This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 10

 

1917 British failed at 2^nd attack upon Ottomans at Khadairi Bend outside Kut

1921 Gertrude Bell letter said if British had created Iraqi state 2 years ago there would have been no 1920

Revolt and blamed High Commissioner Wilson

(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 Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia)

1963 Gen Qasim offered amnesty to Kurds if they laid down their weapons

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

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

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

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

1981 Iran accused Iraq of using napalm and chemical weapons on Ahvaz Iran in south

1981 Iranian reinforcements arrived at Susangard in central front Op Hoveyzeh ended with only

minimal gains Iranian clergy avoided blame for failed offensive by blaming its rival Pres Bani Sadr who was commander of military Iranian attacks in Diyala scared Saddam that road to Baghdad would be open Saddam replaced and executed commanders in Diyala as a result

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1984 Iraq announced plan to build oil pipeline to Jordan’s Aqaba to secure new outlet for oil

exports during Iran-Iraq 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 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 Congress began debate on Bush’s request to use force against Iraq in Kuwait

1993 Iraq refused to allow UN weapon inspectors to fly from Bahrain into the southern no fly zone

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

2001 Clinton Def Sec Cohen briefed Pres elect Bush on Iraq said Saddam contained and strong

action vs Iraq would cause problems in region

2003 US official said Iraq was deceiving the IAEA about its nuclear program

(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)

(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)

2003 Bush met with 3 Iraq dissidents Rend Francke Hatim Mukhlis Kanan Makiya Bush said he

thought Iraqis could have a democracy Mukhlis told Bush all Iraqis wanted Saddam out Makiya said removing Saddam would change US’s image in region Makiya told Bush that US would be greeted with sweets and flowers in Iraq Mukhlis told Pres Bush if US troops didn’t win support of Iraqis Iraq would turn into Somalia in 2 months 

(Musings On Iraq “We Will Be Greeted As Liberators” Why The Bush Administration Saw Iraq As A War Of Liberation)

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Assassins’ Gate, America In Iraq)

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

2003 NYTimes article IAEA challenged aluminum tubes story that they were for nuke program

and Energy and State Depts thought they might be for rockets CIA DIA NSA White House said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges State and Energy Depts disagreed UK didn’t think tubes for nuke program White House official told NYTimes Iraq was spinning IAEA after it said aluminum tubes were not for centrifuges Were for rockets

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

(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)

2004 4 days of protests started in Kut Wasit over lack of jobs

2005 Bush said that U.S. would stick with January 30 election date for Iraq

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from

George W. Bush to Barack Obama)

2005 Ukraine announced it would withdraw its 1650 troops from Iraq after 8 soldiers killed in

bombing

2005 Zarqawi’s forces assassinated Baghdad’s deputy police chief and his son

2007 Bush and PM Maliki individually announced troop Surge in Iraq US would send 17,500

additional troops to Iraq Keep 4,000 Marines in Anbar Ask for $5.6 bil for extra troops $1.1 bil for reconstruction and Provincial Reconstruction Teams Expand advisers for ISF PM Maliki said he would commit $10 bil for reconstruction Send 3 brigades to Baghdad Allow US to pursue militias Reform cabinet

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

(Musings On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the Surge)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Savage on US reconstruction effort in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Reconstructing Iraq’s Budgetary Institutions)

(Musings On Iraq review The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008)

(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)

2007 PM Maliki spokesman Dabbagh in response to Human Rights Watch report that Interior Min

was protecting militias said that not all the ISF were loyal to the govt

2008 Amb Crocker and Gen Petraeus said that US no longer expected Iraq to reach benchmarks Said

Iraqis could solve their own problems now

2009 Iraqi Union of Industries said 90% of industries closed since 2003 Said 36,000 small and

medium companies closed Blamed cheap imports lack of tariffs electricity shortages banks not giving loans and skilled workers leaving country as reasons

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Closed Factories)

2021 4^th day of protests in Nasiriya demand release of activist arrested Jan 7 Police used live fire

to disperse crowd Army unit arrived to protect demonstrators from police 1 policeman killed

(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Army Intervenes To Protect Nasiriya Protesters From Police)

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This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 9

 

