This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 4

 

1920 Ex-Ottoman officer and nationalist al-Ahd member Jamil al-Midfai’s men attacked and took

Tal Afar Claimed Abdullah of the Hijaz was coming from Syria to become king of Iraq Called for revolt against British

1922 Gertrude Bell said King Faisal was indecisive and lacked backbone to stand up to others

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell And Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)

(Musings On Iraq review The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941)

1924 Anti-British protests in Baghdad closed parliament

1967 Iraqi pilots briefed on 2 Israeli airfields they were to attack Intel was poor mostly from before

1948 Were told Egyptian-led war plan was to allow Israelis to attack first

(Musings On Iraq Review Hawker Hunters At War, Iraq and Jordan , 1958-1967)

(Musings On Iraq review Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970)

1967 Iraqi army division set off to deploy to Jordan for Six Day War

1967 Egypt told Iraq Arab forces would not attack first but wait for Israel to act

1980 Iraq launched air raid upon KDP base in Sardash Iran Tehran objected and two countries began

bombing each other along border

1982 Tariq Aziz went to Moscow seeking military aid for Iran-Iraq War but turned down

1985 Iraq carried out heavy air raid on Iran oil terminal at Kharg Island

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1992 New Kurdish parliament met first time Jawhar Salim elected speaker Cabinet also announced

1997 UN Resolution 1111 extended Oil For Food Program for 2^nd time since started in 96

2003 Barzani went to Najaf and met Ayatollah Sistani and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim to talk about post-war

govt and constitution

2003 Ayatollah Sistani called for an Iraqi parliament to produce a new constitution in opposition to CPA

plan

(Musings On Iraq review The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace)

(Musings On Iraq review Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)

2003 PM Blair said that he had no doubt that Iraq’s WMD would be found Rejected independent inquiry

into case for Iraq War

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2003 VP Cheney told Senators to stop asking for investigation into pre-war intelligence on Iraq

2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith said US wasn’t only country that claimed Iraq had WMD so did Clinton

admin

(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

(Musings On Iraq How The Administration Reversed Itself On Finding Iraq’s WMD)

(Musings On Iraq review Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War)

2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith denied that Bush admin pressured intelligence agencies over Iraq

2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith admitted he created Office of Special Plans within Pentagon to find Iraq-Al

Qaeda connections

2004 George Tenet resigned as director of CIA in part due to failed Iraq intelligence

2004 Pope criticized Bush over Abu Ghraib prison abuse and called for international solution to Iraq

2005 New KRG parliament sworn in

2007 Report Mahdi Army trying to expel Sunnis from Baghdad’s Rasheed Police working with militia

National Police commander in area replaced three times since March

(Musings On Iraq review Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009)

(Musings On Iraq Columbia University Charts Sectarian Cleansing Of Baghdad)

2007 Report US intel photographed life size mock up of Karbala Joint Operations Center in Iran used to

plan for Asaib Ahl Al-Haq raid on complex

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

2008 Half of parliament signed letter saying they were against Status of Forces Agreement unless it

included US withdrawal

2008 Police arrested top 5 Mahdi Army commanders in Karbala aftermath Charge of Knights

2009 Iranian arrested trying to plant IED in Basra

2010 Gen Odierno US cmdr in Iraq said 34 of ISI’s 42 leaders had been killed or captured

2011 Source in PM Maliki’s office said he was planning on stopping demonstrations in Baghdad and

arrest protest leaders

2011 Kurdish opposition presented reform program to KDP and PUK after Sulaymaniya protests broken

up Nothing came of it

2011 Dep PM Shahristani said Iraq would reach 3 mil/bar/day in oil production by end of 2011 It didn’t

2011 PM Maliki said national unity govt didn’t work and called for majority rule

2012 176 parliamentarians signed no confidence vote against PM Maliki Given to Pres Talabani for

verification Maliki office claimed signatures were collected illegally

2012 Iran called Sadr to talk him out of backing no confidence vote against PM Maliki

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2012 Shiite Endowment offices in Baghdad bombed 18 dead 125 wounded Bomb at Sunni Endowment

defused but hit by mortar

(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)

2012 Inter Min head of explosives Gen Jabiri given 4 yrs in prison on misdemeanor charges for buying

fake bomb detectors

2013 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq denied it tried to assassinate a Sadrist leader

