865 Mutazz acknowledged as the new Abbasid caliph in Baghdad
1917 British attack on Ottoman positions along Hai River outside Kut pushed back
1959 Gen Qasim legalized trade unions
(Musings On Iraq interview with Western Kentucky’s Prof Romero on the Qasim govt)
1967 Pres Johnson met 5 Iraqi generals and Iraqi Amb Hani at White House and said that they
would build closer ties
1981 Islamic Conference Organization created group to try to mediate end to Iran-Iraq War
1987 3rd War of the Cities ended
(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)
1990 OPEC said Kuwait and UAE agreed to limit oil exports to try to settle dispute with Iraq
(Musings On Iraq review Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam’s War)
1995 Saddam discussed how Iraq had created a deterrent to protect every Arab capital from Israel
with WMD
1996 Member of Iraqi National Accord made recording of his operation in Iraq setting off bombs
Complained he didn’t have enough money and explosives Ops were funded by CIA
1998 Report US was preparing strike against Iraq called Operation Desert Thunder for non
cooperation with UN inspectors US was hoping to cause a confrontation with inspectors to attack Iraq
(Musings On Iraq UN Inspectors and CIA Spying On Iraq In The 90s)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
(Musings On Iraq review Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars)
2003 Military Industrialization Commission officials had Republican Guard commanders sign docs
that they had no WMD in units
2003 Cheney chief of staff Libby briefed White House on case vs Iraq’s WMD and Al Qaeda ties
Said Iraq hiding its WMD and cleaning sites before UN inspections Said Iraq-Al Qaeda ties strong Libby played recording of 2 Al Qaeda operatives talking about poisons that Libby said they got from Iraq Libby claimed 9/11 hijacker Atta met with Iraq intelligence in Prague up to 4 times Story false
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2004 Ex-Iraq Survey Group Head Kay US intel was wrong about Iraq’s WMD US intel had to
explain why they failed on Iraq Kay said Iraq tried to restart nuke program in 2000-01 but didn’t get far Kay said Iraq had active biological weapons program 1998 US bombing had stopped Iraq’s chemical weapons program
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq How Operation Desert Fox Finished Off Iraq’s WMD Programs)
2005 Bush admin said it would ask Congress for another $80 bil for Iraq and Afghanistan wars
2005 Human Rights Watch reported arbitrary arrests torture abuse threats corruption in Iraqi
justice system
2006 Report US wanted to make Iraqi army light infantry force to fight insurgency and not
threaten neighbors Meant given no artillery or heavy weapons besides 77 T-72 tanks
2007 PM Maliki presented new Baghdad security plan as part of Surge Said he would go after militias and
protect human rights He didn’t Called on govt to recruit from all communities and be presented throughout bureaucracy to address complaints about marginalization as opening to Sunnis Sheikh Janabi asked why were parts of Baghdad under siege and said govt should be killing terrorists not civilians Demanded release of prisoners Said Iraqi intel should be reviewed by both Sunnis and Shiites Demanded end to deBaathification Maliki accused Janabi of being responsible for kidnapping 150 people Speaker Mashadani admonished Maliki for attacking a MP Live TV broadcast was quickly cut off
2009 Report PM Maliki tried to remove Kurdish officers from 2 army divisions in Ninewa Ninewa
Ops Command twice said it would remove KDP Dep Governor of Ninewa from office
2010 3 international hotels bombed in Baghdad
2010 Accountability and Justice Comm reinstated 59 banned candidates saying there were errors in
paperwork
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2013 ISF killed 9 protesters at Fallujah protest camp for throwing stones
2015 Yazidi militias and YPG forced Arabs out of Om Danabuk, Sinjar Killed 10 and looted village
2015 Badr’s Amiri claimed all of Diyala cleared of IS
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2020 Protest sites attacked in Baghdad Basra Najaf Nasiriya after Sadr withdrew support
1 killed in Baghdad 3 in Nasiriya
(Musings On Iraq New Govt Crackdown On Iraq Protests)
(Musings On Iraq UN Report On Violence Against Iraqi Protesters)
