1920 British mandate announced
in Baghdad
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Princeton’s Sara Pursley on Sykes-Picot and creation
of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq
1914-1921)
(Musings
On Iraq review Dictatorship,
Imperialism & Chaos, Iraq since 1989)
(Musings
On Iraq review An Analysis of Hanna
Batatu’s The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The
Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)
(Musings
On Iraq review Supremacy And Oil,
Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)
1935 Iraqi army and air force
attacked tribal revolt in Rumaitha
1941 UK Mideast Cmdr Gen Wavell
didn’t think force from Palestine could relieve Habaniya base in
Anbar and their
departure would undermine security in Palestine
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)
1941 Gen Wavell told to think up air strike plan against
Kirkuk oil fields Idea was later dropped
1941 Iraqi troops began withdrawing from Habaniya air base
ending siege 300 captured by British
(Musings
On Iraq review of Persian Gulf
Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq 1941, The Battles
for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad)
(Musings
On Iraq review of Rashid Ali
al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941,
The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)
(Musings
On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A
Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)
1973 Kuwait agreed to Iraqi offer to discuss border dispute
1981 Press report that Soviets sent military aid to Iraq
through Eastern European allies
1982 Iran attacked in central front breaking through Iraqi
lines Reached Iraqi border to try to draw away
Iraqi forces from Basra Forced
Iraqis to withdraw from Qasr e-Shirin, Sumar, and Mehran
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
1985 Iraq bombed Ahvaz and Bushahr starting 2nd
War of the Cities Iran fired missiles at Baghdad and
shelled Iraqi border towns
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With
The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The
Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
2001 Iraq told UN it worked on a nuclear bomb in the 1980s
but it proved unfeasible In the 90s IAEA
found Iraq no longer working on
nuclear program
2003 US held provincial elections in Ninewa
2003 ORHA announced 9 man leadership group that would put
together an interim Iraqi govt later in May
(Musings
On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris
Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy)
2003 ORHA official met with ex-soldiers promising them one
time $20 payment if came back to work
2003 US forces announced captured Huda Ammash “Mrs Anthrax”
that worked on WMD program
2003 CIA did new test with aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy
Found could not take speed of centrifuges
(Musings
On Iraq article on the aluminum tubes story)
2004 Gen Abizaid told Bush that security was getting under
control after insurgent and Sadr uprisings
2004 Bush promised investigation into Abu Ghraib prison
abuse scandal Appeared on 2 Arab TV
channels condemning abuse
2004 Sec Def Rumsfeld told reporter Geneva Conventions
didn’t exactly apply to prisoners in Iraq but
were more like basic rules
2006 Report 2004-05 MP Jabouri stole millions from tribal
protection force for pipelines in Salahaddin
Made up 200-300 fake names and
pocked salaries Took first month’s salary for force Company owned by his son
contracted to feed force Stole 4/5 of the money
2009 Iraq Central Bank turned down PM Maliki asking to use
surplus to cover budget deficit
2009 Farmers tried to sabotage work of CNPC at Ahdab oil
field fearing company would take their land
2011 ISI suicide car bomb attacked Hillah police station
killing 25 to mark bin Laden’s death
2012 Anbar council said it finished preparation to hold
referendum on making province a region
2012 Pres Talabani Pres Barzani Sadr Speaker Nujafi and
Allawi issued ultimatum to PM Maliki to
follow power sharing Irbil
agreement
(Musings
On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New
Authoritarianism)
2013 KRG said unless Baghdad paid them money owed they would
start exporting oil independently
2013 Sheikh Abu Risha rejected making Anbar a region
2013 PM Maliki claimed Iraq took care of fake bomb detectors
even though still used
2014 Heavy fighting reported between Ansar al-Sunna and ISIS
in Riyad, Kirkuk
2014 ISF claimed it cleared most of Saqlawiya Anbar but
fighting continued there
(Musings
On Iraq Security In Iraq’s Anbar Shows Battle Against Insurgents Will Be
Long And Often Futile)
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