This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 8 Iraqi army executed captured Assyrians Looted villages along with Kurds

 

1920 TE Lawrence wrote piece for Observer newspaper criticizing UK for trying to block self govt

in Iraq Said UK wasting money and solution was to get rid of chief political officer Wilson and set up a more efficient administration

1933 Iraqi army began executing captured Assyrian males Looted their villages Mayor of Zakho began

disarming Assyrians Kurds joined in looting in Zakho Head of Zakho went to Sumail and told Assyrians to disarm even though not in his district

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

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Imagining The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict in Iraq)

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

1966 Protest in Baghdad backing ex-PM Bazzaz Put down by police

1969 Iraqi army destroyed Kurdish village of Dakan near Mosul as part of new govt offensive

(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)

1979 5 members of Rev Command Council expelled Coup plotters executed by Baath party leaders

Saddam led session

1979 Saddam appeared on TV to explain coup plot

1979 Assad protested and demanded to see evidence Syria behind coup plot Sent Foreign Minister and

chief of staff to Baghdad Rebuffed by Saddam Ended unity talks Saddam had opposed unity fearing that it would sideline him and give more power to Bakr

1984 Germany announced restrictions on sale of chemical manufacturing equipment to Iraq after reports

used to make WMD

(Musings On Iraq Origins Of Iraq’s WMD Programs)

1987 Iran launched naval attack upon Iraqi oil terminals in Basra

1988 UN said ceasefire in Iran-Iraq War would start Aug 20 effectively ending the 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)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)

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

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

1988 Govt began military campaign in southern marshes to wipe out insurgents and anti-govt tribes in area

1990 Iraq announced annexation of Kuwait Ali Hassan al-Majid made PM of Kuwait

Saddam considered this negotiating tactic hoping countries would give him concession to withdraw

1990 Pres Bush said a line had been drawn in the sand at the Saudi-Kuwait border to stop anymore Iraqi

advances

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

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

(Musings On Iraq review Desert Storm, Volume 1)

1990 Gen Schwarzkopf ordered US Air Force to begin planning air operations against Iraq

(Musings On Iraq review Desert Storm, Volume 2: Operation Desert Storm and the Coalition Liberation of Kuwait 1991)

1991 3^rd WMD inspection team arrived in Iraq Baghdad admitted it worked on supergun program

1991 Turkish launched major incursion into Kurdistan against PKK

1995 Govt cut phone lines to other countries Put Republican and Special Republican Guard on alert Put

units on Baghdad streets Saddam Fedayeen put on Jordan-Iraq highway after found out Saddam’s son in law Hussein Kamil defected to Jordan

1995 Iraq claimed Hussein Kamil responsible for hiding WMD programs from UN inspectors after he

defected to Jordan Iraq admitted that it weaponized biological weapons to UN inspectors Hussein Kamil’s defection undermined Iraq’s program to hide its WMD and nuclear programs from UN inspectors

(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)

1996 UN agreed to plan for Oil For Food Program

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

2002 House Majority Leader Armey said that if US didn’t have provocation it would not have international

support for action vs Iraq

2002 PUK KDP INC SCIRI met with Def Sec Rumsfeld and advocated for regime change and

talked about postwar governance INC wanted exiles to endorse Chalabi as leader

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

2002 UK Asst Head of Foreign Affairs said that Blair govt needed to plan for more than just military action

vs Iraq

(Musings On Iraq Chilcot Inquiry Section 6.4 Planning and Preparation For A Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, Mid-2001 to January 2003)

2003 IAEA Found no Iraqi nuclear weapons program after 1991

(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)

2003 Bush said goal of reconstruction was to give Iraq best infrastructure in Middle East

2004 Arrest warrant for murder issued for one of Saddam’s lawyers

2004 Arrest warrant for Ahmed Chalabi for counterfeiting dinars and nephew Salim Chalabi for murder of

Fin Min official

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

2005 Saddam fired his entire legal team at his trial

2005 Constitutional committee ended its work Negotiations over final draft began within leadership council

of committee Shiite and Kurdish members of constitution committee made more changes to constitution with Sunnis often excluded

(Musings On Iraq How Faults With Iraq’s Constitution Undermines The Country, Interview with Constitutional Scholar Zaid Al-Ali)

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

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

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

2006 Meeting Marine Expeditionary Force I Cmdr Gen Zilmer Ramadi Cmdr Col MacFarland and others

Said Battle for Ramadi in trouble Outposts surrounded and forces largely consigned to protecting them rather than counterinsurgency operations

(Musings On Iraq review Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar)

(Musings On Iraq review The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda)

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Sheriff of Ramadi, Navy SEALS and the Winning of Anbar)

2007 2 studies found Saudis accounted for largest percentage of suicide bombers in Iraq

(Musings On Iraq The Saudi Role In The Iraqi Insurgency)

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

2007 US said that militias becoming larger threat to US forces in Iraq 99 EFP attacks upon US forces

            in July 07 73% of US casualties in Baghdad in July due to militias Militias received EFPs from Iran

(Musings On Iraq How Iran Used Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) To Influence events In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq A History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s Galen Wright)

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2008 Report UN survey found only 4% of Iraqi refugees wanted to return to Iraq Was down from 14% in

Nov 2007 Were concerned with security

(Musings On Iraq Few Iraqi Refugees Want To Return)

(Musings On Iraq review Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees)

2008 Over 100 Iraqi and international NGOs signed petition saying PM Maliki should stop his policy to get

refugees to return to Iraq Said could destabilize country Still violence Lack of services