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1969 Former MP Bajari during spy trial claimed opposition leaders were trying to
overthrow Pres Bakr’s govt
1970 42 more sentenced to death for coup plot against Pres Bakr
1970 Bakr govt said it supported Arif govt’s 12 point program for Kurds Said willing to grant Kurdish rebels
amnesty
(Musings On Iraq review of The Kurds, A Modern History)
(Musings On Iraq review Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope)
(Musings On Iraq review The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship)
1991 Iraq tried to bomb Saudi oil refinery but planes shot down by Saudis Only offensive
airstrike during war by Iraq
1991 Mubarak said Saddam watched US debate on war on CNN Believed arguments meant
US would never go to war Mubarak warned Saddam US was going to war Saddam didn’t listen
1999 US leaked story to Sunday Times that it would back small groups of Iraqis to infiltrate into
Iraq and carry out sabotage in the hopes of starting a revolt
2003 Gen Franks presented final war plan to Sec Def Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs head Gen Myers
(Musings On Iraq review Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 PM Blair sent note to Bush suggesting delaying Iraq invasion for a month to allow more time for
postwar planning
2003 UK Foreign Office legal adv Sir Wood told Foreign Sec Straw that Britain could not go to
war with Iraq without a 2nd UN resolution
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
(Musings On Iraq Section 3.7 Development of UK Strategy and Options, 1 February to 7 March 2003)
2003 IAEA told Wash Post aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were wrong for nuke 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 Archaeologists and scholars briefed Pentagon about historical sites in Iraq that should be
spared from bombing
2003 DIA report repeated CIA reporting on Iraq-Niger uranium deal and Navy reported uranium
was in a warehouse in Benin Said Iraq could have gotten uranium Niger deal fake story
(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 2nd NYTimes article on Iraqi defector Haideri provided by INC Said that he’d led to dozens of
DIA reports on Iraq’s WMD DIA labeled him a fabricator May 02 story continued to be used
2003 Defense Policy Board’s Richard Perle accused CIA of being biased against INC so it wouldn’t
interview people like Iraqi defector Haideri on WMD
(Musings On Iraq review Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco)
2004 Iraq Survey Group took INC provided defector Haideri to sites he claimed were WMD and
found nothing May 02 labeled fabricator by DIA but story continued to be used
2004 7,000 Kurds marched for a new federal Iraq
2004 Sadr rejected UN supervised elections Said UN legalized US occupation Called for Shiite clergy to
oversee voting and Islamic constitution
(Musings On Iraq review The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq)
2006 Report Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction found disputes lack of staff and rules caused
huge delays completing projects
2007 Amb Khalizad asked British to stop troop withdrawal plans UK Foreign Sec Beckett said
drawdown would continue
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2007 UK intel report Mahdi Army and Badr behind most attacks upon Sunnis Were powerful groups
with positions in govt and influence in security forces PM Maliki wanted Sadr to rein in Mahdi Army so US didn’t go after militia Maliki opposed any major US ops vs Mahdi Army in Baghdad Maliki wanted to maintain his Shiite base which meant keeping ties to Sadr Maliki govt seen as linked to militias which hindered reconciliation with Sunnis
(Musings On Iraq Badr Organization A View Into Iraq’s Violent Past And Present)
2008 Report 200 Sahwa killed and 500 wounded Jun-Dec 2007 by ISI 100 were killed just in Jan in
Baghdad and Diyala Increased after Dec 29 message by bin Laden against Awakening/Sahwa
2008 Report 4 yrs after 2 battles of Fallujah city still largely destroyed Only 4 hrs of power Little
running water Sewage system didn’t work 70% unemployment Lack of fuel Tight security hindered trade and development US reconstruction projects small and local and couldn’t address large problems with services Fallujah blamed Baghdad neglect
