Iraq

Iraq

4500 BC – Ancient Sumarian texts. Mesopotamia Iraq. Sumerians. Care2 news.

0000 Jesus Christ was born and lived.

1258 – Some books can be found on the shelves of used bookstores. The Mongoli arrived during their conquest of cental Asia. Followers of Genghis Khan destroyed Islamic book repositories in 1258 the Mongols burned all 36 public libraries in the city of Baghdad. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).

1801 – The Saud Wahhabi armies destroyed the shrine of Hussein in Karbula Iraq. Shiites were massacred by the thousands. The destruction of venerated tombs and saint shrines. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

1927 – Oil was discovered in Iraq by American geologists. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

1943 – Baath party, the movement of Arab resistance was formed in Damascus Syria by Michel Aflaq and Sala al Din Bitar. They supported the Rashid Ali pro German regime in Iraq, which set up a fascist background to the party.

1964 – Pres Abdul Salam Aref of Iraq asked Nasser of Egypt to pardon Qutb and invited him to Iraq. Qutb declined. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

July 1972 – Sadat expelled the Russians from Egypt. Moscow was still able to strengthen ties with Syria and Iraq. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

22 Sept 1980 – Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran. The war lasted for eight years. There were dozens of suicide attacks. More than one million people died on each side. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

1982 – Four Arab countries account for more than 70% of Soviet arms exports to the Middle East region. With Iraq and Syria far in the lead.

2 Aug 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait. So the US sent troops to Saudi Arabia. The Gulf war. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

27 Feb 1991 – The Gulf war ends after Iraqi troops, Kuwait is retaken by the US. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 27 Feb 2015).

20 Aug 2002 – Abu Nidal died in mysterious circumstances in Iraq. Guardian UK 20 Aug 2002.

17 Sept 2003 – Scott Peterson. How Wahhabis fan Iraqi insurgency. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke (c)2011).

14 Dec 2003 – Saddam Hussein was pulled from a small hiding place in the village of al Auda. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

2004 – The highest numbers of foreign militants in Iraq, up to two thirds, came from Saudi Arabia, most entered Iraq through Syria. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

31 March 2004 – Four private contractors working for American company were ambushed in Falluja, lynched, dragged  through the streets and mutilated. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

7 Nov 2004 – The US offensive into Falluja Iraq began. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

17 Dec 2004 – Thomas E Ricks. General, Iraqi insurgents directed from Syria. Washington Post.

10 Sept 2007 – The Iraqi foreign ministry said that starting on 10 Sept 2007 Syria will require visas for Iraqi’s coming to Syria for economic trade or education. AP. Syrian foreign minister Walid al Moualem told Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari by phone on 30 Aug 2007. (Stratfor intel summary 31 Aug 2007).

2008 – A universal history of the destruction of books. Northern Iraq. Fernando Baez.

2011 – Fuel on fire. Oil and politics in occupied Iraq. Greg Muttit.

June 2014 – AEI. ISIS seized $400 million from Mosul bank. ISIS smuggles its oil to market in southern Turkey. Black market oil trading.

June 2014 – ISIS captured Mosul. $US429 million was looted from Mosul’s central bank. Bank robbery. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are accused of funding ISIS.

19 June 2014 – Who finances ISIS? Business Mosul. ISIS is the richest terrorist organisation in the world.

12 Aug 2014 – ISIS world’s scariest terorist group, also its richest.Yahoo finance.

14 Aug 2014 – Daily Star beirut Lebanon. ISIS seize control of new weapon,  wheat.

24 Aug 2014 - $2 million day in oil smuggled out of Iraq and Syria by ISIL. Gulf news UAE.

28 Sept 2014 – ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Andreas Bicker. ISIS is the richest terrorist group in the world. Charles Lister. Gunter Meyer. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and UAE. Oil fields in northern Syria. Looting the central bank of Mosul. Cathy Burke. (Bizshifts).

28 Sept 2014 – ISIS is the richest, $2 billion terror based financial, rivals Wall street. Islamic state of Iraq and Levant. Extortion, crime and oil. Martin Chulov. $2 billion Jihadist in Iraq and Syria. Michael Knight. Oil refineries and trafficking. Howard J Shatz. Oil fields in Iraq and Syria. (Bizshifts).

