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Iraq war
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Islamic State in Iraq and the
Levant (Isis)
The Iraq
invasion: 20 years on
https://www.npr.org/tags/1164273173/
20th-anniversary-iraq-war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/
the-iraq-invasion--20-years-on
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/
opinion/iraq-vietnam.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/
opinion/20-years-on-i-dont-regret-supporting-the-iraq-war.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/
multiple-civilian-deaths-
linked-to-2016-17-british-airstrikes-against-is-in-mosul
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/
british-airstrikes-mosul-civilian-victims-iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2023/mar/21/
on-the-frontlines-of-the-iraq-war-2003-08-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures
gallery
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/03/20/
1164272335/iraq-war-20th-anniversay-photos-american-invasion
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/18/
1164342256/iraq-war-veterans-20th-anniversary
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/
1164723003/iraq-invasion-anniversary-20-years
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/03/20/
1164272335/iraq-war-20th-anniversay-photos-american-invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/mar/20/
the-accidental-journalist-who-covered-the-war-in-iraq
- Guardian podcast
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/
us/politics/iraq-20-years.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/
world/middleeast/iraq-war-anniversary-youth.html
Ian
Fishback ? - 2021
Ian Fishback
revealed
abuse of
detainees
during the Iraq
war
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/
us/politics/ian-fishback-veteran-mental-health-crisis.html
Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld
1932-2021
Des premiers jours
de la guerre Iran-Irak,
en 1980,
à la défaite de l’État islamique,
en 2017,
cette série documentaire
de
Jean-Pierre Canet
(...)
raconte quarante ans de conflits
qui ont conduit l’Irak au chaos
(...)
Une histoire irakienne
autant qu’américaine et française
où se mêlent intérêts
diplomatiques,
économiques et militaires,
racontée par ceux qui l’ont
vécue,
à Washington, Paris ou en Irak.
Une plongée sur 40 ans
qui ont changé le monde.
https://www.mediapart.fr/studio/documentaires/international/
irak-destruction-d-une-nation-la-serie-documentaire-evenement - 29 January
2021
https://www.mediapart.fr/studio/documentaires/international/
irak-destruction-d-une-nation-la-serie-documentaire-evenement - 29 January
2021
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/290121/
irak-nous-avons-voulu-comprendre-pourquoi-le-monstre-daech-avait-emerge
Iraq's killing fields:
the lethal
legacy of landmines
Abdulah is seen with his grandchild in 2007.
He lost both arms and his eyes
when he tried to clear
landmines from his farmland
Photograph:
Sean Sutton
for the Mines Advisory Group
Iraq's killing fields:
the lethal legacy of landmines – in
pictures
After decades of conflict,
Iraq has been left littered with
unexploded booby-traps.
The Mines Advisory Group has spent 25 years in the country
working to destroy and clear
some of the millions of pieces of
deadly ordnance.
These images show members of the organisation at work,
and the people whose lives have been touched and transformed
by their efforts
All photographs by Sean Sutton for the Mines Advisory Group
G
Fri 8 Sep 2017 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2017/sep/08/
iraq-killing-fields-lethal-legacy-landmines-in-pictures
Ten-year old Khadab found a cache of munitions
in a school in
Kirkuk in 2003.
He was terribly injured
after trying to burn gunpowder and explosives
taken from the
ordnance
Photograph:
Sean Sutton
for the Mines Advisory Group
Iraq's killing fields: the lethal legacy of landmines – in
pictures
After decades of conflict,
Iraq has been left littered with
unexploded booby-traps.
The Mines Advisory Group has spent 25 years in the country
working to destroy and clear
some of the millions of pieces of
deadly ordnance.
These images show members of the organisation at work,
and the people whose lives have been touched and transformed
by their efforts
All photographs by Sean Sutton for the Mines Advisory Group
G
Fri 8 Sep 2017 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2017/sep/08/
iraq-killing-fields-lethal-legacy-landmines-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jan/31/
making-our-home-safe-again-meet-the-women-who-clear-land-mine
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/22/
coronavirus-ruined-everything-the-long-wait-for-new-limbs-in-kurdistan
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/07/
yazidi-women-are-strong-kurdistans-female-landmine-clearance-teams
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/apr/29/
the-deminer-mine-clearing-mosul-review
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2017/sep/08/
iraq-killing-fields-lethal-legacy-landmines-in-pictures
Raymond Thomas Odierno USA 1954-2021
four-star Army general
who was an influential architect
of the surge of American forces
during the Iraq war
that helped quell sectarian killings
and increase stability in the country
(...)
General Odierno
also served as the Army chief of staff,
the service’s senior officer,
from 2011 to
2015.
During that time,
he reshaped the way many soldiers
were trained and deployed,
with some conventional units
placed under Special Operations commanders
and others assigned to regions of the world
viewed as emerging security risks, like
Africa.
General Odierno
cut an intimidating figure,
at 6 feet 5 inches and 250 pounds
with a shaved head,
but he was outgoing
and popular with his troops.