2009 Basra Ops Cmd began crackdown in province before Jan provincial elections Continued
until Apr
(Musings On Iraq Massive Security Raids In Basra)
2009 Yazidi MP accused 3rd Army Division of putting up posters for Kurdish parties in Ninewa
2009 Report Integrity Comm found Basra oil workers stealing up to 500K bar/day in oil in early 08
Head of Integrity Comm said corruption deterred foreign investment in Iraq PM Maliki declared 08 anti-corruption year then pardoned 1,023 govt officials who were investigated for corruption Included Interior Min officials who were collecting salaries of 50,000 fake workers and Defense Min official who skimmed money from arms deals
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen on Iraq’s fight with corruption)
(Musings On Iraq interview with former anti-corruption official Vincent Foulk)
2010 PM Maliki met with Speaker Samarrai and Presidential Council Said Cassation Panel under
Accountability and Justice Act would determine future of banned candidates for Baathist ties
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2010 Report Iraq bought $85 mil in bomb detectors that didn’t work for approx $40,000 a piece Iraq
investigated devices Said they generally work Still being used by ISF
2011 2 bombs hit Shiite pilgrims during Arbayeen
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
2011 Deputy Justice Min denied report prison at Camp Honor Baghdad was under PM Maliki’s control
Said run by Justice Min Said Red Cross and Human Rights Min visited facility and found no torture or abuses Said families and lawyers could visit prisoners Red Cross said they were denied access
(Musings On Iraq New Complaints About Iraqi Prison Abuse)
2014 As fighting and insurgency took off in Anbar when PM Maliki shut down protest sites mass
displacement started UN said 140,000 displaced from Anbar up from 65,000 week before
(Musings On Iraq Major Displacement In Iraq’s Anbar Due To On Going Fighting)
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance)
2015 Kurdistan Security Council announced 23 IS leaders killed in fighting Peshmerga Included
Abu Muslim al-Turkmani member of IS Shura Council highest body in group Said to be one of Baghdadi’s top deputies
(Musings On Iraq The Islamic State’s Leadership Losses In Iraq And Syria)
2017 East Mosul officially declared liberated by PM Abadi
(Musings On Iraq Review They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate)
(Musings On Iraq Review Shatter the Nations, ISIS and the War for the Caliphate)
2020 Sadr and pro-Iran Hashd held anti-US march in Baghdad
(Musings On Iraq Sadr Holds Anti-U.S. Rally, Tilts Towards Iran, Then Crackdown On Protests)
2020 Sadr withdrew support for protests and his followers began leaving sit-in sites
2021 Qi Card head Hussein found guilty of abusing public funds Qi Cards used to distribute govt
salaries and pensions Up to 70,000 fake Hashd fighters registered to company allegedly by Abu Muhandis to steal money
(Musings On Iraq Qi Card Allegedly Involved In Ghost Hashd Fighter Scheme)
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1920 British cabinet decided Iraqi oil would be developed by a public company Foreign Secretary Curzon
overturned decision
(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
1920 UK Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon decided Turkish Petroleum Company would keep its oil
rights in Iraq signed with Ottomans
(Musings On Iraq review The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921)
1948 More protests against Anglo-Iraq Treaty leading to fights between Communist and
Independence party
(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
(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)
1970 33 conspirators in coup against Pres Bakr executed
1987 Ali Khamenei said Iran would not negotiate with Iraq as long was Saddam in power
(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 Iraq dumped 400 mil gallons of oil into Persian Gulf to try to prevent US retaking Kuwait
1991 Bush said air strikes would destroy Iraq’s nuclear program
1999 NSC counterterrorism dir Clarke said US was right to bomb factory in Sudan because
connected to Al Qaeda and Iraq WMD experts
2003 Iraq Defense Ministry ordered that if Baghdad were to fall all govt buildings were to be looted
and burned
