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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. Early 1982: Defense Secretary Weinberger’s Attempts to Open Arms Deals with Iraq Unsuccessful
  2. August 2002: Pentagon Officials Pressure CIA to Delay CIA Assessment on Iraq; They Disagree with CIA’s View about Alleged Prague-Atta Link
  3. September 2002: German Intelligence Officer Tells CIA Officer that Curveball Is Probably a Fabricator; CIA Officials Dispute Characterization
  4. October 1983: US Begins Secretly Supplying Arms to Iraq through Third Parties
  5. October 2005: Iraqi General Confirms He Never Spoke to Reporters about Salman Pak
  6. April 2006: Media Only Grudgingly Admits Being Duped in 2001 Salman Pak Story
  7. 2001: Curveball Has Some Connections to Iraqi National Congress
  8. September 2002: CIA Completes ‘Iraqi Ties to Terrorism’ Report Based on Al-Libi Interrogation
  9. (Late 1980s): Iraq Develops ‘Zippe-Type’ Centrifuges
  10. July 2001-March 2003: Bush Administration Is Informed that Energy Department Does Not Believe Aluminum Tubes Are Meant for Iraqi Nuclear Program
  11. Late 2001: Energy Department Report Challenges CIA Theory that Aluminum Tubes Meant for Iraqi Nuclear Program
  12. Between April 2001 and September 2002: CIA Reports On Aluminum Tubes Fail To Mention that Leading Centrifuge Experts Do Not Believe Tubes Were Meant for Iraqi Nuclear Program
  13. Late September 2002: CIA Publishes Extensive Report on Aluminum Tubes; Report Later Serves as Basis for October National Intelligence Estimate
  14. Early October 2002: Bush Receives Intelligence Memo Noting Dissents About Iraqi Aluminum Tubes
  15. January 2003: Bush Receives Intelligence Memo Saying Iraq ‘Unlikely’ to Attack US Unless Provoked
  16. August 2002: Former UN Inspector Says Allegations Iraqi Government Using Salman Pak to Train Terrorists Are False
  17. January 2003: CIA Doubts Iraqi Government Used Salman Pak to Train Terrorists
  18. Early August, 2004: Carnegie Think Tank Critically Examines Bush Administration’s Case for Iraqi WMDs
  19. October 2002: Washington Post Fails to Publish Story Raising Doubts about Invading Iraq
  20. Autumn 2002: US Media Pressures Commentator on Iraq to Support Bush Administration’s Policies
  21. Autumn 2003: Editor Privately Admits New York Times Was Not Critical of Chalabi Because It Heavily Relied on Him as Source
  22. 2002-2003: Bush Administration Makes Numerous Claims of Iraqi WMDs, Fails to Offer Evidence
  23. November 2003: Former CIA Analyst Says Iraq War Largely Motivated by Israel’s Strategic Objectives
  24. August 1992: Defense Secretary Cheney Publicly Defends Decision Not to Overthrow Hussein, Privately Disagrees
  25. September 2002: CIA Unable to Find Evidence of Ties Between Iraq and Militant Islamists
  26. September 2002: US Assertions of Ties Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda Based on Single Guantanamo Prisoner
  27. Mid-January 2003: British Intelligence: Iraq-Al-Qaeda Attempts to Collaborate ‘Foundered’ on Ideological Differences
  28. July 2003: Official Says Iraq-Al-Qaeda Ties ‘Episodic, Not Continuous’
  29. Late February-Early March, 2003: Retired Senator Predicts Ten-Year Occupation of Iraq
  30. After May 2003: US Officials Challenge Bush Administration Claims that Iraq Sought Ties with Militant Islamic Groups
  31. February 11 or 12, 2003: Powell Obtains Advance Copy of New Speech Allegedly by Bin Laden, Misrepresents Contents to Senate
  32. June or July 1999: Italian Businessman Rocco Martino Provides France with Documents Suggesting Iraq Wants to Expand Trade with Niger
  33. 2000: Former CIA Director Woolsey Works With Chalabi’s INC
  34. 1998: Radio Free Europe Begins Anti-Hussein Propaganda Campaign
  35. Early 2000: Italian Intelligence Agent Offers Information Peddler Source for Information on Niger’s Uranium Dealings
  36. March 2002: Iraq Defector: Iraq Purchased Trucks with Intent to Convert to Biological Weapons Laboratories
  37. 1999: Iraqi Diplomat Meets With Possible Shell Oil Representative
  38. Early August 2002: Wolfowitz Pressures FBI to Confirm That Prague Meeting Took Place
  39. Early 2002, probably May or later: Czech President to Washington: No Evidence of Prague Meeting
  40. Late July 2002: 9/11 Congressional Inquiry Concludes Atta Did Not Have Prague Meeting
  41. 1998: National Security Council Finds No Link Between Al-Qaeda and Iraqi Government
  42. Early February 2003: FBI Reportedly Baffled by White House Push to Link Iraq and Al-Qaeda
  43. Mid-September 1990: Pentagon Releases False Reports of Iraqis Massing on Saudi Border
  44. Late December 1998: Iraqi Ambassador Reportedly Meets with Osama Bin Laden; But Meeting Took Place Three Years Earlier
  45. May 1990: Army Recommends Iraq to Replace Warsaw Pact as Military Threat, Focus of Defense Spending
  46. November 2002: 51% of World’s Oil Will Come from OPEC by 2025, Says DOE
  47. December 2002: DOE Official Says US Dependency on Persian Gulf ‘Fact of Life’
  48. October 2002: Deutsche Bank Reports Says Saddam Hussein’s Removal would Benefit US and British Oil Companies
  49. February 2003: 76 Percent of Americans Believe Hussein Assists Al-Qaeda
  50. December 2001-Mid-2002: Al-Zarqawi Moves Operations to Northern Iraq but Has No Ties to Hussein’s Government