2008 Sadr statement said that Mahdi Army was going to join new social group Mumahidoon and focus

            on education

2008 Report Thar Allah formed in Basra Oct 03 Connected to Basra police intel Started by killing

Baathists Thar Allah head ran in Jan 05 Basra elections with ISCI Thar Allah head became commander in police UK Created Special Ops Dept in Basra Police Run by Badr that also killed and imprisoned Baathists 05 Thar Allah Badr Mahdi Army went after professionals unionists secularists in Basra Oct 05 UK raided Thar Allah HQ Found 50 prisoners in secret prison Thar Allah members confessed to rapes robberies assassinations extortion Was backed by Iran Feb 07 Thar Allah head named Basra dep governor Apr 08 made head of security comm Basra council Thar Allah head arrested during Charge of Knights

2009 KRG election results Barzani won 69.6% of votes for president Kurdsitan List (KDP-PUK)

won 59 seats in KRG parliament Gorran 25 seats Reform and Services list 13 seats

2012 Report Central Bank of Iraq said foreign exchange companies used to launder money and smuggle

money out of Iraq Said high level politicians involved Main goal to smuggle dollars to other countries Use fake docs to buy dollars at Central Bank auctions

2012 Report May 2010 Fallujah Hospital found 15% of births had defects Dec 2010 study found birth

defects in Fallujah at unprecedented numbers Fallujah blamed U.S. but not causal connection

2013 Head of Ninewa council hit by IED planted by ISI

2014 Obama authorized air strikes against IS in Iraq Were limited to Ninewa and Irbil to stop attacks on

Yazidis

(Musings On Iraq Review Shatter the Nations, ISIS and the War for the Caliphate)

(Musings On Iraq review Airpower in the War Against ISIS)

2014 Report ISF overwhelmed by new recruits Got little training and sent to front 150 men sent to Tal

Afar without having fired their weapons General said they weren’t fit for fighting

2014 Peshmerga withdrew from Jalalwa Diyala Area would trade hands several times in following days

2015 PM Abadi proposed reform program of fighting corruption broadening tax base improving

services dismissing VPs and Dep PMs in response to protests Most moves were actually to cut costs during budget crisis Plan had no details on how to achieve goals

(Musings On Iraq A Review Of Iraq Premier Abadi’s Reform Program Interview With Reidar Visser)

2017 Report Sayid Shuhada brigade went 14km into Syria Didn’t tell Abadi govt about op Hit by IS

artillery Suffered 80 casualties

2018 Sit in continued in Muthanna Sit-in outside West Qurna 1 ended after meeting with local officials

who promised demands would be met March in north Muthanna

2019 Human Rights Commission said 7,663 people disappeared by political parties and

Hashd during war vs IS

2019 Hashd official appointed inspector general of Defense Ministry

2020 Sadrists joined protest in Nasiriya demanding justice for general who ordered killing of

demonstrators Activists tried to stop them from raising pictures of Sadr Demonstrators started chanting against Sadr and other leaders

2021 Iraq accused Iran of cutting water on Sirwan and Karun Rivers Water Minister said caused

water shortage in Diyala and lowered level on Shatt al-Arab

2021 Activist shot in Wasit in assassination attempt

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

(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)

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This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 7 US sent troops to Saudi Arabia after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait

 

1933 Kurds began attacking and killing Assyrians in Dohuk and Zakho

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

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

1945 Army attacked Mulla Mustafa Barzani forces and pushed back

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

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

(Musings On Iraq Explaining Kurdish Nationalism Interview With Teen Tech Univ Prof Michael Gunter)

1958 Gen Qasim supported march by Communists against federation of United Arab Republic of Syria and

Egypt Qasim opposed United Arab Republic because rival of Egypt’s Nasser

(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 A History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan Franzen)

(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)

1988 Iran accepted ceasefire and direct talks with Iraq after implemented in 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)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)

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

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

1988 Iraq Interior Minister Wahab visited Kuwait to talk about resolving border between two countries

1989 Ahmed Chalabi fled Jordan due to investigation into his Petra Bank Chalabi claimed it was political

plot by Jordan and Iraq but he mismanaged bank and faked the books

(Musings On Iraq review The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi)

(Musings On Iraq review Arrows of the Night: Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War)

1990 Iraq declared Kuwait a republic

1990 Saddam victory speech Said Kuwait’s al-Sabahs didn't stand with masses but foreigners and got what

they deserved Said new day for Arabs had arisen from Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait

(Musings On Iraq review the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait)

1990 Saddam told aides that he didn’t fear war with US because all they would do is bomb and rally Arab

world behind Iraq

1990 Bush announced Operation Desert Shield US troops deployed to Saudi Arabia

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

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

1994 PUK fought with Kurdistan Islamic League along Iranian border

1995 Hussein and Saddam Kamil Saddam’s cousins and sons in law defected to Jordan along with wives

who were Saddam’s daughters Hussein ran Iraq’s WMD programs Took $25 mil with them

2001 US Energy Dept said aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy could be for centrifuges but probably for

rockets They were

(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)

2002 VP Cheney said he was skeptical UN inspectors would find anything in Iraq Said Iraq could get a

nuke bomb soon

(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)

2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice said Saddam was a threat to the US and world

2003 White House said because Bush used Iraq-Africa uranium deal in State of Union rest of govt started

repeating it

(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 Zarqawi bombed Jordanian embassy in Baghdad killing 17 wounding 40