2003 Mukhabarat document called for looting and destruction of property if Saddam were
overthrown
2003 Natl Sec Adv Rice wrote NY Times OpEd Iraq hiding its WMD programs from UN inspectors and
tried to buy uranium for its nuke program Reference to Iraq-Niger deal Didn’t happen
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Failed The Iraq-Niger Uranium Story)
(Musings On Iraq How US Intelligence Created An Iraqi Nuclear Threat In 2002)
(Musings On Iraq Review Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, And The Selling Of The Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 Sec Def Rumsfeld said that Iraq had WMD and ties to terrorism were one threat
2003 Under Sec Def Wolfowitz said Iraq had tons of WMD and time running out for it Said Iraq
didn’t make truthful weapons declaration Iraqi defectors said Iraq had mobile WMD labs Didn’t exist Said Iraqi govt threatening scientists not to talk to UN inspectors
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
2003 White House released document saying Iraq hiding its WMD and tried to buy uranium for its
nuke program Reference to Iraq-Niger deal Didn’t happen
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(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)
2004 Iraq Survey Group head Kay resigned saying didn’t think Iraq had any WMD stocks or large
programs since 1980s Said Iraq destroyed its WMD after Gulf War due to inspections and unilateral actions Kay resigned because group was going to be diverted from finding WMD to fighting insurgency
2004 In response to Iraq Survey Group head Kay resigning and saying there were no WMD White
House said it believed Iraq had WMD and it would be found
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
2005 Zarqawi called candidates in Jan 05 election demi-idols Said those who voted were
apostates and could be killed Claimed elections US plot to empower Shiites
(Musings On Iraq U.S. Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 15 – Transformation IN A Time Of War, January-April 2005)
2006 Report Iraqis going to Jordan jumped from 200-250/day from 2004-05 to 1,100/day in Jan 06
as people were fleeing violence
2006 Al Qaeda in Iraq bombed Sheikh Kharbite’s house in Ramadi of Albu Khalifa tribe and
member of Anbar security council
(Musings On Iraq review Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State)
2007 Bush State of Union outlined the Surge
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the Surge)
2008 ISF Ninewa campaign began to secure Mosul
2008 20,000 pound bomb went off in Mosul Killed 15 wounded 132
2010 Asaib Ahl Al-Haq kidnapped US contractor Issa Salomi which it swapped for 4 of its
members held in prison
(Musings On Iraq More Information On League Of The Righteous Kidnapping Of American Contractor)
(Musings On Iraq Asaib Ahl Al-Haq From A Breakaway Sadr Militia To Defenders Of Iraq)
2010 Report Diyala Sahwa told to abandon posts by commanders due to Maliki govt crackdown
Sahwa sheikh claimed 425 Sahwa and 25 senior leaders had been arrested by govt on charges they belonged to ISI
(Musings On Iraq More Sons of Iraq Integrated While Others Walk Off The Job In Diyala)
2011 Report found prison at Camp Honor Baghdad Prisoners held incommunicado No lawyers
Torture Facility was under direct command of PM Maliki
(Musings On Iraq New Complaints About Iraqi Prison Abuse)
2015 Hashd destroyed four mosques in Muqtadiya Diyala after operation there
2020 Iraq ranked 17th most corrupt country in Transparency International’s annual
Corruption Perceptions Index Year before was ranked 18th most corrupt
(Musings On Iraq Iraq Continues To Rank In Bottom Of International Corruption Index)
2021 New militia group Alwiya Alwaad Al-Haq took responsibility for drone attack upon Riyad,
Saudi Arabia
View the Iraq History Timelines
1921 Gertrude Bell wrote that British officers in Mosul province thought they could convince Kurds to
vote for Faisal as king in referendum They didn’t
(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)
1948 10,000 marched in Baghdad supporting Regent rejecting new Anglo-Iraq Traety
1948 PM Jabr rejected Regent’s cancelling Anglo-Iraq Treaty Said Iraqis would understand benefits
of treaty when it was explained to them
1953 Gen Mahmoud resigned as PM
1970 3 coup plotters executed by Pres Bakr govt
