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Iraq war
/ Second Gulf War 2003-2011
Abu Ghraib WMDs Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) Tariq Aziz (1936-2015)

TIME cover 05-17-2004
"Iraq: How Did it Come to This?"
Illustration for Time by Matt Mahurin
depicting a hooded Iraqi prisoner.
Location: US
Date taken: May 17, 2004
Life Images
warning: graphic
photos contain disturbing images
of violence, abuse and humiliation
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi /
أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي 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
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
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
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
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
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
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/6789231/
Tony-Blair-Iraq-War-was-right-even-if-there-were-no-WMDs.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/
politics/tony-blair-and-his-ohsoclean-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.independent.co.uk/opinion/the-daily-cartoon-760940.html
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
25 January 2010
Ali Hassan al-Majid,
better known as Chemical Ali,
is executed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/25/
chemical-ali-execution-iraq-kurd
USA Boston Globe Big Picture
Documenting the
return of U.S. war dead 2009
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/
documenting_the_return_of_us_w.html
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
2007
mass killing
of Iraqi civilians
in Baghdad
guards with the
American
security
contractor Blackwater
opened fire
with machine guns
and grenade
launchers,
killing or
wounding
at least 31
Iraqi civilians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/
world/middleeast/blackwater-trump-pardon.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/
opinion/letters/blackwater-pardons.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/
world/middleeast/blackwater-trump-pardon.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/
949503052/president-trump-pushes-the-boundaries-of-his-pardon-power
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/
949751576/lawyer-for-victims-families-on-trump-pardoning-4-former-blackwater-contractors
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/
949679837/shock-and-dismay-
after-trump-pardons-blackwater-guards-who-killed-14-iraqi-civil
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/
opinion/justice-for-blackwater-victims.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/
world/middleeast/blackwaters-legacy-goes-beyond-public-view.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/
us/ex-blackwater-guards-sentenced-to-prison-in-2007-killings-of-iraqi-civilians.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/us/
ex-blackwater-guards-sentenced-to-prison-in-2007-killings-of-iraqi-civilians.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/
us/blackwater-verdict.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/
us/before-shooting-in-iraq-warning-on-blackwater.html//
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/
world/middleeast/08blackwater.html
Chronology: Iraq
1918-1999
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/feb/18/
kurds.rostaylor
Boston Globe Big Picture 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.
AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris
Boston Globe > Big Picture
Daily Life in Sadr City, Iraq
June 18, 2008
http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/
daily_life_in_sadr_city_iraq.html
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
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/iraq-casualties.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-03-13-
iraq-casualties_N.htm
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
2005
massacre by
Marines of Iraqi civilians
in the town of Haditha, Iraq

TIME cover 06-12-2006
HADITHA: "Inside the investigation of
whethe
the death of a U.S. Marine triggered the killing of 24 Iraqis
--and a military cover-up."
Video stills courtesy of Hammurabi Human Rights Group.
Location: US
Date taken: June 12, 2006
Photograph by
Lucian Read--WPN (top);
Life Images
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/middleeast/
united-states-marines-haditha-interviews-found-in-iraq-junkyard.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/may/10/usa.iraq
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0426498320080605
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/05/usa.iraq
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-01-06-haditha-comments_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-06-haditha-probe_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-08-02-haditha-report_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-10-marine-haditha_x.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1790499,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-04-pace-haditha_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-29-pace_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-05-29-haditha-background_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-05-27-iraqallegations_x.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/27/iraq.topstories3
Tariq Aziz
1936-2015

Mr. Aziz in 2004,
in a courtroom that was once the palace of Saddam Hussein.
Pool photo by 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
Saddam Hussein abd al-Majid
1937-2006

Former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein,
makes a point during his initial interview by a special
tribunal,
where he is informed of his alleged crimes and his legal rights.
July 2004 (2004-07)
Image and text from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saddam_Hussein_at_trial,_July_2004-edit1.JPEG
Primary source
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/DVIC_View/Still_Details.cfm?SDAN=DDSD0503992&JPGPath=/Assets/2005/DoD/DD-SD-05-03992.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein
https://www.theguardian.com/world/saddam-hussein
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/saddam-hussein
http://www.npr.org/series/4962517/saddam-hussein-crimes-and-punishment
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=4961744 - December 29, 2006
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/16/
470677372/the-rope-chronicles-a-good-death-and-a-bad-start
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/05/
thats-me-picture-stuart-lockwood-saddam-hussein-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/
10-years-right-invaded-iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/28/
saddam-hussein-memoirs-daughter-publisher
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/may/13/
this-much-i-know-trevor-mcdonald
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/world/middleeast/
archive-offers-rare-glimpse-inside-mind-of-saddam-hussein.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/05/
iraq-us-tariq-aziz-iran
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/world/middleeast/
30saddam.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/30/iraq.
guardianobituaries
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/
newsid_4304000/4304853.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/oct/23/iraq-
war-logs-pictures#/?picture=367985784&index=8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4urFfbxRljY
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/21/
iraq1
Saddam Hussein is executed
29 December 2006
http://www.npr.org/series/4962517/saddam-hussein-crimes-and-punishment
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=4961744 - December 29, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6703056- December 31, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6704193 - December 31, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/30/iraq.
iraqtimeline
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6700159 - December 30, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6700129 - December 30, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6701157 - December 30, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6700132 - December 30, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6701179 - December 30, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6697341 - December 29, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6697963 - December 29, 2006
Trial of Saddam Hussein
2005-2006
http://www.npr.org/series/4962517/saddam-hussein-crimes-and-punishment
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=4961744 - December 29, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6701179 - December 30, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6700279 - December 30, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1595622,00.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6677706 - December 26, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6444165 - November 06, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6441761 - November 06, 2006
Saddam Hussein is arrested
13 December, 2003