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

(Musings On Iraq review Black Flags, The Rise Of ISIS)

2004 PM Allawi issued amnesty for insurgents with no blood on their hands

2005 Protest in Samawa over lack of jobs, water and electricity turned into a riot outside governor’s office

Broken up by police

2006 US-Iraqi Op Together Forward II started to secure Sunni areas of Baghdad Only 2 of 6 Iraqi army

battalions deployed ISF took part in sectarian cleansing of Sunnis Op failed

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 20 Baghdad Burns, Summer-Fall 2006)

2006 Bush said US had strategy for Iraq Privately Bush thought wasn’t working and wanted new one

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 20 Baghdad Burns, Summer-Fall 2006)

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

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

2006 Iraq-US raid into Sadr City looking for Mahdi Army commander led to major gun battle Maliki

condemned raid Said wouldn’t happen again

(Musings On Iraq US Army History Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 22 – The Failed Transition)

2007 Report Basra split between political parties and their militias Fadhila controlled governorship

provincial council Oil Police oil infrastructure export terminals Sadrists controlled local police Facilities Protection Services Basra Port Authority Sadrists and Iraqi Hezbollah split customs police ISCI controlled intelligence service and police commandos Police said 3-10 political killings and kidnappings a day

2008 Defense Min set up committee to recruit former Saddam soldiers into army Only had one month

            to sign up

2009 ISI document said that it negotiated contract with Communications Ministry to give deal to local

leader in Mosul In return ISI got % of the contract Also had conctact with Dep PM’s chief of staff

2009 ISI bombed Turkmen Shiite mosque in Sheikhan Ninewa Killed 44 More than 200 wounded

(Musings On Iraq Political Parties Playing Into Hands Of Insurgent Attacks)

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

2012 KRG re-started oil exports for Baghdad to try to get a new revenue sharing deal with central govt

KRG stopped exports in April

2012 Turkey’s Foreign Min Davutoglu visited Irbil and then Kirkuk 1^st Turkish visit to that city since 1976

2012 PM Maliki gave speech to ISF Said war on terror had ended in Iraq Said were only opportunists left

Blamed foreign countries for funding terrorists

2013 House of fmr Ninewa governor bombed by ISI

2014 Pres Obama announced beginning of bombing campaign against IS in Iraq Were limited to Irbil

(Musings On Iraq Review Shatter the Nations, ISIS and the War for the Caliphate)

(Musings On Iraq review Airpower in the War Against ISIS)

2014 Peshmerga withdrew from Hamdaniya Bashika Qaraqosh in Ninewa IS moved in afterward

2014 Anbar govt said it would resign if govt didn’t stop random shelling and air strikes on Ramadi

Fallujah Garma

2014 Baghdad governor said Hashd kidnapping innocent people for ransom Made security worse

2015 Report KDP said it would defend Sinjar to the “last drop of blood” Jun 2014 IS took Baaj

south of Sinjar Sheikh with permission of KDP set up Black Unit of 700 fighters to protect Sinjar Fmr MP Shesho formed volunteer unit of 3500 Yazidis KDP refused to arm it because wasn’t Kurdish Also said wasn’t needed because Peshmerga Religious Council of Yazidis asked Pres Barzani to set up Yazidi peshmerga unit in Sinjar Barzani said no 1347 Yazidis in ISF quit to protect their villages in Sinjar Asked peshmerga for weapons Turned down Aug 2014 IS attacked Sinjar Were 11000 Peshmerga in area Yazidi militias fought IS Peshmerga fled Yazidis told Peshmerga about IS attack Said reinforcements coming KDP politburo told Yazidis to hold IS until peshmerga arrived Yazidi villages asked Black Unit for aid Did nothing Peshmerga withdrew from Zummar allowing IS to attack Sinjar from 2 directions  IS began surrounding Yazidi villages Some fleeing Yazidis stopped by peshmerga at checkpoint Told peshmerga would protect them and to return to their homes Peshmerga abandoned checkpoint Over 100 Yazidi men killed by IS in Til Ezer Women and children put in trucks and taken away 600 Yazidi men killed in Kojo 1000 women and children executed few days later Peshmerga would not let people in Kojo leave IS massacred people in Gir Izer When Yazidis heard Peshmerga fled they fled too East of Sinjar Yazidi peshmerga unit asked for weapons to defend their villages Were denied by KDP Yazidis in Zorava pleaded with peshmerga to stay in fight Peshmerga killed 3 Yazidi peshmerga and then left Arabs in villages near Yazidi towns joined IS and begin shooting at fleeing Yazidis 36,000 Yazidis reached KRG 60,000 went to Mount Sinjar KRG said they made tactical retreat denying they fled without fighting Peshmerga spokesman later told Der Spiegel forces ran away Pres Barzani said he would bring to justice all those responsible for Sinjar Nothing happened KDP leaders from Sinjar were put under hour arrest for a few days Then released 200 Peshmerga commanders questioned Then sent to front Sesho arrested by KDP for threatening internal order As criticism grew of KRG abandoning Yazidis responded that Yazidis ungrateful for what Kurds had done for them Kurds claimed Yazidis Kurds but discriminated against if didn’t support KDP YPG and PKK from Syria backed by US air strikes that reached Mount Sinjar and relieved trapped Yazidis 4 months later peshmerga attacked Sinjar Pres Barzani and PM Barzani went to Mount Sinjar and proclaimed themselves liberators