1970 Iraq expelled Iranian ambassador accusing Tehran of backing 1970 failed coup
1991 Iraqi SCUD missile and 2 U.S. Patriot missiles landed on Israeli city of Ramat Gan
1991 Iraqi forces set fire to 700 Kuwaiti oil wells
2002 Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz memo to Undersec Def Feith that Pentagon was not finding intel on Iraq-
Al Qaeda links and said Sec Def Rumsfeld should get some analysis on issue
(Musings On Iraq review Leap of Faith, Hubris Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy
Tragedy)
2003 2nd meeting of US UK Australia on postwar Iraq Little came of meeting
2003 CIA sent its report on Iraq WMD to White House to help make case for war
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2003 CIA analyst told IAEA aluminum tubes Iraq tried to buy were for centrifuges IAEA said they
were for rockets IAEA proved right
(Musings On Iraq How A Contested Aluminum Tubes Story Became The Basis For War With Iraq)
2004 VP Cheney said Iraq had mobile labs and WMD programs Inspections found no mobile labs
(Musings On Iraq How Iraqi Defector CURVEBALL Became Basis For US Claims That Iraq Had WMD)
(Musings On Iraq Iraq One Of The Worst Intelligence Failures In US History)
(Musings On Iraq review The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War)
2004 VP Cheney said overwhelming evidence Saddam linked to Al Qaeda Said Iraq behind 1993 World
Trade Center bombing Based upon Laurie Mylroie conspiracy theories
(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Convoluted Iraq-Terrorism Conspiracy Theory)
(Musings On Iraq Laurie Mylroie’s Iraq Conspiracy Theory Was Debunked By Captured Baath Documents)
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2005 Report $300 mil for arms deal for Iraqi army went missing after put on plane for Lebanon
(Musings On Iraq US Army History of Iraq War Vol 1 – Chapter 17 Innovation In The Face Of War, Summer-Fall 2005)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Special Inspector Gen for Iraq Reconstruction Bowen on corruption in Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq interview with fmr anti-graft official Vincent Foulk on corruption in Iraq)
2005 INC’s Chalabi accused Defense Min Shaalan of stealing the $300 mil Shaalan threatened to
arrest Chalabi for the charge
2006 Report 34,131 attacks in 2005 up from 26,496 in 2004 Car bombs went from 420 in 2004 to
873 in 2005 IEDs went from 5,607 in 2004 to 10,953 in 2005
2007 PM Maliki announced he would no longer protect the Mahdi Army from US raids Didn’t happen
(Musings On Iraq A Divided Sadr Trend)
2007 Mayor of Sadr City Daraji had 2nd of 2 meetings with UK Gen Lamb on working out understanding
with militias to prevent confrontations in district Militias were afraid of major US operation in Sadr City as part of Surge Sadrists backed Daraji’s effort
(Musings On Iraq review Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq interview with Prof Mansoor on the Surge)
(Musings On Iraq interview with New America Foundation’s Ollivant On Reassessing the Surge)
2008 Mahdi Army tried to kidnap PM Maliki’s national security adviser Mowafaq Rubaie in Baghdad
2008 Oil Min blacklisted companies that signed oil deals with Kurdistan
2009 El Salvador withdrew its troops from Iraq Were in Kut Wasit since 2003
2009 Report govt workers in Basra said Fadhila intimidated them into signing Basra autonomy petition
2009 NGOs said many returning displaced lacked housing and services Received no govt aid
(Musings On Iraq Refugees International Report On Iraq’s Refugees and Displaced)
2010 VP Biden visited Iraq Said all banned candidates should be allowed to run in 2010 election as
long as disavowed Baathism Said cases should be dealt with after vote Head of Accountability and Justice Comm rejected idea PM Maliki spokesman said US interfering in Iraqi politics
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2010 Report of 511 candidates banned for Baathist ties 72 were from Allawi’s Iraqiya and 67 from
Interior Min Bolani’s Unity of Iraq Alliance
2011 Kirkuk made deal with Electricity Min that province would get larger power quota Would
still not meet demand Governor had cut off power line to Baghdad and kept electricity for province
(Musings On Iraq Tamim Cuts Deal With Baghdad Over Electricity Supply)
(Musings On Iraq Electricity Protests Spread To Northern Iraq)