Saddam Hussein shortly after capture
14 December 2003 (2003-12-14)
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
Primary source
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/Still/2005/DoD/DD-SD-05-01884.JPEG
http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/about.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=4961744 - December 29, 2006
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/21/
iraq1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/14/
iraq.usa1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3317881.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3317429.stm
https://www.theguardian.com/gall/0,,1106953,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,,1107008,00.html
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=4urFfbxRljY
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
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/saddam-hussein
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/george-bush
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/opinion/revisiting-the-roots-of-the-iraq-war.html
http://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
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
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51P0AY20090227
http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-02-26-marine_N.htm
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
http://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
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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
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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/sep/16/
iraq.usa
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.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=4183951 - Nov. 24, 2003
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/mar/06/
uk.iraq
warning: graphic
Abu Ghraib prison

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story:
How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
02.28.2008 | 12:00 AM
This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
is taken from a presentation by
Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can,
under the right circumstances, become evil
Image 7 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib?slide=7&slideView=2
TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00
AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story:
How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
is taken from a presentation by
Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can,
under the right circumstances, become evil
Image 3 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib?slide=3&slideView=3
TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00
AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story:
How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
is taken from a presentation by
Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can,
under the right circumstances, become evil
Image 1 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib
TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00
AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story:
How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
is taken from a presentation by
Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can,
under the right circumstances, become evil
Image 2 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib?slide=2&slideView=5
TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00
AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Wired.com Staff
See related story: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
02.28.08 | 12:00 AM
This photo from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
is taken from a presentation by
Philip Zimbardo
on how ordinary people can,
under the right circumstances, become evil
Image 8 of 10
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib?slide=8&slideView=2
TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Wired By Kim Zetter 02.28.08 | 12:00
AM
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo

Attorneys for Lynndie
England,
a U.S. soldier charged with abusing Iraqi inmates at a Baghdad prison,
asked on Wednesday to have her early statements to investigators
and photos of
her with naked prisoners
thrown out as evidence in her court-martial.
Photographs of England holding a naked prisoner on a leash
and pointing to the
genitals of another inmate
at Abu Ghraib prison shocked the world
and damaged the Bush administration's efforts in Iraq
when they surfaced
publicly in April.
Photo by The Washington Post/Reuters
Lawyers Want Photos Thrown Out in Iraq Abuse Case
R
Wed Dec 1, 2004 08:08 PM
ET
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6972100


Pvt. Lynndie England,
372nd Military Police Company
is escorted by guards and her defense counsels,
Capt. Jonathan Crisp and Capt. Katherine Krul,
from Fort Hood’s Williams
Judicial Center
Tuesday night after she was sentenced
to three years for prisoner abuse at Abu
Ghraib.
Spc. L. B. Edgar
Army News Service
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/uploads/large/OCPA-2005-09-28-175506.jpg
Court sentences England to 3 years
By Spc. L. B. Edgar
Army News Service
FORT HOOD, Texas (Army News Service, Sept. 28, 2005) --
The last Soldier to be tried for prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib
was sentenced to
three years confinement Sept. 27
at Fort Hood’s Williams Judicial Center.
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7988
abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/10/
seymour-hersh-reporter-a-memoir-book-review
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/04/04/
472964974/it-was-torture-an-abu-ghraib-interrogator-acknowledges-horrible-mistakes
www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/
books/review-eric-fairs-consequence-a-memoir-by-a-former-abu-ghraib-interrogator.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/
opinion/stop-the-cia-spin-on-the-senate-torture-report.html
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11367615
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2008/02/
abu_ghraib_shocking_new_images.html
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_abu_ghraib
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=9C0CE0D81738F930A15752C0A9639C8B63
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/10/
040510fa_fact
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/08/25/
abughraib.report/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/20/usa.iraq
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=9506EFD81630F93AA35755C0A9629C8B63
Abu Ghraib prison
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/destination/abu-ghraib
2008
Abu Ghraib:
shocking new images, shocking claims
https://www.wired.com/2008/03/
gallery-abu-ghraib/
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2008/02/
abu_ghraib_shocking_new_images.html
2006
The Abu Ghraib files
279 photographs
and 19 videos
from the Army's
internal investigation
record a harrowing
three months
of detainee abuse
inside the notorious prison.
Warning:
Photos contain disturbing images
of violence, abuse and humiliation
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-02-16-prison-abuse_x.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4718328.stm
2008
Errol Morris’s
“Standard Operating Procedure”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896866/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jul/18/documentary
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/movies/26morris.html
https://www.timeout.com/london/film/
errol-morris-on-standard-operating-procedure-1
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/movies/25stan.html
Abu Ghraib
Pvt. Lynndie England
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/03/
abu-ghraib-lynndie-england-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/28/iraq.usa
http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/iraq/england1.jpg
Abu
Ghraib
Staff Sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/oct/22/usa.iraq
UK
Prime Minister Tony Blair May 1997 -
June 2007
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/tonyblair
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
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
2002-2004
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.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/feb/15/curveball-cia-iraq-interactive-timeline
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/27/
bush-administration-sold-iraq-war?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
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
http://www.guardian.co.uk/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
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/mar/18/foreignpolicy.iraq1
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/07/17/saddam.ritter.cnna/
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/bush.speech.txt/
USA
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-4/
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-3/
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-1/
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-2/
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
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/bush.speech.txt/
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
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
Iraq History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/recent/iraq/britain_iraq_01.shtml
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