2 Oct 2014 – Scott Bennett. CIA, Swiss banks fund ISIS. Shell game.

17 Oct 2014 – Avi Lipkin. Saudi Arabia finances ISIS. YouTube. The Manning report.

24 Oct 2014 – Cutting off ISIS cash flows. Brookings institute. ISIS main source of finance is derived from its control of oil.

25 Oct 2014 – ISIL, Islamic State oil fuels war for $1 million a day. The Australian. John Lyons. Jerusalem Israel.

27 Oct 2014 – US plans to attack ISIS finances. KGNS.

5 Nov 2014 – Iran’s leader raps Turkey for looting Iraqs oil by buying oil from ISIL. Fars news agency.

13 Nov 2014 – SNC LAVALIN KENTZ corp inks 3 year $110 million oil contract in Iraq.

16 Dec 2014 – 150 women were executed  after refusing to marrry ISIS militants. Anadolu agency. Fallujah. Bodies found in mass graves.

22 Dec 2014 – Girls dragged into sex slavery and sold for $25. Rape and brutality suffered by Yazidi’s, jihadists. Anthony Loyd. Shariya Iraq. The Times London UK. Amnesty int. Escape from hell. Sex slavery and Islam in Iraq.

23 Dec 2014 – Teen avoids ISIS sex slavery. The Times London UK. Amnesty int. 12 years old, sold and raped into sex slavery.

23 Dec 2014 – Sex slavery ISIL. FARS news agency Tehran. Iraqi women and girls raped into sex slavery by the ISIL terrorists.

23 Dec 2014 – Yazidi women are tortured in sex slavery and ISIS captivity. Amnesty int. Daily news Egypt.

23 Dec 2014 – Sex slavery ISIL. Al jazeera America. Women and girls from Iraq’s Yazidi minority are raped into sex slavery by the Islamic state.

23 Dec 2014 – Two mass graves have been found, victims executed by ISIS in Saadiya in Diyala. Iraqi news agency.

29 Dec 2014 – Yazidi women and sex slavery. The Kurdish globe. Erbil Iraq, northern Iraq and victims of sex slavery.

30 Dec 2014 – Mass graves of Ayezidein have been found in Sinjar. National Iraqi new agency. Bagdad. Nine mass graves of victims of Ayezidein victims of ISIS.

2015 – The rise of the Islamic state. ISIS and the Sunni. Patrick Cockburn.

5 Jan 2015 – The ISIS economy. FT.com Mosul.

23 Jan 2015 – UK warns of long battle with Daesh. Gulf news. London. US led coalition, will take two years to expel Daesh from Iraq.

28 Jan 2015 – Jordan will release an Iraqi prisoner, if ISIS returns a pilot from Jordan. Al Arabiya news.

31 Jan 2015 – IS militants seize 15 oil workers in northern Iraq. Xinhua news agency.

2 Feb 2015 – Mass graves of Yazidi have been found. Shot and slaughered by ISIS. Arutz sheva Israel.

7 Feb 2015 – Yazidi mass graves found. Arutz Sheva Israel. Mass rapes and torture, mass executions by ISIS.

15 Feb 2015 – Yazidi mass grave. Those who did this are not human. Al Jazeera America. Victims of ISIS have been found in a mass grave, 36 bodies.

18 Feb 2015 – ISIS are trafficking human organs. FARS news agency Tehran Iran. Mass graves with 10 to 20 bodies each, with incisions on their backs. Some of the bodies are mutilated and body parts are missing. Missing organs of bodies.

19 Feb 2015 – ISIS is selling the human organs of slain people to finance. Zee news. ISIS is the richest terorist organisaton ever. (I saw pictures of them harvesting organs of live people).

19 Feb 2015 – ISIS harvests body parts for money. Daily Mail Glasgow Scotland. Bodies have been found in mass graves, with surgical incisions and lacking body parts and organs missing.

27 Feb 2015 – Digital Journal. Brett Wilkins. A new UN report says Islamic State may be committing genocide.