertrude-bell-explorer-of-middle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/02/review-letters-from-baghdad.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq movie review</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <i>Letters from Baghdad</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-supremacy-and-oil-iraq-turkey.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order,
1918-1930</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-chatham-house-version-and-other.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/04/review-desert-queen-extraordinary-life.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser
to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/06/review-empires-of-sand-struggle-for.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1935 PM Midfai govt decided to put down tribal revolt with
force and sent recommendation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">to King Ghazi who did not
support it King pushed for talks to end revolt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Nasser gave 2<sup>nd</sup> speech attacking Iraqi
Communists Said that they would never be able </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">to stop Arab nationalism Said
Communists relied upon Shiites for support who opposed Arab nationalism Denied
that he supported Col Arif against Qasim govt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1970 Pres Bakr said war vs Kurds was over Kurds would have
cultural autonomy and national </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">rights </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/10/review-iraq-since-1958-from-revolution.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1974 After talks broke down with Baghdad and it imposed own
law for Kurdistan KDP </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">restarted rebellion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Baghdad offered KDP truce to allow its forces to
retreat to Iran or surrender</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/partial-review-blum-william-killing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-great-betrayal-how-america.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/when-shah-and-nixon-manipulated-kurds.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Barzani met with political and military leaders
Decided to continue fighting Bakr govt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
despite Iran ending aid </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1979 At National Security Council Saddam decided that govt
would take control of religious </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">sphere to protect country from
ideas that could threaten the regime </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 Iraq called off attacks into Basra marshes to try to
recapture Majnoon Islands Iran lost </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">20,000 dead 30,000 wounded 1,000
captured Iraq lost 3,000 dead 9,000 wounded and 1/6 of its oil reserves </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iran Op Badr reached Tigris River Began building
bridge across it then forced back </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Reached Baghdad-Basra highway
and took Qurna but then retaken by Iraqis 2 Revolutionary Guard divisions
attacked from Majnoon Islands and forced Iraqis to retreat </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/09/iranian-revolutionary-guards-history-in.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s History In Iraq, Interview With Naval
Postgraduate School’s Afshon Ostovar) <span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-vanguard-of-imam-religion.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iraq started using chemical weapons against Iran’s Op
Badr over next 4 weeks Iran </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">claimed it suffered 4,600
casualties as a result </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1986 CIA said that Iraq facing worst situation since start
of war after Iran captured Faw </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Peninsula Basra Warned that if
Iran carried out more offensives could break the Iraqi army and Saddam could be
deposed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1991 UN Security Council condemned Iraq over inspections
Said inspectors were final decider on </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">whether Iraq disarmed or not </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Govt operation to retake Najaf from Shiite rebels
began </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iraqi refugees fleeing country claimed govt forces
used napalm to put down uprising </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-us-helped-start-rebellion-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Wash Post OpEd by Ahmed Chalabi Criticized US for
allowing Saddam to stay in power </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">and put down 1991 uprising </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/12/review-man-who-pushed-america-to-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and
Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi) </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/12/review-arrows-of-night-ahmad-chalabi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1993 Iraqi army attacked Aweina Kurdistan killing 30 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 VP Cheney made trip to Middle East to gain support for
Iraq war </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Blair For Pol Adv Manning met with Natl Sec Adv Rice
and said UK supported regime </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">change in Iraq but needed good
strategy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/03/chilcot-report-section-32-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Report Section 3.2 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, January
to April 2002 – “Axis of Evil” to Crawford)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 2 CIA reports said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy
were for centrifuges and Iraq might </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">be trying to build a nuclear
weapon Were for rockets</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-contested-aluminum-tubes-story.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-us-intelligence-created-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Labor Party meeting at parliament Foreign Sec Straw
presented paper that Iraq’s WMD </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">a threat</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 SCIRI met State Dept official Said Bush ordered
overthrow of Saddam and wanted to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">plan for post-war Iraq State
wanted to hold meeting of Iraqi opposition to get idea of what Iraq like </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush called PM Blair about vote on 2<sup>nd</sup> UN
resolution on Iraq Bush said if didn’t have </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">votes shouldn’t have a vote</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush called Mexican Pres Fox and Chilean Pres Lagos on
2<sup>nd</sup> UN resolution Fox non-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">committal Lagos said he would
vote no </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush called PM Blair and said that vote on 2<sup>nd</sup>
UN resolution was dead</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UN committee reported that Iraq violating sanctions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/11/review-invisible-war-united-states-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Iraqi scientists began private interviews with UN
inspectors </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/un-inspectors-were-right-iraq-was-not.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/iraqs-rejection-of-un-inspectors-led-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush endorsed Def Dept plan for quick transition to
Iraqi authority made up of exiles </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">and Kurds after war </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Policy</span></i><span style="color: black;"> <i>Tragedy</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-state-of-denial-bush-at-war-part.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-hard-lessons-iraq-reconstruction.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UnderSecDef Feith briefed NSC on postwar plans Said
Foreign Min and embassies </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">needed to be purged Wanted to
disband intel services Republican Guard State Security Office militias Cut
military to 3-5 divisions Said rebuilding military would be paid for by Iraq
Would have own equipment Military would be used for rebuilding Iraq Warned
would be dangerous to disband military Republican Guard security services would
be disbanded Talked about creating interim govt with mix of exiles and Iraqis
from within Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_14.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I:
Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 White House reviewed plan to ship $1.7 bil in frozen
Iraqi assets in U.S. to Iraq to pay </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">for Iraqi public workers and
pensions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Sadrists destroyed Gypsy village of Qawliya, Qadisiya</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-forgotten-destruction-of-qawliya.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Forgotten Destruction Of Qawilya, Iraq By The Mahdi Army) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 6 car bombs in Shiite areas in Baghdad killed 58
wounded 200</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-voices-from-iraq-peoples-history.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 US soldiers gang raped 14 yr old Iraqi girl in
Mahmudiya and then killed her family</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 US began Op Scales of Justice in Baghdad US cmdrs
complained they didn’t have </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">enough troops to carry out new
operation because of withdrawals US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey said that was the point
of drawdown for US to do less</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/did-us-ever-have-strategy-to-win-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Did
the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/09/us-army-history-of-iraq-war-vol-1_22.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> US
Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The
Open, January-June 2006)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/02/review-overreach-delusions-of-regime.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Report Sadr met with Ayatollah Sistani and asked what
he should do about attacks </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">upon his movement Sistani told
him he could withdraw or take the consequences Sadr ended up leaving for Iran</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/07/sadrs-leadership-or-lack-thereof.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Sadr’s Leadership Or Lack Thereof)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 2<sup>nd</sup> day of fighting Mahdi Army forced
police out of Kut Came after Sadr said militia </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">could defend themselves during
freeze Police raided Sadrists areas in city leading to fighting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Pentagon said it would not publicly release its study
that found no Iraq-Al Qaeda links </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">based upon 600,000 captured Iraq
docs Would not even be posted on the Internet </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 US reported violence hit nadir Dropped from Nov 07-Feb
08 Avg number of insurgents </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">attacks went from 180 per day in
Jun 07 to 60 per day in Jan 08 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Sir Synnott former CPA official in charge of south
Iraq said UK wanted to portray </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">stable Iraq after invasion but
didn’t spend time and money to rebuild CPA focused on large projects but not
small sustainable ones that would have benefited more Iraqis </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Report Pres of EU election observers said Iran
interfered in election results Accused </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">high official in Election Comm
of putting in false data for State of Law </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Senior Judge said parties saw ministries as bank
accounts for themselves No reason to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">prosecute petty corruption cases
when the ministers and parties plundered the state </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/01/corruption-in-iraq-interview-with.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/iraqs-troubles-fighting-corruption.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US
Anti-Graft Official) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 KDP-PUK alliance said that KRG would implement reforms
in 3-4 months in response </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">to protests Never happened </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/06/view-from-northern-iraq-on-2011-kurdish.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-iraqs-kurdistan-broke-up-two-months.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 KDP-PUK accused Gorran of working with Iranian Rev
Guards and Muslim Scholars </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Association to stoke protests in
Sulaymaniya Gorran said accusations false and ruling parties against reforms </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Report women politicians lacked power in govt 2<sup>nd</sup>
Maliki govt only had 1 woman </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">minister Of 86 female MPs only 5
got enough votes to win seats Rest got seats via 25% quota for women Many were
relatives of party members to gain quota seats </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/women-marginalized-in-new-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Women Marginalized In New Iraqi Government)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/12/iraqi-women-before-and-after-2003.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraqi Women Before And After The 2003 Invasion, Interview
With Prof Nadje Al-Ali Univ of London)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/09/review-what-kind-of-liberation-women.html">Musings
On Iraq Review</a><i> What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq</i>)
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 PM Maliki met with tribal leaders Asked them to limit
protests claiming there was a </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">conspiracy against him </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/government-moves-to-suppress-protests.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Government Moves To Suppress Protests In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Kurdish and most of Iraqiya ministers boycotted
cabinet meeting Kurds angry over </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">2013 budget Iraqiya supporting
protests </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/04/whats-to-gain-from-kurdish-alliances.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
What’s To Gain From the Kurdish Alliance’s Boycott Of Iraq’s Government?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/05/kurdish-alliance-agrees-to-face-saving.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Kurdish Alliance Agrees To Face Saving Agreement With Iraq’s Central Government
To Return To Baghdad) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Finance Min Issawi told Ramadi protesters ISF tried to
arrest him when he went to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">funeral in Rutba </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/03/once-again-iraqs-premier-maliki-goes.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Once
Again Iraq’s Premier Maliki Goes After Former Finance Minister Issawi) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/05/understanding-iraqs-protest-movements.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor
of Inside Iraqi Politics) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Planning Min official said up to 90% of the capital
budget for investment was returned </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Said provinces and ministers
couldn’t spend their budgets </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Report 100s of 1000s of dinars stolen from ISF in
Ninewa Police were supposed to get </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">500,000 dinars/mo but only got
250,000/mo Traffic police demanded Finance Min investigating missing pay </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/03/insurgent-financing-in-iraqs-ninewa.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Insurgent Financing In Iraq’s Ninewa Province) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report IS had special group to find and sell
antiquities in Mosul Employed locals to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">help IS making news destroying
historical sites but was more interested in looting them first IS earned up to
$24 mil in Feb 2015 from stolen artifacts from Mosul Museum</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/destruction-of-historic-sites-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Destruction Of Historical Sites In Iraq Hides Looting Campaign By Islamic
State) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report IS burned 1500 historic manuscripts Bulldozed
Assyrian city of Nimrod and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Hatra in Ninewa Looted Assyrian
city of Khorsabad Bombed Ibn al-Atheer shrine and Mosque of the Prophet Yunus
after took Mosul in 2014 Looted sites and sold items on black market </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Babil council decided not to allow displaced to return
to Jurf al-Sakhr dist Said it was </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">unsafe Real reason was along
pilgrimage route for Shiites Residents never allowed back </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Harith al-Dhari head of Association of Muslim Scholars
died in Turkey Was critic of US </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">occupation and supported
insurgency Sons and nephew became leaders in insurgency Warrant led to him to
flee Iraq US and UN labeled him a terrorist supporter </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/spiritual-leader-to-iraqs-insurgency.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Spiritual Leader To Iraq’s Insurgency Harith Dhari Dies In Exile) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 PM Abadi called on political parties to present their
technocratic candidates for new </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">cabinet Only 3 parties did so</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-review-of-iraq-premier-abadis-reform.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Najaf Dhi Qar Muthanna Wasit Qadisiya all objected to
plan to privatize electricity </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Baghdad wanted to privatize
distribution to provinces Bill passed 2012 Only implemented 5 yrs later Attempt
to control usage and deal with power shortages Didn’t work</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Municipal workers protested in Zubayr Basra over not
getting paid for 2 months Threw </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">stones at govt offices</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Report 1000s of IS
fighters in Hawija south Kirkuk Hid instead of fought while district cleared </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Sheikh and son from
Jabouri tribe killed by IS south Ninewa Part of campaign by IS against tribal
leaders </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 Iraq’s military air traffic control pressured by Hashd
to restrict US drone flights over </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhr Was large
Kataib Hezbollah base </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/instrument-of-irans-power-in-iraq-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 US-UK airstrikes on Hashd camps in east Syria Kataib
Hezbollah bases in Babil Anbar </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">and Karbala Retaliation for
rocket attack upon Camp Taji that killed 2 US soldiers 1 UK soldier and a US
contractor Airstrikes killed 5 ISF</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/tit-for-tat-between-us-and-pro-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Tit
For Tat Between U.S. and Pro-Iran Hashd Continues) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/as-talk-of-expelling-us-forces-from.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> As
Talk Of Expelling US Forces From Iraq Dies Down Attacks Upon Americans Pick Up)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Pro-Iran Hashd offices burned in Maysan after 2
activists assassinated Mar 11 Another </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">activist survived assassination
attempt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/09/un-report-on-violence-against-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/06/united-nations-faults-iraq-for-failing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2021 Protests in Dhi Qar demanding accountability for
assassination of activist Protest in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Najaf demanding governor be
dismissed </span></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a><br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-14066506286837371872024-03-11T08:26:00.001-07:002024-03-11T08:26:46.681-07:00Security In Iraq Mar 1-7, 2024 <span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5tqW-aZRgjoKCRnbohwnZhIViuceB2WEMzsOD34iIn5OBArZ7X2cFuTUjDui7VXaaDKJ__KkOiQrvhLC7Wy12v5Hwt-hD9QCSniPwEUuOkAEShG-2ZynG8lW0-LXLJcNPiCbaJb7m27CRs-x2agnQ6GpiVwWb_nkgGedCHXEjLHeQp0SJ9i_WB5ZCHney/s600/Islamic%20State%20Attacks%20Per%20Wk%20In%20Iraq%202023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="600" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5tqW-aZRgjoKCRnbohwnZhIViuceB2WEMzsOD34iIn5OBArZ7X2cFuTUjDui7VXaaDKJ__KkOiQrvhLC7Wy12v5Hwt-hD9QCSniPwEUuOkAEShG-2ZynG8lW0-LXLJcNPiCbaJb7m27CRs-x2agnQ6GpiVwWb_nkgGedCHXEjLHeQp0SJ9i_WB5ZCHney/w640-h396/Islamic%20State%20Attacks%20Per%20Wk%20In%20Iraq%202023.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />Both the Islamic State and
pro-Iran groups were active in Iraq during the first week of March. </span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At the start of the month
there were two Islamic State incidents in Baghdad’s Tarmiya district in the
north on the same day. First, an </span><a href="https://english.news.cn/20240301/82520116770449448232435d2f4c10b9/c.html"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">IED went off</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
on an army unit killing 1 soldier and wounding 4 more. Later </span><a href="https://shafaq.com/ar/%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%80%D9%86/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%84-%D8%AD%D8%AF-%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%81-%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D9%8A"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">a sheikh’s house was attacked</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> with gunfire and an RPG. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The last week of February
there was only 1 insurgent incident and before that there were three weeks with
no attacks at all. That points to the Islamic State being a shell of its former
self. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A commander in the
Counterterrorism service </span><a href="Bas%20News,%20"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">told Bas News</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
that a new IS leader had been identified in Iraq and that he was trying to
reorganize the group. Whether that will amount to anything is to be seen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmofqihrTNPg-OK3po0Kzobog-eNgRmyRSECjGnLziAPrAjwqe1SPtvoNuB9gVQoCGXgXalpB8S5RpK-9ShPnewXGBWKv3yFGhyCEqSfcXwDMboLhilBE32uTHH2xbOlyn0IkYAfuS0LDvcChlevMuhzC8ARccoWIYwNSmlun24Q4m2A5tNI0CTPRnVxPR/s600/Attacks%20by%20Pro-Iran%20Groups%202023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="600" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmofqihrTNPg-OK3po0Kzobog-eNgRmyRSECjGnLziAPrAjwqe1SPtvoNuB9gVQoCGXgXalpB8S5RpK-9ShPnewXGBWKv3yFGhyCEqSfcXwDMboLhilBE32uTHH2xbOlyn0IkYAfuS0LDvcChlevMuhzC8ARccoWIYwNSmlun24Q4m2A5tNI0CTPRnVxPR/w640-h396/Attacks%20by%20Pro-Iran%20Groups%202023.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Pro-Iran groups claimed two </span><a href="https://shafaq.com/ar/%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%80%D9%86/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">drone</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><a href="https://english.news.cn/20240308/ad9938a6e5524bfbb17f4cd5ca4a518d/c.html"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">strikes</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> on
Israel during the week. There is no confirmation that these attacks were
actually carried out and if they did whether they were successful. It’s also
not clear where the drones were launched from be it Iraq or Syria. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A ceasefire is still standing
with these factions and there have been no attacks on US troops in Iraq since
January 28. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Security Incidents In Iraq By Province </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Province</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Mar 1-7</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Baghdad</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Israel</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">TOTAL</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4/2
Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Casualties In Iraq By Province</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Province</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 1-7</span></b></p>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.25pt;" valign="top" width="90">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Baghdad</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">6 (2K, 4W)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Security In Iraq 2022-23</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Week</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Security</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wounded</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JAN 2022</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">87/41 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">59</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FEB</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">42/14 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">29</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">46/12/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">19</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">21</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">APR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">111/22 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">34</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">103</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAY</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">73/13 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">41</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">51</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">40/14 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUL</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">43/6 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">54</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">AUG</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">57/7/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">24</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">54</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">SEP</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">41/1/3 M</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">64</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">OCT</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">28/2/3 M</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">17</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">23</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">28</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">42</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">38</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JAN 2023</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">29/4 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">12</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">15</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6/2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9/1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FEB</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">20/3 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">12</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">18</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">18</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">APR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">16</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAY</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">15</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">14</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUN</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3/2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11/2 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3/1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">AUG</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">13/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">23</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 1-7</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7/5 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">OCT</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">17/15 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11/9</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">12/10</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8 Amer</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">16</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">35/29 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">15</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">29</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10/8 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8/6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6/2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7/6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3 US</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">DEC</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">35/26 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2K</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">16W</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10/6 Pro-Iran/1 Iranian</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7/3 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10/6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11/10 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 29-31</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">SOURCES</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bas News, “New IS