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

2014 ISIS head of Military Council Bilawi killed by Iraqi special forces

2014 Babil police chief press conference with 6 prisoners confessing to car bombing then posted 4 of

them executed on his Facebook hours later

2014 Report State of Law delegation went to Iran and got backing for 3^rd term for PM Maliki

2015 IS held ceremony for Fallujah sheikhs to give it baya

2015 Number of displaced in Iraq reached 3.0 mil

2016 PM Abadi said human rights committee would be formed to investigate abuses of Hashd in Fallujah

op Nothing happened

2017 Hashd freed Baaj west Ninewa Emptied it of civilians and started creating security zone

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Review Task Force Black, The Explosive True Story Of The SAS And The Secret War In Iraq

Urban, Mark, Task Force Black, The Explosive True Story Of The SAS And The Secret War In Iraq, London: Abacus, 2010

 

Task Force Black, The Explosive True Story Of The SAS And The Secret War In Iraq is a journalist’s account of the British Special Air Service (SAS) time in Iraq from 2003-09. It also documents London’s approach to the occupation of that country. The author Mark Urban argues that the SAS was the only successful part of England’s policy during the war.

This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 3

 

1920 Hassan Sukhail pro-British notable in Baghdad told Gertrude Bell that no one would accept

British Mandate in Iraq after nationalists met with head political officer Wilson Jun 2 and demanded independence Warned if UK didn’t act there would be a revolt

(Musings On Iraq review of Gertrude Bell And Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq movie review Letters from Baghdad)

1941 3^rd train load of German military aid arrived from Syria Stored in Mosul after war ended

1941 British troops occupied Mosul after overthrowing PM Gaylani govt

1944 Hamdi al-Pachachi became PM of Iraq 1922-58 were 59 cabinets

(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)

1950 Grenade attack in Jewish neighborhood of Baghdad 3^rd of 7 such attacks on Jews 1950-51

1982 Iraqi intelligence made attempt on life of Israeli amb to UK using Abu Nidal terrorist group

1982 Report Iraq tried to provoke Israeli invasion of Lebanon to end Iran-Iraq War by uniting countries

vs Israel

1986 Iranian Rev Guard Cmdr Rezai said his forces didn’t need tanks or advanced planning because

his infantry could overwhelm the Iraqis and win the war

(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval Postgraduate School’s Ostovar on history of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard)

(Musings On Iraq review Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard)

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1987 Ali Hassan al-Majid ordered 1,000 Kurdish villages be destroyed

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance)

1991 Survey found Gulf War damage to Iraq infrastructure far more than originally claimed Destroyed

most of electrical grid 80% out of service Affected water purification and sewage system Led to increase in disease Led to health crisis Also destroyed telecommunications system Est $1.5 bil to repair oil industry

1991 Protests and clashes continued in 3 Kurdish cities Dohuk 4 Kurds and 2 Baath officials killed as

Kurds demanded US forces stay in Kurdistan to protect them

1998 Inspector report to UN Iraq not accounted for missiles warheads VX amounts of ingredients and

final products made from them Russia France China refused to approve the report

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors Were Right Iraq Was Not A Threat)

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Rejection of UN Inspectors Led To Mistrust Over WMD and 2003 Invasion)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Sec 1.1 UK Iraq Strategy 1990 To 2000)

2001 Saudi Amb to US Prince Bandar gave presentation to Bush saying Saddam taking advantage of

instability in Middle East

2002 Gen Franks briefed Sec Def Rumsfeld on new Running Start war plan to begin before all forces in

theater Rumsfeld liked new war plan and wanted more on it

(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessment)

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

2003 Sadrist marched in Baghdad against US occupation

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

2003 Iraqi nuke scientist who day before turned over centrifuge plans to CIA arrested by US Special

Forces

2003 After trip to Iraq PM Blair said CPA lacked organization UK should become more involved in CPA

Needed more UK civilian officials in southern Iraq US and UK needed to speed up contracting process UK companies should become involved in Iraq

2003 UK Under Sec Def Tebbit wrote to Def Min Hoon on his trip to Iraq Said no integrated plan for

rebuilding Iraq Didn’t know whether US would give Bremer authority to manage task Said Bremer wanted UK help with police training

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2004 US forces attacked Mahdi Army at Kufa mosque