He served three tours of duty in Iraq
from 2003 to 2010
and rose to become chief commander
of all allied forces in the country.
He commanded
the Fourth Infantry Division,
which was involved
in the capture of Saddam Hussein
in northern Iraq in December 2003,
in a mission
that combined mechanized infantry units
and the elite counterterrorism forces.
After U.S. Special Operations forces
dragged the disheveled
and heavily bearded Iraqi dictator
from an underground hide-out
on a sheep farm north of Baghdad,
the general uttered one
of the war’s most notable comments.
“He was in the bottom of a hole
with no way to fight back,”
General Odierno said.
“He was caught like a rat.”
General Odierno returned to Iraq
for a second tour of duty in 2006,
this time as the Army’s
second-ranking general.
He returned with deep skepticism
that the military strategy at the time
would contain Iraq’s guerrilla insurgency
and the escalating sectarian killings
between Iraq Sunni and Shiite Muslims.
General Odierno favored
the rapid deployment
of about 20,000 additional troops
— the surge, as it was called —
to help quell the insurgency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/
obituaries/gen-raymond-odierno-dies-iraq-commander.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/
obituaries/gen-raymond-odierno-dies-iraq-commander.html
2020
Once Upon a
Time in Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jul/13/
once-upon-a-time-in-iraq-review-a-gripping-harrowing-masterpiece
Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
1971-2019
born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali
al-Badri al-Samarrai
https://www.theguardian.com/world/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/isis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/31/
islamic-state-new-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-abu-ibrahim-al-hashimi-al-qurayshi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/28/
visual-guide-to-the-raid-that-killed-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/audio/2019/oct/30/
how-us-caught-up-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/28/
syria-us-troops-oil-fields-isis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/28/
the-guardian-view-on-baghdadis-death-not-enough-to-destroy-islamic-state
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/
who-is-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-why-important-isis-caliph
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/
abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-isis-leader-killed-us-donald-trump
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/oct/27/
islamic-state-leader-killed-in-us-raid-video-report
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/oct/27/
donald-trump-confirms-isis-leader-died-in-us-raid-video
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/oct/27/
abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-islamic-state-leader-trump-syria
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/31/
isis-wife-reveals-role-in-helping-cia-hunt-for-baghdadi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/07/
isis-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-algeria-sudan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/30/
isis-leaders-video-an-attempt-to-shore-up-control-say-experts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/29/
isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-appears-in-video-for-first-time-in-five-years
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/17/
without-territory-or-new-recruits-islamic-state-is-in-its-death-throes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/10/
foreign-isis-fighters-launched-failed-coup-attempt-say-witnesses
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/07/
isis-leader-believed-to-have-fled-coup-attempt-by-his-own-fighters
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/
new-audio-of-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-released
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/21/
isis-caliphate-islamic-state-raqqa-iraq-islamist
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/01/
us-vows-hunt-isis-leader-baghdadi-death
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/16/
russia-claims-it-may-have-killed-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/jun/12/
exploring-iraqi-hideout-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-video
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/03/
isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-issues-first-message-since-mosul-offensive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/26/
islamic-state-leader-praises-progress-of-caliphate
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/11/
islamic-state-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-hit-in-strike-iraq-military-claims
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/14/
isis-release-audio-message-leader-believed-hurt-air-strike
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/
abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-wounding-isis-islamic-state-iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/
isis-own-currency-islamic-dinar
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/nov/13/
isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-us-strikes-video
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/nov/13/
isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-video
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/
alan-henning-syria-friend-appel-aleppo-al-baghdadi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/13/
isis-caliphate-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-jihadi-islam
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/05/
islamic-state-leader-muslims-caliphate-video-abu-bakr-baghdadi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/
baghdadi-abu-bakr-iraq-isis-mosul-jihad
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi 1944-2015
former Iraqi exile
who played a major role
in
persuading the U.S.
to wage war against
Saddam
Hussein
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/03/
454192387/iraqi-politician-ahmed-chalabi-dead-of-a-heart-attack-state-tv
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/
opinion/why-america-invented-ahmad-chalabi.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/03/
454192387/iraqi-politician-ahmed-chalabi-dead-of-a-heart-attack-state-tv
Iraq War > Fifteen years on /
after
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/30/
605240844/15-years-after-u-s-invasion-
some-iraqis-are-nostalgic-for-saddam-hussein-era
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/05/
iraq-weapons-mass-destruction-
america-misled-britain-gordon-brown
timeline of conflict
2001-2016
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/05/
iraq-war-inquiry-timeline-of-conflict
2014
French planes
carry out
air strikes on
Islamic State (Isis) targets in Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/
french-planes-carry-out-air-strikes-isis-targets-iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/21/
france-dijon-driver-attacks-pedestrians
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/
algerian-islamists-threaten-to-execute-french-hostage-
unless-france-halts-isis-attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/
france-bombs-isis-depot-iraq-islamic-state
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2014/sep/15/
isis-leaders-hold-crisis-meeting-on-isis-in-paris-live-coverage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/
france-arms-kurds-isis-iraq-military
2013
Iraq war costs
U.S. more than $2 trillion: study
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG
20130314
Iraq War > Ten years on /
after
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/
opinion/ten-years-after-the-iraq-war-began.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/
opinion/friedman-democrats-dragons-or-drones.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/
opinion/the-silver-linings-of-iraq.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/iraq-
a-school-for-terrorists-thanks-to-america.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/
opinion/a-decade-of-despair.html
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/03/19/
the-iraq-war-was-it-worth-it
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG
20130314
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/
10-years-right-invaded-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/01/
occupying-iraq-us-army-veteran
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/
iraq-war-not-justified
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/
bush-administration-sold-iraq-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/26/
iraq-war-was-justified
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/feb/14/
douglas-alexander-iraq-eu-referendum
FRONTLINE
Bush's War Part 1
Aired: 03/24/2008
02:23:53
On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion,
FRONTLINE unfolds the full
saga of the war
in a two-part, definitive
broadcast.
