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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. 1989-Late 1999: Al-Zarqawi Becomes Prominent Islamist Militant
  2. April 2002: Al-Zarqawi Said to Head Militant Group Competing with Al-Qaeda
  3. 2001: Al-Zarqawi Allegedly Arrested and Released in Jordan
  4. October 2003: Former British Foreign Minister Robin Cook Reveals Deception by Prime Minister Blair over Iraqi WMDs
  5. December 2002: DIA Reports No Evidence of WMD in Iraq
  6. October 2002: Former CIA Official Says CIA Analysts Are Upset About Use of Cooked Intelligence
  7. October 8 and 11, 2002: Iraq, UN Dispute Conditions of Inspectors’ Return
  8. February 2001 and After: Bush Administration Begins Planning for Regime Change in Iraq
  9. Between February 2001 and February 2003: Oil Consultant Begins Interviewing For Successors to Hussein
  10. February 2003: New Neoconservative Blueprint for Post-Saddam Iraq Completed
  11. September 2003 or October 2003: Iraqi Oil Ministry Gets New US Oil Advisors
  12. November 2003: New Plan Commissioned for Iraq’s Oil Industry
  13. Early 2005: Expert Says Privatizing Iraqi Oil Industry Would Have Destabilized OPEC, Saudi Monarchy
  14. Early 2005: Former CIA Oil Analyst Says Invasion of Iraq Driven by Overthrowing Hussein, Oil
  15. November 2002-March 2003: Bush Administration Refuses to Cooperate with UN Inspectors
  16. Early December, 2002: US Tries to Delay UN Vote on Extending Iraq’s Authority to Sell Oil
  17. Early December 2002: White House Orders Plan to Forcibly Interrogate Iraqi Scientists; UN Says Plan Would Undermine Inspections
  18. End of December 2002: UN Inspectors Find No Evidence of WMD in Iraq
  19. Late December 2002: Rumsfeld Sends 50,000 US Troops to Gulf
  20. December 2001: US Diplomat Says There Is No Question About Whether Bush Will Hit Iraq
  21. Summer 2002: Bush Advisor: We Say What Reality Is
  22. February 1999: David Wurmser Urges US to Support Insurgency in Iraq
  23. June 2002-March 2003: US Steps up Aerial Strikes against Targets in Iraq ‘No-Fly’ Zones
  24. 1999: George W. Bush Hints at Invading Iraq in Future Presidency
  25. 1997-2002: OPCW Achieves Worldwide Reduction in Chemical Weapons and Chemical Weapon Facilities
  26. June 2001: John Bolton Calls Jose Bustani and Attempts to ‘Interfere’ in His Work
  27. January 2002: Bush Administration Requests Removal of Jose Bustani from OPCW
  28. March 2002: Bush Administration Provides OPCW Members with White Paper Smearing Jose Bustani
  29. March 2002: Bush Administration Fails to Exact a No Confidence Vote in Jose Bustani from OPCW Members
  30. May 2000: Jose Bustani Reelected as Head of OPCW
  31. 2001: Colin Powell Commends Jose Bustani for his Work as OPCW Head
  32. 2003: John Bolton Claims Jose Bustani Had no Right to Involve the OPCW in Iraq; Bolton’s Own Aides Disagree
  33. July 2003: UN Tribunal Declares Removal of Bustani ‘Unlawful’
  34. March 2002: Bush Administration Begins Campaign Aimed at Removing Jose Bustani from Office
  35. Late July or Early August 2001: US Authorities Look into Theory that Iraq Had Role in 1993 WTC Bombing
  36. March 2002: US Military Pulls Elite Special Operations Group from Afghanistan and Redeploys Them to Iraq
  37. May 2002: Equipment Intecepting Al-Qaeda Communications In Afghanistan Arena Is Sent to Iraq
  38. Before September 2002: Rumsfeld Orders Commanders To Focus Aerial Strikes in Iraq on Military Communications Infrastructure
  39. December 2002: US Admits Using Iraqi Attack on Planes in Northern Iraq as Justification for Attacks against Targets in South
  40. January 2003: US Officials Say Aerial Strikes in Iraq Are Retaliatory, Not Offensive
  41. Autumn 2004: National Security Expert: Bush Administration is Full of Sh_t; Iraq War Is a Disaster
  42. Autumn 2002: British ‘Shocked’ that Pentagon in Charge of Post-War Iraq
  43. March 2002: Cheney Says Decision Has Been Made to Invade Iraq
  44. Autumn 2003: Bolton Changes Procedures for Evidence Handling in Pentagon So His Office Will Receive More Classified Material
  45. Late July -September 2002: As Much as $700 Million Diverted from Afghanistan to Prepare for Invasion of Iraq
  46. May 2002: Gen. Franks Says There Is No War Plan for Invading Iraq
  47. January 2002: Wolfowitz Orders CIA to Investigate Blix
  48. March 2002: British Foreign Office Issues Legal Advice Concluding That Prewar Aerial Attacks Are Illegal
  49. March 2003: British Official Resigns in Protest of Iraq Invasion
  50. Mid-August 2002: Decision Made to Increase Bombing in Iraq ‘No-Fly’ Zones During NSC Meeting at White House