2004 US began extending tours of US units serving in Iraq to maintain troop levels

2004 KRG hired Barbour Griffith & Rogeres to lobby US govt

2005 US held secret talks with insurgents in Balad to try to break them away from foreign fighters and Al

Qaeda in Iraq

2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq kidnapped and killed 4 Russian diplomats in Iraq

2007 US claimed Iranian arms shipments to militias in Iraq increasing including large caliber rockets

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Galen Wright of Arkenstone blog on Iranian arms shipments to Iraqi militias) 

2008 Australian PM Rudd said reasons given by PM Howard to invade Iraq were all wrong Didn’t stop

terrorist attacks No WMD found Didn’t stop rogue states Intelligence abused

2010 Pres Barzani went to Turkey for first time in 6 years Said he would stop PKK operations

2011 Suicide bomber in mosque in Tikrit during Friday prayers and then suicide bomber on hospital

where casualties taken

(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)

2011 Diyala governor threatened to resign if federal troops continued to carry out raids and arrests in

province

2011 PM Maliki led raid on Trade Bank of Iraq after it refused to back deal he brokered with S. Korean

company

2011 VP Hashemi accused PM Maliki of monopolizing power

2011 Protest in Baghdad for better services

2012 Dep PM Mutlaq said no confidence vote against PM Maliki would reflect popular mood in Iraq

2012 Sadrists again said they supported no confidence vote against PM Maliki

2012 Ayatollah Haeri issued fatwa against voting for secular candidates as pressure on Sadr to drop no

confidence vote vs PM Maliki

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2013 Dep PM Shahristani claimed Iraq’s electricity crisis would be solved by end of year

2013 Protests over lack of electricity started in Nasiriyah

2013 Kirkuk governor said all the displaced Arabs in province fleeing violence should be made to leave

2013 Sadr issued statement accusing Asaib Ahl Al-Haq of trying to assassinate one of his aides

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

2014 11 tribes in Fallujah district declared war on ISIS

2015 IS held ceremony in Ramadi where sheikhs gave it baya

2015 Badr’s Amiri blamed PM Abadi for fall of Ramadi claiming he listened to US and kept Hashd out

of fight

(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq asked govt to give its men immunity before it attacked Fallujah

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

2015 Badr MP called for Fallujah to be destroyed

2016 Govt shut down social media in Baghdad to try to stop organizing protests

2016 Protests in Baghdad Babil Karbala Dhi Qar Qadisiyah Najaf Basra demanding political reform

2016 Reports Federal Police and Hashd executed displaced fleeing IS from Sjar, Anbar

2016 Large number of displaced from Saqlawiya, Anbar stopped by Kataib Hezbollah 1,300 men

taken away and beaten and tortured 643 men detained by Kataib Hezbollah in Saqlawiya never seen again

(Musings On Iraq Missing 600 From Anbar’s Saqlawiya Finally Found Dead?)

(Musings On Iraq Instrument Of Iran’s Power In Iraq And Syria Kataib Hezbollah)

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Iraq’s Oil Revenues Continue To Climb In May 2021

Oil prices have continued to climb into the spring providing Iraq with some much needed cash to cover the largest budget in its history. Despite its petroleum exports dropping in May 2021 its revenues were up.

This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 2

 

1915 British troops from Persian crossed Tigris and took Amara after convincing Ottoman garrison

commander to surrender 

1920 Revolt against British started when sheikh in mid-Euphrates refused British taxation arrested

and freed by tribe 1920 Revolt

(Musings On Iraq review A Short History of Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State)

(Musings On Iraq book review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)

1920 1 of ex-Ottoman officer and nationalist al-Ahd member Jamil al-Midfai’s men met with

notables in Tal Afar telling them tribesmen would arrive soon and that people should arm themselves to attack UK garrison

1920 Sir Wilson head political officer met with Iraqi nationalists Went over documents outlining a

British Mandate in Iraq Said Arab govt would have to wait Said any agitation would be met by force Nationalists demanded Arab convention to lay out independent govt demanded freedom of the press and communication Wilson denied requests

(Musings On Iraq book review Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921)

1924 UK run Baghdad Times said if Anglo-Iraq Treaty not ratified Iraq would lose Mosul to Turks

(Musings On Iraq How The Ottoman Province Of Mosul Became Part Of Iraq)