https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-bushs-war-part-1/
December 15,
2011
U.S. War in Iraq Declared
Officially Over
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/
opinion/friedman-the-end-for-now.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/middleeast/
last-convoy-of-american-troops-leaves-iraq.html
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/
what-iraqis-think-of-the-american-withdrawal-kurdish-region/
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/
a-unit-near-last-in-the-military-withdrawal-from-iraq/
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/
what-iraqis-think-of-the-american-withdrawal-kirkuk/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/us/politics/iraq-
war-shaped-obamas-foreign-policy-white-house-memo.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/us/
at-fort-bragg-obama-showers-praise-on-troops-back-from-iraq.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/
opinion/a-formal-end-to-the-iraq-war.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/
panetta-in-baghdad-for-iraq-military-handover-ceremony.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/
end-for-us-begins-period-of-uncertainty-for-iraqis.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/
opinion/an-unstable-divided-land.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/opinion/in-iraq-
abandoning-our-friends.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/
panetta-in-baghdad-for-iraq-military-handover-ceremony.html
31 August 2010
President Barack Obama
declares an end to combat mission in Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/
world/01military.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/
world/01obama-text.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/
opinion/01wed1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/31/
world/middleeast/iraq-drawdown.html
http://www.cagle.com/news/IraqExit10/main.asp
UK
Iraq war inquiry / Chilcot report
The inquiry considers the
period
from the summer of 2001
to the end of July 2009,
embracing the run-up to the
conflict in Iraq,
the military action and the aftermath
There were protests outside the inquiry
yesterday
featuring a 'Tony Blair' and fake blood
Photograph: Lewis Whyld
PA
Chilcot Iraq Inquiry:
Britain 'knew Saddam
Hussein had destroyed WMD'
Times Online
November 25, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6931174.ece
- broken link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/
iraq-war-inquiry
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20171123123237/
http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/10/
john-prescott-uk-broke-international-law-by-invading-iraq-in-2003
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/jul/10/
tony-blair-and-his-beliefs
http://www.npr.org/2016/07/09/
485356152/u-s-diplomat-says-theres-truth-to-chilcot-inquiry-report
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/09/
ten-things-chilcot-reveals-about-tony-blair-and-iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/09/
whitehall-holds-back-official-advice-on-iraq-war
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/09/
iraq-war-after-blair-and-bush-met-the-tempo-changed
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/08/
we-were-ignored-anti-war-protestors-remember-the-iraq-war-marches
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/
world/europe/tony-blair-chilcot-report-iraq.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/08/uk-
must-do-more-assess-civilian-casualties-wars-chilcot
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/07/
us-and-britain-wrangled-over-iraqs-oil-in-aftermath-of-war-chilcot-shows
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/07/
chilcot-report-government-overstretched-military-iraq-war-inquiry
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/07/
blair-says-the-middle-east-is-better-off-post-saddam-but-is-this-true
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/07/
chilcot-tony-blair-social-media-politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/
opinion/chilcot-report-how-tony-blair-sold-the-war.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/07/
blair-chilcot-war-in-iraq-not-blunder-crime
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/jul/07/
steve-bells-if-on-chilco-the-hotts-whitewash-for-sith-lord-blair
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/
opinion/campaign-stops/the-big-news-about-what-we-already-knew.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/06/
484964871/7-years-in-the-making-report-finds-british-rushed-into-iraq-war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/jul/06/
steve-bell-on-the-chilcot-inquiry-cartoon
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/06/
i-still-vote-war-iraq-kurds-saddam-hussein-military-action-right
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/
intelligence-files-support-claims-iraq-invasion-helped-spawn-isis
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/
chilcot-report-crushing-verdict-tony-blair-iraq-war
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2016/jul/06/
tony-blair-statement-on-chilcot-iraq-what-he-said-and-what-he-meant
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/
with-you-whatever-tony-blair-letters-george-w-bush-chilcot
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/
tony-blair-veterans-families-push-trial-iraq-is-it-possible
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/
chilcot-exposes-how-blair-kept-ministers-and-generals-in-the-dark
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2016/jul/06/
it-isnt-about-a-lie-tony-blair-on-iraq-from-2001-to-2016-video
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/
iraq-inquiry-key-points-from-the-chilcot-report
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/06/
they-should-have-known-better-
chilcot-report-means-little-to-iraqis-mourning-baghdad-attack
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/27/
tony-blair-i-am-not-delaying-chilcot-iraq-report