1916 British took Shaikh Saad after Ottomans retreated but not before inflicting heavy

British casualties

1917 Battle of Mohammed Abdul Hassan between Ottomans and British

1917 British began assault upon Khadairi Bend fort outside Kut Pushed back

1921 Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon wrote Churchill supporting Faisal for Iraq’s monarch

(Musings On Iraq review Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied)

1960 Communists applied for govt recognition Qasim accepted party with exact same name to

shut Communists out Communists didn’t know Qasim behind move and blamed other party

(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)

1987 Iran Op Karbala 5 began attacking Fish Lake defensive line before Basra City

(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 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)

1990 Iraq opened 2^nd oil pipeline with Saudi Arabia Was hoping to boost oil exports to pay off debts of

            Iran-Iraq War

1991 Sec State Baker met with Iraq Foreign Min Aziz Failed to end Kuwait crisis Bush sent

Baker to Baghdad to convince people he was trying all options to resolve Kuwait crisis Baker warned Iraq not use to use WMD in upcoming Gulf War Baker tried to give Aziz a letter from Bush to Saddam but Aziz refused to take it

1991 Iraq said that if it was attacked it would strike Israel

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

1991 Bush sent request to Congress to use force against Iraq in Kuwait

(Musings On Iraq review from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq)

1992 Report Est 70,000-90,000 Iraqis died in aftermath of Gulf War due to damage to infrastructure

done by bombing 2,500-3,000 Iraqis est to have died during war from bombings Est 30,000 died in 1991 uprising

1999 Iraq’s parliament said Iraq-Kuwait border was illegal and savage and called for reparations from

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for hosting air strikes on Iraq

1999 Saudi Arabia said Saddam had killed and tortured 1000s and called for Iraqi people to rise up

and overthrow him

2002 CENTCOM commander Gen Franks briefed Sec Def Rumsfeld on latest war plan

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

2002 Sec State Powell called Gen Franks concerned that Sec Def Rumsfeld was trying to push as small

an Iraq invasion force as possible

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

Tragedy)

2003 Head UN weapons inspector Blix said no smoking gun found in Iraq but didn’t mean there

were no WMD Said Iraq’s Dec weapons declaration was incomplete

(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 Inquiry Section 3.6 Development of UK Strategy and Options, November 2002 to January 2003)

2003 IAEA head El Baradei said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were probably for rockets not

nuclear program Were for rockets

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

(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)

2003 White House responded to IAEA Said Iraq spinning it over aluminum tubes Said knew for

a fact that Iraq had WMD Were for rockets

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

2003 Pentagon asked Jay Garner to head ORHA to run postwar Iraq 2 months before invasion He

initially said no

(Musings On Iraq review Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience)

2003 Gen Franks briefed Bush on war plan Talked about Turkey’s refusal to allow in US troops

Franks worried about Jordan and Saudi Arabia staying on board for war Franks said he’d be ready for invasion by Feb 03 but March would be better

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)

2004 Maysan governor’s security fired into crowd protesting job program Killed 3 British army

took over security and killed 2 more Govt building looted

2006 Foreign Min Zebari told Amb Khalilzad Ayatollah Sistani and Iran’s Gen Suleimani would

likely pick next candidate for premier after Dec 05 vote

(Musings On Iraq Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Commander General Suleimani And His Role In Iraq, An Interview With The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins)

2008 World Health Org study on est deaths in Iraq Found 151,000 deaths from Mar 03-Jun 06

Compared to Lancet study that had 600,000 deaths Mar 03-Jul 06 WHO study had larger sample size than Lancet which was widely criticized for being inaccurate

(Musings On Iraq Major Flaws With The Lancet Reports On Iraqi Deaths Part I)

(Musings On Iraq Major Flaws With The Lancet Reports On Iraqi Deaths Part II)

(Musings On Iraq New Survey On Estimated Deaths In Iraq Refutes Lancet Reports)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mark Van Der Laan on Lancet Reports)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Michael Spagat on Lancet reports)

2009 US general said violence in Iraq down 93% in last quarter of 2008

2009 UN report 2.8 mil displaced, 1.2 mil were displaced before 06 1.6 mil displaced 06-08

(Musings On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)

2010 VP Abdul Mahdi reassured Ayatollah Sistani that candidate bans for Baathist ties were

unofficial and shouldn’t be discussed anymore 

(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)