2012 Iraq voted in Arab League for a transition of power in Syria away from Assad
2015 Coalition air strike killed Abu Ans Samarraie IS’s governor for Anbar He was responsible for
executing hundreds of members of the Albu Nimr tribe
(Musings On Iraq The Islamic State’s Leadership Losses In Iraq And Syria)
2015 Fire at contract office of Industry Ministry blocked investigation into Minister Ahmad Karbouli
2021 Pro-Iran group fired rockets at Baghdad International Airport Some fell short and hit residential area
(Musings On Iraq Security In Iraq Jan 22-28, 2021)
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1916 Battle of Hanna Defile British attacked Ottomans but failed 2,741 British casualties
Was defeat in British effort to relieve siege at Kut
1948 Protest against police killings day before Were met by police who killed 2 more College
faculties resigned in protest Demonstrations were against new Anglo-Iraq Treaty
(Musings On Iraq review The Modern History of Iraq)
(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)
1948 Regent held emergency meeting of royal court Dep PM Baban said police shot at protesters
in self defense Blamed Communists for all problems National Democratic Party’s Chadirchi said govt needed to realize opposition to new Anglo-Iraq Treaty Regent asked Dep PM Baban to ask PM Jabr to return from UK Jabr dismissed protests
(Musings On Iraq review Iraq’s Democratic Moment)
1948 Regent announced new Algo-Iraq Treaty did not help Iraq and it wouldn’t be passed
1970 Pres Bakr announced failed coup by army officers and a special tribunal would
try the plotters 44 later executed Accused Iran of supporting coup
1970 Imam Khomeini started lectures in Najaf outlining his concept of vilayat al-faqih
1987 Saddam sent letter to Iran Said he didn’t claim any Iranian territory and wanted peace deal
Asked Iranians to challenge Khomeini’s right to rule
1987 Iran captured Duaija east of Basra city Iraq launched 2 counterattacks but repulsed 1500 Iraqi
casualties
1987 Iraq suffered 10,000 casualties in Basra during Iran Op Karbala 5 leading Saddam to call for
volunteers
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)
(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)
(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War)
(Musings On Iraq review The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict)
1993 Iraq declared ceasefire with Coalition over not allowing UN weapons inspectors into country
Demanded US review no fly zones
(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)
(Musings On Iraq review Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein)
1995 CIA set up base in Kurdistan to collect intel on Iraq Ahmed Chalabi presented fmr Gen
Samarriea who’d been in charge of military intel and his plan for a coup Chalabi added his revolt idea to it
(Musings On Iraq review of Iraq In The Eye of the Storm)
(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)
1999 SCIRI rejected any US aid
2002 Weekly Standard OpEd by Robert Kagan and William Kristol called for Iraq to be attacked as
next step in war on terror
(Musings On Iraq review Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq)
(Musings On Iraq review The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War)
(Musings On Iraq review America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy)
2003 Bush said that Saddam was not interested in disarming and that time was running out on Iraq
(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 PM Blair said 2nd UN resolution not necessary for use of force against Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2003 DeptSecState Armitage spoke at US Inst of Peace saying US tried to avoid war but Iraq not
accounted for its WMD
2004 VP Cheney said there was overwhelming evidence Iraq and Al Qaeda connected
(Musings On Iraq review What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception)
2004 Dep Def Sec Wolfowitz memo Argued ISCI best partner for US amongst Shiite parties Claimed it
could be weaned from Iran
(Musings On Iraq US Army History Of Iraq War Vol 1- Chapter 11 The Gathering Storm)
2005 Knight Ridder analysis Violence in Iraq increased after every US benchmark such as capture
of Saddam handing over sovereignty etc
(Musings On Iraq Did the US Ever Have A Strategy To Win In Iraq Before the Surge?)