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/world/europe/22britain.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/21/chilcot-inquiry-tony-blair-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/20/tony-blair-chilcot-inquiry-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/21/tony-blair-chilcot-inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2011/jan/21/iraq-war-inquiry-tony-blair-in-pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/26/tony-blair-summoned-back-to-chilcot-inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/02/clare-short-warned-tony-blair
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/
tony-blair-and-his-oh-so-clean-conscience-1883656.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/
to-gasps-from-the-gallery-blair-said-we-should-be-proud-of-the-war-1883651.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/
leading-article-unrepentant-and-assured-mr-blair-sees-nothing-to-learn-1883679.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/29/tony-blair-iraq-inquiry-chilcot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/29/blair-iraq-chilcot-inquiry-analysis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/gallery/2010/jan/29/tonyblair-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/29/responsible-no-regrets-blair-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/27/lord-goldsmith-iraq-inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/26/chilcot-inquiry-iraq-invasion-lawyers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/dec/14/
blair-iraq-regime-change-inspections
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/14/tony-blair-ken-macdonald-deceit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/12/tony-blair-iraq-chilcot-inquiry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2009/jul/31/martin-rowson-comment-cartoon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/chilcot-iraq-inquiry-blair
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/sir-john-chilcot-profile
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/iraq-war-inquiry
WikiLeaks
April 2010
Classified US military video
depicting the indiscriminate slaying
of over a dozen people
in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad
- including two Reuters news
staff -
in July 2007
warning:
graphic / disturbing
Collateral Murder
Video Overview 5th April 2010 10:44 EST
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video
depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people
in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad
-- including two Reuters news
staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video
through the Freedom
of Information Act,
without success since the time of the attack.
The video,
shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site,
clearly shows the unprovoked slaying
of a wounded Reuters
employee
and his rescuers.
Two young children involved in the rescue
were also seriously
wounded.
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0&feature=player_embedded
Related
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/middleeast/06baghdad.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack
25 January 2010
Ali Hassan al-Majid,
better known as Chemical Ali,
is executed
Ali Hassan Abd
al-Majid al-Tikriti
(1941-25
January 2010)
Majid, known as
"Chemical Ali"
for use of
toxic weapons,
(was) a cousin
of Saddam Hussein
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=11336765 - June 24, 2007
The Anfal
campaign,
in which troops
swept across parts
of northern
Iraq destroying villages,
ran between
1987 and 1988
and coincided
with the end
of the
1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/22/
iraq.markoliver
Anfal was the
name given
to the military
campaign
that was waged
by Saddam Hussein
and members of
his Baath party.
It was a
campaign
to attack the
Kurdish population
in the north
part of Iraq
- that's the
oil-rich part of the country
near the
Iranian border.
And during the
Anfal
- during the
operation,
Iraqi forces
dropped chemical weapons
on dozens of
Kurdish villages
- mustard gas
and nerve agents.
And they are
different reports
about how many
people
those attacks actually
killed.
Human rights
groups estimate
that number to
be around 100,000 people,
but Iraqi
sources say it could be closer
to 200,000.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=11336765 - June 24, 2007
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/
jan/26/chemical-ali-tony-blair-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/25/
chemical-ali-execution-iraq-kurd
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/01/
chemical_ali_executed.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=122956280 - January 25, 2010
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/25/
iraq.iraqtimeline
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=11342053 - June 24, 2007
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=11336765 - June 24, 2007
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/jun/18/
examiningtheevidence
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/11/
iraq1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/22/
iraq.markoliver
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/16/
16marchremembranceofanfal1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/19/
iraq
Timeline: Iraq 2003-2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/30/
iraq-timeline-2003-2009
Timeline: Iraq 2002-2008
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/18/world/middleeast/
20080319_IRAQWAR_TIMELINE.html#tab1
massacre by
Blackwater guards
of Iraqi civilians in Baghdad - 2007
Chronology: Iraq > 1918-1999
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/feb/18/
kurds.rostaylor
Daily Life in
Sadr City, Iraq 2008
A boy carrying plastic toy weapons
approaches a U.S. Soldier of 1-6 battalion,
2nd brigade, 1st
Armored Division
patrols in the Shiite enclave of Sadr city, Baghdad, Iraq,
on
Monday, June 16, 2008.
