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Us Occupation Of Iraq Tmln

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  1. 1907-10-18 October 18, 1907: Hague Convention Prohibits Occupying Powers from Changing Laws of Occupied Country
  2. 2002-11-12 November 12, 2002: Neoconservative Writer Recommends US Invade Iran First
  3. 2003-01-06 January 6, 2003: USAID Awards Second Contract to Bechtel to Rebuild Iraq
  4. 2003-01-06 10:41 am EST January 6, 2003: Mustard Gas Leak Found at Army Depot
  5. 2003-02-05 February 5, 2003: Rumsfeld and Myers Intend to Use ‘Non-Lethal’ Chemical Agents against Iraqi Civilians
  6. 2003-03-08 March 8, 2003: US Grants Halliburton No-Bid Contract to Restore Iraqi Oil
  7. 2003-03-11 March 11, 2003: Reconstruction Agency Chief Admits ‘We Started Very Slowly’
  8. 2003-03-18 March 18, 2003: Fox ‘Military Contributor’ Reports False Rumors that French Diplomats Destroying Documents Proving Complicity with Iraqi WMD Programs
  9. 2003-03-19 March 19-20, 2003: US Television News Begins Enthusiastic but Inaccurate Coverage of Opening Hours of War; Coverage Hews Close to Pentagon Outlines
  10. 2003-03-19 After March 19, 2003: Militant Sunni Group Based in Lebanon Sends Fighters to Iraq
  11. 2003-03-19 March 19, 2003: US and Partners Invade Iraq
  12. 2003-03-19 (March 19, 2003-July 16, 2003): Donald Rumsfeld Approves All Requests for Air Strikes With High Risk of Killing More Than 30 Civilians
  13. 2003-03-19 After March 19, 2003: Iraqi Trade with Iran Increases Substantially
  14. 2003-03-20 March 20, 2003: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Divulges Classified Info on Iraq Leadership Location
  15. 2003-03-20 March 20, 2003: Al-Zarqawi’s Training Camp in Northern Iraq Is Finally Hit by US Air Strike
  16. 2003-03-20 March 20, 2003: President Bush Signs Executive Order Transferring Frozen Iraqi Funds to Federal Reserve Bank
  17. 2003-03-21 March 21, 2003: Press Secretary Fleischer Insists Bush Administration Has Evidence of Iraqi WMDs
  18. 2003-03-21 March 21, 2003 and After: US Admits Using Napalm-like Bombs Against Iraqis
  19. 2003-03-22 March 22, 2003: Pentagon Official Continues to Assert that US Knows Location of WMDs in Iraq
  20. 2003-03-22 March 22, 2003: General Franks Claims Evidence of WMDs and SCUD Launchers in Iraq
  21. 2003-03-22 March 22, 2003: CNN and Australian Paper Say US Used Napalm in Iraq
  22. 2003-03-22 March 22, 2003: US Air Force Denies Napalm Use in Iraq
  23. 2003-03-23 March 23, 2003: Arab Television Shows Footage of Slain US Soldiers, US POWs in Iraq
  24. 2003-03-23 March 23, 2003: Pentagon Says Publication, Broadcast of Images of Dead or Wounded US Soldiers Violates ‘Principles of Geneva Convention;’ Media Limits Coverage
  25. 2003-03-23 March 23, 2003: Hussein Taunts US in Speech
  26. 2003-03-23 March 23, 2003: US Private Jessica Lynch, Six Other Soldiers Captured during Iraqi Ambush
  27. 2003-03-23 March 23, 2003: Defense Policy Board Member Expresses Certainty of Imminent Discovery of Large WMD Caches
  28. 2003-03-24 March 24, 2003: Rumsfeld Says He Has Seen Intelligence Showing Iraq Has Chemical and Biological Weapons
  29. 2003-03-24 March 24, 2003: Halliburton Makes Public Contract to Fight Oil Fires and Repair Oil Equipment
  30. 2003-03-25 March 25, 2003: New York Times Explores Role of Retired Generals as Network Military Analysts
  31. 2003-03-25 March 25, 2003: US Patriot Anti-Aircraft Missile Battery Mistakenly Targets US Plane
  32. 2003-03-25 March 25, 2003: Wolfowitz: World Will ‘See an Explosion of Joy and Relief’ in Iraq after US Overthrow of Iraqi Government
  33. 2003-03-26 March 26, 2003: Powell Says US Wants to Work with Iraqi Commander ‘As Soon As Possible’
  34. 2003-03-26 March 26, 2003: Bush Says US Will Help Iraq Find Benefits of Self-Government
  35. 2003-03-26 March 26, 2003: British Attorney General Warns Prime Minister that Occupying Powers in Iraq Cannot Legally Impose ‘Major Structural Economic Reforms’
  36. 2003-03-27 March 27, 2003: Wolfowitz Says Iraqi Oil Will ‘Finance Its Own Reconstruction’
  37. 2003-03-27 March 27, 2003: Rumsfeld Says Iraqi Government and International Community Should Pay Share of Reconstruction Costs
  38. 2003-03-27 March 27, 2003: Deputy Secreatry of State Armitage Says Iraqi Oil Money Will Be Significant
  39. 2003-03-30 March 30, 2003: Rumsfeld Says Iraq’s Chemical and Biological Weapons are Near ‘Tikrit and Baghdad and East, West, South and North Somewhat’
  40. 2003-03-30 March 30, 2003: Rumsfeld States Desire for Iraqi Government that is Friendly toward US
  41. 2003-03-31 March 31, 2003: US Forces Overrun Supposed Militant ‘Poison Factory’ in Iraq, but Its Poison Capabilities Appear Overblown
  42. 2003-04-01 April 1, 2003: US Soldier Jessica Lynch Rescued in ‘Dramatic’ Special Operations Mission
  43. 2003-04-01 April 1, 2003: US Military Briefs Reporters on Jessica Lynch’s Rescue, Shows Carefully Edited Video
  44. 2003-04-01 April 1, 2003: Wolfowitz Says US Wants Iraq to Be Democracy
  45. 2003-04-02 March 23-April 2, 2003: British Tornado Plane Destroyed by Patriot Missile; Patriot Batteries Routinely Target Friendly Aircraft
  46. 2003-04-02 April 2, 2003: Congress Gives Control of Reconstruction Funds to State Department
  47. 2003-04-02 April 2, 2003: Patriot Anti-Aircraft Battery Destroys Navy Fighter, Kills Pilot
  48. 2003-04-02 April 2, 2003: Powell Says US Wants End to Iraq War ‘As Soon As Possible’
  49. 2003-04-03 April 3, 2003: US Ambassador Tells Israeli Officials that US Will ‘Take Care’ of Other Countries after Iraq
  50. 2003-04-03 April 3, 2003: Washington Post Prints Tale of Jessica Lynch’s Heroic Resistance and Rescue in Iraq