Leader Likely in Iraq, Organizing Militants: Report,” 3/5/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">Shafaq News, "The house of one of
the Tarmiya sheikhs was targeted with RPG shells," 3/1/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">- "The Iraqi Resistance announces
the targeting of the Israeli Haifa Airport," 3/5/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">Xinhua, "Iraqi Shiite militia
claims drone attack on Israel," 3/8/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">- "Iraqi soldier killed in bomb
blast north of Baghdad," 3/1/24</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-79245297552221755012024-03-11T08:26:00.000-07:002024-03-11T17:34:32.592-07:00This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 11 British captured Baghdad WWI<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNpOLc654GhSVLu9jwgYSjL4UXfr64ObxKWEXwYS4_bmwEJBZdDg8Hr0JAS8Wco_Jtb49RkYXhyx5koYHI62l8U1C_jrIYljwrYeQZMXn3p0j-kFvdu-8MCq-M4AdoB5JwG7_FBfrKxXgMZlw1e3YGqfVHB2Xn9nF2kFHar3JJNPkbRCRCSgLo8gGP-LS/s544/WWI%20Baghdad.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="544" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNpOLc654GhSVLu9jwgYSjL4UXfr64ObxKWEXwYS4_bmwEJBZdDg8Hr0JAS8Wco_Jtb49RkYXhyx5koYHI62l8U1C_jrIYljwrYeQZMXn3p0j-kFvdu-8MCq-M4AdoB5JwG7_FBfrKxXgMZlw1e3YGqfVHB2Xn9nF2kFHar3JJNPkbRCRCSgLo8gGP-LS/w640-h430/WWI%20Baghdad.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal">1917 British army captured Baghdad Led to widespread looting
Driven off by soldiers </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Population then celebrated arrival
of British </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/02/review-enemy-on-euphrates-battle-for.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-when-god-made-hell-british.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of
Iraq, 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1922 Wahabi Ikhwan from Saudi Arabia attacked south of
Nasiriya slaughtering civilians </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1947 PM Said resigned Asked Salih Jabr to be next PM so he
could hold power behind the scenes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Nasser gave speech in Damascus attacking Communists as
being against freedom not </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">supporting Arab nationalism and
taking orders from a foreign country meaning USSR Aimed at Iraqi Communists who
supported Qasim govt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Pres Arif formed govt that didn’t include Nasserites
Purged them from military </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Deputy PM and Baath leader Saadi said Kurds would
remain under govt authority for foreign </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">economic and military affairs
during negotiations with Mullah Mustafa Barzani He said he would accept
decentralization </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/01/review-journey-among-brave-men-travels.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1970 Bakr agreed to Kurdish autonomy Included self-rule
with assembly Recognized Kurdish language </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Promoted Kurdish culture Kurdish
vice president Share of oil revenue Barzani agreed to give up heavy weapons and
have Peshmerga integrated into army </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/09/pres-bakr-saddam-and-iraqs-kurds-before.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Pres
Bakr, Saddam, And Iraq’s Kurds Before The Anfal Campaign) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/10/review-iraq-since-1958-from-revolution.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/02/review-people-without-country-kurds-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1970 Since fighting started in 1968 some 60,000 killed in
Kurdish rebellion 300,000 displaced</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1971 Was supposed to be census in Kirkuk to determine
whether it would join Kurdish </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">autonomy region or not Never
happened </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1974 After talks with KDP broke down Bakr govt announced
Autonomy Law for Kurdistan which KDP </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">rejected</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1974 Around 25,000 peshmerga attacked Iraqi garrison in
Zakho </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 Report Iraq had 3 poison gas plants producing chemical
weapons for Iran-Iraq War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iran bombed Baghdad and 10 other Iraqi cities Started
2<sup>nd</sup> War of Cities </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iran started Op Badr trying again to cut Basra-Baghdad
highway in Maysan Started with </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">diversionary attack then
infiltration into Hoveyzah marshes Overran Iraqi 35<sup>th</sup> Division </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1986 Iraqi Special Forces unit destroyed attempting to
storm beaches on Faw Peninsula in Basra </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1987 Limited Iranian attack in Basra stopped by Iraqis </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 Iran and Iraq signed truce in war of cities in Ankara
Didn’t last War of Cities went on for another </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">month</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Shiite uprising in Hillah put down </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Rebels from Najaf met French forces who said they
would meet Gen Schwarzkopf Never happened</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Kurdish uprising started in Irbil </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Masoud Barzani offered amnesty for soldiers who
surrendered to Peshmerga</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Peshmerga began attacking Kirkuk, Iraqi army responded
by taking hostages inside city</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1992 Saddam said Kurds could not hold elections for
parliament until they gave up protection of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Coalition forces </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1992 Iraq objected to UN inspections claiming they were
trying to deindustrialize country by </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">blocking use of dual use
equipment </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/iraqs-rejection-of-un-inspectors-led-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1995 PUK suicide bomber hit KDP headquarters in Zakho </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 PM Blair told VP Cheney UK would support US action to
remove Saddam </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/03/chilcot-report-section-32-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Report Section 3.2 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, January
to April 2002 – “Axis of Evil” to Crawford)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush and NSC met Agreed to keep Iraqi police </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld said US could attack Iraq by itself
without other nations Said British might not </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">participate</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK Embassy in US furious that Sec Def Rumsfeld said
British might not take part in war and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">complained to White House</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld forced to issue clarification saying
British would take part in Iraq war</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair said Britain would help in any US attack upon
Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK acknowledged couldn't get 2<sup>nd</sup> UN
resolution authorizing force against Iraq before US timetable </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">for war</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK Chief of Def Staff Adm Boyce said military needed
legal directive for war with Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 CIA assessment said it didn’t dispute IAEA finding
that Iraq-Niger uranium docs were fakes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 CIA WMD division said it didn’t dispute IAEA finding
that Iraq-Niger uranium docs were fakes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">and always considered intel on
story fragmentary </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-us-intelligence-failed-iraq-niger.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 ORHA head Garner told press US would keep Iraqi army
and would quickly turn over control of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">country to Iraqis When asked
Garner dismissed talk about US turning over power to Chalabi and INC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Tragedy</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-endgame-inside-story-of-struggle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">George W. Bush to Barack
Obama</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-hard-lessons-iraq-reconstruction.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/overview-of-americas-policy-towards.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Sectarian War of 2006) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 DepDefSec Wolfowitz and UnderSecDef Feith chastised
ORHA head Garner for comments about </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">INC Garner later told by
Pentagon he could no longer talk to the press </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-losing-iraq-inside-post-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/12/review-man-who-pushed-america-to-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and
Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi) </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/12/review-arrows-of-night-ahmad-chalabi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice issued memo on postwar Iraq plans
Said interim Iraqi authority would be created </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Meeting in Baghdad to be held to
bring in more Iraqis to authority</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_14.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I:
Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/overview-of-americas-policy-towards.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Sectarian War of 2006) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-state-of-denial-bush-at-war-part.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 UK envoy to Iraq John Drawers said US had no
leadership strategy or coordination</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Iran intel opened Office to Help Poor Shiites as front
office in Najaf Recruited Iraqis </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/irans-policy-towards-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/us-army-history-of-iraq-war-vol-1.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> US
Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 11 The Gathering Storm) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 US Emb report 11 ministries and Central Bank of Iraq
using Article 136(b) of Criminal Code to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">block up to 48 investigations
and corruption cases Sep 06-Feb 07 PM Maliki blocked corruption cases to help
political allies </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/01/corruption-in-iraq-interview-with.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/iraqs-troubles-fighting-corruption.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US
Anti-Graft Official) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Report Awakening had broken up into 3 main factions
under Sheikh Abu Risha Sheik Suleiman </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">and Sheikh Hayes They were
fighting for political power in both Anbar and in Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/04/anbars-forgotten-sheikh.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Anbar’s Forgotten Sheikh) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/09/review-illusions-of-victory-anbar.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Mahdi Army fought ISCI controlled police in Kut after
they raided Sadrist areas Clashes in several </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">other southern cities ISCI
leader in Babil assassinated Sadr said that Mahdi Army could use arms in self
defense leading to new round of conflict </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 PM Maliki blamed all corruption in Iraq on Saddam Said
his govt would work on being </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">transparent to counter graft </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/maliki-says-more-transparency-needed.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Maliki Says More Transparency Needed But Takes No Responsibility For
Corruption)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 US captured ISI governor for Baghdad Rawi who provided
intel that led to killing of ISI leaders </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Masri and Baghdadi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/07/al-qaeda-in-iraq-takes-more-losses-but.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Al
Qaeda In Iraq Takes More Losses, But Keeps On Ticking) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-long-can-al-qaeda-in-iraq-last.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Long Can Al Qaeda In Iraq Last?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 State Dept annual human rights report said 09 PM
Maliki went after Sunnis in Diyala Warrants for 4 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">provincial council members dep
governor MP Special Forces raided provincial govt and arrested council member
and Dep governor </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 4,000 protested in Sulaymaniya demanding reforms 1 man
tried to light himself on fire but stopped </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/06/view-from-northern-iraq-on-2011-kurdish.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 KDP held rally against on going protests </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-iraqs-kurdistan-broke-up-two-months.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Protests in Baghdad Fallujah Basra Najaf Hillah Ramadi
Nasiriya calling for reforms end to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">corruption services jobs
Communists led protest in Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Maliki govt said it would meet electricity demand by
2014 Didn’t happen Claimed ISF were killed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">and wounded by protesters </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/government-moves-to-suppress-protests.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Government Moves To Suppress Protests In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/06/iraq-no-closer-to-solving-its.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
No Closer To Solving Its Electricity Problems)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Report sahwa leader in Garma Anbar said half his
fighters had left because didn’t think Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">would employ them All sahwa were
supposed to be integrated into govt by end of 2010 but delayed due to election
Nothing happened afterward </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/no-date-set-for-when-iraqi-government.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> No
Date Set For When Iraqi Government Will Begin Hiring Sons Of Iraq Again) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 KRG said it wanted to produce 1 mil/bar/day of oil by
2014 and 2 mil/bar/day by 2019 Didn’t </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">happen Meant to draw in
investors </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/iraqs-kurds-push-for-more-oil.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Kurds Push For More Oil Production, While Bickering With Baghdad Over
Exports) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 ISCI and Badr officially split into 2 parties </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/01/badr-organization-view-into-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Badr
Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/07/iraqs-badr-organization-maintains-its.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Badr Organization Maintains Its Longtime Ties With Iran) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/04/supreme-islamic-iraqi-council-and-badr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council And Badr Brigade Formally Split) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Anbar council voted to delay provincial elections
there due to security concerns </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 IS launched new offensive to take Ramadi </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-goes-on-offensive-in-salahadin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Goes On The Offensive In Salahaddin, Kirkuk and Anbar) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/iraqs-ramadi-has-not-fallen-but-islamic.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Ramadi Has Not Fallen But The Islamic State Has Gained Ground) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-political-fallout-from-loss-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Sadr said Hashd and ISF should be punished for torture
and abuse Liberated areas needed to be </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">rebuilt Said his militia would
help restore services in some freed places Response to social media postings of
killings and abuses by security forces </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Salahaddin council admitted that some houses were
burned during security ops but said </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">they all belonged to IS members
Response to Hashd destroying houses </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/06/review-stranger-in-your-own-city.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a><span style="color: black;"> <i>A Stranger in Your Own City,
Travels in the Middle East’s Long War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/09/human-rights-watch-finds-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Human Rights Watch Finds Iraq Government Forces Destroyed Tikrit Area After Its
Recapture) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-goes-on-offensive-in-salahadin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Goes On The Offensive In Salahaddin, Kirkuk and Anbar) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/divisions-over-iraq-war-exposed-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report Photos being posted by ISF and Hashd on social
media of killing prisoners Dead IS </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">fighters tied to Humvees and
then heads cut off Civilians being executed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Report Mass grave found in Albu Ajeel Salahaddin with
300-400 bodies Some believed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">they were from IS massacre of
cadets at Camp Speicher after Mosul fell </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Sadrists protested again in Baghdad demanding reforms</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/why-did-sadr-take-over-green-zone.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 UNHCR said KRG forcing displaced into camps and not
allowing them to leave </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Golden Div and Federal Police attacked Old City Mosul
from 3 axes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/03/mosul-campaign-day-144-mar-11-2017.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Mosul Campaign Day 146, Mar 11, 2017) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Pres Barzani said Kurdish independence would come
about via dialogue Said disputed areas </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Kurds had occupied during war vs
IS had to determine their own future Said since Iraq created had abused Kurds
and that continued since 2003 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-great-betrayal-how-america.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/10/review-quicksilver-war-syria-iraq-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Hashd found mass grave near Badush prison Ninewa with
100s of bodies IS reportedly </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">killed 600 prisoners when it
took prison in 2014 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 2 Pro-Abadi MPs said that parliament added too much
govt spending to 2018 budget which World </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Bank objected to and admitted
IMF had problems with budget as well</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Ninewa council called
for all armed groups to leave Sinjar Aimed at PKK who didn’t leave </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 Iranian Pres Rouhani came to Iraq to increase economic
ties to avoid US sanctions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Kataib Hezbollah fired rockets at Camp Taji in Baghdad
Killed 2 American and 1 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">British soldier and 1 US
contractor 6<sup>th</sup> such incident in 2020 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/tit-for-tat-between-us-and-pro-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Tit
For Tat Between U.S. and Pro-Iran Hashd Continues) </span></p>
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Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 2 activists assassinated in Maysan Protesters burned
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq office in response</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/asaib-ahl-al-haq-from-breakaway-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq) </span></p>
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Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/06/united-nations-faults-iraq-for-failing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2021 Sadr called for protecting protesters Said he was
against kidnapping and assassinating </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">activists Sadr had followers
join protests then turned on them and attacked them Now tried to reconcile with
them </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2021 Protests in Maysan and Muthanna after activist
assassinated in Maysan </span></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines</a> <br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-24838785499769678682024-03-10T14:16:00.000-07:002024-03-10T14:16:18.875-07:00This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 10 Barzani wrote letter to Sec State Kissinger reminding him of Nixon’s promise of aid Barzani said Kurds being destroyed by Iraqi govt Kissinger didn’t reply<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxPrO28HYJYh9v8FuUA14QsMPymT1ZASixgiPbAm9hzaQhTWkPA__65aonV9OO7ptOBaOFfglGd5_WMM22TgFRPt_PpF39776vUfileOrzSOrkTw68qsIQskSezKJLwM0QSI4pn_qHpfbZHbXnddkamaA5m803px3Kfz6L78WUI7-Y4rwb-OOT5CsGzlic/s240/Barzani.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="210" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxPrO28HYJYh9v8FuUA14QsMPymT1ZASixgiPbAm9hzaQhTWkPA__65aonV9OO7ptOBaOFfglGd5_WMM22TgFRPt_PpF39776vUfileOrzSOrkTw68qsIQskSezKJLwM0QSI4pn_qHpfbZHbXnddkamaA5m803px3Kfz6L78WUI7-Y4rwb-OOT5CsGzlic/w350-h400/Barzani.jpg" width="350" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">865 Abu Ahmad’s army from Samarra reached gates of Baghdad
to overthrow Abbasid Caliph </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Mutasim</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">1917 British forces defeated Ottoman defenses outside
Baghdad in Diyala River </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/02/review-enemy-on-euphrates-battle-for.html">Musings
On Iraq book review</a> <i>Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq
1914-1921</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-when-god-made-hell-british.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia
and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1917 Baghdad governor Khalil Pasha met with commanders
Istanbul wanted stiff defense of </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Baghdad Generals wanted withdrawal
Khalil decided on latter Ottomans destroyed military supplies in city which
resulted in destruction of famous Talisman Gate Also destroyed pontoon bridge
across Tigris </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1947 PM Said held new elections to get parliament full of
his supporters National Democratic </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Party ran candidates in Baghdad
Mosul Basra Kut Found Said interfered in vote and picked winners Democratic
Party only won 4 seats </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/01/review-iraqs-democratic-moment.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq’s Democratic Moment</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/review-history-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>A History of Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/08/review-independent-iraq-1932-1958-study.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;">1951 PM Said passed Law No 5
Govt would confiscate all property of Jews who’d signed up to </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: .5in;">leave Iraq
Impoverished thousands of Jews Took up to 6 months for Jews to leave Iraq </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Baath govt announced it would give Kurds national
rights and decentralization </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/01/review-journey-among-brave-men-travels.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/05/review-iraq-kurdish-question-1958-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Iraqi delegation led by Baath leader Saadi went to
Syria to talk about joining United</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
Arab Republic </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Iraq’s Revolutionary Command Council and Regional
Command of Baath Party ratified </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Algiers Agreement with Iran </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Mustafa Barzani sent letter to Sec State Kissinger
Said Kurds were being destroyed by </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Iraqi govt Reminded him of
promise that US would assure aid to Kurds via Iran Kissinger didn’t
respond </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/partial-review-blum-william-killing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-great-betrayal-how-america.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/when-shah-and-nixon-manipulated-kurds.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1980 Iraq declared Iran’s ambassador persona non-grata as
dispute built up leading to Iran-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Iraq War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 Iraq said it would stop firing missiles at Iranian
cities if Iran stopped</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1990 Saddam issued amnesty for Kurdish fighters </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1990 Iraq sentenced UK Observer journalist Bazoft to death
for reporting on missile program </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iranian Rev Guard attacked 2 Mujahedeen e-Khalq camps
in Iraq during Shiite uprising</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Kurdish uprising spread to Tuz Kharmato and Dohuk </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Govt imposed curfew in Kirkuk to try to stop unrest</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 US troops began withdrawing from Persian Gulf</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 300 delegates from 23 opposition parties met in
Lebanon to come up with strategy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">against Saddam </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Talabani met with Turkish Foreign Min officials in
Ankara to discuss Kurd-Turkish </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">relations after Gulf War </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/06/review-turkey-us-and-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Turkey, the US and Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Report UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee investigation
found no links between Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">and 9/11</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 CIA briefing included story that Iraq tried to buy
uranium from Niger </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-us-intelligence-failed-iraq-niger.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK gave Iraq 6 requirements to meet if wanted to avoid
war including Saddam going on </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">TV and admitting to WMD </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 French President Jacques Chirac said France would veto
any new resolution because no </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">grounds for war </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-37-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February
to 7 March 2003)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush told PM Blair 2<sup>nd</sup> UN resolution
against Iraq was waste of time Was major policy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">goal of Blair</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush talked to his advisors about giving an ultimatum
to Saddam to leave power </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Policy</span></i><span style="color: black;"> <i>Tragedy</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 US official said Iraq had cluster munitions to
disperse WMD </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/iraq-one-of-worst-intelligence-failures.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 ORHA head Garner briefed Bush on plans for postwar