Phototograph: Petros Giannakouris
AP
Daily Life in Sadr City, Iraq
Boston Globe > Big Picture
June 18, 2008
http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/
daily_life_in_sadr_city_iraq.html - broken link
http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/
daily_life_in_sadr_city_iraq.html
Index of U.S. troop deaths in Iraq 2009
When the 1,000th
American soldier
died in September 2004,
the insurgency
was just gaining
steam.
The 2,000th death came
as Iraq held
its first elections
in decades,
in October 2005.
The U.S. announced
its 3,000th
loss
on the last day of 2006,
at the end of a year
rocked by sectarian violence.
The 4,000th death comes
with the war further out
of the public eye,
and replaced by other topics
on the front burner
of the U.S. presidential
campaigns.
The number killed in Iraq
is far less than
in other modern American wars.
In Vietnam,
the U.S. lost on average
about 4,850 troops a year
from 1963-75.
In the Korean war,from 1950-53,
the U.S. lost
about 12,300 soldiers a year.
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/
iraq/iraq-casualties.htm - broken link
Civilan casualties / civilian death toll
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/18/world/middleeast/
20080319_IRAQWAR_TIMELINE.html#tab7
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/middleeast/10casualties.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/10/
iraq.iraqtimeline
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/22/
iraq.iraqtimeline
massacre
by
Marines of Iraqi civilians in Haditha - 2005
Tariq Aziz 1936-2015
Mr. Aziz in 2004,
in a courtroom that was once the palace of Saddam Hussein.
Pool photo: Karen Ballard
Tariq Aziz, Top Aide and Fervent Ally of Saddam Hussein, Dies
at 79
By ALISSA J. RUBIN NYT
JUNE 5, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/
world/middleeast/tariq-aziz-imprisoned-deputy-to-saddam-hussein-dies-at-79.html
top aide and fervent ally
of Saddam Hussein
Iraqi foreign minister
and deputy prime
minister
who for decades
was the most public face
of Saddam Hussein’s government
on the world
stage
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/world/middleeast/
tariq-aziz-imprisoned-deputy-to-saddam-hussein-dies-at-79.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/world/middleeast/
tariq-aziz-imprisoned-deputy-to-saddam-hussein-dies-at-79.html
http://www.npr.org/2015/06/05/
412305507/tariq-aziz-public-face-of-saddam-hussein-regime-dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/world/middleeast/27iraq.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/05/
iraq-us-tariq-aziz-iran
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
1966-June 7, 2006
born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal
al-Khalayleh
Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq,
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
was killed in an American
airstrike
on an isolated safe house
north of Baghdad at 6:15 p.m.
local time on Wednesday,
top American and Iraqi officials
said today.
Islamic militant Web sites
linked to Al Qaeda
quickly confirmed the death,
saying Mr. Zarqawi
had been
rewarded
with "martyrdom"
for his role in the war here.
At a joint news conference
with Iraq's prime minister,
Nuri Kamal al-Maliki,
the top American military
commander in Iraq,
Gen. George W. Casey Jr.,
said Mr. Zarqawi's body
had been positively identified
by fingerprints,
"facial
recognition"
and "known scars."
Six people were killed
in the
strike:
Mr. Zarqawi,
his spiritual adviser
and four
other people
including a woman and a child,
the military said.
The strike
had been accompanied
by a ground assault
involving
American
and Iraqi troops.
The announcement
of Mr. Zarqawi's
death,
shortly before noon today
in
Baghdad,
4 a.m. Eastern time,
marked a major watershed
in the
war.
With a $25 million American
bounty
on his head,
the Jordanian-born Mr. Zarqawi
has been the most-wanted man in
Iraq
for his leadership
of Islamic
terrorist groups
that have carried out
many of the most brutal attacks
of the war,
including scores of suicide
bombings,
kidnappings and beheadings.
In his late 30's,
he had been named
"Prince of Al Qaeda" in Iraq
by Osama bin Laden,
Al Qaeda's fugitive leader.
"Today, we have managed
to put an end to Zarqawi,"
said Mr. Maliki,
who took office three weeks ago
at the head of Iraq's
first full-term government
since the overthrow
of Saddam Hussein.
(...)
Mr. Zarqawi,
whose adopted name was taken
from the town of Zarqa in Jordan
where the insurgent leader was
raised,
had assumed an almost mythic
status
for his long run of terrorist
attacks
and statements issued
on Islamic militant Web sites
that declared his goal
to be the establishment
of a new "caliphate" in Iraq.
The term is taken from the term
given to the vast areas
of the
Arab world
that came under strict Islamic
rule
within 100 years
of the death of the Prophet
Mohammed
in the 7th century A.D.
After twice narrowly escaping
capture
by American troops
in the past 18
months,
Mr. Zarqawi became increasingly
bold in recent months,
issuing videotaped speeches
on Islamic militant Web sites,
vowing victory against the
"crusaders"
who had invaded Iraq,
meaning American, British
and other Western forces.
The speeches also called on
Sunni Arabs to kill "converters,"
meaning Iraqi Shiites,
effectively inciting civil war
here.