(Musings On Iraq Kurdish Government Tries to Create New Narrative Of What Happened To Iraq’s Yazidis)

(Musings On Iraq interview with AUIS’s Christine van den Toorn on what happened to Yazidis when IS invaded Sinjar) 

2015 Iranian cleric said Iraqis should not join protests because they were for secularism

2016 Def Min Obeidi removed by his rivals Speaker Jabouri and MP Mohammed al-Karbouli

2016 Harakat al-Nujaba said it was sending 2000 men to southern Aleppo to support Assad

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

2017 Parliament delayed Sep 2017 provincial elections until 2018 Voted to use 1.7% divisor to decide seat

allocations

2018 Sit ins continued at West Qurna 1 and 2 oil fields Basra and Dhi Qar and Muthanna Also marches

in Qadisiya Shatt al-Arab and Zubayr in Basra 

2019 Shabak 30^th Hashd Brigade got into gunfight with Chaldean 50^th Hashd Brigade in Tal

Keif Argument led to shooting

2020 PM Kazemi said he would pay salaries of KRG dam workers for 3 months Part of deal to gain

support of Kurds

2021 Report KRG Finance Minister said govt still owes public workers unpaid wages and would

become govt debt 2020 KRG workers not paid 5 months 4 months only got 25% of pay 1^st 6 months of 2021 wages cut 21% Jul 2021 1^st time got full pay Due to budget/oil dispute with Baghdad and debt over oil exports

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1920 UK Cabinet decided to send Sir Percy Cox to Baghdad to help deal with 1920 Revolt

1920 British military reinforcements began arriving in Basra mostly from India to deal with 1920

Revolt

1920 Rebels in Karbala declared jihad against British during 1920 Revolt

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

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

1921 Gertrude Bell wrote that Iraq might be the best chance England had to straighten out

            the Mideast and if it worked it would change relations between Europe and Asia

(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)

1933 Assyrians captured by Kurds trying to return from Syria turned over to army and executed Gen

Sidqi said retaliation for Assyrian attack on army camp Rumors spread that Assyrians had blown up bridges and poisoned water

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

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

1966 PM Bazzaz forced to resign Pushed out by officers who didn’t like him moving away

from Egypt and towards Turkey and Iran slowing down nationalization program and talks with Kurds

1967 Law 97 Said no oil concessions could be given on undeveloped land Qasim seized

under Law 90

1981 Cuba China India Zambia PLO sent delegation to Tehran to try to end Iran-Iraq War

1982 Iran began new operation in Qasr-e Shirin by Diyala to encircle Basra Failed

1983 Iranian forces attacked hills around Mehran Iran central front during Op Wa al-Fajr 3 Iraq

launched offensive to capture Mehran

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

1985 Iran started Op Al Quds 5 in southern marshes of Maysan

1986 Iraq air strike hit 5 of Iran’s 11 tankers at Kharg Island Iran’s main oil terminal

(Musings On Iraq review Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988)

1988 Saddam said he would accept ceasefire to end Iran-Iraq if Iran would hold direct

talks Iran said no Saddam was trying to add his own demands to UN proposal

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)

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

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

1990 U.N. Resolution 661 placed economic sanctions on Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

1990 Iraq issued statement saying reports about its forces heading towards Saudi border were false

1990 Saddam met with US Charge De’Affaires Wilson Said he respected US interests and was not

going to attack Saudi Arabia Said invasion was to help Kuwaiti revolutionaries Said he never told Arab leaders he wouldn’t invade Kuwait He did

1990 US delegation convinced King Fahd to invite US troops to Saudi Arabia after

            Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait

1990 Bush authorized Def Sec Cheney to start deploying troops to Saudi Arabia

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

1990 Bush met Thatcher Both agreed to confront Iraq

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

1991 Iraq told UN weapons inspectors that it worked on anthrax and botulin toxin as

            part of its biological weapons program

(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)

1999 Jim Hoagland in WashPost reported Clinton Natl Sec Adv Berger told Iraqi

            opposition Clinton wanted Saddam removed by end of his term

2002 Nat Sec Adv Rice called Sec State Powell and told him he did a great job with Bush Said there should

be more discussions on what Iraq policy should be

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

Tragedy)

2002 White House Chief of Staff Card called Sec State Powell asking for same briefing on Iraq he’d given

Bush day before

2002 Natl Sec Adv Rice paper Liberation Strategy for Iraq Said goal was to make Iraq a democracy Didn’t

say how Said couldn’t act like an invader Had to pose war as a liberation of the Iraqi people Same time US would have to stay in Iraq for many years

(Musings On Iraq review Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq)

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

(Musings On Iraq review Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq)

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

(Musings On Iraq review State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III)

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

(Musings On Iraq review Blood Money, Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 3 Maneuvering Into

Position)

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

2002 Gen Franks told his commanders to switch to Hybrid War plan which could start immediately

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

2003 US Iraq Cmdr Gen Sanchez said limiting arrests and raids looking for Baathists Said few returns and

angering Iraqis

(Musings On Iraq review The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume 1, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil

War, 2003-2006)

2004 After 2 days of fighting in Najaf US claimed killed 300 Mahdi Army fighters

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

(Musings On Iraq review Battle For The City Of The Dead)

(Musings On Iraq review US Marines in Battle An-Najaf August 20014)