1941 Jamil al-Midfai named PM in new govt after PM Gaylani overthrown by British Declared martial

law 1922-58 were 59 cabinets

1941 Anti-Jewish pogrom the Farhud in Baghdad continued until curfew imposed 187 killed in 2 days

(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)

1941 Regent of Iraq ordered end to anti-Jewish Farhud pogrom

1941 British intel officer asked why British troops weren’t sent into Baghdad to stop Farhud Thought

didn't want to upset Regent

1941 UK 20^th Indian Brigade ordered from Basra to Baghdad to help secure area

(Musings On Iraq review Rashid Ali al-Gailani, The National Movement in Iraq 1939-1941)

1969 Pres Bakr called for Iraq-Syria union

1981 Iran’s Defense Minister Chamran killed at the front

1982 Gulf Cooperation Council offered peace plan to end Iran-Iraq War Israeli invasion of Lebanon

ended plan

1988 Ayatollah Khomeini made Speaker Rafsanjani commander and chief of all Iranian forces

Demanded war be won in 6 months Rafsanjani came to believe diplomatic solution needed to be found to end war

(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 Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1991 Demonstrations in Dohuk Irbil Sulaymaniya Diyabil with Kurds demanding US forces stay in

Kurdistan to protect them Police stations and Baath offices attacked

2002 Czech Inter Min claimed 9/11 hijacker Atta went to Prague and met with Iraqi intel officer Story

false

2002 Iraq arrested Abdul Yasin involved in 1993 World Trade Center bombing Conspiracy theorists

would later say this was proof Iraq involved in bombing

(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Convoluted Iraq-Terrorism Conspiracy Theory)

(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq Conspiracy Theory Was Debunked By Captured Baath Documents)

2002 60 Minutes aired show on Abdul Rahman Yasin who was involved in 1993 World Trade

Center bombing Fled to Baghdad Conspiracy theorist Laurie Mylroie claimed he was an Iraqi agent and showed Saddam behind attack 60 Minutes found no evidence he was Iraqi agent

2003 Blair said Iraq’s WMD would be found

(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)

2003 State Dept memo said too early to say captured trailers Iraq mobile WMD labs They weren’t

(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)

2003 Iraqi scientist dug up 200 blueprints for centrifuges for Iraq’s nuclear program and gave them to US

forces

2003 Gen Franks told CPA’s Bremer disbanding Iraqi military was a mistake

2003 1,000 ex-soldiers protested outside Green Zone over CPA disbanding Iraqi military

2003 Bremer approved Justice Dept program to hire DynCorp to provide 6000 trainers to rebuild Iraqi

police

(Musings On Iraq interview with Col Ted Spain on how US struggled to establish law and order in post-invasion Iraq)  

(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how US failed to develop the Iraqi police)

2004 Survey Iraqis seeing US as liberators went from 88% in Oct 03 to 43% in Apr 04 Wanted US to

leave 17% Oct 03 to 57% Oct 04

2004 Iranian intel officers arrested in Baghdad plotting attacks

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2004 Iraqi Governing Council convinced UN envoy Brahimi to include them in Allawi’s interim govt

2007 ISI’s Abu Omar al-Baghdadi told local commanders in Baghdad to stop fighting Islamic Army

of Iraq Dispute would be mediated

(Musings On Iraq The Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Naval War College’s Prof Whiteside on ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi)

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2009 VP Cheney told Fox never any evidence of Iraq-9/11 connection Some unconfirmed reports of

9/11 hijacker Atta meeting Iraqi intelligence in Prague Claimed CIA said there was Iraq-Al Qaeda relationship Before Cheney said Atta story was a fact when it was debunked CIA said Iraq had meetings with Al Qaeda but no connections Was trying to refute his past claims and blame CIA

2010 Adm Mullen said ISI had been devastated by deaths of leadership

2010 Pres Barzani met with Turkish PM Erdogan to talk about security

2011 Obama told PM Maliki wanted Iraq parliament to approve stay behind US forces Maliki disagreed

saying no new deal needed

2011 Survey Iraqis seeing country going in right direction 45% in Nov 2010 Wrong direction 49% in Mar

2011

2011 Human Rights Watch report govt arrested and beat protest leaders in Baghdad

2011 PM Maliki ordered investigation of Trade Bank in Iraq after refused to back deal made by Maliki

with S. Korean company

2013 Report Sadr got into argument with Hezbollah’s Nasrallah over backing Assad in Syria

2013 Sadr accused Asaib Ahl Al-Haq of trying to assassinate leaders in his movement in Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)