American military commanders
have
said that Mr. Zarqawi
personally
beheaded
some of those kidnapped
by his
followers,
and identified him as the
mastermind
of one of the first major
suicide
bombing attacks,
a strike in August 2003 that
destroyed
the United Nations
headquarters
in Baghdad
and killed 22 people,
including Sergio Viera de Mello,
the head of the United Nations
Mission
here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/
world/middleeast/08cnd-iraq.html
https://www.npr.org/series/5459877/
key-terror-figure-zarqawi-killed-in-iraq
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/
world/middleeast/11scene.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/
world/middleeast/09zarqawi.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/
opinion/l09iraq.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/
world/middleeast/09web.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/
world/middleeast/09cnd-iraq.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/
opinion/08iht-edzarq.1926866.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/
world/middleeast/08cnd-iraq.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/
world/middleeast/04cnd-iraq.html
Saddam Hussein
1937-2006
"Reconstruction"
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/
washington/the-conflict-in-iraq-road-to-war-the-strategy-to-secure-iraq-did.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/
world/struggle-for-iraq-reconstruction-101st-airborne-scores-success-northern-iraq.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/12/
world/aftereffects-reconstruction-us-overhauls-administration-to-govern-iraq.html
USA
May 2003
Paul Bremer
issues an order dissolving Iraq's ARmy
When President Bush
convened a meeting
of his National Security Council
on May 22, 2003,
his special envoy in Iraq
made a statement
that caught many of the participants
by surprise.
In a video presentation from Baghdad,
L. Paul Bremer III
informed the president and his aides
that he was about to issue
an order formally dissolving Iraq’s Army.
The decree
was issued the next day.
The broad outlines of the decision
are now widely known,
defended by proponents
as necessary to ensure
that Saddam Hussein’s influence
did not outlive his ouster from power.
But with the fifth anniversary
of the start of the war approaching,
some participants have provided
in interviews their first detailed,
on-the-record accounts of a decision
that is widely seen
as one of the most momentous
and contentious of the war,
assailed by critics as all but ensuring
that American forces would face
a growing insurgency
led by embittered Sunnis
who led much of the army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/
world/middleeast/17bremer.html
https://time.com/3900753/
isis-iraq-syria-army-united-states-military/ - May 28, 2015
*****
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/
world/middleeast/17bremer.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/
opinion/06bremer.html
US fires depleted uranium
at civilian areas
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/
us-depleted-uranium-weapons-civilian-areas-iraq
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/le-monde-de-la-bd/article/150121/
la-sale-guerre-americaine-falloujah
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/
us-depleted-uranium-weapons-civilian-areas-iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/oct/13/
world-health-organisation-iraq-war-depleted-uranium
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/30/
faulluja-birth-defects-iraq
Iraq War Timeline
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/saddam-hussein
https://www.theguardian.com/world/saddam-hussein
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/george-bush
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/david-kelly
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/iraq-war-inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/
opinion/donald-rumsfeld-death-iraq-war.html
https://www.mediapart.fr/studio/documentaires/international/
irak-destruction-d-une-nation-la-serie-documentaire-evenement - 29 January
2021
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/may/30/
world.iraq
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/
opinion/revisiting-the-roots-of-the-iraq-war.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/
opinion/paul-krugman-errors-and-lies.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/10/
iraq-fallujah-destruction-alqaida-maliki
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/07/
260462916/fallujah-veterans-ask-hard-questions-about-their-sacrifices
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/mar/19/
iraq-war-saddam-bush-starts-2003
https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/mar/15/
iconic-faces-iraq-war-pictures
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/us/politics/03rumsfeld.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102122617 - March 20,
2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/washington/28troops.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/us/politics/27obama-text.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51P0AY
20090227
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/27/obama-iraq-war-end-august-2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/18/uk-troop-withdrawal-iraq-brown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/17/iraq-agreement-brown-maliki
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=18319948 - June 23, 2008
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/
a-moment-for-truth-as-britain-exits-iraq-1202312.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/
without-fanfare-or-much-thanks-britain-departs-from-iraq-1202313.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/
patrick-cockburn-our-troops-had-few-friends-in-basra-1202314.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/
matthew-norman/matthew-norman-nobody-threw-shoes-at-brown-ndash-
but-his-guilt-is-still-undeniable-1202268.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/opinion/23trans.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/
remembering-the-4000-fallen-soldiers/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/13/
iraq.topstories3
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/12/
iraq.iraqtimeline
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jun/09/
comment.iraq
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/5055397 - December 15, 2005
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5052104 - December 13, 2005
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5019073 - November 18, 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/nov/15/
usa.iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/
iraq.usa
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=4163601 - November 10, 2004
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=4163621 - November 10, 2004
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=4110992 - October 15, 2004
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/25/
iraq.michaelhoward *****
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/16/
iraq.usa
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/30/
iraq
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/09/
world/middleeast/urban-warfare-deals-harsh-challenge-to-troops.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/28/
usa.iraq1
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=1961891 - June 17, 2004
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1813116&ft=nprml&f=1813116 - April 5, 2004
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/18/
iraq
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=4183951 - Nov. 24, 2003
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1407760 - August 26, 2003
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/20/
iraq.rorymccarthy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/07/
iraq.suzannegoldenberg
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/
weekinreview/creator-of-shock-and-awe.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/
IHT-parts-of-capital-is-ablaze-other-iraqi-cities-struck-
us-pounds-baghdad.html
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/mar/06/
uk.iraq
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/
opinion/the-us-must-strike-at-saddam-hussein.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/
bearing-witness-in-iraq/
UK
Prime Minister Tony Blair May 1997 -
June 2007
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/
tonyblair
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/06/
chilcot-tony-blair-was-not-straight-with-the-nation-over-iraq-war
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/15/tony-blair-iraq-essay
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/28/tony-blair-iraq-spirit-broke
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6625869.stm
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/jan/12/
uk.davidkelly
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jul/06/
interviews.tonyblair
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/sep/25/
uk.iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/sep/24/
foreignpolicy.houseofcommons
30 September 2004
At least 46 people were killed
and 200 injured
in a series of
bomb attacks
targeting US and Iraqi forces
in and around Baghdad today.
