This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 9

 

1920 British forces retook Tal Afar after bombing broke Iraqi rebels British carried out collective

punishment destroying and looting homes Large number of people forced out into desert

1927 UK Colonial Secretary memo said after Iraq independence new Anglo-Iraq Treaty would assure

British influence in country

1941 Another British brigade landed in Basra to help secure country after PM Gailani govt overthrown

            in Anglo-Iraq War

(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)

1941 Iraq broke relations with Italy at request of British

1954 Regent dissolved parliament and new elections held Opposition of Communists Baathists

National Democratic Party formed united front to run in election but interference from govt meant only got 11 seats

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Under General Nuri, My Recollections of Nuri al-Said, 1954-1958)

1963 Arif govt began arresting Kurds in Baghdad and moving Kurdish soldiers from south to

north in preparation for new clash with Barzani

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

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)

(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)

1965 Pres Arif said some military units would be under Arab High Command and would

send troops to Egypt in effort against Israel Never happened because of coup plots and war vs Kurds

1982 Iraq’s Revolutionary Command Council offered ceasefire with Iran but was rejected

(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)

1991 1^st UN weapons inspection of Iraq’s WMD began

(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 review The Saddam Tapes)

2003 Bush said history would show that US made right decision to invade Iraq Said sure Iraq had WMD

and it would be found

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld told Senate US didn’t have new intelligence on Iraq’s WMD it just saw it

differently after 9/11

2003 Nat Sec Adv Rice denied charges US exaggerated WMD case against Iraq

2003 Nat Sec Adv Rice admitted that false Iraq-Africa uranium story included in Bush’s State of

            Union but okayed at time

2003 CIA sent documents to VP Cheney’s office on fmr Amb Wilson’s trip to Niger to investigate story

Iraq tried to buy uranium but didn’t mention Wilson by name

(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)

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

2003 Sec State Powell said that trailers found were Iraqi WMD mobile labs based upon eyewitness

evidence Inspections said no

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

2003 More than 70 MPs in British parliament called for investigation into whether PM Blair misled

country on Iraq WMD

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

2003 Report none of the suspected WMD sites bombed during invasion turned out to have WMD

2003 Report that CIA Dir Tenet pushed story that Iraq tried to buy aluminum tubes for centrifuges for

nuke program Intel agencies doubted story early on Were for rockets

(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)

2003 US military officer said that Bush White House tended to see all info about Iraq negatively to build

case for war

2003 Report 2 captured high ranking Al Qaeda members held by US said Iraq never worked with group

2003 US forces started Op Peninsula Strike in Dhuliya and Balad Salahaddin aimed at hunting down

Baath members and insurgents

2004 Bush and PM Blair called for NATO to help in Iraq France rejected call

2007 Report US troops organized insurgents from Islamic Army in Amiriya into Baghdad Patriots to

fight ISI Allowed patriots to arrest people Iraqi army gave them ammunition US also organized 2,000 fighers in Abu Ghraib

2008 Sheikh Hayes of Anbar Salvation Council said 4 groups joined together to challenge Islamic Party

in provincial elections

(Musings On Iraq Anbar’s Forgotten Sheikh)

(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)

2008 UK intel report Charge of Knights drove Mahdi Army off Basra streets opening door for economic

growth Insecurity lack of govt capacity corruption laws political parties crime smuggling all hindered rebuilding Militias had driven off business

2008 Iran and Iraq defense ministers signed defense pact

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2009 Shootout between Peshmerga and Iraqi police in Zummar as Ninewa Councilman visited area Part

of Kurd-Al Hadbaa List dispute

(Musings On Iraq Tit For Tat In Ninewa)

(Musings On Iraq Arab-Kurdish Divide Over New Ninewa Provincial Council)

(Musings On Iraq Update On Political Dispute In Ninewa)

2011 CIA Dir Panetta estimated 1,000 ISI fighters left in Iraq

2011 Baghdad closed off Tahrir Square to protesters while pro-Dawa protesters allowed to march

2012 Iraqiya called for parliament to hold no confidence vote against PM Maliki

2012 Sadrists said didn’t want no confidence anymore against PM Maliki just political reform after

Iranian pressure

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

2013 Shoot out between Asaib Ahl Al-Haq and Sadrists in Kadhimiya Baghdad

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

2013 PM Maliki visited Irbil to try to repair relations with KRG Pres Barzani after he called for no

confidence vote against PM

2013 Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri said that merger between ISIS and Al Nusra Front in Syria was over