Iraq including using Iraqi army </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">for reconstruction and interim
govt Said would only remove top Baath leadership Bush approved ORHA’s plan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-endgame-inside-story-of-struggle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">George W. Bush to Barack
Obama</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-hard-lessons-iraq-reconstruction.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/11/review-days-of-fire-bush-and-cheney-in.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Days Of Fire, Bush and Cheney in the White House</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 NSC briefed on postwar Iraq plans Included excluding
25,000 top Baathists from </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">govt NSC’s Miller said most
Baath members govt workers who joined party to get job Prosecuting Iraqi war
criminals Discussed truth and reconciliation commission Using Iraqi courts and
police Establishing law and order Bush said US needed to get Iraqis running new
govt and US would not pick new Iraqi leaders Powell said US had to get a new UN
resolution for the US led interim administration in postwar Iraq US Treasury
Sec Snow said US dollars could be used as interim currency in Iraq until new
dinar created Bush approved light deBaathification after war Using dollars as
temporary currency in Iraq Retaining Iraqi police Also approved creating Iraqi
Authority to run country </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/04/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_22.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> on
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction <i>Hard Lessons</i> Chapter 3
The Department of Defense Takes Charge)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_14.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction <i>Hard Lessons </i>Part I:
Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Institute for Science & Intl Sec report asked
whether US misled public about Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">rebuilding nuke program</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Turkey’s Erdogan met Bush Argued against deposing
Saddam saying it would lead to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Shiite govt tied to Iran </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Nasiriya Citizens’ Security Group made up of militias
attacked police station and CPA </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">office Killed 5 police Italian
army arrived Some in Security Group surrendered Arrested and tortured by police
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 82<sup>nd</sup> Airborne Div commander claimed
insurgency in Anbar was in disarray Next month </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">1<sup>st</sup> Battle of
Fallujah would be fought </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2005 Kurds and United Iraqi Alliance agreed on new govt
based upon deal to resolve future </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">of Kirkuk and PUK’s Talabani
becoming president</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-iraq-from-war-to-new.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey told Bush attacks in Iraq lower
than during 2<sup>nd</sup> Battle of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Fallujah and 2<sup>nd</sup>
Battle of Najaf Casey downplayed civil war throughout spring </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/09/us-army-history-of-iraq-war-vol-1_22.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> US
Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The
Open, January-June 2006)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 For 2 days ISI began burning homes in Muqdadiya Diyala
causing dozens of families to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">flee </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Iraq hosted international conference of 13 countries
UN Islamic Conference and Arab </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">League PM Maliki asked for help
to fight terrorism </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Report Iraqi intel said Sadr’s ceasefire and move to
Iran during Surge benefited Tehran </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">the most which was able to break
away large sections of Mahdi Army </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Female suicide bomber killed sheikh and Sahwa leader
in Diyala as part of ISI campaign </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">against Sahwa </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/07/rise-of-female-suicide-bombers.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/08/motivations-behind-female-suicide.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/06/behind-revival-of-islamic-state-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Behind The Revival Of The Islamic State in Iraq, Interview With Naval War
College Prof Craig Whiteside) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/10/review-suicide-bombers-in-iraq-strategy.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Speaker Mashadani said KRG had right to sign oil
contracts Said courts would have </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">final say on matter </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Study of captured Baath docs found no evidence of
operational link between Saddam </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">and Al Qaeda Said Saddam didn’t
trust Islamists Mar 06 US military released study of Iraqi docs and found same
thing </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 US military spokesman said caches found of Iranian
weapons Accused Iran of recruiting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Iraqis to train them in Iran
Hezbollah did much of the training </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/irans-policy-towards-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/overview-of-irans-influence-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/07/hezbollahs-role-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-history-of-iranian-weapons-shipments.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s
Galen Wright) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Suicide bombing of tribal gathering with army in Abu
Ghraib killed 33</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-isis-reader-milestone-texts-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report Iraq producing 6,000 megawatts of power Was
goal of CPA to be reached by </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">June 2004</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Iran invited Shiite politicians to celebrate Nowruz
and pushed them to reunite behind </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">PM Maliki</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/03/turkey-saudi-arabia-and-irans-role-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, And Iran’s Role In Putting Together A New Iraqi
Government) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Ahmed Chalabi and Ali al-Lami heads of Accountability
and Justice Comm and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">candidates sued Election Comm
for allowing votes for 55 candidates they banned for Baathist ties </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/03/accountability-and-justice-commission.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Accountability And Justice Commission Tries To Have The Last Word)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Human Rights Min found out about secret prison at
Muthanna Airport Baghdad Later </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">inspection found 431 prisoners
who complained about bad conditions and torture Some were sodomized others
electrocuted some raped All were arrested in Ninewa during Oct 09 security op</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/04/secret-baghdad-prison-discovered-by.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Secret Baghdad Prison Discovered By Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 12 members of Najaf council signed petition to turn
province into region Said was </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">warning to Baghdad they needed
better services </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Commander Rapid Reaction Force caught taking $50,000
bribe from real estate agent </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">His guards held off
investigators so he could escape PM asked to turn over general Nothing happened
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Wasit Governor Tarfa dismissed on corruption charges
Were protests demanding he be </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">removed Attacked govt building
Police fired into crowd </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 KRG parliament held session on Sulaymaniya protests
Questioned KRG PM Salih 1<sup>st</sup> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">time ever happened in KRG
Survived no confidence vote </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/06/view-from-northern-iraq-on-2011-kurdish.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Report Kurdish media complained about threats for
covering protests NRT office set on </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">fire Newspaper editor and Radio
Nawa received threats Radio station attacked and looted Kurdistan
Journalists Syndicate said around 100 journalists threatened </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Amnesty Intl report said that protesters had been
arrested and tortured in Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said 160 attacks
upon media last 2 weeks 33 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">reporters arrested 40 stopped
from reporting Equipment damaged or taken 12 injured by ISF 9 media outlets
raided by ISF 4 permanently closed Observatory was attacked as well </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 PM Maliki said parliament to blame not just him for
poor services Said parliament not </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">passed development laws
Criticized parties that supported protests Said people had right to protest
then that ISF had been killed and wounded by demonstrators </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Finance Min Issawi met with IMF Said it was opposed to
any pay/pension increases </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Issawi said that’s what govt
wanted </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Report 14 teens stoned to death in Baghdad since end
of Feb Militias attacked and killed emo kids </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Militias handed out lists of
kids they were going to kill Interior Min said emo kids were Satanists </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/al-jazeera-video-emo-youth-targetd-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Al Jazeera Video</span></a><span style="color: black;">:
‘Emo’ Youth Targeted In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/governments-role-in-recent-anti-emo.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Government’s Role In The Recent Anti-Emo Violence In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Sadrists organized protests in Baghdad Nasiriya Hillah
Diwaniya against Bahrain’s </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">treatment of Shiites </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 1000s of Sadrists marched in Sadr City Najaf Maysan Dhi
Qar after PM Maliki </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">said Sadr not a mature
politician and should be ignored </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/04/moqtada-al-sadr-ramps-up-campaign.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Moqtada al-Sadr Ramps Up Campaign Against Maliki Before Iraq’s Elections While
His Party is In Disarray) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Badr head Amiri said around 100 Iranian adv working
with Iraqi forces in Salahaddin </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Criticized politicians who asked
for US aid Claimed Iranian advisors free while US advisors had to be paid for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/could-salahaddin-operation-be-game.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Could Salahaddin Operation Be A Game Changer For Iran Vs US Influence In Iraq?)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/us-iranian-rivalry-behind-iraqs-tikrit.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
U.S.-Iranian Rivalry Behind Iraq’s Tikrit Operation) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/divisions-over-iraq-war-exposed-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Video posted of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq burning homes in Albu
Ajeel Salahaddin </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Punishment for members of
Jabouri tribe joining IS </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/09/human-rights-watch-finds-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Human Rights Watch Finds Iraq Government Forces Destroyed Tikrit Area After Its
Recapture) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-goes-on-offensive-in-salahadin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Goes On The Offensive In Salahaddin, Kirkuk and Anbar) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/asaib-ahl-al-haq-from-breakaway-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 UN human rights report said Hashd acted with impunity
and left trail of death and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">destruction behind it </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Garma in east Anbar freed from IS </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-goes-on-offensive-in-salahadin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Goes On The Offensive In Salahaddin, Kirkuk and Anbar) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Report Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said 700
civilians had been killed in fighting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">to free west Mosul </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/03/mosul-campaign-day-143-mar-10-3017.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Mosul Campaign Day 145, Mar 10, 2017) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2018 Report Iran Quds Force cmdr Gen Qaani’s attempt to
negotiate new Iraqi govt failed </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Ayatollah Khamanei intervened Sent
letters to KDP and Sunni parties threatening them for working with Sadr </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">2018 Report Sadr
cancelled decision not to run in elections </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2018 Report Hashd leader Abu Muhandis interviewed Said Iraq
was almost defeated in 2014 when Iran </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">came to its aid Gave weapons
advisors planning Said Iran stopped sectarian war in Iraq Said Hezbollah was in
Iraq as well Claimed Iran and Hezbollah stopped capture of Samarra Said Iran
only country that stood with Iraq Said Iran also kept Assad in power in Syria </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Hashd leaders welcomed
PM Abadi equalizing pay between ISF and Hashd Said there were 20,000 Hashd not
registered with govt <i>Were thousands of ghost Hashd leaders wanted registered
to steal money </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 Abadi claimed only 8 women and children died in taking
Old City in Mosul from </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">IS Reporter told Abadi she’d
seen dozens of bodies in morgue and rubble Abadi didn’t accept that </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/03/iraqs-former-pm-abadi-claimed-only-8.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Former PM Abadi Claimed Only 8 Civilians Killed In Mosul Battle) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 Badr head Amiri arrived in Basra Sent by PM Abdul
Mahdi to head reconstruction </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">council for Basra Had no
executive power Protesters said Badr had shot demonstrators </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 KRG Finance Minister said KRG owed govt workers around
$10 bil in unpaid wages </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">and pensions Result of failed
oil plan and disputes with Baghdad that ended budget payments </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 Iranian official said Tehran using Iraq to get around
US sanctions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Lawyer and activist assassinated in Amara Part of
campaign by Hashd to kill and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">intimidate protesters </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/09/un-report-on-violence-against-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/06/united-nations-faults-iraq-for-failing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2021 Farmers in Jalawla sub-dist in NEDiyala said Hashd
were bulldozing fields to make </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">security zones Was supposed to
be stopped but continued </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2021 Gunmen assassinated father of kidnapped lawyer/activist
in Maysan Protest in Diwaniya </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">demanding release of arrested
activists </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2022 Report Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent
letters to KDP and Sunni parties </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">threatening them for working
with Sadr to try to form majority govt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2022 IS announced new leader Abu Hassan al-Hashemi
al-Qurashi eldest brother of dead </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad </span></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a><br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-71496524269462819582024-03-09T10:07:00.000-08:002024-03-09T11:28:50.496-08:00This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 9 Russian price war with Saudi Arabia led to collapse in oil prices leading to economic crisis for Iraq the most oil dependent country in world <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaL53RKkZ3X1Zr-5RI7lzPfsLJr4hTDvZQmQXOxdtLsaJy69Q4-fb1LvA-5aBehusjTaOO_OqdxnTP6sJhzrkCXfo2vguw9fqED5iF7-Ai-JHsV9mxgtkGizGrtxcpr_tenIwJGM5kW9BAI_Qn7rgbNIBeqsDznYStg0Z6jaNnZn3l00W6is4u-pPx_G_H/s546/Oil.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="546" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaL53RKkZ3X1Zr-5RI7lzPfsLJr4hTDvZQmQXOxdtLsaJy69Q4-fb1LvA-5aBehusjTaOO_OqdxnTP6sJhzrkCXfo2vguw9fqED5iF7-Ai-JHsV9mxgtkGizGrtxcpr_tenIwJGM5kW9BAI_Qn7rgbNIBeqsDznYStg0Z6jaNnZn3l00W6is4u-pPx_G_H/w640-h424/Oil.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1916 British retreated from Dujail after failed attack on
Ottomans </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1917 British attacked Tel Aswad 1<sup>st</sup> Ottoman
defensive line outside Baghdad British couldn’t take </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Ottoman positions British had
768 casualties Turks 95 Turks retreated at night </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/02/review-enemy-on-euphrates-battle-for.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-when-god-made-hell-british.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of
Iraq, 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1918 British took Hit Anbar without a fight from Ottomans </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1929 British appointed Air Inspector to control new Royal
Iraqi Air Force</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/10/siposmilos-and-cooper-tom-wings-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1935 Al-Fitla tribe rose up against PM Midfai Was organized
by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and Hikmat </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Sulaiman of the Patriotic
Brotherhood Party/Ikha</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Iraqi air force attacked coup plotters in Mosul Ended
revolt Kurds and Communists attacked </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Arabs and looted city backed by
army brigade until Mar 13</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1961 Ibrahim Ahmed head of KDP accused of killing Shaklawa
tribal sheikh Warrant issued for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">arrest Forced Ahmed into hiding </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Dep PM and Baath leader Saadi said govt would work
towards Arab-Kurd brotherhood and respect </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Kurdish rights and
decentralization </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/01/review-journey-among-brave-men-travels.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/05/review-iraq-kurdish-question-1958-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1973 Report by Iraqi General Intel Admin Said talks with
Assyrians about political rights and </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">funding a militia were aimed at
splitting community away from KDP </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1974 Bakr govt told Kurds had 2 days to accept
government’s autonomy plan Kurds objected </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">because didn't include Kirkuk
Sinjar Khanaqin and wanted new census Bakr said no</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Shah announced Algiers Agreement over border with Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 Using chemical weapons Iraq retook all areas in Basra
from Iranians except Majnoon Islands </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1986 Iraq made 3<sup>rd</sup> attempt to re-capture Faw
Peninsula in Basra</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1987 Iran was outside Rawanduz Irbil but ordered to stop
due to threats by Turkey to not </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">advance anymore </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Kurdish rebellion started in Halabja and Arbat</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Hussein Kamil led Iraqi forces to retake Karbala from
rebels </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1998 UN agreed to allow diplomats to be with inspectors as
concession to Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1998 Iraq said it arrested scientist Nasser al-Hindawi
known as father of Iraq’s biological weapons </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Was meant to deny UN access to
him </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1999 Fighting between Iraqi forces and SCIRI’s Badr Brigade
in 2 southern provinces</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/01/badr-organization-view-into-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Badr
Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2003 Saddam said US might be most powerful country but
wasn’t strongest because that was given </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">by God When enemy was more advanced
in technology Iraq should go back to basics and train soldiers to ride horses
to deliver messages </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/05/review-iraqi-perspectives-project-view.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Iraqi Perspectives Project, A View of Operation Iraqi
Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Karbala Div commander memo said main threat was not US
invasion but internal rebellions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair told Bush he needed a 2<sup>nd</sup> UN
resolution authorizing force against Iraq to get parliament’s </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">support for war Bush said he
couldn't wait Said UK would back US in Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Sec State Powell told CNN that European country came
up with new evidence that aluminum </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">tubes Iraq tried to buy were for
nukes not rockets Were for rockets</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-contested-aluminum-tubes-story.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Sec State Powell on Meet The Press Iraq-Niger uranium
story open to investigation and IAEA had </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">been wrong about Iraq’s nuke
program in 1990s Story was fake</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-us-intelligence-failed-iraq-niger.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 CIA Dir Tenet told Senate he told VP Cheney trailers
found in Iraq were not conclusive </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">evidence of Iraq WMD Said US
intel still unsure about trailers Said CIA did not agree with Pentagon paper
that Iraq had long cooperation with Al Qaeda</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-iraqi-defector-curveball-became.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/look-who-los-angeles-times-dug-up.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Look
Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/02/story-of-curveball-and-iraqs-mobile.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 3 killed 20 wounded in fighting between Arabs Kurds
Turkmen in Kirkuk city</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Gen Taguba report on Abu Ghraib prison Found systemic
issues that led to prisoner abuse </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Basra officials said security situation worsening
because of flood of weapons from Iran and called </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">for Basra Operations commander
to resign </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Turkey announced program to train Iraqi army in Turkey</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report poor mothers sold daughters into prostitution
Some 11 yr olds sold for as much as </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">$30,000 Many sold to Syria
Jordan Gulf States Men married the women Divorced them Forced them into
servitude Human/women’s rights groups believed tens of thousands of women being
sold U.S. said govt did nothing about issue </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2009 Report 2008 US had to intervene to stop ISF and
Peshmerga fighting in Khanaqin Dist Diyala </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>PM Maliki sent forces into dist
and told Kurds had to leave </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Kurdish Awene newspaper said electoral fraud in Irbil
election Was sued by KDP for story</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Babil intel arrested 12 ISI members Claimed they were
backed by Sheikh Sulaiman and Sheikh Abu </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="color: black;">Risha who were leaders in Anbar
protests</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 Free Iraq Intifada leader arrested Group issued
ultimatum to release him or face rebellion Hoping to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">turn protests to violence Free
Iraq Intifada Naqshibandi front group Organized protests in Mosul Hawija Kirkuk
Tikrit</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/03/iraqs-resurgent-insurgency-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Resurgent Insurgency Interview With Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/05/understanding-iraqs-protest-movements.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Understanding Iraq’s Protest Movements, An Interview With Kirk Sowell, Editor
of Inside Iraqi Politics) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 KRG said it would export oil independently and not give
revenue to Baghdad because </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">budget was passed and didn’t
include paying oil companies working in KRG Said wouldn’t export 250,000
bar/day quota for Baghdad as a result <i>Led to economic crisis in KRG</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/iraqi-kurdistans-failed-independent-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 Report ISF surrounded Ramadi protest site Claimed
terrorists were using it Police arrested protesters in </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Fallujah who were carrying ISI
flags Defense Min claimed it stopped ISI sending weapons and explosives to
Ramadi protesters Anbar Ops Comm said no foreign journalists would be allowed
into Ramadi site without permission</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Suicide car bomb in Hilla Babil killed 50 wounded 160 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/10/review-suicide-bombers-in-iraq-strategy.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 Video posted of men in uniforms yelling “Burn them!” as
drove through Albu Ajeel outside </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Tikrit after it was freed Showed
burned buildings Satellite photos showed large part of town destroyed Town
controlled by Asaib Ahl Al-Haq </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/asaib-ahl-al-haq-from-breakaway-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Peshmerga began offensive to take towns south of
Kirkuk city focusing upon Hawija </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black;">dist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-goes-on-offensive-in-salahadin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Goes On The Offensive In Salahaddin, Kirkuk and Anbar) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 Report Oil Min said it wanted to increase oil
production to 9 mil/bar/day by 2020 <i>Didn’t happen</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq spokesman claimed US had taken IS
leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad out </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black;">of Mosul Part of pro-Iran Hashd
info campaign vs US</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/03/mosul-campaign-day-142-mar-9-2017.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Mosul Campaign Day 144, Mar 9, 2017) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Report IMF’s Stand By Agreement on hold with Iraq over
2018 budget cutting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black;">spending for KRG and reducing
non-oil govt revenue </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2020 Report Russia dropped alliance with OPEC and increased
oil production Saudi Arabia </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">increased its production Caused
collapse in oil market Hurt Iraq the most as most oil dependent country in
world Draft 2020 budget had huge deficit </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2020 3 protesters killed by Iraqi forces in Baghdad </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2021 Son of activist kidnapped in Baghdad Note left saying