2006 KDP and PUK made new power sharing agreement splitting up posts in KRG
2007 2 officials claimed that US had convinced PM Maliki to stop protecting Sadr and Mahdi
Army Wasn’t true
2008 Fighting continued in Basra Nasiriya Diwniya for 3rd day between ISF and Soldiers of Heaven 200
casualties in Basra alone
2009 1st NSC meeting in Obama admin President said he wanted to withdraw from Iraq but
preserve successes Wanted 3 options for Iraq policy
2009 Samira al-Jassim called Mother of Believers arrested Accused of running ISI suicide bomber
cell Accused of training 80 women to carry out attacks 28 did so
(Musings On Iraq The Rise of Female Suicide Bombers0
(Musings On Iraq Motivations Behind Female Suicide Bombers)
(Musings On Iraq review Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom)
2009 New poll of Iraqis 23% said would vote for PM Maliki’s State of Law 12.6% Iraqiya 11.4%
ISCI Asked who would be best premier PM Maliki 23% Allawi 17% Jaafari 10%
2010 Report Iraq reconciliation committee holding talks with insurgents and Baathists in Jordan
UAE Syria Before Maliki had criticized US for similar talks Came as Maliki and Shiite parties were campaigning on banning Baathists before 2010 vote
(Musings On Iraq Is The U.S. Negotiating With Baathists?)
2010 Secretary general of cabinet passed resolution calling for Accountability and Justice Comm to
end work since never approved by parliament
(Musings On Iraq Timeline of Iraq’s De-Baathification Campaign)
2010 Protests in Basra and Najaf in favor of banning candidates for Baathist ties Part of drive by
Shiite parties to make Baathists main issue of 2010 vote
2010 PM Maliki dismissed Salahaddin Governor Alawi Day before Maliki had army take over
Salahaddin govt building Army officer in charge of running province
(Musings On Iraq Struggle Over Control of Salahaddin Province)
2010 Sir Omand PM Blair’s security coordinator told Chilcot Inquiry that claim Iraq could deploy
WMD in 45 mins was just asking for trouble Said if all UK intel on Iraq was made public it wouldn’t have impressed anyone Said intel was shaped to make case for war and that was a mistake Believed UK security establishment had group think that stopped them from questioning whether Iraq had WMD Blamed Blair’s Communications Dir Campbell for plagiarizing college student’s journal paper on Iraq and releasing it as official document
(Musings On Iraq Review The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary)
2011 3 bombs hit Shiite pilgrims during Arbayeen
(Musings On Iraq review The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement)
2014 NGO warned that 5,000 had been forced from their homes in Baghdad Diyala Ninewa Basra
Reports gunmen threatened and forced Shammar tribe to flee Baquba Diyala ISIS forced 300 families out of province Shabaks in Ninewa targeted in Mosul Sunnis threatened and attacked in Basra in retaliation for terrorist attacks in rest of Iraq
(Musings On Iraq Forced Displacement Returns To Iraq Part II)
2018 Federal Court ruled election date could not be changed Would happen 5/12/18
(Musings On Iraq Iraq’s Parliamentary Elections Set For May 12, 2018)
(Musings On Iraq interview with IRIS-Chatham House’s Mansour on 2018 elections)
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1920 UK military force set out from Hillah to relieve garrison at Kufa Burned houses of Fatla tribe along the way during...