Dozens of the victims
were
children.
The violence began
with a suicide
car bombing
near a US checkpoint
in the town
of Abu Ghraib,
west of the Iraqi capital,
at around 9.45am local time
(0645
BST).
Two Iraqi police officers
and a US soldier
were killed in
the attack,
and doctors said
that as many as
60 people
- including women and children -
were wounded.
A few hours later,
at least 42 people were killed
in three near-simultaneous
explosions
apparently targeting a US convoy
in Baghdad's al-Amel
neighbourhood.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/30/
iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/30/
iraq
5 March 2004
Speech given
by prime minister Tony Blair
in Sedgefield,
justifying military action in Iraq
and warning of the continued threat
of global
terrorism
Full Text
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/mar/05/
iraq.iraq
May 1, 2003
Unedited transcript
of President George W. Bush's speech
from the flight deck of the USS Lincoln
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/05/01/bush.transcript/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/01/iraq/
main551946.shtml
18 March 2003
Speech given by prime minister Tony Blair
Full text
Debate
on the Iraq crisis
in the house of Commons
"There are glib and sometimes
foolish
comparisons
with the 1930s.
No one here is an appeaser.
But the only relevant
point of analogy
is
that with history,
we know what happened.
We can look back and say:
there's the time;
that was the moment;
for example, when Czechoslovakia
was
swallowed up by the Nazis
- that's when
we should have acted."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/mar/18/
foreignpolicy.iraq1
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/mar/18/
foreignpolicy.iraq1
March 2003
Massive aerial assault against Iraq
U.S. "shock and awe" campaign
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/21/sprj.irq.war.main/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/21/sprj.irq.aday/
http://www.cnn.com/2003/fyi/news/03/22/iraq.war/
2003
Iraq invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jan/10/
iraq.iraqtimeline
Iraq's alleged 'weapons of mass destruction'
On Feb. 5, 2003,
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
sat in front of members
of the U.N. Security Council.
He'd been a staunch critic
of U.S. intervention
against Iraq's authoritarian leader,
Saddam Hussein.
But with the world watching,
Powell made a case for war.
"My colleagues,
every statement I make today
is backed up by sources
— solid sources," he said.
"These are not assertions.
What we're giving you
are facts and conclusions
based on solid intelligence."
Powell used information
that intelligence officials assured him
was credible.
There were reconnaissance photos,
elaborate maps and charts,
and even taped phone conversation
between senior members
of Iraq's
military.
"Saddam Hussein
has chemical weapons,"
Powell said.
"Saddam Hussein
has used such weapons.
And Saddam Hussein
has no compunction
about using them again
— against his neighbors,
and against his own people."
Powell repeatedly used one phrase
during his hour-long speech:
"weapons of mass destruction."
He said those words
a total of 17 times.
It was the phrase
the Bush administration
kept publicly using
to help justify invading
Iraq.
A month and a half
after the U.N. speech,
President Bush ordered air strikes
over Baghdad.
It marked the beginning
of a military operation
"to disarm Iraq, to free its people,
and to defend the world
from grave danger,"
Bush said in a televised address
to the
nation.
U.S. forces toppled Hussein's regime
in a matter of weeks,
and the search intensified for evidence
of Iraq's so-called
"weapons of mass
destruction."