activist had to return to Baghdad to get </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">his son back Protests in Dhi Qar </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2023 PM Sudani agreed to send 400 bil dinars to KRG despite
Supreme Court ruling that </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">sending money to regional govt
illegal <i>Was done to maintain Kurdish support for Sudani’s govt</i> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/03/sudani-govt-sends-budget-payments-to.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Sudani Govt Sends Budget Payments To Kurds To Keep Ruling Coalition
Together) </p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a><br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/12/iraqi-women-before-and-after-2003.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraqi Women Before And After The 2003 Invasion, Interview
With Prof Nadje Al-Ali Univ of London)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/03/review-iraqi-women-untold-stories-from.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraqi Women, Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/09/review-what-kind-of-liberation-women.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1916 Battle of Dujaila British attack on Ottomans failed
British lost 3,474 casualties Turks </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">1,235 Was defeat in British
effort to relieve siege at Kut </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1917 British tried to cross Diyala River again to move on
Baghdad but failed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/02/review-enemy-on-euphrates-battle-for.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-when-god-made-hell-british.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of
Iraq, 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1920 Syrian congress declared Faisal the King of Syria and
his brother Abdullah the King of Iraq </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Called for Iraqi independence </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1920 Hundreds of ex-Ottoman soldiers including many Iraqis
petitioned King Faisal of Syria </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">about how Arab revolt didn’t
workout during WWI Went to Iraq to fight British</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1935 Anti-Imperialist Association founded as front for
Communist Party Attacked the English and </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Iraqi elite for exploiting Iraq and
the workers </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/06/review-peoples-history-of-iraq-iraqi.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party,
Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1949 US embassy
report on Jewish immigration Said Iraqi govt would be against Jews leaving </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">because it would disrupt business and economy Said older Jewish religious
leaders would not want to go to Palestine Business community split Zionists
would want to go to Israel Others would want to stay in Iraq and maintain
wealthy positions Young Jews and white collar workers would be interested in
opportunities in Israel Iraqi Jews dismissed by government would probably want
to leave too Warned if Israel expanded or acted aggressively situation for
Iraqi Jews would worsen and lead more to go to Israel Believed Jewish
immigration revolved around actions of Israel</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/08/review-iraqi-jews-history-of-mass-exodus.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Iraqi Jews, A History of Mass Exodus</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/07/review-last-days-in-babylon-exile-of.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Last Days in Babylon, The Exile of Iraq’s Jews, the Story
of My Family</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1950 105,000 Iraqi Jews registered to immigrate to Israel
Almost 40,000 had already </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">immigrated under new govt law
allowing immigration </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/08/review-iraqi-jews-history-of-mass-exodus.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Iraqi Jews, A History of Mass Exodus</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/07/review-last-days-in-babylon-exile-of.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Last Days in Babylon, The Exile of Iraq’s Jews, the Story
of My Family</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/review-new-babylonians-history-of-jews.html">Musings
On Iraq</a><span style="color: black;"> <i>New Babylonians, A History Of Jews In
Modern Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1954 PM Jamali formed 2<sup>nd</sup> cabinet with Qazzaz a
Kurd the Interior Minister </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Fighting continued in Mosul between Communist backers
of Gen Qasim and his </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">opponents Rival army units
joined fight </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/10/revolutionary-times-gen-qasim-and-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western
Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Coup leader Col Shawaf sent two planes to bomb Baghdad
radio station but failed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Gen Qasim bombed Col Shawaf’s HQ in Mosul Kurdish
soldier loyal to Qasim killed Shawaf </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Ended Mosul Revolt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Govt arrested 60 Communists and sympathizers for Mosul
fighting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Baath seized power in Syria opening door to
unification with Baath led Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-socialist-iraq-study-in-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Socialist Iraq, A Study in Iraqi Politics Since 1968</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1970 Saddam went to Kurdistan Met with Barzani and KDP Said
govt ready to ratify all deals with Kurds </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/10/review-iraq-since-1958-from-revolution.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1974 Idris Barzani met with Saddam in Baghdad Asked that
govt hold off on its unilateral </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Kurdish autonomy plan Saddam
refused </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1980 Iran withdrew its ambassador from Iraq Prelude to
Iran-Iraq War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 UN sent team to Iraq to investigate Baghdad’s use of
chemical weapons against Iran</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1986 Iraqi counterattacks ended Iran Op Wa al-Fajr 9 in
Sulaymaniya </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Peshmerga captured Sulaymaniya from govt forces
Executed 700 Baathists and security officials </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-us-helped-start-rebellion-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Turkish Pres Ozal changed policy and held talks with
KDP and PUK for first time</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iranian Pres Rafsanjani called on Saddam to step down
from power</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1996 UN inspectors launched 1<sup>st</sup> op to discover
Iraq concealment program at govt construction company </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Iraqis wouldn’t let them in
Found nothing Op was meant to get reaction from Iraqis and study what they did
to figure out how they were hiding things </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/11/review-endgame-solving-iraq-crisis.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/12/review-iraq-confidential-untold-story.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence
Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1998 UN inspectors went to old and new Defense Ministry
buildings and found nothing Iraqis </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">told UN inspectors they knew
Clinton admin wanted to provoke a confrontation to strike Iraq Also went to
Military Industrial Comm Sec HQ but building was converted to Agriculture Min </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/02/un-inspectors-and-cia-spying-on-iraq-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors and CIA Spying On Iraq In The 90s)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/revised-review-iraq-in-eye-of-storm.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq In The Eye of the Storm</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-out-of-ashes-resurrection-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/12/review-neighbors-not-friends-iraq-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Iraq options paper given to Blair Said UK could
strengthen containment or regime change </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">using military Said invasion
only way to ensure removal of Saddam Said Iraq destabilizing force in Mideast
but not threat it was before Said WMD programs continued but limited Found no
evidence Iraq involved in any recent terrorism Meant no legal basis for war
based on self-defense or fighting terrorism </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/07/2002-british-memo-said-iraq-not-threat.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> 2002
British Memo Said Iraq Not A Threat To The West) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2002 UK cabinet meeting Foreign Sec Straw said smart
sanctions were about to be implemented and </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">hoped that would undermine Saddam’s
rhetoric about sanctions killing Iraqis Said Iraq had to comply with UN
resolutions and destroy its WMD Said no decision made on military action but
had to build intl support to show threat that Iraq posed Said US no longer
wanted to contain Iraq Said only way to remove Saddam was through invasion but
no justification for it Some officials said war on terror had to be separated
from removing WMD in Iraq Some said military action had to have legal basis
Blair said US shouldn’t act unilaterally and had to put effort into
Arab-Israeli peace effort Blair said important that UK influence Bush’s
decisions </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/03/chilcot-report-section-32-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Report Section 3.2 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options, January
to April 2002 – “Axis of Evil” to Crawford)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 CIA report on Fmr Amb Wilson’s trip to Niger to
investigate Iraq trying to buy uranium Niger </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">denied any deal Said June 1999
Iraqi delegation met with Niger PM about business which PM thought was buying
uranium CIA analysts believed FmrAmb Wilson confirmed Iraq was interested in
buying uranium from Niger</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 State Dept believed Fmr Amb Wilson’s trip confirmed
that Iraq had not tried to buy uranium from </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Niger </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Fmr Amb Wilson would later claim that he talked about
docs alleging Iraq-Niger uranium deal but he </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">didn’t know about them until
later </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-us-intelligence-failed-iraq-niger.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;">2003 Def Sec
Rumsfeld sent note to Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers Said he didn’t want to send
excessive forces to Iraq Said only wanted enough forces to defeat Saddam </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush made radio address saying he was doing everything
to avoid war but if Saddam didn’t disarm </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">he would be made to Bush already
decided on war </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Tragedy</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-bush-administrations-and-saddam.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict</i>)<i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair’s final attempt to get UN Security Council to
pass 2<sup>nd</sup> resolution supporting force against </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Iraq failed</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair’s foreign policy adviser Manning told Natl
Sec Adv Rice PM Blair willing to lose his govt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">in order to fight Iraq war</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 DIA report to Sec Def Rumsfeld said IAEA was
dismissing Iraq-Niger uranium story because </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">based upon questionable docs
Said Wilson’s trip found evidence that Iraq was interested in buying uranium
from Niger Was Navy report uranium was in Benin warehouse Said Somali
businessmen talked about shipment that was similar to Iraq-Niger uranium deal even
though didn’t mention Iraq Niger or uranium </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 US official said administration had been duped by fake
docs claiming Iraq tried to buy uranium </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">from Niger</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Fmr Amb Wilson told CNN US govt should and did know
that Iraq-Niger uranium story was false </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Army Corps of Engineers gave KBR $7 bil contract to
repair Iraq’s infrastructure after war</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Transitional Administrative Law signed into effect as
temporary constitution Shiites on Iraqi </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Governing Council who had
objected to TAL finally signed it Sistani said it was illegitimate and any
further laws must be passed by elected Iraqi parliament </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-coalition-provisional-authoritys.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Coalition Provisional Authority’s Inauspicious End) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/06/review-allawi-ali-theoccupation-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/07/review-patriotic-ayatollahs-nationalism.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/09/review-squandered-victory-american.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring
Democracy to Iraq</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Natl Sec Adv Rice said that UN rep Brahimi had to
return to Iraq to complete work on new Iraqi </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">govt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-state-of-denial-bush-at-war-part.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 Police kidnapped and killed 50 Sunnis from security
company in west Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-voices-from-iraq-peoples-history.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 5000 protested in Basra against army and police over
deteriorating security and rising crime </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Mahdi Army and army got into shoot out in Sadr City 18
soldiers taken prisoner </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2008 Report Sadr sent letter to followers who asked why he
hadn't been seen in public for so long Said he </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">felt like a failure for not kicking
US out of Iraq and creating an Islamic country Said some of his followers had
betrayed him Hadn't been seen in public since May 07 <i>Was in Iran having fled
Surge</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2008 Report KRG PM Barzani said government workers would be
paid in full from now on <i>Didn’t happen</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Suicide bombing in Baghdad killed 28 outside police
academy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/10/review-suicide-bombers-in-iraq-strategy.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Amara police chief said that Iranian Quds Force
members used to come to Iraq every month </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Now came every 6-7 months Said
Quds Force busy dealing with suppressing opposition after Iran’s elections </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/03/is-iranian-revolutionary-guard-too.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Is
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Too Distracted By Internal Affairs To Be
Meddling In Iraq Right Now?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Sulaymaniya police said 19 fights between PUK and Gorran
supporters after voting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 PM Maliki had offices of Iraqi Communist Party and
Iraqi National Party of MP Alusi in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Baghdad closed for supporting
protests</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/iraqs-maliki-closes-down-two-political.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Maliki Closes Down Two Political Parties For Supporting Protests)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Report Maliki govt tried to suppress protests and
media for covering them PM Maliki claimed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Baathists and Al Qaeda behind
protests 3 activists found murdered in Kirkuk 4 journalists arrested in Baghdad
and tortured by army </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/government-moves-to-suppress-protests.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Government Moves To Suppress Protests In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Report Maliki govt and KRG cracked down on media for
covering protests Feb 4 journalists arrested in </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Baghdad restaurant by army Taken to
base and tortured Army accused them of being Baathists 3 employees of Al
Sumaria TV arrested and taken to army base Mar gunmen in uniforms vandalized
radio station in Sulaymaniya Station had been covering protests Journalists
covering protests in Basra beaten Journalistic Freedom Observatory said media
under attack 24 cases of journalists beaten for covering protests </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 Interior Min said no emos had been killed <i>50-90 had
reportedly been killed</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/al-jazeera-video-emo-youth-targetd-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Al Jazeera Video</span></a><span style="color: black;">:
‘Emo’ Youth Targeted In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/governments-role-in-recent-anti-emo.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Government’s Role In The Recent Anti-Emo Violence In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 Agriculture Min resigned after police fired at
protesters<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Mosul killing 1 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Protests in Baghdad Maysan Dhi Qar Najaf Basra against
new pension law which maintained lavish </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">payments for high officials </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-protests-in-iraq-over-pension.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> More
Protests In Iraq Over Pension System) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 ISF turned over Dour, Salahaddin to Hashd who started
destroying property </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/divisions-over-iraq-war-exposed-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/09/human-rights-watch-finds-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Human Rights Watch Finds Iraq Government Forces Destroyed Tikrit Area After Its
Recapture) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 200 people arrested by Kataib Hezbollah and Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq in Dour outside Tikrit 160 not </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">seen again Feared disappeared <i>Dead</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 Report KRG pipeline to Turkey down for 3 wks
exacerbated KRG's budget problems Needed </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">$730 mil to pay govt workers Owed
oil companies $70 mil Jan only earned $650 mil 2nd-1/2 of 2015 KRG earned avg
$628 mil/mo from oil exports Signed pre payment deals with oil traders KRG
promised min amount of oil exports for oil traders to receive payments If KRG
didn’t meet minimum traders only paid for what they received and KRG had to pay
them for oil not delivered Drop in oil prices and pipeline outages led to cut
back in payments by oil traders to KRG at least 4 mos behind paying govt
workers which were already cut 15-75% </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/iraqi-kurdistans-failed-independent-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 Report Arms brokers got German weapons sent to Kurds
and sold them to IS </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2017 Iranian official said 2100 Iranians died fighting in
Iraq and Syria Was more than double number </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">he gave in Nov when only talked
about losses in Syria </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2017 Report Mar meeting of Sunni politicians in Turkey
Included VP Nujafi Ex-Ninewa Gov Nujafi </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Ex-Finance Min Issawi Businessman
Khanjar Head of Assoc of Muslim Scholars Dhari Were arrest warrants for 3 of
them Meeting sponsored by Turkey Saudi Arabia Qatar Jordan UAE Abadi govt
condemned meeting Showed Sunni elite divorced from political reality Thought
meeting would lead to unity Didn’t think people would be offended and oppose it
Sunni marginalization most often discussed in Iraq Misleading because Sunnis
part of govt Thought marginalization really lack of united Sunni identity
Sunnis divided between Arab nationalism and Islamists Didn’t participate in
identity politics before 03 Sunnis didn’t identify as group before Thought were
majority and Iraq belonged to them Some Sunni politicians tried to be involved
in govt while having ties with insurgents but didn’t work Thought repeating old
politics would maintain divisions </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 PM Abadi issued Executive Order 85 Said Hashd would
have same pay scale as army and receive </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">pensions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/hashd-to-get-equal-pay-benefits-to-army.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Hashd To Get Equal Pay-Benefits To Army As Further Integrated Into Iraqi State)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 Report KRG pipeline to Turkey down for 3 wks
exacerbated KRG's budget problems Needed </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">$730 mil to pay govt workers Owed
oil companies $70 mil Jan only earned $650 mil 2nd-1/2 of 2015 KRG earned avg
$628 mil/mo from oil exports Signed pre payment deals with oil traders KRG
promised min amount of oil exports for oil traders to receive payments If KRG
didn’t meet minimum traders only paid for what they received and KRG had to pay
them for oil not delivered Drop in oil prices and pipeline outages led to cut
back in payments by oil traders to KRG at least 4 mos behind paying govt
workers which were already cut 15-75% </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Report 2018 budget only had $344 mil for
reconstruction out of $20 bil capital budget IMF and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Iraq planned on roughly $10 bil
per year for rebuilding over 5 years</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/iraq-fails-to-allocate-adequate-funds.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Fails To Allocate Adequate Funds For Rebuilding War Damage) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Hundreds protested in Baghdad over sewage and lack of
electricity Demanded PM Abadi form a </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">committee to deal with issues </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2018 Report Lebanese American businessman help broker $4.2
bil arms deal between Maliki govt and </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Russia Businessman went to Russia
in 2012 Said he represented Maliki and arms deal should go through him Iraq’s
Def Min was in Russia at same time trying to work out deal Businessmen then
went with Maliki to Moscow to sign arms deal Deal surrounded in corruption
charges Def Min canceled it as a result Maliki’s adv said deal would be
renegotiated Businessman also involved with ISCI and KDP in making deals and
creating political connections Worked with Maliki’s son on electricity projects
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2019 Report KRG PM Barzani said government workers would be
paid in full from now on </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i>Didn't happen</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2019 Report US military moving on from Iraq Focused upon
conventional warfare US army </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">resisted publishing its history
of Iraq War Finished in 2016 but not released until 2019 Vice Chief of Staff of
the Army said wasn’t published because didn’t fit military’s doctrine </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/03/us-government-continues-to-try-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> U.S.
Government Continues To Try To Forget About The Iraq War) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2021 Report Feb Irbil airport hit by rockets Killed Iraqi
and Filipino contractors KRG arrested 2 for </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">attack who said they worked for
Kataib Sayid al-Shuhada Front group claimed responsibility Asaib Ahl Al-Haq
might have been in command of attack Later Ain Al-Assad base hit by rockets </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/asaib-ahl-al-haq-from-breakaway-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2023 Around 1000 street cleaners went on strike in Irbil
over not being paid for 6 months <i>Part </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i>of KRG’s financial woes due to
failed oil policy</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/iraqi-kurdistans-failed-independent-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)</p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines</a> <br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-16284831764893327032024-03-07T08:27:00.000-08:002024-03-07T17:25:10.830-08:00Musings On Iraq In The News<p> I was quoted in this article by Wladimir van Wilgenburg <a href="https://kurdistanchronicle.com/babat/2942">"Election Announcement Positive Step For Kurdistan Region: Experts"</a> in the Kurdistan Chronicle. </p><p><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/musings-on-iraq-in-news.html">See all of Iraq's citations</a>. <br /></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-10029237949812070082024-03-07T08:08:00.001-08:002024-03-07T08:08:29.782-08:00Review Hope Is Not A Plan, The War In Iraq From Inside The Green Zone<p><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mowle, Thomas, <i>Hope Is
Not A Plan, The War In Iraq From Inside The Green Zone</i>, Westport London:
Praeger Security International, 2007</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH-PEw2vyiRDNyhptEpcT0sHp8jj_lOXKBtPOibTP2KerSwKHgP-BFT9FjedHmMn5L9WlJysZz_KAScYieTc-f3jUQI_RdSfCm0v7oDmb1mTG7P1-U0yfsg97Lhf2c0SWEepKjj4pP7Or-IVuui19DWTzEE4k89nU2xhDuWPNg6mXDPlPSQiU0uO0mowB-/s692/Hope%20Is%20Not%20A%20Plan.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="438" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH-PEw2vyiRDNyhptEpcT0sHp8jj_lOXKBtPOibTP2KerSwKHgP-BFT9FjedHmMn5L9WlJysZz_KAScYieTc-f3jUQI_RdSfCm0v7oDmb1mTG7P1-U0yfsg97Lhf2c0SWEepKjj4pP7Or-IVuui19DWTzEE4k89nU2xhDuWPNg6mXDPlPSQiU0uO0mowB-/w254-h400/Hope%20Is%20Not%20A%20Plan.png" width="254" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hope Is Not A Plan, The
War In Iraq From Inside The Green Zone</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
is a very informative book about the lack of U.S. strategic planning and
coordination from 2004-05. It’s an anthology with each chapter written by
military officers who served in Iraq during that period. As the editor Thomas
Mowle points out everyone should know that the Bush administration did not plan
for the immediate aftermath of the 2003 invasion that led to looting and the
collapse of the Iraqi state. What this selection tries to point out is that the
Americans continued to fail at planning afterward. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There are two main takeaways
from the book. The first is that the U.S. was not institutionally capable of
dealing with rebuilding Iraq for a number of reasons. Second there was no unity
of effort in dealing with Iraq after 2003 nor a comprehensive strategic plan
which meant the Americans constantly failed at the macro level even though it
claimed it was succeeding. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One chapter argues that the
U.S. was incapable of dealing with such a Herculean task as rebuilding Iraq. The
U.S. did not have the personnel nor resources for such a large effort. More
importantly it didn’t have the ideas or cultural knowledge. The Defense
Department for instance had purposefully forgotten the lessons of Vietnam and
solely focused upon conventional warfare. It thus quickly succeeded in
dispatching Saddam and was left flatfooted afterwards. U.S. soldiers and
diplomats were also culturally ignorant of Iraq and its history. It did not
understand how its actions like sweeping through neighborhoods, breaking down
doors and arresting all military age males would turn the population against
it. It also lacked knowledge about the political rivalries and growing
sectarianism within the Iraqi elites it was empowering. The authors believed it
was a recipe for disaster. The Americans constantly made the wrong decisions
during the occupation which only exasperated the situation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The second big problem the
book tackles was the failure of Americans planning from 2004-05. There was no
single person or agency in charge of Iraq. The task was always spread out
across different groups such as the Coalition Provisional Authority and the
U.S. military. The latter for instance did not coordinate with the office in
charge of reconstruction or the U.S. embassy during this period. That led to
constant failures such as the 2<sup>nd</sup> Battle of Fallujah which was a
tactical success as the city was cleared but the military did not plan for the
political fallout and the Iraqi Governing Council almost collapsed as a result.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There was also a lack of
robust planning. The Americans called the January 2005 election a turning point
which would lead to a U.S. withdrawal. It was believed that the creation of the
first independent Iraqi government since 2003 would decrease violence and allow
the U.S. to eventually leave. It turned out to be a failure because there was a
Sunni boycott. That led to their exclusion from drafting the new constitution.