2004 Report US intel officers were involved in Abu Ghraib prison abuse

2006 Report ISF not able to secure Baghdad and US doubling troops in city from 7200 to 14200 to help

Iraqis

2006 PM Maliki created committee to implement Article 140 of constitution that would hold

referendum on future of Kirkuk Never completed its work

2007 KRG passed its own oil law Condemned by Baghdad

2007 Iraqiya’s 4 ministers started boycott of cabinet Were now 17 ministers total not going to Maliki

cabinet

2007 US audit found couldn’t account for 190,000 rifles and pistols it gave to the ISF

2008 KRG moved 2 Peshmerga brigades outside Kirkuk city Baghdad sent Defense Minister to check on

situation Was protest over provincial election law that called for power sharing in Kirkuk

(Musings On Iraq Kurds Come Out Swinging)

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

2008 US Govt report Iraq revenues up Could take more responsibility for reconstruction but most of

budget going to salaries and benefits Barely spending investment money Only 23% in 05 19% in 06 28% in 07 Iraq was now outspending US on reconstruction

(Musings On Iraq Iraq Outspends US on Reconstruction)

2008 Iran and Iraq signed trade agreement to create free trade zone Tehran one of Iraq’s top 2 trade partners

(Musings On Iraq Iraq-Iran Trade Agreement)

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2008 Govt gave squatters 1 month to leave or be sued or arrested Would be given limited compensation Part

of PM Maliki’s displaced program to force people to return home Complaints that govt had no real plan or funding for program

(Musings On Iraq Baghdad Issues Ultimatum To Squatters)

(Musings On Iraq January 2009 U.N. Report On Iraq Refugee Returns)

2010 Report ISI offered money to sahwa to return to insurgency Tried to exploit Maliki govt

not hiring them

2010 PM Maliki met with Pres Talabani Afterward Talabani said he had no reservations about

Maliki remaining PM

2013 Report Parliament’s security committee said up to 10,000 soldiers on leave in exchange for part of

their salary being taken by officers MP said more than 10% of ISF were off duty Also ghost soldiers that don’t exist Created so officers could steal salaries

2014 Peshmerga withdrew from Gwar Ninewa and IS took area Makhmour also fell to IS Peshmerga

backed by Iraqi army took Shalat

2015 Protests in Karbala, Najaf, Baghdad, Basra, Hillah, Nasiriya and Rumaitha, Muthanna demanding

reform

2017 Report US Embassy in Baghdad sent letter to KRG requesting independence referendum be

postponed

2017 Report Ninewa Plains Protection Unit took stolen artifacts from Babylon Brigade and arrested

6 members 6 given to Qaraqosh police Babylon Brigade stormed Ninewa Plain office Took weapons and vehicles Freed 6 suspects PM Abadi ordered Babylon Brigades to leave Qaraqosh afterward Refused order 

2018 9^th day of sit in protest in Muthanna also demos at Safwan border crossing and West Qurna 1 oil field

in Basra Baghdad

2019 PM Abdul Mahdi gave into protests by 30^th Brigade of Hashd who refused order to leave

Ninewa Plains and Mosul

(Musings On Iraq PM Abdul Mahdi Fails 1^st Test Of New Hashd Order In Iraq)

2019 Western oil company workers hit by IED in Basra Blamed on pro-Iran Hashd

2019 UN said Iraq rivers dropped 1/3 Tigris and Euphrates expected to drop 50% by 2030

Iraq also facing salinization 92% of Iraq subject to desertification 100 sq km of fertile land lost each year to salinization Led to more sand and dust storms Turkey building more dams to reduce rivers

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Review Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics

Khadduri, Majid, Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics, London, New York, Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1960

 

Majid Khadduri was one of the first prominent Western writers on Iraq. He was born in Mosul and immigrated to the United States where he became a professor at Johns Hopkins University. His work was some of the most detailed on Iraq at the time owing to his extensive research and his connections with many leading politicians who gave him an inside view of how the government worked. Independent Iraq 1932-1958 is a perfect example of this access. At the same time his closeness to the elite meant that he often presented their point of view uncritically.

This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 5 Pres Bush said Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait would not stand

(AP)

 

1933 Iraqi army swept through Jebel Behkair executed any Assyrians found

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

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

1958 Communists organized huge protest in Baghdad for federal union with United Arab Republic

and Yemen but against immediate union which was pushed by pan-Arab officers, Nasserists and Baathists

(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 A History Of The Iraqi Communist Party Interview With Univ of East Anglia’s Johan Franzen)

(Musings On Iraq Revolutionary Times, Gen. Qasim And Iraq’s 1958 Coup, Interview With Western Kentucky’s Prof. Juan Romero)

1968 Pres Bakr govt announced amnesty for Kurdish rebels Reconciliation attempt by new Bakr govt

with Kurds

(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 Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)

1980 Saddam told King Khalid Iraq was going to invade Iran Asked for financing King questioned war Was

afraid of repercussions Said Saudi military was weak and was afraid of Soviet intervention Couldn’t change Saddam’s mind and gave him tacit support

1983 Iran launched 2^nd attack in Op Wa al-Fajr 3 in Mehran aimed at Diyala Broke Iraqi lines and

surrounded a brigade Iraq counterattacked

(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)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)