2013 Joint committee announced deal over disputed areas energy budget between Baghdad and Irbil

2013 State of Law lost control of Basra province to Basra First list

2014 Gov Nujafi walked streets of Mosul calling on locals to defend city from ISIS

(Musings On Iraq Islamic State of Iraq Launches Battle of Ninewa In Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq Background To The Fall Of Mosul, Insurgents’ Relentless Attacks Upon Security Forces Set Stage For The Taking Of City)

(Musings On Iraq Islamic State of Iraq’s 2014 Uprising And Security Forces Collapse)

(Musings On Iraq How Northern Iraq Fell To The Insurgency)

2014 ISIS seized provincial council building in Mosul Maliki govt claimed situation in Mosul under

control

2014 Emergency called in Salahaddin All police ordered on duty to defend Tikrit Army was not put on

alert

2014 Baathist Naqshibandi said to have joined ISIS summer offensive in Ninewa Salahaddin Kirkuk

2014 Car bomb at PUK headquarters in Tuz Kharmato killed 30

2015 State Dep spokesman said war against IS could take 3-5 years

2015 US announced sending in 500 more trainers for Iraqi forces Said it would help train 9,000

peshmerga

2015 Hezbollah al-Nujaba threatened to attack US after report that US air strike killed some Hashd in

Abu Ghraib by mistake

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi and Hezbollah al-Nujaba)

2015 Hashd claimed Baiji cleared Wasn’t

2016 Sadrists sacked and burned Dawa offices in Najaf ISF wounded 3 trying to break up protests

2020 Sustained protests in southern Iraq started over lack of electricity and delayed salaries to

govt workers

(Musings On Iraq Protests Return To Southern Iraq Over Electricity Shortages And Delayed Salaries)

2020 Cabinet passed austerity measures including cutting govt worker benefits cutting unessential

spending to deal with economic crisis

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PM Kazemi Fails At 3rd Confrontation With Pro-Iran Hashd

Assistant to Hashd Cmdr Muslih said all charges against him were dropped (Al Mirbad)

 

An assistant to the Hashd’s Anbar commander and head of the Tufuf Brigade Qasim Muslih said that all charges against him were dropped. Muslin was arrested on May 26 after he was suspected in the death of Karbala protest leader Ihab al-Wazni, assaults on other activists, and rocket attacks upon Ain al-Asad base in Anbar.

This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 8

 

1920 Ex-Ottoman officer and nationalist al-Ahd member Jamil al-Midfai’s forces attacked Mosul

but turned back

1920 Son of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi met with Sunni notables in Samarra calling for Sunni-Shiite

unity to establish independent Iraq

1924 UK run Baghdad Times said England would give Iraq independence in 4 yrs at most if Anglo-Iraq

Treaty passed Took 8 more yrs

1941 British campaign started against Vichy French in Syria using troops in Iraq Germany used Syria to

supply pro-German Gaylani govt

(Musings On Iraq review Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War)

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

1961 KDP sent note to Qasim Complained govt not moving on Kurdish issues or demands

1990 US Commerce Dept wanted to limit technology sales to Iraq that could be used for missile program

Rejected by White House

(Musings On Iraq review The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History with Documents)

2000 UN Res 1302 renewed Oil For Food Program

2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice told Meet The Press US had looked at intel since 1991 to prove Iraq had WMD

All agreed Iraq had weapons Said no one ever claimed they knew exactly where Iraq’s WMD were stored Def Sec Rumsfeld said US knew exactly where WMD were during invasion Admitted that Bush used false claim of Iraq-African uranium deal in his 03 State of Union but was quoting a British report and didn’t know about problems Rice got Oct 02 CIA memo to remove Niger story from Bush speech because single sourced

(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 How US Intelligence Failed, The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)

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

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2003 Sec State Powell said all the intel on Iraq’s WMD was approved by CIA

2003 UK Home Secretary Blunkett said PM Blair govt should not have released its Iraq WMD dossier

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

2003 VP Cheney’s chief of staff Libby told NYTimes reporter Miller that secret National Intel Estimate

had strong evidence Iraq had WMD Was leak to support invasion

2004 UN Res 1546 endorsed Iraqi interim govt that would draft new constitution and have it voted upon

by 12/31/05 Set date for return of Iraqi sovereignty Said CPA would end Elections for permanent Iraqi govt would be held from Dec 04-Jan 05 Allowed Coalition forces to remain in Iraq 