The result was no letup in violence and only greater alienation by an important
community. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The last chapter argues for
the United States government to invest in planning for the next nation building
effort to try to avoid all the mistakes it made in Iraq. Unbeknownst to the
authors at the time Washington has repeated its mistake from Vietnam and tried
to put Iraq behind it. Thus the Pentagon has gone back to conventional military
planning. The authors believed the U.S. was not capable of dealing with
rebuilding a country. They were right as the government is not interested. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hope Is Not A Plan</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> is an important addition to the history of the U.S.
occupation of Iraq. It explains why the Bush administration continued to
struggle after the 2003 invasion. It deals with both the macro and micro level
of planning and strategy in a very short read. Some chapters do come off as how
to readings for military staff officers but those can be overlooked for the
overall message that it delivers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/book-reviews-by-topic.html">Link to
all of Musings On Iraq’s book reviews</a> listed by topic</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-35746433389462760432024-03-07T08:08:00.000-08:002024-03-07T08:08:21.289-08:00This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 7 Fighting broke out in Mosul between Communists who supported Gen Qasim and his opponents Mosul cmdr announced coup <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCDc2bSwxo9s4QFywi1rf0ttDNytOMZnOs8QNIYgEJvAm3-BZAzHP5li84GuIvAujRpmjCsf3u5ci4cVWpYMORVXPTA9tKaqK-6cs0EOYMc2gGRPb-u9SRnpURKdZdwDGXlJF5R4wmTAA6Iz18xsA3XsIC27hf6oJWM5C5KztMw2fWn3dUpaX2wHIoA08/s636/Mosul.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="636" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCDc2bSwxo9s4QFywi1rf0ttDNytOMZnOs8QNIYgEJvAm3-BZAzHP5li84GuIvAujRpmjCsf3u5ci4cVWpYMORVXPTA9tKaqK-6cs0EOYMc2gGRPb-u9SRnpURKdZdwDGXlJF5R4wmTAA6Iz18xsA3XsIC27hf6oJWM5C5KztMw2fWn3dUpaX2wHIoA08/w400-h304/Mosul.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1916 British forces attacked Ottomans at the Dujaila
Redoubt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1917 British tried and failed to cross Diyala River on
march on Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/02/review-enemy-on-euphrates-battle-for.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-when-god-made-hell-british.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of
Iraq, 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1920 Syrian Congress declared independence of Syria that
included union with Iraq under </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">King Faisal </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1941 German Foreign Min official Woermann wrote that Berlin
should send arms to Iraq but </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">didn’t think Baghdad should
declare war vs UK because couldn’t win</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/review-persian-gulf-command-history-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/03/review-iraq-and-syria-1941-politics-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1950 Opposition MPs left parliament claiming they were
being silenced in assembly Were </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">hoping to cause protests and
bring down PM Suwaidi’s govt but failed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/08/review-independent-iraq-1932-1958-study.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Marches for and against Qasim in Mosul led to fighting
between Communists and pan-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Arabists Army arrested 60
Communists and sympathizers </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Officer from Baghdad Durra met Mosul cmdr Col Shawaf
Said coup moving forward but didn’t tell </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">other plotters Col Sirri and Col
Tabaqchali the date</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Mosul cmdr Col Shawaf along with members of the
Shammar tribe led military coup </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">against Gen Qasim Shawaf
declared himself coup leader which led other plotters Col Sirri and Col
Tabqchali not to join Made address over Mosul radio Shawaf felt ignored by
Qasim Shawaf’s forces began attacking Communists </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/10/revolutionary-times-gen-qasim-and-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western
Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Army commander in Baghdad didn’t join Mosul Revolt
because angry Col Shawaf </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">declared himself leader</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Barzani met with govt delegation Barzani agreed to
drop demand for Kurdish </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">autonomy for decentralization
Wanted end of economic blockade end of confiscation of property withdraw army
from Kurdish areas amnesty for his fighters </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/01/review-journey-among-brave-men-travels.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/05/review-iraq-kurdish-question-1958-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/02/review-people-without-country-kurds-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1973 Kurdish village of Oazan-Belagh in Kirkuk forced to
give land to Arabs and population </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">expelled </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Iraqi army moved into Kurdistan after Iran withdrew
support for Kurds under Algiers </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Accord</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/partial-review-blum-william-killing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-great-betrayal-how-america.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/when-shah-and-nixon-manipulated-kurds.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 KDP central committee met Decided to continue fighting
Bakr govt despite Iran ending</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
support </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Iran rejected any ceasefire with Iraq Baghdad began
bombing Iranian town of Ilam and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">oil refinery in Khuzistan in
retaliation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 Iraqis used mustard gas against Iranians to try to
turn them back in Basra marshes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 USSR submitted new proposal for negotiating end to
Iran-Iraq War </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Ayatollah Khoei issued 2<sup>nd</sup> fatwa calling
for clerical leadership to run Najaf and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">restoring order during uprising </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iraqi officials asked for WMD to put down rebellion in
Najaf </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Bush Admin warned Iraq not to use WMD against Shiite
and Kurdish uprisings after </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Gulf War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Govt forces began artillery and rocket fire on Najaf
shrine to put down revolt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Peshmerga began uprising in Sulaymaniya</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Saddam offered Shiites and Kurds share in govt in
exchange for loyalty oath but turned </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">down</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iranian Pres Rafsanjani said Saddam was unpopular and
should give into popular </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">demand and step down </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-us-helped-start-rebellion-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1998 UN inspectors went to Special Republican Guard and
Special Security Directorate US </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">was hoping to cause
confrontation between Baghdad and UN inspectors to strike Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/02/un-inspectors-and-cia-spying-on-iraq-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors and CIA Spying On Iraq In The 90s)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/11/review-endgame-solving-iraq-crisis.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1998 NSA intercepted Saddam’s secretary Mahmoud telling
Special Security Directorate to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">delay inspection at one site so
documents could be removed Destroyed at another</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/un-inspectors-were-right-iraq-was-not.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/iraqs-rejection-of-un-inspectors-led-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/revised-review-iraq-in-eye-of-storm.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq In The Eye of the Storm</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-out-of-ashes-resurrection-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/12/review-neighbors-not-friends-iraq-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK Attn Gen Lord Goldsmith said that a material breach
of inspections under UN Res </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1441 could be violation of UN
Res 678 that authorized Gulf War and OK new war but only Security Council could
determine that </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/06/chilcot-inquiry-section-5-advice-on.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 5 Advice On The Legal Basis For Military Action,
November 2002 To March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Head UN inspector Blix Iraq doing more but not fully
cooperating Still months more </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">work ahead Said no evidence of
mobile WMD labs Iraq destroying banned missiles Showed more compliance
Unaccounted for WMD still an issue </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-iraqi-defector-curveball-became.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-37-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February
to 7 March 2003)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 IAEA chief El Baradei told UN no evidence Iraq
restarted nuclear program</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-us-intelligence-created-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 IAEA concluded that aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy
were for rockets not nuke </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">program Aluminum tubes for
centrifuges <i>Story was false</i> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-contested-aluminum-tubes-story.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 IAEA said that documents claiming Iraq tried to buy
uranium from Niger were fakes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-us-intelligence-failed-iraq-niger.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Sec State Powell told UN Security Council in response
to IAEA that US had new proof <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>that
aluminum </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">tubes were for centrifuges Were
for rockets</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK For Sec Straw suggested UN set ultimatum for Iraq’s
full cooperation with </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">inspectors by Mar 17 or face war
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2003 2<sup>nd</sup> high level US meeting on creating an
interim Iraqi authority after invasion held just </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">days before war Under Sec Def Feith
said US should recognize an Iraqis authority as the Iraqi govt but under US
consultation Said more seats on authority would be given to exiles because they
understood US and democracy more than Iraqis State said US should pick members
of authority Dep Sec State Armitage said forming authority should be held off
CIA said no exiles should be included in authority </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Policy Tragedy</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-state-of-denial-bush-at-war-part.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-hard-lessons-iraq-reconstruction.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Defense Policy Board’s Adelman wrote OpEd USA Today
saying US had given Iraq too </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">much time and needed action</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 Anbar Revolutionaries said they’d killed 20 Al Qaeda
in Iraq foreign fighters and 33 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Iraqi ones Said goal was to get
rid of Zarqawi </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/demise-but-not-death-of-al-qaeda-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-change-in-perceptions-led-to-anbar.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
A Change In Perceptions Led To The Anbar Awakening) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/03/review-iraqs-sunni-insurgency.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-caliphate-at-war-operational.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic
State</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2006 Report ISI killed head of Najm tribe and his son Killed
top sheikh who headed Fallujah City </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Council Killed head of Jabour tribe
Feb 06 more than 300 sheiks politicians clerics security officials community
leaders in Hawija Kirkuk declared war on ISI</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Fadhila Party left United Iraqi Alliance over
disagreements with leadership </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2007 Report last three weeks 125 bodies were found dumped on
the streets</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Pres Talabani visited Turkey Sign that Turkey was
changing policy towards Kurds </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Refused to meet with KRG Pres
Barzani </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 2<sup>nd</sup> time PM Maliki called for amending
constitution to strengthen power of central govt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">and himself Also criticized govt
quotas </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report Sex market in Baghdad selling teen girls to
Syria Jordan and UAE Human rights </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">activists believed tens of 1000s
of girls sold Govt did nothing </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report Govt arrested former Baathist era army officers
At same time said wanted </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">reconciliation with Baathists 23
arrested in Baghdad recently </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/baghdads-latest-reconciliation-effort.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Baghdad’s Latest Reconciliation Effort) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Parliamentary elections held leading to 2<sup>nd</sup>
Maliki term Voter turnout was 62% vs 76% </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">in Dec 05 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/03/general-voting-begins-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
General Voting Begins In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/03/voting-down-in-2010-but-election-shows.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Voting Down In 2010, But Election Shows New Balance Of Power In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Report Accountability and Justice Comm was considering
banning more candidates for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Baathist ties and disqualifying
votes for those politicians as well </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/04/another-debaathification-crisis-seems.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Another DeBaathification Crisis Seems To Have Been Averted) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Report Head of integrity comm said documents showed $4
bil missing from Trade Min Might </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">be as high as $8 bil Ministry
bought old food but charged full prices and stole the difference Trade Min
officials bought food at full price but took it for themselves and sold it on
black market Bought cheap substitutes to replace stolen food Worked with
merchants to buy goods for double the price and took difference 2009
investigation found only 1/2 people were getting their full food rations from
ministry</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/01/corruption-in-iraq-interview-with.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/iraqs-troubles-fighting-corruption.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US
Anti-Graft Official) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Protesters in Sulaymaniyah attacked by security forces
Raided tents demonstrators set up</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 100s protested in Baghdad demanding Baghdad govt resign
ISF banned TV coverage of protests 10 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">activists arrested afterward 100s
protested in Fallujah Called for end of corruption </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/government-moves-to-suppress-protests.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Government Moves To Suppress Protests In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Pres Talabani gave speech to commemorate 1991 uprising
Said Kirkuk was the Kurdish Jerusalem and </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">should be annexed by KRG</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Report Dep minister govt adv economists said govt
couldn't improve economy PM’s adv on econ </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">affairs said major problem 4 mil
govt workers Said govt had to work on investment Govt needed to protect
investors/investments Help with licenses Open up land Said govt had limited
investment capabilities because most of budget went to operational costs Said
provinces should get more power to break centralization Economists said govt
needed to reform finances Said too much corruption Ministries needed to be
accountable Govt should form economic council that included economists to get
better advice Member Baghdad Chamber of Commerce said govt needed financial
discipline Said govt needed to plan budget based upon lower than expected oil
prices to keep up with fluctuations Said budget surpluses should be kept in
fund that would be used when oil prices dropped Head of central agency for
statistics and Dep Planning Min said declining industries and farming were
biggest problems in Iraq Said govt needed to emphasize more than just oil</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Najaf govt voted to make province autonomous region
Said goal was to improve services</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 Report Believed power sharing between KDP and PUK
stifled development of democracy in KRG </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Ended differences between two
parties and shut out other ones Agreement result of 1998 civil war 50 MP's in
KRG parliament from opposition and a few from the PUK asked for investigation
into claims that tariffs from border point with Turkey were given to Nechirvan
Barzani Speaker turned down request Thought power sharing agreement meant PUK
and KDP had to protect each other KDP media outlet criticized Pres Talabani PUK
asked KDP to stop publishing outlet and it did Thought KDP and PUK should be
competitors not partners</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 Report Dep of Employment in Irbil said last 7 yrs
22,000 people asked for jobs 2011 were 3000 foreign </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">workers in KRG Dir of Employment
Dep said Kurds didn’t want hard jobs Expected to get job from government and
work side job KRG said unemployment low and went down in 2012 Gen Dir of
Employment at KRG Labor Min admitted no accurate numbers on unemployment
Officially 14% unemployment Economists believed was really above 20% Labor Min
said it only allowed professional foreign workers to enter KRG <i>Not true
Admitted 1000s of manual laborers</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 Report Iraqi businessman complained couldn't use credit
cards in Iraq Said banks didn't use modern </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">methods Couldn't always cash a
check Held up economic development Banking in Iraq dominated by state-run banks
Some small banks but didn't operate as national businesses 7 state-run banks
had 85% of assets Head of Private Banks League said state-run banks not
investing in Iraq Said just handled govt accounts Nov 2011 report by investment
bank said only 900 bank branches in country with over 30 mil people Jordan had
over 600 branches for population only 1/5 as large World Bank said Iraqi banks
gave $8.1 bil in credit in 2010 9. 8% of GDP Banks in rest of MidEast and
NAfrica accounted for avg 55% of GDP Dep Central Bank of Iraq governor said
state-run banks didn’t have connections between different branches Lacked
computer networks Meant many businesses had to do transactions in cash Large
claims of corruption at state-run banks Small banks tended to be more advanced
like having ATMs Too small to have real impact Would probably take years to
change system</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 Report MP on oil comm said Oil Min’s secrecy helped
smuggling Oil comm asked for greater </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">transparency from Oil Min 2011
report by Intl Advisory and Monitoring Board said huge amounts of oil smuggling
Said Oil Min hadn’t installed meters on all its export outlets Didn't keep
track of how much oil went to refineries Said lack of meters allowed smuggling
Gangs tapped into oil pipelines with police protection</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 Interior Min said attacks on emos was made-up <i>False
statement</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/al-jazeera-video-emo-youth-targetd-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Al Jazeera Video</span></a><span style="color: black;">:
‘Emo’ Youth Targeted In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/03/governments-role-in-recent-anti-emo.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
Government’s Role In The Recent Anti-Emo Violence In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Insurgents bombed Kirkuk oil pipeline cutting northern
exports </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Protests in Baghdad Maysan Dhi Qar Najaf Basra against
new pension law which </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">maintained lavish payments for
high officials </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-protests-in-iraq-over-pension.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> More
Protests In Iraq Over Pension System) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 Anbar’s Sheikh Sulaiman turned down amnesty offer by PM
Maliki Said Maliki never followed </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">through with promises Sulaiman
demanded army withdraw from Anbar cities Said Anbar govt illegitimate Wanted
trials for ISF officers who attacked protest sites</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 MP on Finance Comm said delays in paying govt workers
in Feb because of lack of cash was </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">due to drop in oil prices Finance
Min said spent all its cash on fighting IS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 ISF tribes Hashd freed Baghdadi Anbar from IS </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Sadrists threatened no confidence vote against PM
Abadi if he didn’t announce new </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">govt in 45 days</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/why-did-sadr-take-over-green-zone.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/05/sadr-trying-to-play-kingmaker-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Sadr
Trying To Play Kingmaker In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Airstrikes blamed for deaths of 116 civilians and 140
wounded in Mosul IS executed </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">35 people Mass grave with 50
victims of IS found in east Mosul</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/03/mosul-campaign-day-139-40-mar-6-7-2017.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Mosul Campaign Day 141-142, Mar 6-7, 2017) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2018 100s of teachers protested in Sulaymaniya over KRG not
paying them 55th protest in KRG in </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">last yr Result of economic crisis
after Maliki govt cut off budget payments over KRG's oil policy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2018 PM Abadi said Baghdad would only pay part of KRG
salaries KRG had to audit its finances </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">before money sent</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2019 Report Turkey said would start filling new dam on
Tigris despite Iraqi protests <i>Dams in </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i>Turkey one main cause of water
shortages in Iraq</i></p><p> View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a><br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1922 King Faisal threatened to end Anglo-Iraq treaty talks
if term mandate wasn’t dropped </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">from Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-supremacy-and-oil-iraq-turkey.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order,
1918-1930</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1937 Parliament created investigation into incomes of
former members of PM Hashemi’s </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">govt Nothing happened</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Communist Partisans for Peace held rally in Mosul to
counter rumors of possible </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">military coup starting there Up
to 250,000 attended </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/10/revolutionary-times-gen-qasim-and-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western
Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Officer in Baghdad sent to Kirkuk to talk with Col
Sirri to tell Col Tabaqchali cmdr 2<sup>nd</sup> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Div to start revolt vs Qasim </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1975 Iraq Iran Algeria foreign ministers met and signed
Algiers Agreement to settle</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
Iran-Iraq border issues Iran immediately closed its border with Iraq to trap
Kurds </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/partial-review-blum-william-killing.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/02/review-great-betrayal-how-america.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/05/review-iraq-kurdish-question-1958-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/08/when-shah-and-nixon-manipulated-kurds.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Iran demanded Islamic Conference Organization
determine aggressor in the war </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Jordanian Yarmouk Force deployed with Iraqi forces in
central front </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 Iraq launched another counterattack to try to retake
Majnoon Island from Iranians </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">during Op Kheibar Gained little </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Saddam appointed cousin Ali Majid Interior Minister to
put down uprisings after Gulf </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 State Dept spokesman said foreign powers should not
get involved in Iraqi uprisings </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">following Gulf War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-us-helped-start-rebellion-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Kurdish uprising started in Kol Sanjaq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Turkey said it would send troops into Iraq to stop
Kurdish independence </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1992 Saddam regime suspected of car bombing in central
Sulaymaniya outside Kurdish party offices</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1998 UN inspectors went to Special Republican Guard and
Special Security Directorate sites Inspectors were </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">stopped at one site while vehicles
exited with docs Inspectors were then allowed in Found nothing Trying to
discover Iraq’s concealment program to hide WMD </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/02/un-inspectors-and-cia-spying-on-iraq-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors and CIA Spying On Iraq In The 90s)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/revised-review-iraq-in-eye-of-storm.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq In The Eye of the Storm</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-out-of-ashes-resurrection-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/11/review-endgame-solving-iraq-crisis.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/12/review-iraq-confidential-untold-story.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence
Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 PM Blair wrote article for UK paper saying Iraq had
WMD and would use them</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Gen Franks briefed VP Cheney on which Middle East
countries needed to be lobbied to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">help with Iraq invasion before
trip to region </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Policy</span></i><span style="color: black;"> <i>Tragedy</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 CIA held meeting on covert and unconventional warfare
capabilities against Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 US war game held on political and military
implications of Iraq invasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-shaping-plan-for-operation-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military
Intelligence Assessment</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2003 Bush TV address Said time running out on UN weapons
inspectors Accused Iraq of hiding its </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">WMD Said that he’d not decided on
war when he had Said US would defend its security and didn’t need Un approval </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-bush-administrations-and-saddam.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict</i>)<i> </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/06/review-what-happened-inside-bush-white.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of