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

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

1990 Iraq started withdrawing Republican Guard from Kuwait to Rumaila Basra Regular

army and popular army sent to secure Kuwait

1990 Pres Bush said Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait would not stand

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

1990 Bush called King Fahd Sent Sec Def Cheney to convince king to allow U.S. troops to

deploy to Saudi Arabia

1990 Saudi King asked for briefing on US military plans to respond to Kuwait invasion Sec Def

Cheney went to get basing rights

1990 NSC meeting Bush said that Kuwait problem wouldn’t be solved until Saddam removed and

defending Saudis and invading Kuwait two different things

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

1990 Dep PM Ramadan went to Turkey Tried to get it to oppose sanctions Turkey said Iraq should

withdraw from Kuwait

1991 2,000 Turkish troops invaded 3 districts of Kurdistan in retaliation for PKK attack in Turkey

KDP and PUK supported Turkey PKK criticized them for doing so

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

2002 CENTCOM cmdr Gen Franks briefed Bush on war plan Had original plan Running Start which would

have quicker build up and Hybrid Plan which would be immediate start to war No postwar plan and Franks wanted to withdraw US forces as quickly as possible

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

2002 Sec State Powell told Bush that Iraq invasion would dominate 1^st term and US would be responsible

for Iraq afterward Powell said US had to go through UN to disarm Iraq and build international coalition Bush said wanted coalition

(Musings On Iraq Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s “Hard Lessons” – Part I: Planning for Postwar Iraq September 2001 to May 2003)

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

Tragedy)

(Musings On Iraq review Bush At War)

(Musings On Iraq review Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq)

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

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

2002 Report Bush official said 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraqi intel in Prague in 2001 False story

(Musings On Iraq Overview of America’s Policy Towards Iraq: From The Clinton Years To The

Sectarian War of 2006)

2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld announced US forces had been finding buried Iraqi fighter jets in desert

Explained why Iraqi air force didn't fight during invasion

(Musings On Iraq Why Didn’t The Iraqi Air Force Fight During The 2003 Invasion?)

2003 Def Sec Rumsfeld said “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” about Iraq’s WMD not

found yet

(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 said death of Uday and Qusay Hussein showed Iraq that Baathists not returning to

power

2004 US Cmdr in Iraq Gen Casey issued first military campaign plan for Iraq since 2003 invasion

Said US had to confront insurgency Build Iraqi forces Persuade Sunnis to give up insurgency Rebuild country

(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 13 The Changing Of The Guard, Again Spring-Summer 2004)

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

(Musings On Iraq review Nights in the Pink Motel, An American Strategist’s Pursuit of Peace in Iraq)

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

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

George W. Bush to Barack Obama)

2004 Sadr called for his followers to rise up against the US occupation

(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)

(Musings On Iraq review Battle For The City Of The Dead)

2004 Mahdi Army attacked main police station in Najaf city and US forces in Baghdad starting 2^nd

Battle of Najaf

(Musings On Iraq review US Marines in Battle An-Najaf August 20014)

2004 Anbar governor resigned after his son was kidnapped by insurgents

2005 US said that EFPs were being shipped from Iran into Iraq to attack American forces

(Musings On Iraq How Iran Used Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) To Influence events In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq A History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s Galen Wright)

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2006 Sec of State Rice told Bush Iraqis pulling their country apart

2008 Blair govt said UK policy in Basra was right one Made deal with Mahdi Army to withdraw from city

to airport PM Maliki was furious at UK Didn’t include it in Charge of Knights op

2009 Report Iraq in 4^th yr of drought according to UN Rainfall expected to be down 50% Wheat

crop expected to be down 40% Would have to import 4 mil tons of wheat to meet 5 mil ton demand

2010 Report Obama sent letter to Ayatollah Sistani asking him to intervene with Shiite parties and

get them to compromise to form new govt

2011 Sadr’s Promised Day Brigades claimed 16 attacks on US in Baghdad Diyala Dhi Qar Wasit Maysan

Qadisiya Najaf Said it killed US soldiers Militias were trying to take credit for US withdrawal

2011 Protest in Baghdad Called for prisoners to be released reforms US withdrawal jobs better services

2012 Dep Labor Minister said unemployment 16% Said ministry planned to reduce joblessness to zero by

2016 Didn’t happen

2012 Report Oil contracts KRG offering drawing in more companies Offered more profits Natural

Resource Min Hawrami said KRG oil production could reach 1 mil/bar/day by 2014 2 mil/bar/day by 2017 Didn’t happen KRG signed 1^st oil deal with Genel Energy in 2002 Deal with DNO in 2003 Now 4 of the top 10 oil companies Exxon Chevron Total Gazprom working in KRG Aug companies complained not paid

2014 Peshmerga freed Summer east of Mosul ISF suddenly withdrew from two areas east of Ramadi IS

moved in afterward ISF freed Barwana in Anbar

2014 Report Sr Iranian official said Tehran wanted PM Maliki out of office Said he was undermining Iraq

2015 Protests in Sulaymaniya over lack of services broken up by police

2015 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said it would participate in next protest in Baghdad attempting to co-opt demos

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

2015 Parliament’s finance comm said Iraqi banks transferring money to other countries Worked

with front companies to smuggle funds Did study going back to 2012 Found 15 fake trading companies involved in Central Bank of Iraq dollar auctions

2015 KDP Peshmerga commander said peshmerga didn’t withdraw from Sinjar Were defeated by IS

Peshmerga withdrew without a fight

(Musings On Iraq Kurdish Government Tries to Create New Narrative Of What Happened To Iraq’s Yazidis)

(Musings On Iraq interview with AUIS’s Christine van den Toorn on what happened to Yazidis when IS invaded Sinjar) 