(Musings On Iraq review The Struggle For Iraq’s Future, How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy)

2005 State Dept spokesman said US no longer determined policy on militias It was now an Iraqi issue

2006 Interior Defense and National Security Ministers named in Maliki govt 6^th months after national

elections

2008 US arrested Basra Special Groups commander He forged papers so militiamen could go for training

in Iran

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of Iran’s Influence In Iraq)

2008 Bahrain announced it was going to re-open embassy in Baghdad

2011 PM Maliki said he was ready for another 100 day reform plan after 1^st ended with no changes Was

            meant to appease protesters

2011 PM Maliki said he was removing Chalabi as head of Accountability and Justice Commission

2012 PM Maliki and State of Law started working on getting MPs to remove names from no confidence

list against Maliki

2012 Loyalty of Iraq announced 20 MPs said they took names off PM Maliki no confidence list

2012 Solution Movement within Iraqiya said withdrawing from no confidence vote against PM Maliki

2012 Sadrists called for parliament to hold no confidence vote against PM Maliki

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

2012 Sadr denied that any of his followers fighting in Syria They were

2012 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq suspected of killing leading Sadrist in Baghdad 1^st of 5 such assassinations

between 2 groups

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

2013 7^th day of protests in Nasiriya over lack of electricity

2013 State of Law and local list announced they would shut out Sadrists and ISCI from new provincial

govt in Najaf

2013 Sadrists and ISCI announced alliance in Baghdad Dhi Qar and Wasit provincial govts

2014 Interpol issued arrest warrant for Iraqi official for buying fake bomb detectors Nothing done

2014 ISIS reinforcements from Syria arrived in Mosul to attack last section of city under govt control

(Musings On Iraq Islamic State of Iraq Launches Battle of Ninewa In Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq Background To The Fall Of Mosul, Insurgents’ Relentless Attacks Upon Security Forces Set Stage For The Taking Of City)

(Musings On Iraq How Northern Iraq Fell To The Insurgency)

2014 Gen Ghidan ground forces commander Gen Qanbar chief of staff said they were withdrawing to

eastern Mosul while ISIS attacking city Many ISF thought move was a retreat and began deserting

2014 ISIS captured Hawija Zab Riyad Abbasi Rashad Yankaja in Kirkuk

2020 Pro-Iran groups restarted attacks upon targets housing Americans with rocket strike on

Baghdad Airport as Iraq entered talks with US over new security agreement

(Musings On Iraq Pro-Iran Hashd Factions Continue To Defy Iraq’s PM)

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Islamic State’s Offensive Appears Over While Pro-Iran Groups Maintain Campaign In May 2021

Security in Iraq went through different trends in May 2021. First, the Islamic State might have ended its annual Ramadan campaign after the second week of the month. If that proves true it will be the shortest ever by the group and another sign that it is barely holding on in the country. On the other hand, Hashd factions aligned with Iran continued their campaign against the U.S. presence.

This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 7

 

1920 Ex-Ottoman officer and nationalist al-Ahd member Jamil al-Midfai’s forces reached Mosul

hoping to start revolt against British

1920 Head UK political officer in Iraq Sir Wilson met with Iraqi nationalists in Baghdad Also

invited local notables Wilson apologized for delay in creating Iraqi govt Warned nationalists not to riot Nationalists demanded immediate creation of govt Wilson said terms of British mandate had to be determined first

1920 Head UK political officer in Iraq Sir Wilson wrote India Office and High Commissioner in Egypt

that Iraqi nationalists were condemned by the public Was false

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

1920 Gertrude Bell wrote her father that head political officer Sir Wilson’s meeting with

nationalists had deflated them and they were laughed at by the public Claimed Najaf rejected nationalist movement Both were false

(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)

1963 Arif govt issued ultimatum to Barzani but also offered amnesty for his followers

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

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)

(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70)

1967 Iraqi air force turned back Israeli attack upon H-3 air base in western Anbar Israelis

shot down 2 Iraqi planes Iraqis shot down 3 Israeli jets

(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 Iraq broke diplomatic relations with U.S. after defeat in Arab-Israeli War

1975 Iran-Iraq agreed on Shatt al-Arab border Shah would stop arming Kurdish revolt neither would

support opponents of each other

(Musings On Iraq review Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II)

