#Iraq Oct 9 2022 KRG parliament extended its term for 1 yr after failing to hold elections on time musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-kazemi-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2020 KRG Teachers Council called on all teachers to go on strike over not being paid musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-kazemi-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2020 Report Fmr UK executive of Unaoil sentenced 3 yrs 4 mo in jail for admitting to paying $17 mil in bribes to Iraqi officials to get contracts to build pipelines offshore mooring buoys musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

Called for national unity while warning those against the state would fail Called for 3 days of mourning for killed protesters

#Iraq Oct 9 2019 PM Abdul Mahdi speech Again claimed he never authorized shooting protesters Working with Iran to suppress protests by force Said would change cabinet
musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-mahdi-g...

#Iraq Oct 9 2019 Report Journalists received threats for covering protests Offices raided Head of Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said govt policy was to terrorize the media musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-mahdi-g...

Mass arrests on going against protesters and journalists

#Iraq Oct 9 2019 Amnesty Intl report Snipers used against protesters as early as Oct 3 Came from ISF Found Iraqi forces arrested protesters trying to enter hospital in Baghdad ISF surrounded protesters in Zafaraniya Baghdad and shot at them musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-mahdi-g...

#Iraq Oct 9 2019 Small protest in central Baghdad Tried to cross bridge to Green Zone but stopped by ISF who shot into crowd musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-mahdi-g...

#Iraq Oct 9 2015 Govt workers and teachers protested in Halabja over KRG not paying salaries Protest in Sulaymaniya at KDP HQ Guards fired into crowd 3 killed musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Oct 9 2015 Protests in Baghdad Babil Karbala Najaf Qadisiyah Muthanna Dhi Qar Maysan Wasit Basra Diyala
for reform musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Oct 9 2014 Report Corruption undermined ISF Commands bought and sold Soldiers extorted Gas spare parts weapons rations stolen and sold musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-abadi-g...

#Iraq Oct 9 2013 50 families fled Baquba dist central Diyala due to ISI Blew up 18 homes in Kirkuk musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Oct 9 2013 Report Asaib Ahl Al-Haq said it was creating popular committees to help with security Said ISF couldn’t protect population Warned of civil war musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/2nd-pm-mal...

#Iraq Oct 9 2013 Report IS started new Soldiers’ Harvest campaign in Jul Goal was attacking ISF and establishing control of areas Was trying to expand from Diyala and Salahaddin into Ninewa Tried to cut off ISF supply lines to Mosul musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Oct 9 2012 Intl Energy Agency predicted Iraq would produce 6.1 mil/bar/day of oil by 2020 Was half of what Oil
Min predicted Iraq only avg 2.9 mil/bar/day by 2020 musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-oil-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2012 Report Iraq and US said ISI twice as large as it was in 2011 Helped by breaking former members out of prison Avg 140 attacks/wk up from 74 attacks/wk musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqi-insu...

#Iraq Oct 9 2008 Report 200 attacks with sticky bombs and silenced pistols so far in 08 Jul-Aug 10 assassinations each
month in Baghdad by pistols 8 Interior Min officials killed/wounded in pistol attacks musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

#Iraq Oct 9 2008 2 days 75 Christian families fled Mosul after 5 killed musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

Later 2 members of electricity directorate arrested for IED Part of wave of assassinations of Sadrist officials

#Iraq Oct 9 2008 Sadrist MP killed by IED in Baghdad 1000s protested his death Sadrists first blamed ISF and US Led to nighttime clash with Mahdi Army Later blamed gangs which usually meant Special Groups musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

#Iraq Oct 9 2008 PM Maliki said he would disband any Tribal Support Council working with a political party after ISCI criticized groups Were created to support Maliki before elections musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1-st-pmmal...

#IRaq Oct 9 2006 Interior Min Bolani announced new uniforms to be issued to police Said couldn’t be copied Meant to distinguish police from death squads dressed as police Wouldn’t stop police in death squads musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-maliki-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2006 Police killed General Hashemi brother of VP Tariq Hashemi in his home musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/pm-maliki-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2003 Bush gave NatSecAdv Rice oversight of reconstruction program Congress then barred Rice from that duty musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/us-occupat...

#Iraq Oct 9 2003 Bush speech said Iraq doing better than most Americans thought and world better off without Saddam musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/us-occupat...

Sen Byrd said he wanted more evidence that Iraq was a threat Sen Kennedy said he saw no persuasive evidence that Iraq was going to get a nuke anytime soon Said attacking Iraq without UN inspectors and intl support would help Al Qaeda and increase terrorism

#Iraq Oct 9 2002 Sen Kerry during Senate debate said after 9/11 no one could be certain that WMD wouldn’t be used against US or allies in Mideast Sen Clinton said that if Iraq left unchecked its WMD and nuke programs would grow musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

#Iraq Oct 9 2002 NY Times reporter Judith Miller told Oprah US intel believed Iraq had anthrax and botullinium toxin musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/iraqs-wmd-...

Fmr UN inspector Albright said CIA pushed aluminum tubes story while nuclear experts disagreed with it Said Lawrence Livermore Lab was told not to voice its doubts about aluminum tubes Were for rockets