2016 Oil traders cut advances to KRG from $127 mil in Jun to $35 mil in Jul Cut payments to oil

companies from $30.3 mil in Jun to $18.1 mil in Jul KRG made $461 mil in Jul Needed $460 mil just to pay govt salaries 

2017 Report Unpublished KRG report said 18,000 KDP peshmerga fled Sinjar without a fight in

Aug 2014 Peshmerga in Sinjar under command of Masrour Barzani

2018 Report Election Comm bought voting machines from South Korea May Board of Supreme

Audit warned commission problems with machines Commission did nothing Iraq embassy in SKorea also warned that company might be overcharging for machines MP said National Intel Service proved machines not secure

2018 Continued sit ins by West Qurna 1 oil field in Basra and Muthanna Protests in Basra City West

Qurna 2 and Barjisiya fields Safwan border crossing South Gas Company all in Basra, 2 in Qadisya, Babil

2019 Hezbollah al-Nujaba spokesman said any Iraqi govt that goes against Iran would be overthrown

2019 PM Abdul Mahdi’s deadline for Hashd to withdraw from Ninewa Plains extended to

this day Nothing happened Shabak 30^th Hashd Bgd held protest against it leaving

2020 PM Kazemi met with protesters Said their demands would be met

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Violence Remains At Very Low Level In Iraq In July 2022

Security remained relatively the same in Iraq in July 2022. The number of incidents by the Islamic State went slightly up from June, but they were still at a very low level. Attacks by pro-Iran groups went down. The main difference was that casualties were significantly higher in July versus June.

This Day In Iraqi History - Aug 4 French deported Assyrians from Syria who then attacked Iraqi army believing they were sent to kill them

 

1914 US consulate report Ottomans ordered mobilization and draft in Baghdad

1933 French deported Assyrians who fled to Syria Iraqi troops sent to meet Assyrians and disarm

them Assyrians attacked army camp upon return to Iraq believing army was going to kill them 33 soldiers killed 40 wounded Over 500 Assyrians crossed back into Syria and were arrested by French Assyrians caught on Iraqi side were executed by army

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

(Musings On Iraq review State and Society in Iraq)

1935 Parliamentary elections finished Parliament expanded from 88 to 108 seats Used as patronage by

leading politicians Sheikhs given more seats along with some Baghdad editors

1954 PM Said sent letter to King Ghazi asking for parliament to be dissolved and new elections

held Dissolved all political parties Revoked press licenses

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

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)

(Musings On Iraq review A History of Iraq)

1958 Govt passed two laws to purge judiciary and bureaucracy of monarchists

1963 Army took Barzan during Barzani revolt

(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)

1968 Bakr govt said it would implement Jun 1966 deal for Kurdish language and culture to

be recognized

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)

1970 Saddam visited Soviet Union and asked for debt relief Also for Moscow to stop aiding Kurds Soviets

agreed

(Musings On Iraq review Saddam His Rise and Fall)

(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)

1986 VP Bush used Egyptian Pres Mubarak to pass message to Iraq that it should expand air campaign

against 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 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)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986)

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

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

1989 FBI raided Italian bank in Atlanta that made $4 bil in unauthorized loans to Iraq $500 mil was

guaranteed by Agriculture Dept Dept believed some of money being used for Iraqi missile program

1990 Bush met Kuwait emir Sabah and said US would free Kuwait and return emir to power

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

1990 European Community imposed sanctions on Iraq for invasion of Kuwait

1990 Iraq announced Provisional Government of Free Kuwait

1990 King Hussein said Saddam was a patriot and wanted good Jordan-Iraq relations

1990 White House went over military plans in response to Kuwait invasion Included 200,000-250,000

troops deploying to Saudi Arabia Offensive operations would be possible in 8-12 months Bush ordered offensive plans but only after Saudis asked for help

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

1990 Bush said goal of deploying US forces to Persian Gulf was to protect Saudi Arabia

1990 Mukhabarat agents flown into Kuwait to run internal security

1990 USSR Foreign Min Shevardnadze Sec State Baker joint statement condemned Iraq

aggression Called for global arms ban on Iraq

1991 Baath ordered property in Kirkuk to be given to Arabs and building over 2700 new homes for them

1992 Iraqi army shelled Kurdish positions in Kirkuk province

1992 Report Pentagon wanted to set up military exchange in Iraq 3 months before invasion of Kuwait

Came after Saddam threatened to burn half of Israel and Iraq caught trying to smuggle in nuclear triggers State Dept blocked plan

1992 Consignment of children’s bicycles for Iraq blocked by US and UK in UN sanctions

committee

(Musings On Iraq review Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions)

1998 Saddam ended cooperation with UN inspectors Kept monitoring system in tact Saddam demanded

inspectors reflect rotating membership of Security Council and offices be moved to Geneva or Vienna and out of NY to not be influenced by US

(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 Charles Duelfer’s Account Of The End Of The 1990s U.N. Inspections)

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

(Musings On Iraq review The Saddam Tapes)

(Musings On Iraq review The Greatest Threat, Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, And The Growing Crisis Of Global Security)

2002 UnderSecDefArmsControl Bolton told BBC US didn’t care whether new UN inspections happened

because goal was regime change in Iraq

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

2002 Head of President’s Foreign Intel Board and Frm Natl Sec Adv Scowcroft gave TV interview saying

US should not invade Iraq Said would undermine war on terror and throw Middle East into turmoil Said UN inspectors should deal with Iraq’s WMD

2003 US reopened Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad

(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 9 Down The Spider Hole, October-December 2003)