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

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-70)

(Musings On Iraq When The Shah and Nixon Manipulated The Kurds)

1981 Israel bombed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha to stop Saddam’s bomb program Destroyed

facility

1983 Saddam offered 1 month ceasefire for Ramadan Rejected by Iran

1984 Soviets delivered new missiles to Iraq which Baghdad said it would use against Iran’s oil industry

(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)

1991 UN began taking over camps run by US military to help Kurds following 91 uprising

2003 Bremer met with exile leaders and told them they didn’t represent Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review My Year in Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope)

2003 Sadrist march in Basra against British occupation

2003 Sadr travelled to Iran to talk with Iranian officials and met Ayatollah Haeri

(Musings On Iraq review Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And The Struggle For Iraq)

2003 ISCI threatened to boycott of CPA’s Iraqi Governing Council

2003 CPA Order 12 ended all of Iraq’s tariffs leading country to be flooded with cheap imports closing

down many Iraqi businesses

2003 DIA chief Adm Jacoby said couldn’t find specific WMD sites in Iraq in 2002 but didn’t mean Iraq

didn’t have WMD program

(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 Iraq Survey Group took over US search for WMD

2003 Report US and British analysts said captured Iraq trailers were not WMD mobile labs as suspected

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

2003 White House spokesman said WMD would be found

2003 Report 2002 DIA report said no reliable intel that Iraq was producing or had stocks of WMD

2004 CPA Transition and Integration law banned militias All parties had to list militia members to be

integrated into govt Sadr refused to follow law saying Mahdi Army legitimate resistance movement to US Never implemented

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

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

2006 Zarqawi killed by U.S. F-16 jet north of Baquba

(Musings On Iraq interview with ex-CIA analyst Nada Bakos on tracking Zarqawi)

2006 Natl Sec Adv Rice said White House agreed on Iraq policy Privately Rice working on new one

2008 Poland announced that it would withdraw its forces from Iraq by Oct 08

2008 Female suicide bomber hit police station in Khalidiya Anbar

(Musings On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers)

(Musings On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)

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

2008 5 years after invasion Oil Min Shahristani announced Iraq reached pre-war level of oil production

2009 Inter Min said it would investigate torture charges in Maysan and Qadisiyah Nothing happened

2010 Oil Min said oil production would reach 12 mil/bar/day by 2017 Didn’t happen

2011 PM Maliki’s 100 day deadline to reform ministries ended with no changes Was to appease

protesters

2011 Army started withdrawing from Fallujah as part of deal with Anbar govt to pull out of urban areas

2012 PM Maliki welcomed new breakaway party that had 7 MPs that didn’t sign no confidence vote

against him

2013 Sadrists State of Law and ISCI agreed on new provincial govt in Maysan Sadrists

            would retain governorship

2014 ISIS stormed Anbar Univ in Ramadi taking hostages and stole 15 bil dinars

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Western Front Is Anbar Next To Fall?)

(Musings On Iraq How Northern Iraq Fell To The Insurgency)

2014 US warned Baghdad that ISIS moving forces from Syria to attack Mosul

(Musings On Iraq Islamic State of Iraq Launches Battle of Ninewa In Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq Background To The Fall Of Mosul, Insurgents’ Relentless Attacks Upon Security Forces Set Stage For The Taking Of City)

2014 US wanted Peshmerga to move into eastern Mosul Pres Barzani offered PM Maliki said no

(Musings On Iraq review The Rise of Islamic State, ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution)

2014 PM Maliki told US 9 brigades would be sent to Mosul US said wouldn’t arrive in time

2014 Gen Ghidan ground forces commander Gen Qanbar chief of staff took over defense of Mosul

2014 Badr said it would protect Askari shrine in Samarra against insurgent threat

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

2015 KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani accused Baghdad of breaking constitution by not giving Kurdistan

budget payments

2016 Protests in Dhi Qar and Baghdad calling for reform

2016 PM Abadi said people would be arrested for abusing displaced in Fallujah op Nothing happened

2016 UN called on Baghdad to protect displaced from abuses by govt forces

2017 KRG announced independence referendum would take place 9/25/17

(Musings On Iraq review The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The Middle East)

(Musings On Iraq review Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict)

2020 Police fired at protesters after burned building used by Najaf governor PM Kazemi did

nothing after he issued order banning shooting at demonstrations

(Musings On Iraq Will Iraq’s PM Follow Through With Promise To Punish Those That Attacked Protesters?)