Deception</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 NatSecAdv Rice letter to Senator US had briefed UN on
all suspected WMD sites </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Didn’t give info on 21 of 105
sites </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair was told UK should not try to administer
post-war Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Report US intel dismissed reports that said Iraq had
no WMD </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/iraq-one-of-worst-intelligence-failures.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Report Bush chastised Sec Def Rumsfeld over Abu Ghraib
abuse scandal White House </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">leaked story to blame Rumsfeld
for scandal Bush thought it was disaster for U.S.’s image </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 Basra police surrounded 5 US govt workers Had to be
rescued by security contractors </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 Iraq NGO report to US said over 700 Shiite families
fled neighborhoods in Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">after Askari shrine bombing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-voices-from-iraq-peoples-history.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 ISI attacked Badush prison in Ninewa freeing 68
prisoners</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Bombing in Hillah killed 120 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Ret Gen Keane told VP Cheney that Petraeus had
re-invigorated US mission in Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Twin ISI bombing in Baghdad killed 68 wounded 120
Deadliest attack in 9 months </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Fadhila called for early elections to replace PM
Maliki </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 After Turkey’s Op Sun vs PKK in Feb 08 KRG asked
Ankara to remove two army units </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">with 1,200 troops total in four
bases that had been in Kurdistan since 1996 Turkey refused</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2008 Report Mahdi Army was increasing attacks on Sahwa in
Baghdad <i>Result of Mahdi Army trying to take </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i>over Sunni areas </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2008 Report State and Defense Depts said Special Groups
greatest threat in Iraq Number of EFP attacks up </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">in 2008 Jan 08 had most EFP attacks
in over a yr Gen Odierno said Special Groups focusing on Baghdad Shaab and Ur
in Baghdad Felt threatened by spread of sahwa into two areas One route for
Iranian weapons to Iraq went through Diyala into NEBaghdad</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2008 Report Dora Baghdad 3 sahwa cmdrs 1 fmr insurgent 1 fmr
Saddam intel officer from Mujahadeen </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Army 3<sup>rd</sup> fmr ISI
Believed sahwa led to reconciliation between insurgents and US but not with
Iraqi govt Mahdi Army increased attacks on sahwa in Baghdad <i>in battle to
control Sunni areas</i> US study found no plan to create jobs for Sunnis USAID
said didn’t want to be responsible for program because wouldn’t work</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2008 Report National Police unit in Dora Baghdad almost all
Shiite Known to go after Sunnis Of 542 police </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">in unit only around 200 showed up
Some were ghost police 500 weapons missing from unit Some weapons believed to
be given to militias </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 PM Maliki called for reconciliation with former Saddam
era soldiers Came after talks </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">with former officers in Feb 09 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/baghdads-latest-reconciliation-effort.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Baghdad’s Latest Reconciliation Effort) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Report Iraq lacked basics for economic growth Suffered
from oil dependency Wasn’t competitive </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">outside oil and gas Ruling parties
controlled resources Oil/gas dependency limited investment in rest of economy
Led to little incentive to develop other parts of econ Iraq should use oil
revenue to increase infrastructure schools hospitals housing 40% of Iraq under
14 yrs old High unemployment and limited amount of women working Meant big
production increase unlikely </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Independent radio station in Kalar attacked by armed
men for supporting protests </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">Masked men set tents on fire at
protest square in Sulaymaniya </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/06/view-from-northern-iraq-on-2011-kurdish.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-iraqs-kurdistan-broke-up-two-months.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Report Basra official said PM Maliki no longer allowed
provinces to issue permits for protests Only </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Interior Min could do that now <i>Move
to stop protests </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Report PM Maliki had ISF shut down Baghdad offices of
Iraqi National Party of Mithal Alusi and </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Iraqi Communist Party </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 Dep head of South Oil Company fled Iraq after accused
of taking bribes from Leighton to get </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">contracts Feb Leighton told
Australian authorities about possible corrupt practices in Iraq 2010 Leighton
won $733 mil contract to install 3 mooring points in Basra to increase oil
exports 2011 got $79 mil contract from South Oil Company to add 4<sup>th</sup>
mooring point Got $158 mil contract for work on pipelines and platforms <i>Leighton
did pay bribes</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Transportation Min and Badr head Amiri turned around
Middle East Airlines plane in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">flight so his son who was late
could get on </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 Speaker Nujafi accused PM Maliki of undermining
constitution and parliament Part of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">election campaign </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 Report PM Maliki aligned with Asaib Ahl Al-Haq against
Sadr Reports Asaib Ahl Al-Haq operating </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Diyala and displacing people Also
reports it was fighting vs insurgency in Anbar </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/asaib-ahl-al-haq-from-breakaway-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 Dour outside of Tikrit freed from IS </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/us-iranian-rivalry-behind-iraqs-tikrit.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
U.S.-Iranian Rivalry Behind Iraq’s Tikrit Operation) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/04/divisions-over-iraq-war-exposed-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Divisions Over Iraq War Exposed In Victory In Tikrit) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Kurdish delegation met with PM Abadi demanding 20% of
any new cabinet </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 Report Hashd started shooting at market in Tuz Kharmato
Salahaddin Kurds returned fire </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Kurdish police deployed to stop
fighting Kurds accused of shooting on Mar 4 Feb 6 Kurdish security officers
kidnapped by Hashd in Amerli Had been other kidnappings </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 Conflict between Hashd and Peshmerga in Tuz Kharmato
led to blast walls being erected </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">between Kurdish and Turkmen areas</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2017 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq spokesman claimed US dropped supplies
to IS in Mosul and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">evacuating senior leaders out of
city Claimed Hashd had stopped US from rescuing IS members in Tal Far Part of
Pro-Iran Hashd info campaign vs US </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2017/03/mosul-campaign-day-139-40-mar-6-7-2017.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Mosul Campaign Day 141-142, Mar 6-7, 2017) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2017 Report Iraq taken off Trump’s Muslim travel ban after
intense lobbying PM Abadi called Trump </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">and talked with VP Pence and Sec
State Tillerson <i>Iraq agreed to allow US to deport Iraqis in return </i></p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines</a> <br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-78443235199789958492024-03-05T08:12:00.001-08:002024-03-05T08:12:13.166-08:00US Continues To Push Iraq To Better Regulate Dollar Auctions To No Avail <span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQN_RQyz0oXMwkrea_5bbwgvKpjV885fu-zEopebE0Iqrbh_HWFa9x2Quin1wrwmjl49dmRNTDEd5llwLQdMzIeNnU5O_yN5lRmBaty4ksa6cuaRRrF7U3i6AKIj3QRtPFL0NsrvGDS7xC7oQE0xbSzciLz0d5DJ6MoXqA1WiDBe8JojhRLlsw5AKUBSgI/s634/Screenshot%202024-03-04%20at%205.59.17%E2%80%AFPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="634" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQN_RQyz0oXMwkrea_5bbwgvKpjV885fu-zEopebE0Iqrbh_HWFa9x2Quin1wrwmjl49dmRNTDEd5llwLQdMzIeNnU5O_yN5lRmBaty4ksa6cuaRRrF7U3i6AKIj3QRtPFL0NsrvGDS7xC7oQE0xbSzciLz0d5DJ6MoXqA1WiDBe8JojhRLlsw5AKUBSgI/w640-h328/Screenshot%202024-03-04%20at%205.59.17%E2%80%AFPM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Al Sharqiya)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The United States continues
to push the Iraqi government to better regulate its dollar auctions but it is a
losing battle. <a href="https://english.alarabiya.net/business/banking-and-finance/2024/02/04/Iraq-bans-eight-local-banks-from-US-dollar-transactions-in-attempt-to-reduce-fraud">At
the start of February</a> Baghdad banned 8 banks from the Central Bank of Iraq’s
(CBI) currency sales to try to stop money laundering. This came after a visit
by a delegation from the U.S. Treasury. In July 2023 another 14 banks were
banned. A Treasury official said that Iraq needed to do more against pro-Iran
groups abusing the financial system to raise funds. </span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In November 2023 the <a href="https://www.alhurra.com/iraq/2023/01/19/%D8%A3%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A8%D8%BA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%82%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A8-%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86">Central
Bank of Iraq started new restrictions on dollar sales</a> worked out with
Washington. It required banks to fill out electronic application forms with the
CBI to buy dollars. That information was then reviewed by the American Federal
Reserve Bank. This caused a panic in Iraq as the country has a cash economy based
upon dollars. It also set off an inflationary spiral as dollars became rarer
raising their value while the Iraqi dinar dropped. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Things eventually stabilized
with a variety of actors finding new ways to cheat the system. One was <a href="https://alrafidain.tv/68473/%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d8%b2%d8%a7%d9%87%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b5%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d9%84%d9%83%d8%aa%d8%b1/">exploiting
the loophole that people could still buy dollars for travel abroad</a>. They
would buy a large amount of dollars at an auction, <a href="https://al-aalem.com/news/72005-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%84-3-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%84%D9%88">put
the money onto a prepaid card</a> and then cash it out in another country. In
April the government announced it stopped an attempt to smuggle $5 million out
of Iraq using this method.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Most importantly there are
banks and companies owned by Iraq’s ruling parties, foreign countries like Iran
and Syria, and mafias that control the entire process. It doesn’t matter what
new rules Washington pushes or the Central Bank attempts to implement because
those forces will always find a way around them and continue to buy up dollars
to enrich themselves or get around sanctions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">SOURCES</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Al Aalem, “Black remittances continue to 3 countries ..
What if Washington tightened measures to prevent dollar smuggling?” 4/28/23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Ebrahim, Hudhaifa, “US sanctions on Iran cause turmoil in
Iraq," Jerusalem Post, 1/20/23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Al Hurra, “The dollar crisis in Iraq .. Baghdad is
worried about the shock policy and Washington is trying to prevent smuggling to
Iran and Syria,” 1/20/23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Al Mada, “More than 800 million dinars per day for the
neighborhood boys in exchange for buying dollars at any price and smuggling
them,” 1/21/23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">- “The US Federal Reserve exposes 60 banks and a new way
to smuggle dollars by forging airline tickets,” 1/5/23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Al Rafidain, “$400,000 Prepared For Smuggling Was Seized
At Baghdad International Airport,” 10/17/23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">- “Economic Experts: Influential Parties Recruit Foreign
Workers To Smuggle Currency,” 1/25/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">- “Parliamentary Finance Committee: Gangs Control Dollar
Exchange Through A Whatsapp Group,” 11/3/23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">- “Parliamentary Integrity Committee: The Electronic
Platform For Selling Dollars To Travelers Is Another Door To Corruption,”
9/27/23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Reuters, “Iraq bans eight local banks from US dollar
transactions in attempt to reduce fraud,” 2/4/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-54356440331316302712024-03-05T08:12:00.000-08:002024-03-05T08:12:04.538-08:00This Day In Iraqi History – Mar 5 Sec Def Cheney said US would not be able to hold Gulf War coalition together if it marched on Baghdad and overthrew Saddam <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzLoFHJdBVYHVE_Uus8OaPYSOhf54lmZSjzsurUDTITzlNiJ_KOQvw_AHl5UmC8nh-HlUIc1ENBj1fIacxXGqsW9UjA414QmGOANAEwoTsAOOdT0-RXSdv7XrkLx8jDvd9Vda1psDhUgdsYI_lWp-bt1bCRJux9ahOZ93U5-GIl9i9wpp1AoztGHoI4qYp/s1168/Cheney%20Gulf%20War.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1168" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzLoFHJdBVYHVE_Uus8OaPYSOhf54lmZSjzsurUDTITzlNiJ_KOQvw_AHl5UmC8nh-HlUIc1ENBj1fIacxXGqsW9UjA414QmGOANAEwoTsAOOdT0-RXSdv7XrkLx8jDvd9Vda1psDhUgdsYI_lWp-bt1bCRJux9ahOZ93U5-GIl9i9wpp1AoztGHoI4qYp/w400-h264/Cheney%20Gulf%20War.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1917 British forces started march on Baghdad from Kut </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/02/review-enemy-on-euphrates-battle-for.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/review-when-god-made-hell-british.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of
Iraq, 1914-1921</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1939 British called in aide to King Ghazi and told him to
stop attacks upon UK in his radio addresses</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Barzani threatened to go to war with Baath govt if
demands for autonomy not met </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/01/review-journey-among-brave-men-travels.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/02/review-people-without-country-kurds-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1964 Provisional constitution issued Declared Iraq
socialist democratic country </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1968 Barzani and Talabani forces fought in Raniya area</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Iraq offered peace deal to Iran including withdrawal
Khomeini said no seeing offer as weakness by </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Saddam</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Khomeini’s rejection of Iraq’s peace offer led Saddam
to push ahead with new attacks in Iran</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Report that Iraq wanted to buy military equipment from
US but turned down </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1983 Soviet Foreign Min Gromyko met with Iraqi and Iranian
delegations to try to mediate end to Iran-Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 US condemned Iraq’s use of WMD for 1<sup>st</sup> time
in Iran-Iraq War Iraq denied it used any </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iraq bombed Ahvaz in Khuzistan province Started new
war of cities that lasted until June 1985</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/07/review-iraqi-mirages-dassault-mirage.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air
Force, 1981-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1985 Iraqi military intelligence warned 3<sup>rd</sup> and
4<sup>th</sup> Corps of impending Iranian offensive Attack </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">would come further south </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1987 Saddam had meeting on war Decided to expand Republican
Guard Expand tanker war Use </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">WMD more </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1988 Iran told UN that it was ready to accept ceasefire </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Police tried to arrest army deserters in Raniya but
Kurdish rebels seized city Began</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
executing Baathists and security personnel by throwing them off roof of a
building</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Karbala joined 1991 Revolt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/08/1991-shiite-uprising-in-southern-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
1991 Shiite Uprising In Southern Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Ayatollah Khoei issued fatwa for people in Najaf to
follow Islamic Law Protect property during </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">uprising </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 US Gen Brandtner said US would not let weapons go to
Shiite rebels in southern Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-us-helped-start-rebellion-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> When
The US Helped Start A Rebellion In Iraq That It Didn’t Want) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Sec Def Cheney said US would not be able to hold
coalition together if it moved on Saddam</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iraq officially renounced annexation of Kuwait agreed
to pay reparations and return stolen </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">property to Kuwait </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Report Saudia Arabia worked with Syria to create Iraq
Salvation Movement made up of Dawa </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Communists KDP PUK pro-Syrian
Baath Party ISCI </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Saudi King Fahd said that he thought Saddam wanted to
swallow Kuwait and parts of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Saudi Arabia </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1995 INC claimed fighting between opposition and Iraqi
forces in Qurna as part of its uprising </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/revised-review-iraq-in-eye-of-storm.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq In The Eye of the Storm</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1998 UN weapons inspectors returned to Iraq and carried out
successful searches Wanted to breakdown </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Iraq’s deception campaign </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/09/review-greatest-threat-iraq-weapons-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing
Crisis Of Global Security</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1998 UN inspector Ritter installed device that allowed NSA
to monitor Iraq’s military and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
security communications to uncover WMD concealment program </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/11/review-endgame-solving-iraq-crisis.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/12/review-iraq-confidential-untold-story.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence
Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1998 Report Al Qaeda operative arrived in Baghdad for talks
False story </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1998 Jim Hoagland OpEd in Wash Post said many Republicans
would support Ahmed Chalabi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
and INC simply to attack Clinton </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 CIA debriefed Fmr Amb Wilson on his trip to Niger to
investigate Iraq buying uranium Wilson said </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">he found no proof of Iraq-Niger
uranium deal but in 1999 Iraq asked Niger about better trade CIA believed 1999
overture about better Iraq-Niger trade might have been supporting proof of
uranium deal Niger story fake</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 Fmr Amb Wilson left CIA debriefing believing he
disproved Iraq-Niger uranium deal CIA felt they </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">might have proof it happened
Story fake</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-us-intelligence-failed-iraq-niger.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 UK Foreign Sec Straw had article in Times of London
that there was increasing evidence </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Iraq’s WMD program were growing
Said if Iraq refused UN inspectors there would be consequences</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 UK Joint Intel Comm head Scarlett briefed PM Blair on
Iraq’s WMD Afterward Blair thought Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">only had battlefield WMD
capability </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 UK Home Secretary Blunkett at cabinet meeting asked
whether legal basis for action vs Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 UK intel report predicted successor to Saddam would be
a Sunni military man</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/07/chilcot-inquiry-section-64-planning-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 6.4 Planning and Preparation For A Post-Saddam Hussein
Iraq, Mid-2001 to January 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK Embassy in Washington said Bush admin set on war
with Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 France Russia Germany said they would not vote for a
UN resolution authorizing force against Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-37-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February
to 7 March 2003)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair told Bush if they got 9 votes on Sec Council
for 2<sup>nd</sup> resolution and it was vetoed they </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">would still have legal authority
for action</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK Attny Gen told PM Blair if 2<sup>nd</sup>
resolution vetoed in UN would be no legal basis for Iraq war</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Sec State Powell told Congress 2<sup>nd</sup> UN
resolution against Iraq would pass while his staff told him </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">wasn’t likely </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Sec State Powell said that Iraq weapons declaration to
UN farce because it said it had no WMD and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">claimed it was hiding them from
inspectors </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/un-inspectors-were-right-iraq-was-not.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> UN
Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/iraqs-rejection-of-un-inspectors-led-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/iraq-one-of-worst-intelligence-failures.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 National Intelligence Committee memo said that docs on
Iraq-Niger uranium deal were forgeries </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Sir Tebbet Sec of UK Def Min asked cabinet for legal
authorization for war with Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Russian Amb provided Iraq with numbers of US troops,
equipment and their locations to Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">before invasion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/04/russia-provided-iraq-with-details-of-us.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Russia Provided Iraq With Details Of US Plans Right Before Invasion) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 ORHA head Garner got ok from Natl Sec Adv Rice to use
frozen Iraqi assets to pay for postwar plans </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Garner told Rice he didn’t think
there would be enough US troops in Iraq to maintain security after invasion
Garner asked Rice what were plans to put together post-Saddam Iraqi govt Got no
answer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Tragedy</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2003 CENTCOM commander Gen Franks briefed Bush on war
preparations Were 208,000 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">forces in Middle East with 50,000
more arriving in 2 weeks Bush asked about postwar plans Franks said mayors
would be appointed to run liberated areas <i>Franks made that up on the spot</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Bush met Vatican envoy who argued against war because
of casualties and gulf between Christians </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">and Muslims</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UN inspectors interviewed Gen Saadi who was Saddam’s
chief scientific adviser Said there were no </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">mobile WMD labs </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/how-iraqi-defector-curveball-became.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claim That Iraq Had WMD)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/look-who-los-angeles-times-dug-up.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Look
Who The LA Times Dug Up – CURVEBALL)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/02/story-of-curveball-and-iraqs-mobile.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Story of CURVEBALL And Iraq’s Mobile Biological Weapons Labs)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Abizaid said ISF put together too
quickly and lacked training equipment </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">command and control </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/07/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_24.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Special Inspector General For Iraq Reconstruction’s Hard Lessons Chapter 12
Reconstructing Iraqi Security Forces) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/did-us-ever-have-strategy-to-win-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Did
the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/us-army-history-of-iraq-war-vol-1.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> US
Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 11 The Gathering Storm) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-us-army-in-iraq-war-volume-i.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">War, 2003-2006</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Fmr head weapons inspector Blix said Iraq war was not
authorized by existing UN resolutions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Shiite members of Iraqi Governing Council refused to
sign Transitional Administrative Law due to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Sistani objections</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/09/review-squandered-victory-american.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring
Democracy to Iraq</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Badr head in Najaf Hassan attempted to assassinate CPA
provincial coordinator for trying to stop </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">him from bribing Najaf council
to control it </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/01/badr-organization-view-into-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Badr
Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/08/us-army-history-of-iraq-war-vol-1.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> US
Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 11 The Gathering Storm) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 Gen Pace Joint Chiefs head said Iraq was not heading
towards civil war </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 After head of Nuaim tribe and sheikh from Jabour tribe
killed Hawija sheikhs decided to fight Al </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Qaeda in Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Report Interior Min fired and reassigned 10,000
workers for torture taking bribes ties to militias </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Gen Petraeus and Amb Crocker said Iran failed to
follow through with promise to PM Maliki to cut </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">support for militias Gen Odierno
and CENTCOM cmdr Adm Fallon said that Iran biggest long term threat to Iraq
Sill trained and directed militias </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/irans-policy-towards-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/overview-of-irans-influence-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Cabinet approved Oil Ministry to sign technical
support agreements with foreign oil companies for</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
first time </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Emergency security plan in Basra announced to hunt
down militias after Nasiriya police inspector</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">
general assassinated there week before </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Iraq passed 2009 budget Govt facing economic crisis