2004 Mahdi Army shot down US helicopter in Sadr City Police chief there led celebration for its downing

2004 Sec State Powell told UK Foreign Sec Straw that security in Sunni areas of Iraq was worse than

thought Said insurgency was an indigenous movement with good intel to adapt to situation on the ground

2005 Report large shipment of EFPs captured in northern Iraq coming from Iran

(Musings On Iraq How Iran Used Explosively Formed Projectiles (EFPs) To Influence events In Iraq)

(Musings On Iraq A History Of Iranian Weapons Shipments To Iraq Interview With Arkenstone Blog’s Galen Wright)

(Musings On Iraq Iran’s Policy Towards Iraq)

2006 Sec State Rice said US making progress Iraq strategy not failing US had to stay the course Privately

Rice thought strategy failing

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

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

2006 Sadr organized protest in Baghdad against US occupation

2008 Flyers posted in Baghdad’s Dora warning Shiite families not to return to district Up to 50% of Shiite

families had been driven out during civil war

(Musings On Iraq Only Sunni Displaced Welcomed in Baghdad’s Dora District?)

2008 Report protests led parliament to suspend evicting squatters who were displaced during war from

govt buildings in Jun 08 but they continued Baghdad Ops Command said it offered up to $1200 for evicted Had plan to build 139,000 apartments/houses

2008 Parliament’s displacement comm said 11,400 out of 132,000 displaced families returned to Baghdad

Immigration Min claimed it was 92,000 families Exaggeration Govt wanted all displaced to return Never happened 1 mil remained displaced after civil war

2012 Tuz Kharmato govt voted to expel 1000 Arab families that moved there after 2003 Was 2^nd time

council voted on issue Blamed Arabs for high prices joblessness violence Salahaddin govt opposed vote

2014 Report 2011 Sunnis tried to create autonomous regions Jun 2011 Speaker Nujafi supported idea Oct

2011 Salahaddin govt voted to become autonomous region Happened after Higher Educ Min Adeeb removed 1200 govt workers from Salahaddin and Ninewa PM Maliki also arrested 650 over alleged Baathist coup Salahaddin accused Shiites of trying to change demographics of Samarra by moving in Shiites and building housing for them Maliki said Baathists and insurgents would take advantage of autonomy Dec 2011 Diyala voted for autonomy ISF and militias moved into Baquba Took over Diyala govt building Declared martial law in Diyala Governor and several councilmen fled to Kurdish run Khanaqin dist 2 Shiites districts threatened to secede from Diyala Maliki ignored legal process Salahaddin and Diyala followed Dec 2011 Maliki tried to arrest VP Hashemi on terrorism charge Led Sunnis to believe Shiite ran state and they had no power Helped revive insurgency

2014 Report Dec 2012 PM Maliki tried to arrest Finance Min Issawi Started Sunni protests in Anbar

Spread to Baghdad Diyala Kirkuk Salahaddin Ninewa Demanded release of prisoners end targeting of Sunnis reform deBaathification and terrorism law mainstream protest sites aligned with Mutahidun like Ramadi and Mosul Some more radical sites connected to insurgents like Hawija Kirkuk Tikrit Some like Samarra refused talks with govt Jan-Apr 2013 Maliki pushed by Najaf to make concessions After Maliki lost seats in Apr 2013 provincial elections refused to make any reforms Maliki ordered raid on Hawija protest site Led some protesters to join insurgency Calls for popular armies Jul Maliki started arresting protest leaders Drove more protest sites to insurgency Dec Maliki closed Ramadi protest site Led insurgents to seize Fallujah and rebirth of insurgency

2014 PM Maliki replaced head of Babil Ops Command Was 4^th time in 5 months due to inability to secure

province Late Jul 400 IS attacked Jurf al-Sakhr and pushed ISF out

2014 IS executed 320 Yazidis in Ninewa

2015 2 Protests in Sulaymaniya province over lack of services that led to clash with police Over 30

wounded Also demo in Maysan

2017 Thousands protested in Baghdad over corruption called for by Sadr

2017 UN study Most foreign fighters novices Didn’t know much about Islam Didn’t regularly pray

Most saw Islam in terms of justice/injustice Most from poor families Lacked education Jihad gave them direction and friends

2017 UN said nothing done to punish those responsible for Yazidi massacre in Sinjar 1000s still

missing 3000 women used as slaves in Syria Around 9900 Yazidis killed by IS when took Sinjar Aug 2014

2018 8^th day sit-in protest West Qurna 1 oil field 7^th day sit-in in Muthanna Protest ended in Husseiniya

Baghdad Demonstrations in Dhi Qar Qadisiya 2 others in Basra

2020 Activists house in Maysan hit by RPG as part of intimidation campaign against protests

(Musings On Iraq While PM Kazemi Visits Trump Pro-Iran Groups Target US And Kill Protesters To Embarrass Govt)

(Musings On Iraq Ebb And Flow Of Protests In Iraq)

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

(Musings On Iraq United Nations Faults Iraq For Failing To Protect Protesters)

2021 KRG economic adv said 115,000 govt workers taking 2 salaries 15,000 promoted illegally to

receive higher pay

2021 Report Spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah said goal of resistance factions pro-Iran Hashd was

to expel US from Iraq 4 pro-Najaf Hashd brigades demanded PM Kazemi allow them to leave Hashd unless pro-Iran groups halted attacks on US followed rule of law didn’t run in elections

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