(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)

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This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 6

 

1920 Sir Percy Cox was reassigned to run Iraq from his posting in Persia

1924 UK run Baghdad Times said Iraqis were turning on British protection for Mosul

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

1932 Assyrian National Pact issued Demanded land outside Iraq to settle on Recognize Mar Shimun as

representative of community Schools Said Assyrian Levies would resign if demands not met Govt rejected pact worried other minorities would make similar demands

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

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

1940 PM Churchill wrote War Sec Eden saying he wanted Indian brigades sent to Iraq to show British

strength Told no troops available

1941 British forces sent to Haditha and pushed insurgents led by Qawujki into Syria

1963 Army artillery fired at Mount Azmer, Sulaymaniya at Barzani’s forces Kurdish

delegation met with MP Bakr in Baghdad who denied any attack happened

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)

(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)

1967 Iraqi jets set off for Jenin for raid on Israeli air base Couldn’t find targets in Jenin and

attacked Israeli tank column instead Bombed Iraqi military installation by mistake because couldn’t find air base Another plane bombed a town because couldn’t find Israeli base 1 Iraqi bomber destroyed on way home crashing into Israeli base 2^nd Iraqi wave bombed 2 towns because couldn’t find Israeli base

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

1967 Israel hit H-3 air base twice in Anbar Led to dog fight Israel claimed it destroyed 16-24

Iraqi planes Later said destroyed almost entire Iraqi air force Actually only 1 Iraqi plane destroyed when crashed

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

1967 8^th Iraqi Brigade tried to cross Damiya Bridge destroyed by Israeli air strike

1967 Iraq severed relations with U.S. over Six Day War

1975 Shah Pres Bakr Algerian Pres Bumidan met over Iran-Iraq border issues

1982 After Israel invaded Lebanon Saddam offered ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War and for Iraq to send troops

to help Palestinians

(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)

2003 Ayatollah Hakim gave speech calling for elected govt that represented all of Iraq

2003 Imam at Abu Hanifa Mosque in Adhmaiya Baghdad called for resistance to the US occupation

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

2003 UN head inspector Blix said just because there were questions about Iraq’s WMD didn’t mean it

had them Said US and UK never provided quality intel on Iraq’s WMD

(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)

2003 DepUnderSecDef Feith said intel on Iraq didn’t change from Clinton to Bush

2003 White House spokesman intelligence showed no doubt that Iraq had WMD

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)

2003 US intel thought they were close to finding Iraq’s WMD because more Iraqis coming forward and

giving info

2003 Report Bush admin dropped uncertainties about WMD intel and made them certainties that Iraq

had them

2003 US rejected having UN weapons inspectors back in Iraq to look for WMD

2003 Report Sep 02 DIA report leaked to press DIA thought Iraq had WMD but couldn’t find specific

facilities making them

2005 PM Blair sent note to Bush lamenting fact international community didn’t support US-UK in Iraq

2007 Islamic Army and ISI announced truce after killings and accusations Didn’t last

(Musings On Iraq 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 UK intel report on ISCI/Badr Said ISCI frustrated with PM Maliki Wanted to be dominant Shiite

party Badr turning into political party was false Was still militia trying to control ISF Had control of much of police and trying to take over army Said Badr members in ISF loyal to militia more than govt ISCI still aligned with Iran but independent

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

(Musings On Iraq interview with Jerry Burke police and Interior Min adviser on how Badr took over Interior Ministry)

2008 Kurds said they could export 150,000 bar/day in oil but no neighboring countries would allow it

2009 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq’s Laith Khazali released and AAH released bodies of 2 British bodyguards

they kidnapped and killed

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

(Musings On Iraq Iranians Planned Kidnapping And Held British Captives Taken In Iraq) 

2011 6 US soldiers killed in rocket attack in Baghdad by Kataib Hezbollah most lost in one attack since

2009

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

2012 PM Nechirvan Barzani talked with Turkish PM Erdogan about KRG exporting oil to Turkey

2012 Report front companies acting as recruiters for Iraqis to go fight in Syria for Assad govt

2013 Mass grave found in Diwaniya with victims of Saddam

2013 Govt sponsored meeting to try to get Anbar tribes to organize against ISIS

2013 Baghdad asked Kurds to withdraw Peshmerga from Tuz Kharmato and Suleiman Beq disputed areas

in Salahaddin Kurds said no

2013 VP Hashemi said he supported Sunni region in Iraq

2014 37 Sunnis abducted shot and dumped in Samarra in separate incidents

2014 ISIS attacked counter-terror bureau in Baquba Diyala

(Musings On Iraq How Northern Iraq Fell To The Insurgency)