2011 Parliament passed VP law taking away their power

(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Parliament Approves Creation Of Three Vice Presidencies)

2020 Retired PM Abdul Mahdi called Sec State Pompeo Said US should send delegation to

set up withdrawal timeline

(Musings On Iraq US Increases Threats Against Iraq If It Forces US Troops To Leave)

2021 3^rd day of protests in Nasiriya demanding release of activist arrested Jan 7 Police fired live

bullets into crowd but they were able to take Haboubi Sq Solidarity marches in Wasit Diwaniya Babil

(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Army Intervenes To Protect Nasiriya Protesters From Police)

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This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 8

 

866 Abbasid Caliph Mutasin deposed by his adviser Ibn Tahir

1921 Churchill wrote Sir Percy Cox saying too expensive to maintain British forces in Mesopotamia

therefore Arab govt should be created to run things

(Musings On Iraq Churchill In His Own Words On Mesopotamia/Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern 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)

1928 Conscription law failed in parliament King Faisal and allies were hoping conscription would expand

army create national feeling allow Iraqi independence from England

1928 PM Askari resigned No progress on passing Anglo-Iraq Treaty Conscription failed Shiite protests

1948 College student strike in Baghdad over Anglo-Iraq Treaty ended when arrested students were

released by police

1956 Interior Minister announced conspiracy against govt by Egypt Based upon evidence Egypt

involved in bombings of Turkish embassy in Baghdad and assassination attempt on PM Said

1966 Govt forces attacked Kurds in Panjwin

(Musings On Iraq review 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)

1981 Iranian cmdr thought he’d destroyed most of Iraqi forces so tried one more attack in Op

Hoveyzeh Attacked failed Iranians retreated Iran lost 214 tanks 8 helicopters Iraq lost 100 T-55 and T-62 tanks End 1^st Iranian counteroffensive in war Failed

1987 Iranian cmdr said Op Karbala 5 needed to start immediately before Iraq discovered it

(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 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)

1993 Iraq warned that it was in material breach of weapons inspections and would suffer consequences

(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)

1999 Kurdish parties met to discuss how to implement peace plan in civil war

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

2003 Bush met with Congressional leaders and said he would make case to Congress and US

public for war with Iraq

2003 Bush met with Republican leaders saying Saddam wasn’t complying with UN resolution and

he would have to address US about war

(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)

2006 Bush admin meetings said US was on strategic defensive in Iraq

2006 More than half sheikhs on Anbar People’s Comm which was attempt by Ramadi sheikhs and 1920

Rev Brigade to join Anbar politics assassinated by Al Qaeda in Iraq Many of the survivors quit committee

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The Open, January-June 2006)

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 21 Hope In Ramadi)

2007 Human Rights Watch report Militias killing torturing and dumping bodies with protection of

Interior Ministry

2008 6 churches in Mosul and Baghdad bombed

2008 US Op Phantom Phoenix began to secure Baghdad and belts in Diyala Salahaddin Ninewa US kept

offensive secret from most ISF fearing they would leak offensive to insurgents Still many insurgents escaped

2008 Ret Gen McCaffrey warned that Awakening and Sahwa were good short term security solution but

didn’t mean long term political stability in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Carter Malkasian on Anbar Awakening)

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

2009 Marine cmdr in Anbar said he failed because Baghdad didn’t rebuild Anbar after Awakening

helped reduce violence Blamed sectarianism

2010 Iraqiya held meeting over Accountability and Justice Comm banning its members from 2010

election for Baathist ties Rejected decision and threatened a boycott of parliament

(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)

2010 UN sent letter to Election Comm calling for it to reject the banning of candidates for Baathist

ties

2010 Change complained that PUK was attacking its followers 1 member killed in Halabja Dec 09

2011 Inter Min Bolani claimed investigation into fake bomb detectors was a political move and no

corruption in purchase

2011 Sadr gave homecoming speech after returning from Iran Said was religious obligation to

resist US occupation of Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Sadr’s Return To Public View)

(Musings On Iraq Why Sadr Left Iraq)

2021 Head of Hashd Comm Falah Fayad sanctioned by US for human rights abuses vs protesters

and corruption

20201 2^nd day of protests in Nasiriya demanding release of activist arrested Jan 7 Police fired tear gas

to break up crowd

(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Army Intervenes To Protect Nasiriya Protesters From Police)

