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Occupation of Iraq
TimelineTimeline
2003March 21- First U.S
casualties April 9- Saddam
Hussein’s statue falls
May 1- Bush claims major combat has ceased
May 6- Bush appoints Paul Bremer head of the coalition Provisional Authority (basically leads Iraq)
2003• July 16- military officers reveal they
are facing guerilla warfare tactics • July 22- Saddam’s sons are killed in
the U.S. raid of Mosul• December 13-
Saddam is captured in Tikrit
2004• January 17- American death toll = 500• April 4- Shiite uprising led by cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr in Iraq• April 29- torture scandals
of inmates at Abu Ghraib by U.S. soldiers
• May 28- Iyad Allawi becomes prime minister
2004• November 15- Marines gain back most of
Fallujah • October 7- CIA report backs the Saddam
didn’t have WMD
2005
• January 30- Iraq holds democratic election
• October 15- Iraq votes to become a federal republic
• December 15- Iraqis vote for a permanent government and the Shiites win a majority of the votes
2006• February 22- al-Askari shine of the Shiites is
bombed • April 22- President of Iraq appoints Nouri Maliki
prime minister and tells him to form a government
• June 8- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, self-styled leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, gets killed in the U.S. attack just north of Baquba
2006• November 5-
Saddam is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentence to death
• December 30- Saddam in hung
• December 31- death toll for Americans hits 3,000 and for Iraqis 16,723
2007
• January 10- Bush puts more troops in Iraq (surge)
• April 15- Pentagon extends all soldiers time in Iraq by 15 months
• April 26- Senate passes bill which has the deadline of October 1 for the withdrawing of troops. House of Reps have a similar bill the Bush vetoes
2007• September-October= even with troop
escalation 60% of Iraqis see a worsening of security
2008• February 22- Turkey
launches ground ops in Iraq to fight Kurdish separatist
• March 29- U.S. conducts military airstrikes to back up stalled Iraqi forces in Basra and battle Shiite militias in Baghdad
• July 22- pres Bush’s surge has ended
20082008• Novermber 16- Nouri
al-Maliki decides to allow U.S. troops to stay in Iraq untill 2011
• Novermber 30- Ayatollah Ali Sistani says that this agreement does not do enough to protect Iraqi sovereignty
2009
• March 22- U.S. frees all prisoner from Camp Bucca
• June 13- Leader Of Iraq Parliament’s Sunni Arab Bloc Assassinated
• June 30- Iraq begins major oil and gas auction
2009• August 19- Worst attack of 2009. 95
people killed and hundreds injured.
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