2014 ISIS continued attack on Mosul Took 5 neighborhoods

(Musings On Iraq Islamic State of Iraq Launches Battle of Ninewa In Mosul)

(Musings on Iraq Background To The Fall Of Mosul, Insurgents’ Relentess Attacks Upon Security Forces Set Stage For The Taking Of City)

2014 Head of Ninewa Ops Command Gen Gharawi ordered defensive line in west Mosul

2014 PM Maliki told Gen. Gharawi to hold Mosul until Gen Ghidan ground forces commander and Gen

Qanbar chief of staff arrived

2016 Ayatollah Sistani warned against attacks on innocents revenge attacks destruction of property in

war against IS

2016 605 men from Saqlawiya who were abducted by Kataib Hezbollah released to Anbar officials

showing signs of torture and beatings

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

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

2016 Member of Anbar council demanded Hashd be withdrawn from Fallujah op for abuses

2018 Parliament voted to replace Election Comm with 9 judges conduct manual recount cancel displaced

voting in Anbar Diyala Salahaddin Ninewa

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Election Commission Dismissed, Recount Ordered As Parties Continue To Undermine Democratic Process)

2020 Kazemi created committee to assess performance of governors after protests called for their

dismissal

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This Day In Iraqi History - Jun 5

 

1916 Ali and Faisal sons of Sharif of Mecca announced Arab Revolt against Ottomans Many Iraqi Ottoman

officers would join revolt

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

1920 UK military force from Mosul sent to re-take Tal Afar Turned back by ex-Ottoman officer

and nationalist al-Ahd member Jamil al-Midfai’s forces When town retaken all residents expelled and houses destroyed

1926 Turkey and England agreed to have Mosul join Iraq

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

(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 Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930)

1935 Govt launched final offensive on Duweilim tribe in Rumaitha and ended revolt Tribe

            suffered around 300 casualties

1941 British forces occupied Kirkuk after overthrowing PM Gaylani govt Anglo-Iraq War

1951 Grenade hit Jewish car dealership in Baghdad 6^th of 7 such attacks on Jews 1950-51

1964 Talks opened between PM Yahya and Mullah Mustafa Barzani He asked for

democratically elected parliament and executive for Kurdish areas Yahya said elections could wait until 1967 when general vote supposed to happen Barzani refused to disband KDP Yahya agreed constitution should recognize Kurdish people as equals to Arabs Kurdish irregulars would be disbanded Army withdrawn from parts of north Kurdish language would be used in Kurdish schools Govt never followed through

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

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)

(Musings On Iraq review Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan)

1967 Israel attacked Egypt starting Six Day War

1967 Israel bombed Iraqi army brigade in Jordan Became combat ineffective

1967 Iraqi airplanes attacked Jezreel Valley and Afula Israel to little effect Hit Kfar Sirkin

air base destroying transports and breaking up Israeli paratrooper op Israelis and Jordanians claimed Jordanian planes carried out raid but its air force was not in war yet

(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 Israeli airplanes attacked H-3 airbase in Anbar Were intercepted by Iraqi planes Israelis

claimed they destroyed 12 Iraqi planes Iraq actually lost 6

1996 KDP attacked PUK in Hrian

2001 During confirmation hearing future Dep Undersec of Def Feith said Saddam should be overthrown

2002 Czech envoy to UN claimed 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intel officer in Prague in 2001 Story

            was false

2002 PM Blair told Sec Def Rumsfeld UK would be with US in any military action against Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Report Volume 2 Sec 3.3 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and Options April to July 2002)

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

2003 Report VP Cheney and chief of staff Libby made multiple trips to CIA to question analysts about

Iraq intelligence Some CIA analysts complained to press about VP Cheney’s questions Part of CIA-White House blame game for invasion