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This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 7

 

866 Ibn Tahir negotiated deal to split revenues of Baghdad with Samarra and depose Abbasid Caliph

Mutasin in return

1916 British made 3^rd attack on Shaikh Saad with reinforcements Still stalemated Jan 6-7

British lost 4,700 casualties Turks 4,000

1917 British made diversionary attacks along Tigris River to draw Ottoman forces away from

Khadairi Bend fort

1950 British memo said Iraqi Military Mission in Damascus was preparing for coup in Damascus

to join Iraq and Syria

(Musings On Iraq review Ropes Of Sand)

1974 Baath Party congress organized by Saddam called for one party state

(Musings On Iraq review The Ba’thification of Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s Totalitarianism)

1981 Largest tank battle since 1973 Arab-Israeli war continued for 2^nd day in Op Hoveyzeh Iraq and

Iran lost total of 3 tank battalions

1981 Iran recaptured Geilan Zarb in central front Iran lost total of 400 dead Iran didn’t have

troops to hold town so retreated to hills outside

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1981 Iran attacked Arkavaz central front Iraqi forces retreated without much of a fight

(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 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)

2003 IAEA went to Al Qaim facility 3^rd time US claimed was an active Iraqi nuclear plant Found it

destroyed

(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 How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.6 Development of UK Strategy and Options, November 2002 to January 2003)

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

(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)

2004 Bremer met with Barzani and Talabani 2^nd time over federalism Kurds objected to federalism based

upon provinces Wanted one based upon ethnicity so KRG maintained

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)

2004 CPA southern coordinator Gfoeller argued Sadr and his henchmen should be arrested for murder of

Ayatollah Khoei

2005 Insurgents attacked power lines in Salahaddin that caused brief national blackout

2006 Report US held talks with insurgents inside and outside Iraq since fall 2005 Not much

progress said to have been made

2006 Report insurgents expressed complaints and splits with Al Qaeda in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 19 The Iraqi Civil War Comes Into The Open, January-June 2006)

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

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency)

2007 ISI issued Baghdad defense plan Called for locals to create local defense units Divide

neighborhoods into sectors each with its own defensive plan Insurgents would launch offensive ops against Shiite areas

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

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

2007 Report Insurgent groups willing to talk with US Called off negotiations after Saddam’s execution

Dec 30 Demands were unreasonable such as dismissing Maliki govt and replacing it with a political and military council

2010 Chilcot Inquiry Dir of general operational policy said UK made truce with Mahdi Army so it could

withdraw from Basra Talks started Jun 07 Claimed withdrawal was a success and sowed dissension amongst Sadrists

2010 UK military official said they found Iranian arms going to militia Iranians might have been with Asaib

Ahl Al-Haq when kidnapped 5 Brits from Finance Min in May 04 Jun 07 UK foiled Iranian attempt to kidnap British soldiers in Basra

2010 Iranian with explosives communication and eavesdropping devices arrested in Wasit

2020 Iran fired ballistic missiles a Ain Al-Assad Base in Anbar and at Irbil causing some

Iraqi casualties Tehran said was revenge for killing Iran Rev Guards Quds Force Cmdr Gen Suleimani

(Musings On Iraq Could Missile Attack On Iraqi Bases Defuse US-Iran Tensions?)

2020 Funeral procession for Gen Suleimani attacked Nasiriya protest site 2^nd time Fired into

crowd killing 1

(Musings On Iraq Funeral for Iran’s Gen Suleimani And Hashd Leader Muhandis Used To Attack Protesters)

2021 Activist in Nasiriya arrested as part of govt crackdown on protests Restarted demonstrations in

city

(Musings On Iraq Iraqi Army Intervenes To Protect Nasiriya Protesters From Police)

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Review Iraq’s Democratic Moment

Hadid, Foulath, Iraq’s Democratic Moment, London: Hurst & Company, 2012

 

Iraq’s Democratic Moment by Foulath Hadid is a history of Al-Ahali and the National Democratic Party (NDP), two opposition movements during the monarchy period in Iraq which lasted from 1920-1958. Hadid argues that these two parties pushed for democracy in a system that had elections but was mainly authoritarian and under British influence. It’s an excellent account of the politics of the country during this era, but there are some major problems in how Hadid deals with the Assyrians, the military and the monarchy.

