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Iraq Under US Occupation

786 events in this timeline

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  1. Late December, 2006: Rumsfeld Derides Iraqi Prime Minister and US Ambassador; Misrepresents His Resistance to Sending More Troops
  2. June 2004: New Iraqi Oil Minister Appointed
  3. September 2003: Iraqi Prime Minister Issues Oil Policy Guidelines Favorable to Private Interests
  4. Mid-October 2003: Children’s Roadside Soda Stand Evidence of ‘Thousands’ of New Iraqi Businesses, Says Commerce Secretary
  5. Mid-2002: Al-Zarqawi Forms Alliance with Kurdish Militant Group in Northern Iraq
  6. Summer 2003: Pentagon Uses Military Analysts to Counter Bad News of Iraq Insurgency
  7. Summer 2005: Army Supresses Unflattering RAND Report on Iraq
  8. Summer 2003-2006: Al-Zarqawi Blamed for Nearly Every Major Bombing of Civilians in Iraq; but Evidence Is Doubtful
  9. Late 2006: Prince Bandar Meets with Elliot Abrams Several Times
  10. Late June 2003: Bremer Requests More Troops for Iraq
  11. Early November 2003: Bush Administration Devises Alternative Plan to Implement Market Reforms in Iraq
  12. Early August 2003: Bush Appoints Friend to Help with Privatization of Iraqi State-Owned Businesses
  13. Late 2006: US Policy Shift in Iraq Aimed at Rolling Back Growing Iranian Influence
  14. May 2005: Security Contractor Deploys CS Nerve Gas on Busy Bagdad Intersection, Affects Iraqis and US Troops
  15. November 2005: Ahmad Chalabi Speaks of Need for Production Sharing Agreements in Iraq
  16. Late November 2006: Cheney Flies to Saudi Arabia to Meet with King Abdullah and Prince Bandar
  17. (Late May 2003): Chalabi Says US Presence in Iraq Is ‘Occupation’
  18. Early June 2003: SCIRI Spokesman Says It Will not Participate in Administration Selected by Bremer
  19. Early June 2003: Returned Iraqi Exile Leader Complains Iraqis Have Little Power in Iraq
  20. September 2003 or October 2003: Iraqi Oil Ministry Gets New US Oil Advisors
  21. November 2003: New Plan Commissioned for Iraq’s Oil Industry
  22. Early 2005: Expert Says Privatizing Iraqi Oil Industry Would Have Destabilized OPEC, Saudi Monarchy
  23. Early 2005: Former CIA Oil Analyst Says Invasion of Iraq Driven by Overthrowing Hussein, Oil
  24. Autumn 2004: National Security Expert: Bush Administration is Full of Sh_t; Iraq War Is a Disaster
  25. July 2003: Iraq Survey Group Member Immediately Concludes Alleged Bio-Weapons Trailers Designed to Produce Hydrogen
  26. March 2004: Iraq Survey Group Member Quits in Protest of CIA Coverup
  27. December 2003: David Kay Tells George Tenet He Believes Iraq Had No WMDs
  28. September 2004-September 2006: Defense Department Planting Stories in Iraqi Press
  29. 2005: Defense Department Controls at least Two Media Outlets in Iraq
  30. Early 2006: Pentagon Inquiry Concludes that Planting News Stories in Iraq Does Not Violate US Law
  31. Mid-June 2003: British Intelligence Investigation Determines Trailers Not Used to Produce Biological Weapons
  32. (June 2003): Former UN Weapons Inspector Rejects CIA Claim that Trailers Capable of Producing Biological Weapons
  33. Late February 2004: Iraq Survey Group Member Told Not to Include Discussion of Trailers in Report
  34. May 2003: American Nuclear Physicist Attempts to Connect US Defense Officials with Iraqi Nuclear Scientist; Defense Officials Show No Interest
  35. Early July 2003: UN Official Sees No Evidence of WMD Program at Suspected Sites in Iraq
  36. January 2003: Pentagon Creates Coalition Provisional Authority
  37. April 2003: US Occupation Authority Doling out Contracts outside Bidding Process
  38. June 2003: CPA Allegedly Prevents Iraqi Businessman from Starting Telecom Business
  39. Mid-June 2003: David Kay Given Access to CIA’s Prewar Intelligence; Disappointed
  40. September 2003: Republican-Connected Company Partners Up with Firm to Provide Security to Western Businesses in Iraq
  41. Fall 2004: Defense Department Inspector General Leaves Iraq
  42. July 2006: US Government and Oil Companies Review Draft of Iraqi Oil Law
  43. Early 2003: Pentagon Gives DynCorp $22 Mil Contract to Train New Iraqi Police Force
  44. Early June 2003-Mid-June 2003: US and British Intelligence Experts Say Trailers Found in Iraq Not for Biological Weapons
  45. November 2006: Palestinian Militant with Ties to Al-Qaeda Establishes Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon
  46. (Early 2007): Hezbollah Leader Believes Ultimate Aim of US Policy in Iraq Is to Partition It into Three Parts
  47. September 2006: IMF Reviews Draft of Proposed Iraq Oil Law
  48. March 2007: US and Middle Eastern Intelligence Officials Warn about the Newly Formed Fatah al-Islam
  49. After May 2003: Iraqi Ministers Tell Bremer They Won’t Support Privatization Plan
  50. Mid-May 2003: Iraqi Engineers Ready to Repair Country’s Phone Network, but Can’t without Permission from Coalition Provisional Authority