2015 US sent 2000 AT4 anti-tank missiles to Iraq to help fight car bombs

2015 Badr objected to US helping retake Ramadi from IS

(Musings On Iraq interview with Ahmed Ali on fall of Ramadi)

(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)

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Iraq’s PM Has 3rd Confrontation With Pro-Iran Hashd Factions

Arrest of Qasim Musilh set off the third confrontation between PM Kazemi and the Hashd

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi decided to take on the pro-Iran factions once more and this time appears to be standing his ground. After the Hashd commander for Anbar was arrested there was a standoff between the Iraqi forces and groups aligned with Tehran in Baghdad. There were plenty of reports that the premier caved once more and released the suspect, but that proved untrue. It’s now up to the Iraqi courts to see whether the government is serious about holding these groups accountable.

This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 1

 

1932 Most Assyrian Levies resigned over treatment of their community Worried about what new

Iraqi govt would do with them

(Musings On Iraq review The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

1941 Regent of Iraq returned to power after PM Gaylani overthrown by British

1941 497 Iraqi soldiers killed and 695 wounded British lost 150 troops during Anglo-Iraq War

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Boich World War II In Iraq and Syria)

1941 Regent welcomed at airport by group of Jews from Baghdad who were attacked on way home that

continued into capital

1941 Farhud anti-Jewish pogrom in Baghdad started Around 120 people killed and 850 wounded

(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)

1941 Yunis Sabawi pro-Nazi leader who appointed himself governor of southern Iraq planned pogrom

against Jews but deported by Brits

1941 British troops barred from entering Baghdad during Farhud UK Foreign Office thought it would

look bad for Regent to return to power backed by English troops

1941 German Gen Felmy head of military mission to Iraq arrived in Syria after Anglo-Iraq War was over

(Musings On Iraq review 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 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)

1946 Arshad al-Umari became PM of Iraq Would hold office 2 times 1922-58 were 59 cabinets

(Musings On Iraq review The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies)

1948 Jewish forces attacked Iraqi positions in Jenin but were turned back in 1^st Arab-Israeli War

1967 Iraq For Min Pachachi met with US officials about growing tension with Israel before Arab-Israeli

War

1967 Jordan allowed 2 Iraqi squadrons of jets to deploy to its territory before Arab-Israeli War

(Musings On Iraq Review Hawker Hunters At War, Iraq and Jordan , 1958-1967)

1972 Pres Bakr with Public Law 69 nationalized Iraq Petroleum Company Created Iraq National Oil

Company Saddam main decision maker Had backing of Soviets and France

(Musings On Iraq review Saddam His Rise and Fall)

1975 PUK announced its formation and date celebrated as anniversary even though party created in

May

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

1984 UN Security Council condemned Iran and Iraq attacking tankers in Persian Gulf Iran-Iraq War

1987 Iran captured Darbandi Khan Lake dam in Kurdistan

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)

1994 Barzani and Talabani agreed to 50-50 power sharing deal to jointly run Kurdistan administration

1994 600 killed in week’s worth of fighting between KDP and PUK especially around Halabja

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurds, A Modern History)

1997 PKK launched 1^st of 4 suicide bombings against KDP 55 KDP killed

(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)

2001 UN Res 1352 extended Oil for Food program

2001 White House national security meeting on revising Iraq policy but no decisions made Asked NSC

for new ways to pressure Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 1.2 UK Iraq strategy September 2000 To September 2001)

2002 Bush gave speech at West Point arguing for pre-emptive war against rogue states because couldn’t

be contained

(Musings On Iraq review America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)

2002 Bush told Natl Sec Adv Rice “Fuck Saddam. we’re taking him out”

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Future The aftermath of regime change)

(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy

Tragedy)

(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)

2003 Sadrist march against British occupation of Basra

2003 ORHA head Garner left Baghdad ending his short tenure in Iraq

2003 Barzani and Talabani wrote letter to Bush objecting to sectarian quotas putting Shiite as PM and

Sunni as president

2003 House Armed Services Comm said it would investigate US failure to find Iraq’s WMD

(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)