with declining oil prices Only cut 7% </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">from budget Was for $58.6 bil</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/04/baghdad-failing-to-invest-in-its-future.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Baghdad Failing To Invest In Its Future) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Report PM Maliki used state to help in election Hired
temp workers as full time workers in </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">projects run by his office Tried to
add 115,00 new workers in 2010 budget but was blocked Announced govt would
re-hire 20,000 ex-soldiers Set up generators in Baghdad with his State of Law
logo on them </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Report All the major parties claimed voter fraud
National Alliance said 800,000 false names </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">were added to voter roles Iraqiya
said 7 mil extra ballots had been printed and could be used for cheating
Parties distributed gifts for votes PM Maliki’s State of Law handed out pistols
saying it was for people who helped with security Some accused Maliki of using
state funds to finance his campaign </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Sulaymaniya protesters started general strike Called
for general public to join </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2012 Wearing ISF uniforms ISI attacked 5 checkpoints Took
27 police prisoner Executed them Then </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">released video of attacks </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 PM Maliki accused Speaker Nujafi of violating
constitution Blamed Nujafi for budget not passing </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Part of election campaign </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2015 ISF tribes and Hashd started campaign to free Garma in
east Anbar of IS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2015/03/iraq-goes-on-offensive-in-salahadin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Iraq
Goes On The Offensive In Salahaddin, Kirkuk and Anbar) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 Report Coalition’s Op Tidal Wave II targeting IS’s oil
infrastructure appeared to be working </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Est cut oil revenues by 30% Op
started Oct 2015 Coalition also bombed 2 IS banks in Mosul Feb hit 4 more cash
deposits including Central Bank in Mosul Baghdad stopped paying govt workers in
IS areas IS could still tax and charge fees in its territory </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 Report KRG oil sector ran into problems Mar Genel
Energy downgraded reserves and production </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">estimates leading to sell off of
stocks Operated KRG’s main oil field Taq Taq Company almost cut in half KRG’s
estimated oil reserves from 683 mil/bar to 356 mil/bar Problems with water
management also lowered future production at Taq Taq Production at Taq Taq was
estimated to decline in future KRG pipeline to Turkey regularly bombed
Production at other major field Tawke declined because DNO wouldn’t invest
because KRG wasn’t paying it regularly Oil companies owed $3 bil Some companies
in heavy debt KAR owed around $1.1 bil by KRG KRG believed to be $26 bil in
debt twice as big as economy KRG made deals with oil traders to be pre-paid for
exports Debt to oil traders likely to increase Jan KRG exported $400 mil in oil
but owed oil traders $250 mil </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/iraqi-kurdistans-failed-independent-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2017 Report Spokesman for KRG Pres Barzani said all the
forces in Sinjar were PKK Said PKK </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">should be under authority of KRG
but wasn’t Said Yazidis didn’t accept the PKK Peshmerga cmdr called on PKK to
leave Sinjar <i>Came after Sinjar Protection units fought KDP backed force</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2018 Report Foreign views of sectarianism in Iraq usually
stuck in 2005-07 period Led many to see </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Hashd as being like Mahdi Army that
attacked Sunnis Led to statements like Sec State Tillerson calling on Iranian
militias to go home Hashd widely popular in Iraq Seen as volunteers fighting IS
Crossed many different groups and religions Myth of Hashd was that they were
Iraqi youth who answered Ayatollah Sistani’s call to defend Iraq Hashd
connected to state Hashd became another way for ruling parties to dish out
patronage and distribute resources Abuses by Hashd part of wider history of
abuses in Iraq Some groups Iranian proxies Hashd not going away Wouldn’t be
integrated into ISF because wanted to maintain their interests Didn’t think
Hashd would become like Hezbollah or Iranian Rev Guard </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2020 Pro-Iran groups fired rockets at Baghdad’s Green Zone
5<sup>th</sup> such incident in 2020 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/tit-for-tat-between-us-and-pro-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Tit
For Tat Between U.S. and Pro-Iran Hashd Continues) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2021 Pope visited Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2021 Report Majority of KRG Security Council objected to
statement that said 5 journalists/activists </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">arrested were connected to PKK Claimed
statement was political move by KDP </p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines</a> <br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-75530908963647310462024-03-04T08:17:00.001-08:002024-03-04T08:17:13.100-08:00Violence Almost Disappears In Iraq In March 2024 <p>
</p><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZ7Bd-LRGhVpQp1hsvoudfxwRVTaPgltm0Xa7cUNifnNlQ3sv9JJjrNG2AxeefOcu19ocNbU9_1-O6BZR9ETvtSxm29J6jPubLk9Si4_Jxd3ckYjEugmS9903unx4khJqgRAEV64-zd3t5JNa2ZrpgNPklxn3BLj1Cw7xEWUXVlWwIUFDf6lo7rWfAtZs/s600/Islamic%20State%20Attacks%20In%20Iraq%202022-23.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="600" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVZ7Bd-LRGhVpQp1hsvoudfxwRVTaPgltm0Xa7cUNifnNlQ3sv9JJjrNG2AxeefOcu19ocNbU9_1-O6BZR9ETvtSxm29J6jPubLk9Si4_Jxd3ckYjEugmS9903unx4khJqgRAEV64-zd3t5JNa2ZrpgNPklxn3BLj1Cw7xEWUXVlWwIUFDf6lo7rWfAtZs/w640-h396/Islamic%20State%20Attacks%20In%20Iraq%202022-23.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />There was barely any violence
from the insurgency or pro-Iran groups in March 2024. The Islamic State is
disappearing and a ceasefire holds against the United States.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In March there were only 2
security incidents reported in Iraq. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">On February 27 a group of
Islamic State members </span><a href="https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=1110145"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">was caught</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
by the security forces attempting to infiltrate into Iraq from Syria in the
Qaim district of western Anbar. That led to a short gun battle. IS has most of
its men and material in Syria and relies upon them being smuggled into Iraq to
maintain itself. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1 incident in a month by the
insurgency is the lowest amount of violence ever recorded in Iraq. The previous
low was 2 incidents in October 2023. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For the first three weeks of
February there were no attacks by IS. A similar spate of inactivity occurred in
October 2023 when there were also three weeks of no incidents. That was
followed by two weeks in November with no activity. From December to January it
appeared the militants were trying to make a little revival with several weeks
of 4 incidents each but that then fell off showing that the organization
continues its slow death in the country. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There was </span><a href="http://burathanews.com/arabic/news/442968"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">one
reported drone strike on Israel</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> by
pro-Iran groups on February 5. After that those factions went silent thanks to
a ceasefire brokered by Iran and Prime Minister Sudani. Tehran was afraid it
would be attacked after its allies killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan. Sudani
also wanted to give negotiations a chance to get the Americans to depart Iraq.
So far that agreement has held. This highlights the fact that these groups don’t
really care about Palestinians or the Gaza War and are following their own
agendas. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Groups associated with Iran
began attacks in October with 15 in response to the Gaza War. There were 29
attacks in November, 26 in December and 28 in January before the halt in
February. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Security Incidents In Iraq By Province </span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 1-7</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 8-14</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 15-21</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 22-29</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Totals</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Anbar</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Israel</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">TOTAL</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">2/1
Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Casualties In Iraq By Province</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Province</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 1-7</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 8-14</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 15-21</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Feb 22-29</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Totals</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Security In Iraq 2022-23</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Week</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Security</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Incidents</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Total/By
IS)</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dead</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Total/By
IS)</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wounded</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Total/By
IS)</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JAN 2022</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">87/41 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">59</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FEB</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">42/14 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">29</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">46/12/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">19</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">21</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">111/22 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">34</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">103</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">73/13 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">41</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">51</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">40/14 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">43/6 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">54</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">57/7/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">24</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">54</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">41/1/3 M</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">64</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">28/2/3 M</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">17</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">45</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">23</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">28</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">33/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">42</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">38</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JAN 2023</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">29/4 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">12</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">15</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6/2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9/1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">FEB</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">20/3 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">12</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">18</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Mar 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">18</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Apr 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">APR</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">16</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">May 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">MAY</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">15</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">14</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jun 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUN</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jul 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3/2 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JUL</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11/2 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Aug 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3/1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">AUG</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">13/1 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">23</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sep 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">SEP</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7/5 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Oct 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">17/15 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11/9</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">12/10</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8 Amer</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Nov 29-30</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">16</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">NOV</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">35/29 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">15</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">29</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10/8 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">8/6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7/6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3 US</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dec 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">4 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">DEC</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">35/26 Pro-Iran</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">2K</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">16W</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10/6 Pro-Iran/1 Iranian</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">5</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">9</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 8-14</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">7/3 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 15-21</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">10/6 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">6</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 22-28</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">11/10 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jan 29-31</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">3 Pro-Ira</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">-</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">JAN</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">42/28 Pro-Iran/1 Iranian</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">14</span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">20</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 1-7</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;">1 Pro-Iran</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 8-14</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Feb 15-21</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">SOURCES</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-themecolor: text1;">Buratha News, "The Islamic
Resistance attacked a target in the city of Eilat with drones," 2/5/24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">NINA, "The Popular Mobilization Forces repel an attack
by ISIS on the Iraqi-Syrian border," 2/27/24</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Joel Winghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611810110771744360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1953410733493889728.post-84438805080214431682024-03-04T08:17:00.000-08:002024-03-04T08:17:03.527-08:00This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 4 1991 Revolt spread to Kurdistan <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8i4pd24YaZ6nzfrBHKOcT1bVN8wJOlAHTMq2JSLuuM_d6e7fT2ejsvZT6TOFTU56HM_amOGaPcGQqR-mfZpv79jJwuD8LB1u4t6pf9HkBu6tivElEwYCDOh3aqX7GA3DVgF2lloBkGHKjrGVDD8AlmKY57ETTnFfflOepaRsWlNSxvdHbwvk1eq1veMj/s1114/1991%20Revolt%20Kurds.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1114" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8i4pd24YaZ6nzfrBHKOcT1bVN8wJOlAHTMq2JSLuuM_d6e7fT2ejsvZT6TOFTU56HM_amOGaPcGQqR-mfZpv79jJwuD8LB1u4t6pf9HkBu6tivElEwYCDOh3aqX7GA3DVgF2lloBkGHKjrGVDD8AlmKY57ETTnFfflOepaRsWlNSxvdHbwvk1eq1veMj/w400-h219/1991%20Revolt%20Kurds.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1935 Jamil al-Midfai became PM 2<sup>nd</sup> out of 5
times Was considered aligned with King Ghazi </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">and fmr PM Ayubi Jawadat Ikha
Party kept up support for Mid-Euphrates tribal revolt that spread to Diyala </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-chatham-house-version-and-other.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1950 Denaturalization law allowed Jews to leave Iraq if
gave up citizenship Govt thought only 10,000 Jews </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="color: black;">would leave 113,000 left</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/08/review-iraqi-jews-history-of-mass-exodus.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Iraqi Jews, A History of Mass Exodus</i>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/07/review-last-days-in-babylon-exile-of.html">Musings
On Iraq review</a> <i>Last Days in Babylon, The Exile of Iraq’s Jews, the Story
of My Family</i>)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/review-new-babylonians-history-of-jews.html">Musings
On Iraq</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> review</span><span style="color: black;"> <i>New
Babylonians, A History Of Jews In Modern Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1959 Communists held large protests in Mosul trying to
deter military revolt there against Gen Qasim </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-red-star-over-iraq-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-history-of-iraqi-communist-party.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan
Franzen) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/10/revolutionary-times-gen-qasim-and-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western
Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1963 Baath govt delegation met with Mullah Mustafa Barzani
in north for negotiations </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-gunter-michael-kurds-modern.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurds, A Modern History</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/04/review-gunter-michael-kurds-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/11/oballanceedgar-kurdish-revolt1961-1970.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/01/review-journey-among-brave-men-travels.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1965 Arif govt began new military offensive against Barzani
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Islamic Conference Organization’s peace plan was
rejected by both Iran and Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Italy authorized sale of 11 naval vessels and a
floating dock worth $1.8 bil to Iraq</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 Iraqi general quoted as saying that Iraq had right to
use chemical weapons against Iran to defend </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">itself</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/08/origins-of-iraqs-wmd-programs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1987 Iran launched 4<sup>th</sup> attack in Op Karbala 5 in
Basra </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Najaf and Kufa joined Shiite revolt after Gulf War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iraqi forces began retaking Basra from rebels </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/08/1991-shiite-uprising-in-southern-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
1991 Shiite Uprising In Southern Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Kurdish rebellion started in Raniya </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1993 Consignment of tennis balls children’s clothes adult
clothes pencils sharpeners erasers school </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">notebooks sent by Pakistan to
Iraq blocked by US UK France Japan in UN sanctions committee</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/11/review-invisible-war-united-states-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1995 INC and PUK forces began attack upon Iraqi forces in
planned uprising against Saddam but </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">failed CIA had supported INC
plan but White House backed out in end KDP refused to join as a result </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/revised-review-iraq-in-eye-of-storm.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq In The Eye of the Storm</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1995 Saddam told of meeting with bin Laden in Feb Saddam
agreed to broadcast anti-Saudi lectures Said </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">future relations would be
determined by more talks Meeting was only confirmed one between Iraq and al
Qaeda </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2001 US told UN Sec Council Iraq had been reselling
supplies from Oil for Food program setting up </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">front companies giving kickbacks
to get around sanctions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 State Dep intel memo sent to Sec State Powell and DIA
Didn’t believe Niger would sell uranium to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Iraq Story fake</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-us-intelligence-failed-iraq-niger.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/07/review-wmd-mirage-iraqs-decade-of.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for
War</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UnderSec Def Feith briefed Bush and NSC on Pentagon’s
postwar plans Goals were to maintain </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">integrity of Iraq Improve living
standards Create a democracy Destroy WMD Fight war on terror Get international
support for rebuilding Gain support of Iraqis Get Iraqis to rule as quickly as
possible to accomplish all tasks quickly Had no strategy on how to achieve
goals </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_14.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I:
Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/04/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_22.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> on
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction <i>Hard Lessons</i> Chapter 3
The Department of Defense Takes Charge)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/06/overview-of-americas-policy-towards.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Sectarian War of 2006) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/02/review-overreach-delusions-of-regime.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-hard-lessons-iraq-reconstruction.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/review-iraqs-future-aftermath-of-regime.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Tragedy</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-fiasco-american-military.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-state-of-denial-bush-at-war-part.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 US found that France made allegation that Iraq tried
to buy uranium from Niger based upon fake </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">documents </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 PM Blair told that US was thinking about starting war
on 3/12/03 despite UK desire for 2<sup>nd</sup> UN </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">resolution against Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-38-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.8 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 8 to 20
March 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UK For Sec Straw told parliament committee Iraq was in
material breach of UN Res 1441 and that </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">gave legal authority for action </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-report-of-iraq-inquiry-executive.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Ayatollah Sistani sent memo to Bremer Said unhappy
with Transitional Administrative Law because </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">allowed three provinces to veto
new constitution Then made 8 demands which delayed ratification of TAL </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2005 Italian Mil Intel freed kidnapped Italian journalist
US shot at their car killing Italian Gen Italy said it </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">would withdraw its 3,000 troops
as a result </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Report Number of bodies found in Baghdad went from
35-50 a day to 20 Shiites in Kadhimiya </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">trying to take over Sunni
Hurriya neighborhood north Baghdad </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/11/review-voices-from-iraq-peoples-history.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 UK and Iraqi forces raided National Intelligence
Agency HQ in Basra Found 30 prisoners that had </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">been tortured Intel office
connected to attacks upon UK kidnappings and murders </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 Report British army found missile that brought down
helicopter in Basra in May 2006 came from </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Iran</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-history-of-iranian-weapons-shipments.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A
History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s
Galen Wright) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2007 1,100 US soldiers and ISF conducted search in Sadr
City Came after Sadr told PM Maliki he </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">supported Baghdad security plan
Was no resistance</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Head of National Reconciliation Council announced
12,000 Sahwa had joined ISF Was still below </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">the number govt promised </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/07/whats-in-future-for-sons-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
What’s In The Future For The Sons of Iraq?) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/06/review-surge-my-journey-with-general.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq
War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2009 Report PUK facing divisions Feb group of leading
officials including Dep Sec Gen Rasul and 4 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">politburo members threatened to
leave unless Pres Talabani passed reforms Wanted democratic practices ending
corruption transparency 2 sides met in Baghdad and worked out deal Divisions
started in 08 when fmr Dep leader Mustafa began criticizing party’s practices
Dec 08 Talabani said he would start reforms Critics didn’t think any changes
would be made because would lesson Talabani’s power </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Iraq one of most corrupt countries in world Cost $3000
for car license $5000 for police job </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">$300,000 to become colonel in army </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-examples-of-corruption-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> New
Examples Of Corruption In Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2010 Report World Bank est Iraq needed $1 bil in investment
to maintain its current oil production </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">of around 2.4 mil/bar/day
because ports pipelines etc were old and decrepit Said to upgrade to 5
mil/bar/day would cost around $30 bil over 8 yrs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2010/03/analysts-say-impossible-for-iraq-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Analysts Say Impossible For Iraq To Reach Oil Production Goals) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Report US said Asaib Ahl Al-Haq was trying to get other
militias to join with it and carry out </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">attacks on Americans Leader Qais
Khazali was released after US-Iraq negotiations Afterward renounced violence
and said would turn to politics Didn’t US general in charge of Baghdad said
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq would increase attacks to take credit for US military
withdrawal Khazali was student of Ayatollah Sadiq al-Sadr Then deputy to
Moqtada al-Sadr 2004 two split Fall 08 US began talks with Khazlai and Baghdad
to release him Khazali ordered ceasefire and 450 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq members
released from prison Released Brits group kidnapped in return Iraqi officials
said kidnapping worked because got members released After released Khazali
stopped talking to US and Baghdad US said ceasefire ended Jan group kidnapped
US contractor </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/asaib-ahl-al-haq-from-breakaway-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Report Iranian Rev Guard’s Quds Force ran military ops