2003 Some US intel officers admitted they didn’t have much new intel on Iraq’s WMD since 1990s

2003 Dep Undersec of Def Feith denied that Iraq intel was politicized before invasion Admitted creating

special Pentagon intel unit to find Iraq-Al Qaeda connections

2003 Bush said no terrorist could get WMD from Iraq because Saddam had been overthrown

2003 Fmr UN inspector Kay told CIA Dir Tenet military not doing good job hunting for Iraq’s WMD

2003 UN Security Council asked US to allow its weapons inspectors back into Iraq

2005 State Dept memo Peshmerga arresting hundreds of Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk and taking them

to KRG to establish control of city

2006 Mass grave found with Shiite victims of 1991 uprising

(Musings On Iraq interview with National Univ of Singapore’s Fanar Haddad on the Impact of the 1991 Uprising)

2006 State Dept paper said new Maliki govt ill prepared to rule No experience

2006 State Dept paper argued for limited counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq with limited troop increase

2007 Report head of Islamic Army went to Saudi Arabia to ask clerics there for fatwa against ISI Didn’t

get one

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

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

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

2008 Over 100 weapons caches of Mahdi Army found in Sadr City Most weapons came from Iran

Aftermath Charge of Knights

(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) 

2010 Iraqi army banned Sahwa in Diyala carrying weapons Sahwa replied they would stop working with

govt

2010 Iraqiya member Faris Jabouri assassinated in Mosul 3^rd member of Iraqiya killed in city before and

after elections

2010 Iraqiya member killed in Qaim, Anbar by IED

2011 Report violence increasing in Iraq 2010 vs 2011 as insurgency rebuilding

2011 PM Maliki told human rights conference that some human rights groups were actually terrorists

and criticized Baghdad protests

2011 PM Maliki replaced head of Trade Bank of Iraq Arrest warrant issued for old head because didn’t

back Maliki business deal

2011 Rockets fired at Zubayr oil field in Basra Set oil reserves on fire

2012 US intel report attacks by ISI went from 19 per month in 2011 to 25 per month in 2012

2012 KRG Natural Resource Min Hawrami said KRG could reach 2 mil/bar/day in production by 2019

Didn’t

2012 Sadr criticized Asaib Ahl Al-Haq march in Baghdad claiming it was directed by Iran 2 State of

Law officials attended event

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

2012 Sadrists/Mahdi Army members started riots in two different prisons in Baghdad

2012 Report PM Maliki tried to get Sadr kicked out of National Alliance because supported no

confidence vote

2012 Sadr said PM Maliki should be investigated for trying to stop MPs from signing no confidence vote

against him

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

2013 Mass graves found in Irbil and Sulaymaniya with victims of Saddam

2013 Provincial elections in KRG delayed because of problems with election law

2013 Anbar protest movement told Anbar Governor Fahadawi he should not hold talks with Baghdad

2013 Def Min tried to replace 16^th Bgd commander a Kurd with a Shiite Arab and commander refused to

give up command Def Min then tried to force 16^th Bgd to leave Tuz Kharmato Ministry backed down

2014 PM Maliki said ISIS were being chased like rats and were incapable of fighting the tribes and Iraqi

army

2014 Report ISIS demanded Army of Mujahadeen in Anbar give it baya

2014 Iraqi Special Forces killed Abu Bilawi ISIS’s military chief of staff

2014 ISIS launched large scale raid upon Samarra Seized several districts before beaten back

(Musings On Iraq Islamic State of Iraq And The Levant Storm Samarra In Salahaddin)

(Musings On Iraq How Northern Iraq Fell To The Insurgency)

2014 Mosul intel chief warned that ISIS would attack 2 neighborhoods in city That night ISIS began its

attack upon Mosul eventually taking city

(Musings On Iraq Islamic State of Iraq Launches Battle of Ninewa In Mosul)

(Musings On Iraq Background To The Fall Of Mosul, Insurgents’ Relentless Attacks Upon Security Forces Set Stage For The Taking Of City)

2014 Turkey said 2^nd tanker of oil exports by Kurds through independent pipeline was being loaded

KRG said 1^st tanker of independent oil exports had been sold but was actually told to leave Morocco’s waters

2015 Report thousands of Iraqi fighters going to Syria for new Iranian led offensive there

2015 Report Norway’s DNO owed $500 mil-$1 bil by KRG for non-payments for oil production and

exports

2015 Oil Min Mahdi said oil prices would reach $75 per barrel by end of year Iraq crude dropped to $29

per barrel in Dec

2016 Anbar govt set up investigating into Hashd abuses in Fallujah op

2018 Cabinet committee reported serious election fraud in May election PM Abadi banned Election

Comm from traveling

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