2003 UK Rep to Iraq Sawers reported that CPA would create an Iraqi Political Council to advise the

CPA a cabinet and a constitutional convention would be held

2004 Iyad Allawi announced as interim PM of transitional Iraqi govt Ghazi Yawer President

2004 CPA signed deal with Kurds INC SCIRI and others to disband their militias Never followed

through with

(Musings On Iraq How The Failure To Deal With Iraq’s Militias Caused The Breakdown Of The Country)

2004 CIA Dir Tenet letter to Congress said doubted 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in

Prague in 2001 Story was false

2004 Gen Casey became new Coalition commander in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)

2007 Islamic Army spokesman went on Al Jazeera accusing ISI of belligerence since it declared its state

(Musings On Iraq The Demise But Not Death of Al Qaeda In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

(Musings On Iraq review The Caliphate At War, Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State)

2007 Def Sec Gates and Gen Odierno said they supported a long term US military presence in Iraq and

would ask for a status of forces agreement between US and Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review Duty, Memoirs of a Secretary At War)

2007 Dep US Iraq cmdr Gen Odierno said he’d authorized his commanders to offer local

reconciliation agreements with insurgents Said he thought 80% of insurgents and militiamen were reconcilable 

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)

2008 Fmr PM Jaafari announced leaving Dawa to create own party National Reform

2008 Australia began withdrawing its troops from Iraq Operated as trainers and advisers in south

            Ended combat operations

2009 Ex-Trade Min Sudani appeared in court to answer questions on corruption

charges Accused of stealing $400 mil for Maliki’s State of Law

2009 Defense Ministry claimed it captured leader of Ansar al-Sunna Mohammed Hardawi

2009 Gun battle between Peshmerga and pro-Al Hadbaa tribes in Sinjar Ninewa 5 killed

(Musings On Iraq Troubles Continue In Ninewa Over results Of Provincial Elections)

2010 Parliamentary election results were certified

2010 Maliki attended PUK congress to lobby for new term as PM

2010 PKK ended ceasefire with Turkey hoping to spark peace talks Didn’t happen

2010 Electricity Min doubled bills for users to cut consumption but Iraqis unused to paying for power

No effect

2011 Second day of protests in Ramadi Called for army to withdraw from city after police chief killed in

Iraqi army raid Ground Forces Commander Gen Ghidan made agreement with Anbar govt to move soldiers out of cities due to protests after raid

2011 Human Rights Minister escaped assassination attempt by sticky bomb in Baghdad

2011 Committee to Protect Journalists ranked Iraq worse country in world due to deaths of reporters

2011 Amnesty Intl called on Baghdad to stop suppression of protests in Baghdad by arresting leaders

2011 Protest in Nasiriyah calling for jobs services and demanded govt step down

2011 Oil Min signed deal with South Korea’s KOGAS to develop Akkas gas field in Anbar

2012 US asked Iraq to extradite Hezbollah operative Daqduq to US after Iraqi court found him innocent

of terrorism Didn't happen

(Musings On Iraq Hezbollah’s Role In Iraq)

2012 During anniversary of founding PUK Pres Talabani mentioned Gorran head Mustafa 29 times

pointing to possible reconciliation

2012 Report Iran pressured Sadr to pull support for no confidence vote against PM Maliki Sadr called for

all parties to move against Maliki instead

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism)

2013 Kurdish parliament extended Pres Barzani’s term for 2 years

2013 Def Min claimed it broke up ISIS cell working on chemical weapons

2013 Salahaddin governor escaped mortar fire on his home north of Tikrit

2013 Ninewa Governor Nujafi escaped 2^nd IED on his convoy west of Mosul

2013 Sheikh Sulaiman said Anbar governor’s committee to negotiate with Baghdad did not represent

protest movement

2013 Sheikh Ubaidi of Albu Obeid tribe said Anbar protesters supported talks with Baghdad

2014 ISIS leader ambushed and killed by Naqshibandi in Hamrin Mts, Diyala in

retaliation for ISIS killing 8 Naqshibandi Fighting between 2 over few days left 70 dead

(Musings On Iraq Clashes Between the Islamic State and the Baathist Naqshibandi As Both Try To Expand)

2015 Iraq began selling Basra Heavy crude that greatly increased oil sales

2015 Pres Barzani said KRG would start independent oil exports if Baghdad didn’t deliver KRG’s share

of budget

2018 Protest in Kut Wasit over lack of electricity

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