in Iraq Trained anti-Saddam groups </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">many of which became ruling parties
after 2003 Quds Force Gen Suleimani brokered ceasefire with Mahdi Army and
Maliki in Mar 08 Mar 07-Jun 08 Kataib Hezbollah carried out attacks on US 2008
Lebanon’s Hezbollah played videos of Kataib Hezbollah’s attacks on US Kataib
Hezbollah called Iranian proxy Feb 2010 US military accused Kataib Hezbollah of
increasing arms smuggling from Iran Led by Abu Muhandis Was advisor to Gen
Suleimani 1983 Muhandis bombed US and French embassies in Kuwait Carried out
assassination attempt on Kuwait emir in 1985 Both were Quds Force ops to deter
Kuwait France US from supporting Iran in Iran-Iraq War Jul 09 Kataib Hezbollah
and Muhandis labeled terrorists by US Treasury Dep 2005 Muhandis elected MP as
part of United Iraqi Alliance Ran again in 2010 Didn’t go to parliament and
lived in Iran for over 20 yrs Joined Dawa in 70s 85 joined ISCI Became deputy
cmdr of Badr Brigade Fought on Iranian side in Iran-Iraq War </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/instrument-of-irans-power-in-iraq-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Report Govt jobs only thing keeping Iraqi society going
3/5 of jobs were from govt 70% of </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">budget went to salaries and
pensions Private sector small Few middle sized businesses since 2003 Most small
or state run Private business accounted for 13% of GDP Rest of MidEast private
sector up to 33% of GDP 240,000 Iraqis entered labor force each yr Population got
younger Foreign investment up but mostly in oil Foreign construction and
service companies also opening in Iraq from MidEast and Asia Security main
reason Western companies didn’t operate in Iraq Also turned off by regulations
corruption Iraq ranked 153<sup>rd</sup> in ease of doing business </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Report Few solutions to refugees/displaced Around 2.8
mil displaced ½ displaced before 2003 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">1.5 mil displaced after Feb 06
Samarra bombing Lacked health power water sanitation Large returns didn’t
happen as expected after violence dropped off Maliki govt didn’t offer
solutions or adequate aid Iraq changed demographically during civil war Saddam’s
Arabization policy Anfal campaign draining southern marshes displaced 1000s
before 2003 Each province had different requirements to register as displaced </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Day of Regret protests Happened in Baghdad Mosul
Salahaddin Diwaniya Dhi Qar Babil 5 reporters </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">arrested and beaten in Basra Police
used force to break up Basra protest Police put up checkpoints to stop people
from going to Baghdad protest </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/government-moves-to-suppress-protests.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Government Moves To Suppress Protests In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 KRG Natural Resource Min said KRG oil exports reached
100,000 bar/day in Mar Wanted to reach 1 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">mil/bar/day by 2015 <i>Didn’t
happen </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">2012 ISI assassinated 2
police commanders in their homes and took a checkpoint in Haditha </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2012 Report Diyala farming suffering Lacked fuel electricity
govt aid plus drought Many farmers looked for </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">loans 70% of Diyala’s population
farmers </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2013 ISI and Al Nusra Front ambushed 48 Syrian soldiers in
Anbar and executed them</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2013 Report Paying bribes part of Iraq Couldn’t get job in
military or govt without paying for it Couldn’t get </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">out of prison unless paid Judges
demanded money to complete paperwork to release prisoners Could randomly be
arrested by policeman who needed money to payback fee for getting position
Critics claimed PM Maliki gave govt contracts to his allies Could use contracts
against them to keep them in line or arrest them Corruption couldn’t be
reformed because part of govt system 2008 US embassy said Maliki had secret
orders to stop corruption cases before sent to Integrity Comm if involved high
ranking officials 2011 Head of Integrity Comm Judge Ogaili found shell
companies run by sr officials who gave themselves contracts Govt blocked
investigation into matter Pushed Ogaili out of office Real estate in KRG used
ro launder money by corrupt officials in Baghdad </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/01/corruption-in-iraq-interview-with.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/iraqs-troubles-fighting-corruption.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US
Anti-Graft Official) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 Report Iran deployed around 1000 Iranian Rev Guard to
support Tikrit op Worked with </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Samarra Ops Command 150 Lebanese
Hezbollah in Samarra and Tikrit op Iranian Su-25s flew missions vs IS </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 Report KRG got 1<sup>st</sup> payment from 2015 budget
Said it would pay for govt workers KRG </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">supposed to export 550,000 bar/day
of oil in return KRG only sold 145,000 bar/day in Jan Increased in Feb but
didn’t meet quota KRG needed $708 mil/mo just for govt salaries Also in debt
for borrowing after PM Maliki cut off budget payments in 2014 KRG Finance Min
said KRG had 1.4 mil govt workers 682,000 working 718,000 retired 1 in 3
citizens relied upon KRG Natural Resource Min said it would increase exports to
meet export quota by end of 2015 <i>Didn’t</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2023/11/iraqi-kurdistans-failed-independent-oil.html">Musings
On Iraq</a> Iraqi Kurdistan’s Failed Independent Oil Strategy)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 Report Hashd accused of taking Christians property
Sadrist head of parliament’s security comm </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">made accusation in Feb Afterward
Hashd and Baghdad Ops Command said working together to recover Christian
property Sec Gen of Assyrian Democratic Movement said Hashd and gangs were
getting around restrictions and taking Christian property </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2016 Report 2 videos by Kataib Hezbollah and Asaib Ahl
Al-Haq showed it operating US made </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">vehicles including Abrams tanks <i>Abrams
not supposed to go to Hashd </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Sadrists held second demonstrations in Baghdad calling
for reforms</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/why-did-sadr-take-over-green-zone.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with Cambridge’s Michael Clark on Sadr, protests and PM
Abadi’s reforms) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2019 Report 80 New Generation members including 2 leaders
arrested by Asayesh in </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Sulaymaniya for protesting arrest
of leader Leader charged with defamation and insulting govt workers <i>Part of
crackdown on dissent by PUK </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2020 Report Trump admin tried to deport 100s of Iraqi
Christians Said they would be safe in </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Iraq Different testimonies about
whether Christians would be safe or not if deported Jan Trump said would give
extension to Iraqi Christians being deported Lawyers said nothing changed </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2020 Kataib Hezbollah claimed PM candidate Kazemi involved
in killing of Iranian Gen </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Suleimani </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2021 KRG Security Council claimed 5 jailed journalists and
activists were connected to PKK </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Claimed had weapons training <i>Were
imprisoned for protesting KRG and reporting on protests Part of move by KDP/KRG
to crackdown on dissent </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2021 Report 2 leaders of death squads in Basra had warrants
for them but not arrested Escaped to </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhr <i>Kataib
Hezbollah military base</i> Used front companies and businessmen allowed them
to operate Feb PM Kazemi said some death squads arrested in Basra and involved
in killing of journalist and activist Some parties pushed for their release
Kataib Hezbollah and Asaib Ahl Al-Haq controlled deaths quads </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/12/asaib-ahl-al-haq-from-breakaway-sadr.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2021 10 Dhi Qar police arrested for killing protesters </p><p>View the <a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html">Iraq History Timelines </a><br /></p><p><style>@font-face
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1914 US consulate reported Ottomans reconciled with Sayid
Talib who’d pushed for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">autonomy in Basra vilayet </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1958 Nuri al-Said became PM 9<sup>th</sup> time Held new
elections where he picked winners so he had </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">pliant parliament Cabinet was
almost half Shiite and included 2 Kurdish ministers </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/review-history-of-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>A History of Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/05/review-elliot-matthew-independent-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>‘Independent Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-chatham-house-version-and-other.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/01/review-iraqs-democratic-moment.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq’s Democratic Moment</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/08/review-independent-iraq-1932-1958-study.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/05/is-iraqs-prime-minister-maliki-more.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Is
Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki More Like Premier Nuri al-Sa’id Than Saddam? An
Interview With Historian Phebe Marr) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/10/revolutionary-times-gen-qasim-and-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western
Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1968 Law No 10 Fired Jews from jobs Took their savings
Telephones cut Denied passports to </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">leave Iraq Restricted travel
throughout Iraq </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1970 Committee created for economic cooperation between
Iraq and Soviet Union</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/10/review-iraq-since-1958-from-revolution.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1973 Iraq offered trade agreement to Kuwait then withdrew
it when Kuwait demanded no changes in </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">territory Bakr wanted Warbah and
Bubiyan Islands </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1974 Bakr govt said it would announce its own Kurdish
autonomy plan without the KDP</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1981 Islamic Conf Organization went back to Tehran to
present its peace plan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1983 Iraq claimed it destroyed several Iranian oil rigs and
5 Iranian ships in Persian Gulf </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/07/review-iraqi-mirages-dassault-mirage.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air
Force, 1981-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1984 US stopped company from selling products to Iraq that
could be used for chemical weapons </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/iraqs-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Use Of Chemical Weapons In Iran-Iraq War And Their Western Origin) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1987 Iran launched 3<sup>rd</sup> attack in Op Karbala 5 in
Basra Gained 3km </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1987 Iran Op Karbala 7 in Haj Omran Kurdistan KDP took part
Gained 10 miles heading towards </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Rawanduz Irbil Turkey told Iran
it would not allow it to take Kirkuk or Mosul Was diversionary attack from main
operation in Basra</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1987 Gulf Cooperation Council condemned Iran’s occupation
of Faw Peninsula Basra</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-iran-iraq-war-interview.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-iran-iraq-war-interview-with-author.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-1980-1988.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war-lion-of-babylon.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/07/review-iran-iraq-war.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/03/hiro-dilip-thelongest-war-iran-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-1-battle.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May
1982</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-2-iran.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-3-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/12/review-iran-iraq-war-volume-4-forgotten.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Iraq signed ceasefire with US to end Gulf War</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Demonstrations against Saddam started in Najaf
following Gulf War Fired upon by security forces</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/08/1991-shiite-uprising-in-southern-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> The
1991 Shiite Uprising In Southern Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/impact-of-1991-uprising-on-iraqi.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the
Impact of the 1991 Uprising)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/remembering-1991-uprising-in-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Remembering The 1991 Uprising In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/06/saddams-view-of-iraqs-1991-uprising.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Saddam’s View of Iraq’s 1991 Uprising) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1991 Foreign Min Aziz sent letter to president of UN
Security Council Said Iraq ready to follow UN </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Resolution 686 that renounced
Iraqi annexation of Kuwait Accepted liability for losses Iraq would return
Iraqi assets and release POWs and civilian captives </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1995 CIA told its team in Irbil not to support INC uprising
plan </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/04/revised-review-iraq-in-eye-of-storm.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Iraq In The Eye of the Storm</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1999 Pres Clinton told Congress that Iraq violated UN
sanctions by smuggling oil </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/11/review-invisible-war-united-states-and.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">1999 SCIRI’s Hakim claimed it attacked govt buildings in
Karbala in revenge for murder of Ayatollah </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Sadr</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/09/review-muqtada-muqtada-al-sadr-shia.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2002 60 Minutes ran story based upon Iraqi defector who
said he was from Mukhabarat Said Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">had mobile WMD labs to hide
program from UN inspectors Labs didn’t exist </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/06/review-curveball-spies-lies-and-con-man.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Russia threatened to use veto power in UN to stop any
resolution authorizing war vs Iraq </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2022/04/chilcot-inquiry-section-37-development.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February
to 7 March 2003)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 US and UK planes hit five targets in Wasit and Basra
as part of no fly zone Were trying to weaken </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Iraq’s air defenses before
invasion </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 IAEA told US that docs alleging Iraq-Niger uranium
deal were forgeries </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-us-intelligence-failed-iraq-niger.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-hubris-inside-story-of-spin.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq Review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War</i>)
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 ORHA head Garner went to UN to try to get support for
postwar Iraq UN said no because White </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">House said it was opposed to any
UN role </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 UndersecDef Feith briefed Bush on Pentagon’s postwar
plans Included creating democracy </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">winning intl support destroying
WMD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-fiasco-american-military.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq</i>) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 Pentagon postwar Iraq plans only outlined goals not
how to accomplish them</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/special-inspector-general-for-iraq_14.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I:
Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-state-of-denial-bush-at-war-part.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2003 US memo on setting up an Iraqi interim govt after
invasion Said that Iraqi govt had to promise </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">equal rights to citizens ban
Baath party deBaathify security forces </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2019/05/review-leap-of-faith-hubris-negligence.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -48.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;">Tragedy</span></i><span style="color: black;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2020/07/review-hard-lessons-iraq-reconstruction.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq review</span></a><span style="color: black;">
<i>Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2003 Joint Chiefs head Gen Pace called Gen Franks Franks
said he had no problem setting up liaisons </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">with Kurds but didn’t want to work
with Chalabi and INC </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2004 Gen Taguba’s investigation into abuses at Abu Ghraib
prison sent to military</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2006 US Iraq cmdr Gen Casey claimed only 350 civilians
killed since Feb Samarra bombing and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">that crisis had passed It hadn’t
Baghdad morgue recorded 1,300 deaths during same period Interior Min 1,077
deaths </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2021/09/us-army-history-of-iraq-war-vol-1_22.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> US
Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The
Open, January-June 2006)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2008 Court dropped charges against Sadrist fmr Dep Health
Min Zamili and fmr head of Health Min </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Facility Protection Force
Shammari for lack of evidence Several witnesses did not appear after death
threats Charged with allowing Mahdi Army to use Health Min vehicles and
kidnapping and killing Sunnis at hospitals Stealing from contracts </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2008 Report Some est 30,000 Iranian agents in Iraq 2,000
Iranian students studied in Najaf and Karbala </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">Some believed 1/3 of students
worked for Iranian intel Iran one of Iraq’s largest trading partners Free trade
zone in southern Iraq Iran had good ties with PUK-KDP leaders Iran wanted to
keep Iraq weak with a friendly govt Believed had more long term influence in
Iraq than US </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/irans-policy-towards-iraq.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2009 Report govt money for displaced returns caught up in
bureaucracy and not consistently paid out </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/dec-08-jan-09-un-humanitarian-update.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Dec.
08-Jan. 09 U.N. Humanitarian Update – Iraq) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/03/february-2009-un-humanitarian-report-on.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
February 2009 U.N. Humanitarian Report On Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/04/refugees-international-report-on-iraqs.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Report State of Law candidate offered money and pistols
for votes Another candidate offered </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">uniforms to a sports team PM Maliki
said gifts were for those that helped with security Islamic Party handed out
chickens in Diyala PUK offered former peshmerga land in return for family’s
vote Some voters asked to swear on Koran that that they would vote for a
certain list after given gifts Ayatollah Sistani said gifts were forbidden </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2010 Report Transparency Intl and World Bank put Iraq at
bottom of their lists for corruption Came </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">from weak institutions Quota system
divided up ministries by parties Ministries could veto corruption
investigations Ministries didn’t work Ministries protected from investigations
by parties that ran them PM Maliki never did anything about graft Even in large
public corruption cases few prosecutions Trade Min Sudani from Dawa in high
profile case was protected by Maliki Sudani signed contract with company owned
by his son for $50 mil for old tea that cost $20 mil Fmr Culture Min Hashemi
never prosecuted for using ministry for torture Was accused of assassination
plot in 2007 Reportedly hid in VP Hashemi’s house in Green Zone to escape
arrest Politicians interfered in arrests and detentions Oct 09 ISF arrested
Mosul lawyer for bribing officials to release ISI members and destroy their
records During 08 cholera epidemic officials in Babil bought expired chlorine
from Iran One official arrested and then released because protected by ISCI
Politicians got large salaries and protection MPs got $30,000/mo salaries and
$9,000 for security Got $7200/mo pensions for 10 yrs Parliament voted to give
each MP $60,000 loan to buy cars Gave families passports for 10 yrs and real
estate </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2013/01/corruption-in-iraq-interview-with.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Corruption In Iraq An Interview With Stuart Bowen Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/06/iraqs-troubles-fighting-corruption.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Trouble Fighting Corruption Interview With Vincent Foulk Former US
Anti-Graft Official) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Allawi rejected heading Natl Council for Strategic
Policies Allawi said PM Maliki hadn’t agreed to any </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">details about what council would do
<i>Natl Council was supposed to be consolation for Allawi after won election
but PM Maliki out maneuvered him to stay in power Ruling parties agreed to
power sharing agreement including council which Maliki never followed </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Gorran and 2 Islamic parties boycotted Kurdish
parliament in support of protests 2 reporters kidnapped </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">by Asayesh for covering
demonstrations Were beaten and threatened </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/06/view-from-northern-iraq-on-2011-kurdish.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq interview</span></a><span style="color: black;"> with journalist Wladimir Van Wilgenburg on 2011 KRG
protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-iraqs-kurdistan-broke-up-two-months.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> How
Iraq’s Kurdistan Broke Up Two Months Of Protests) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2011 Report People said ISF trying to intimidate and arrest
protesters Checkpoints around Sunni areas of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">Baghdad to block people joining
marches Dora special forces deployed Told people they couldn’t join protests
100s arrested on Feb 25 Day of Rage Taken to 11<sup>th</sup> Army base tortured
and raped Maliki denied any arrests Blamed media Baathists and Al Qaeda for
exploiting protests </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/03/government-moves-to-suppress-protests.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Government Moves To Suppress Protests In Iraq)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Dep Interior Min said Baathists were going to exploit
protests 2 protest organizers arrested Baghdad </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">mayor resigned over demonstrations Rejected
by PM Maliki</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2011 Report ISF arresting and intimidating protesters Sunni
areas of Baghdad blocked off so couldn’t join </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">demonstrations PM Maliki denied
arresting any protesters Blamed media Baathists and Al Qaeda for exploiting
protests Said ISF were trying to prevent suicide bombers attacking
demonstrations </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 Report Interior Min dismissed 1200 policemen that fled
their posts during fighting in Anbar </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 ISIS released statement telling people in Kirkuk not
to vote </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2014 State of Law won lawsuit claiming Wasit govt formed
illegally Part of plan by PM </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 48.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Maliki to overturn provincial
govts that excluded State of Law </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2014/03/maliki-goes-after-rival-governments-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Maliki Goes After Rival Governments in Diyala, Wasit and Basra) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2014 Diyala govt stopped 111 service projects worth 70 bil
dinars because of corruption Included schools <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>electricity
health water paving streets</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2015 Sadr called for removal of brazen militias from Hashd
Said Hashd carried out murders and </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">wanted to expand their power Said
undermined govt Called for Hashd to be integrated into ISF to ensure discipline
and prestige <i>Was attack on his rivals</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2016 Testimony to UK parliament that IS taking dinars from
Mosul sending them to Jordanian </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">banks then to Ramadi and onto
Baghdad using money transfers Then used dinars to buy dollars from Central Bank
of Iraq’s dollar auctions and sold them for a profit Money then sent back to IS
areas IS making $20-$25 mil/month from dollar auctions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/03/more-on-islamic-states-participation-in.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> More
On The Islamic State’s participation In Iraq’s Dollar Exchanges) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2017 Fighting broke out between Sinjar Protection Units
(YBS) and Rojava Peshmerga 7 killed </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Started over YBS blocking peshmerga
at checkpoint which led to argument </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 Parliament voted on provincial election law including
Kirkuk for first time since 2005 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/iraqs-provincial-elections-set-for-dec.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s Provincial Elections Set For Dec 2018, Includes Kirkuk) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">2018 2018 budget passed for $88 bil with $10.6 bil deficit
Kurds boycotted session </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">because KRG didn’t have usual
17% allotment IMF said budget violated Stand By Agreement by not giving enough
money to KRG and not raising non-oil revenue enough </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/iraqs-2018-budget-passed-angers-kurds.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;">
Iraq’s 2018 Budget Passed Angers Kurds And Hashd Questions IMF) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2018/03/imf-world-bank-and-pres-masum-object-to.html"><span style="color: #0b4cb4;">Musings On Iraq</span></a><span style="color: black;"> IMF,
World Bank and Pres Masum Object To Iraq’s 2018 Budget) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2020 Report Jan Sadr withdrew followers from protests
Pro-Iran parties moved to smash </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">demonstrations Accused protesters
of being pro-US attacked protests in Basra Baghdad Wasit Dhi Qar Each protest
site had own ideas and followers </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2022 Federal Supreme Court ruled PM Kazemi’s anti-corruption
committee headed by Gen Ragheef </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">invalid Created in 2020 to
investigate corruption and important crimes <i>Committee was later accused of
torture and politically motivated arrests </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2022 Report Federal Supreme Court abolished anti-corruption
committee Lawsuit filed by political </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">parties that wanted to stop its
work Was setback for PM Kazemi Was question about what committee did because
didn’t look into corruption files but specific people Questioned about people
convicted under committee Sep 2021 PM Kazemi stopped committee’s work Head of
Baghdad Investment Comm Dir of Key Card Company Fmr Ninewa Gov Akoub Head of
Al-Hal Party Karbuli Dep Min of Electricity Head of Public Retirement Authority
all arrested Were accusations of human rights abuses Gov Akoub said his brother
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