This Day In Iraqi History - Jan 6

 

1909 Riots in Mosul killed Sheikh Said Sufi leader in Sulaymaniya Led his followers to

revolt cutting off trade in northern Mosul province

1921 Govt issued order to form Iraqi General Staff Nuri al-Said became Chief of Staff 1^st unit of

Iraqi army formed Recruited 250 former Ottoman officers and sent them for British training

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)

1942 Court sentenced fmr PM Gaylani and 3 Golden Square colonels to death in absentia

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

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny)

1948 Baghdad Law College students marched against talks over new Anglo-Iraq Treaty Broken up by police

School shut down

1949 Student strikes started at College of Medicine Pharmaceutical College Law College in Baghdad

against govt while protests started in Hillah Najaf Basra Kirkuk Sulaymaniya Communists played leading role

(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)

1949 Regent Abd al-Ilah named Nuri al-Said to become PM for 5^th time Told parliament his main job was

dealing with Communists Went after National Democratic Party as well

(Musings On Iraq interview with Historian Phebe Marr comparing PM Said with PM Maliki)

(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)

(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 review ‘Independent Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958 on Said govt)

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

1960 Gen Qasim refused to recognize Communists as a political party again

(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)

1960 United Democratic Party of Kurdistan recognized as a political party by Qasim govt Had to

change name to Kurdistan Democratic Party Made up of urban Kurdish intellectuals

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

1965 Pres Arif ended martial law that had been in effect since 1958 coup

1981 Largest tank battle since 1973 Arab-Israeli war started during Op Hoveyzeh Iraq and

Iran lost total of 3 tank battalions

1981 Iran recaptured Geilan Zarb in center near Diyala Iran lost total of 400 dead 450 Iraqis captured

Iran didn’t have troops to hold town so retreated to hills outside

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1986 Iraq started operation to try to retake Majnoon Island from Iranians

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)

1987 Saddam called for ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War Rejected by Iran

(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 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 Jabouri tribe attempted to assassinate Saddam during military parade

1993 US Russia France England agreed to enforce UN Resolution 688 that condemned Iraq’s

repression of its population

2003 Saddam said he was ready for war Accused UN inspectors of being spies

(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 IAEA asked State Dept for info about Iraq-Niger uranium deal

(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 IAEA head El Baradei no evidence of any suspicious Iraq nuclear activities

(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 3.6 Development of UK Strategy and Options, November 2002 to January 2003)

(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)

2003 Bush met with cabinet and said needed strong case vs Iraq for war

(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 Report 100 US Special Forces and 50 CIA officers had been sent into Iraq end of 2002 along

with Australian Jordanian British commandos to find targets for invasion

2004 2 Frenchmen shot and killed in Fallujah after car broke down

2010 Accountability and Justice Comm banned 511 candidates from 14 lists from election for Baathist ties

Iraqiya had most with 72 Was part of move by Shiite parties to make Baathists part of election

(Musings On Iraq Accountability And Justice Commission Attempts To Interfere In 2010 Elections)

(Musings On Iraq Return Of Sectarian Politics To Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)

2010 Chilcot Comm Chaplin UK Amb to Iraq 04-05 Said Allawi govt completely dysfunctional

Ministries didn’t work

2015 4 bodies found in Albu Bahani, Babil believed to have been kidnapped and executed by Hashd

2020 Retired PM Abdul Mahdi said a legal memo was being drawn up to have US forces

leave Iraq Told US Amb to Iraq that 2 countries had to work together on withdrawal

(Musings On Iraq Iraq and US Struggling With American Military Withdrawal)

2020 Pres Salah received copy of US sanctions that would be imposed upon Iraq if US

            forces expelled from country

2020 US Marines told Iraq planning to withdraw from Iraq following request from parliament

Def Sec Esper than said US had no plans to leave Iraq

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Political Fragmentation Makes Govt Formation All The More Difficult In Iraq

(Iraqi News Agency)

Iraq’s political leaders have only just begun talks over forming a new government even though elections were held three months ago. Fragmentation has made the process all the more difficult.