But the weapons
were nowhere to be found.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/
1151160567/colin-powell-iraq-un-weapons-mass-destruction
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/
1151160567/colin-powell-iraq-un-weapons-mass-destruction
2002-2004
UK, USA
WMDs
Weapons
of mass destruction claim
Life and times
of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi,
AKA
Curveball
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's testimony
was one of the key planks of the argument
for
the ousting of Saddam Hussein.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2011/feb/15/
curveball-cia-iraq-interactive-timeline
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/david-kelly
https://www.theguardian.com/world/curveball
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/
1151160567/colin-powell-iraq-un-weapons-mass-destruction
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/
magazine/iraq-weapons-mass-destruction.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/05/
iraq-weapons-mass-destruction-america-misled-britain-gordon-brown
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/29/
body-of-wmd-dossier-scientist-david-kelly-exhumed
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/06/
chilcot-tony-blair-was-not-straight-with-the-nation-over-iraq-war
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/
tony-blair-deliberately-exaggerated-threat-from-iraq-
chilcot-report-war-inquiry
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/
mi6-stood-by-bogus-intelligence-until-after-iraq-invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/06/
i-still-vote-war-iraq-kurds-saddam-hussein-military-action-right
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jul/16/
david-kelly-death-10-years-on
https://www.npr.org/2013/03/19/
174708587/u-n-weapons-inspector-looks-back-on-iraq-war
https://www.npr.org/2013/03/17/
174542923/fear-and-daily-struggles-reporter-reflects-on-iraq-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/
bush-administration-sold-iraq-war
https://www.npr.org/2011/05/29/
136765601/david-kay-wmds-that-never-were-a-war-that-ever-was
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/17/curveball-doubts-cia-german-foreign
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/colin-powell-cia-curveball
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/curveball-jail-war-mongering-germany
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/curveball-exile-wmd-lies-iraq-politicians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/16/curveball-questions-cia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/15/curveball-wmd-carne-ross
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/feb/15/curveball-cia-iraq-interactive-timeline
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/15/
curveball-iraqi-fantasist-cia-saddam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/defector-admits-wmd-lies-iraq-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/curveballs-lies-consequences-iraqi-defector
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/08/donald-rumsfeld-book-misstatements-wmd
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3054991.stm
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jan/29/
tony-blair-chilcot-iraq-inquiry
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=93293353 - August 5, 2008
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5024408 - November 23, 2005
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=4996218 - November 15, 2005
https://www.nti.org/gsn/article/
new-york-times-admits-flaws-in-iraqi-wmd-coverage/ - May 26, 2004
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/26/
pressandpublishing.usnews
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/
world/rumsfeld-and-tenet-defending-assessments-of-iraqi-weapons.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1615880 - January 25, 2004
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1284239 - June 2, 2003
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/may/30/
iraq.iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/may/29/
uk.usa
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1263323 - May 14, 2003
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1355089 - April 23, 2003
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/mar/18/
foreignpolicy.iraq1
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/sep/25/
uk.iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/24/
iraq.speeches
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jul/06/
interviews.tonyblair
USA
CIA director George Tenet
July 1997 - July 2004
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/15/
curveball-cia-europe-chief-vindicate
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=9903583 - April 29, 2007
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=9896321 - April 27 / April 28, 2007
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=9947067 - May 2, 2007
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=9946789 - May 1, 2007
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/oct/24/
usnews.money
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1922781 - June 4, 2004
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=3124036 - July 4, 2004
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1921115 - June 4, 2004
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/04/
usa.iraq1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/05/
iraq.usa
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1645748 - February 5, 2004
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1646875 - February 5, 2004
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/world/
rumsfeld-and-tenet-defending-assessments-of-iraqi-weapons.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/
world/after-the-war-intelligence-bush-declares-his-faith-in-tenet-and-cia.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/10/
iraq.usa
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/06/
israel1
January 29, 2002
President George W. Bush's
State of the Union Address
'Axis of Evil' speech
Full text
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/politics/30BTEX.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/18/world/middleeast/
20080319_IRAQWAR_TIMELINE.html#tab1
1990s - 2000s
Iraq sanctions
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/
magazine/were-sanctions-right.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/17/
iraq.markoliver1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/26/iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/19/
iraq.marktran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/21/
iraq.jasonburke
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/04/
weekend7.weekend9
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jul/29/
iraq.marktran
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/14/
world/france-in-break-with-us-urges-end-to-iraq-embargo.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/
world/iraq-sanctions-kill-children-un-reports.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/18/
opinion/when-to-lift-the-iraq-embargo.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/06/
world/standoff-gulf-excerpts-remarks-webster-baker-embargo-s-drain-iraq.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/26/
world/confrontation-in-the-gulf-security-council-adds-air-embargo-to-iraq-sanctions.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/12/
world/confrontation-gulf-sanctions-iraq-appear-effective-neighbors-block-trade.html
Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/26/
iraq
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/02/
world/iraq-army-invades-capital-of-kuwait-in-fierce-fighting.html
March 1988
Saddam Hussein's administration
uses mustard
gas
against Kurds at Halabja in Iraq:
more than
5,000 die
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/feb/18/
kurds.rostaylor
France, USA, Iraq, Iran
Attacks against U.S. and French forces
in Beirut, Lebanon 1983
1932
Iraq became independent in
1932,
but British influence, though diminishing,
remained important
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2719939.stm
1920
Iraq is formed
as a mandate of the League of
Nations,
under British administration
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/time2.html
- broken link
Iraq History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/recent/iraq/britain_iraq_01.shtml
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