1920 US complained 2nd time to England about San
Remo agreement that divided Iraq’s oil between
England and France
1920 War Min Churchill told UK Cmdr in Iraq Gen Haldane no
reinforcements were to be had
Told Haldane to consult with chief
political officer Wilson to formulate policy to deal with 1920 Revolt
(Musings
On Iraq review of Reclaiming Iraq,
The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern 1927 British report
Difficult to settle Assyrians in north because land already inhabited
(Musings
On Iraq review The Tragedy of the
Assyrian Minority in Iraq)
(Musings
On Iraq review State and Society in
Iraq)
1959 Qasim govt disbanded communist led Federation of Trade
Unions, arrested members Part of
push back
against communist influence
(Musings
On Iraq review The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology)
(Musings
On Iraq review Red Star Over Iraq,
Iraqi Communism Before Saddam)
(Musings
On Iraq Interview with Prof Johan Franzen on the history of the Iraqi
Communist Party)
(Musings
On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1982 Iran made fifth attack in Basra as part of Op Ramadan
but failed
(Musings
On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume
2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)
1982 During Iranian Op Ramadan
Ayatollah Baqir al-Hakim crossed into Iraq from Iran
Called
for uprising vs Saddam
(Musings
On Iraq history of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq)
1983 Iraq counterattack against
Iran Op Wa al-Fajr 2 with heliborne assault that recaptured Mount
Kerde Mand in
Iraqi 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 Iran-Iraq War Volume
4: The Forgotten Fronts)
(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)
1990 Iraq said it was suspending talks with Kuwait over
disputes over border and oil
1990 Bush letter to Saddam asked him not to use force in
region and hoped for continued good US-Iraq
relations Pentagon tried to block
Bush note to Saddam fearing an Iraq invasion of Kuwait
(Musings
On Iraq review The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein, Deciding on Conflict)
(Musings On Iraq review Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of
Saddam’s War)
(Musings
On Iraq review The Outlaw State, Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and
the Gulf Crisis)
1990 CIA briefed Bush warning that Iraq was going to invade
Kuwait
1990 Egyptian intelligence sent report to Pres Mubarak saying
Iraq would invade Kuwait within a week
Saddam had assured Mubarak Iraq
would not invade Mubarak asked for another report
1990 Jordan’s King Hussein called Kuwait’s emir told him
Iraq would not invade
1992 UN inspectors went through Agriculture Min but found
nothing as Iraqis had removed all
WMD docs
(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)
1996 Iranian Revolutionary Guard entered Kurdistan to fight
the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
but also to support the PUK against
the KDP Guard went 40 miles into Kurdistan and stayed 72 hours When withdrew
left behind weapons for PUK
2002 PM Blair told Bush UK would be with US on Iraq but had
to consider difficulties and work on politics
of war
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Volume 2 Sec 3.3 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and
Options April to July 2002)
(Musings
On Iraq Chilcot Report Section 3.4 Development of UK Iraq Strategy and
Options, Late July to 14 September 2002)
(Musings
On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq
Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2002 Wash Post article on Iraq war plans Said many in
military wanted containment of Iraq
2003 Blair govt accused of crimes against humanity for Iraq
war in Greek court
2004 68 killed in suicide car bomb on police center Baquba
Diyala
(Musings
On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of
Martyrdom)
2007 US Inspector General found from 2005-07 Iraqi govt only
accepted 435 out of 2797 reconstruction
projects Since Maliki govt took
power in 06 accepted few if any projects Finance Min Jabr blamed for not
releasing money to take over projects US spent $90 mil to fix 2 turbines at
Dora power plant Iraqis didn’t know how to work turbines and used wrong fuel
Iraqi govt wouldn’t accept project Meant US turning over projects to provincial
and city govts that didn’t have money or know how to run them Problem was US
didn’t include Iraqis in projects who had no say in what was built
(Musings
On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)
2007 Maliki ratified dismissal of Basra Gov Waeli who
received no confidence vote led by ISCI over
corruption Waeli refused to step
down and referred issue to Supreme Court
2008 3 female suicide bombers hit Shiite pilgrims in
Baghdad’s Karrada 32 dead 100
wounded
(Musings
On Iraq 26th Female Suicide Attack In Iraq Takes Dozens Of Lives
In Baghdad)
(Musings
On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings
On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State
Movement)
(Musings
On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of
Martyrdom)
2008 Suicide bomber attacked Kurds protesting provincial
election results in Kirkuk 24 killed Crowd burned
down Turkmen Front office and
attacked Arab councilman’s house afterward
(Musings
On Iraq Kurdish Frustrations Over Provincial Elections Boil Over After
Suicide Bombing)
2017 Protest in Baghdad Governor said demos legitimate and
trying to improve services
Also demo
in Muthanna over electricity
2018 Protests in Baghdad outside West Qurna 1 oil field in
Basra
2019 Israeli allegedly bombed Ashraf air base in Diyala targeting
Hashd and Iranian weapons
(Musings
on Iraq Pro-Iran Hashd Brigades And Now Israeli Strikes Making A Joke Of PM
Abdul Mahdi’s Claims Iraq Neutral In Regional Conflicts)
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