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Iraq Under US Occupation

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  1. 2003-05-01 May 1, 2003: White House Announces Appointment of Paul Bremer as US Administrator for Iraq
  2. 2003-05-02 May 2, 2003: US Army Discloses Broader Nature of Halliburton Contract
  3. 2003-05-04 May 4, 2003: Senior Bush Administration Officials Privately Admit They Will Be ‘Amazed’ If WMDs Are Found in Iraq
  4. 2003-05-05 May 5, 2003: Pentagon Official Jay Garner Says Iraqi Government Will Soon Emerge
  5. 2003-05-07 May 7, 2003: MSNBC Guest Lauds Bush’s ‘Manly Characteristic’ during ‘Mission Accomplished’ Speech
  6. 2003-05-07 May 7, 2003: General: Only 17 Artifacts Looted from Baghdad Museum
  7. 2003-05-09 May 9, 2003: Bush Proposes US Free Trade Zone for Middle East
  8. 2003-05-09 May 9, 2003: US Forces in Iraq Seize Second Trailer
  9. 2003-05-09 May 9, 2003: US Officials Meet with Former Iraqi Officer to Discuss Security Plan
  10. 2003-05-09 May 9, 2003: US and Britain Propose to Control Iraq’s Oil Revenues
  11. 2003-05-11 May 11, 2003: Playwright Says Bush a ‘Bad Actor’
  12. 2003-05-14 May 14, 2003-May 18, 2003: Study Finds One Third of Americans Think WMDs Found in Iraq
  13. 2003-05-15 May 15, 2003: Paul Bremer Cancels Plan for Interim Iraqi Government
  14. 2003-05-16 May 16, 2003: Bremer Signs ‘De-Baathification’ Edict
  15. 2003-05-16 May 16, 2003: US Adviser to Iraq Oil Ministry Says Iraq Might End Its Membership in OPEC
  16. 2003-05-18 May 18, 2003: Bremer Says No Delay in Formation of Transitional Authority
  17. 2003-05-20 May 20, 2003: Two Weeks After ‘Mission Accomplished,’ Lawlessness Delays Iraqi Self-Rule
  18. 2003-05-21 May 21, 2003: Bremer Says National Conference to Be around July
  19. 2003-05-21 Before May 21, 2003: Expert Who Examines Trailer In Iraq Believes It Was Designed to Produce Biological Weapons
  20. 2003-05-21 Before May 21, 2003: US Intelligence Experts Believe Suspicious Trailer in Iraq Intended for Bioweapons Production
  21. 2003-05-21 May 21, 2003: New York Times: US Intelligence Believes Trailers Found in Iraq Are Mobile Biological Weapons Factories
  22. 2003-05-22 May 22, 2003: Bush Grants Legal Immunity to Iraqi Oil Industry
  23. 2003-05-22 May 22, 2003: UN Lifts Sanctions on Iraq and Validates Occupation
  24. 2003-05-23 May 23, 2003: Paul Bremer Dissolves Iraqi Army
  25. 2003-05-25 May 25, 2003: Biological Weapons Experts Quickly Determine Iraqi Trailers Not for BW Production
  26. 2003-05-26 May 26, 2003: Paul Bremer Announces Creation of a Trade-Credit Authority and Plan to Liberalize Iraq’s Economy
  27. 2003-05-26 May 26, 2003: UN Humanitarian Chief Warns of Growing Anti-Americanism in Iraq
  28. 2003-05-27 May 27, 2003: Rumsfeld Says Transition to Liberty in Iraq Will Take Time
  29. 2003-05-27 May 27, 2003: Rumsfeld Says Coalition Provisional Authority Will Fill ‘Vacuum of Power’ in Iraq
  30. 2003-05-27 May 27, 2003: Pentagon-Sponsored Team Files Field Report Concluding that Trailers Not Designed to Make Biological Weapons
  31. 2003-05-27 May 27, 2003: Solider Killed Because He Has Given Away Body Armor to Unprotected Younger Colleague
  32. 2003-05-28 May 28, 2003: Rice Says US Has Found Biological Weapons Labs in Iraq
  33. 2003-05-28 May 28, 2003: A Joint Report by the CIA and DIA Concludes that Trailers Found in Iraq Were Designed to Produce Biological Weapons
  34. 2003-05-29 May 29, 2003: Rumsfeld Doesn’t Know When Iraq May Have Government in Place
  35. 2003-05-29 May 29, 2003: President Bush Falsely Claims US Found Mobile Biological Weapons Labs in Iraq
  36. 2003-06-01 June 1, 2003: Bush Again Says US Found Mobile Biological Weapons Lab in Iraq
  37. 2003-06-02 June 2, 2003: Bremer Approves Plan to Send in Foreign Police Trainers
  38. 2003-06-02 June 2, 2003: Iraqi Nuclear Scientist Gives US Authorities Material Related to Iraq’s Former Nuclear Program
  39. 2003-06-02 June 2, 2003: State Department Intelligence Agency Warns Powell that CIA-DIA Paper On Trailer Not Supported by Current Intel
  40. 2003-06-03 June 3, 2003: Rice Says Discovered Trailers Were Made to Produce Biological Weapons
  41. 2003-06-05 June 5, 2003: Generals, CPA Administrator Deny Leadership Role in Finding Iraqi WMD
  42. 2003-06-07 June 7, 2003: Paul Bremer Lifts Iraqi Trade Restrictions
  43. 2003-06-08 June 8, 2003: Rice Says US Will Find WMDs in Iraq
  44. 2003-06-09 June 9, 2003: White House: WMD Claim ‘Still Stands,’ but Iraq War Justified because Iraqi People Now Free of ‘Tyranny’
  45. 2003-06-09 June 9-13, 2003: US Forces Launch Operation Peninsula Strike in Iraq
  46. 2003-06-10 June 10, 2003: CPA Issues Document Regulating Management of Iraqi Funds
  47. 2003-06-13 June 13, 2003: Neoconservative Columnist Claims Only ‘33’ Artifacts Looted from Museum
  48. 2003-06-13 June 13, 2003: Baghdad Museum Losses Far Less than Originally Reported?
  49. 2003-06-14 June 14, 2003: US Cancels Municipal Elections in Najaf
  50. 2003-06-17 June 17, 2003: Washington Post Pieces Together More Accurate Version of Jessica Lynch’s Capture, Rescue