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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. Spring 2002: Focus Shifts from Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda to Iraq
  2. Spring 2002: CIA Reduces Operations and Personnel in Afghanistan
  3. Early 2002: Most of Task Force 5 Elite Force Is Redeployed from Afghanistan to Iraq
  4. November 2002-March 2003: Bush Officials, UN Disagree on Time Frame of Weapons Inspections
  5. 2002 and after: British Foreign Office Believes US Allegations Are ‘Totally Implausible’
  6. Mid-February 2001: Bush Appears Determined ‘to Dig Saddam Hussein out of Power’
  7. November 2002-March 2003: US, UN Disagree Over Handling of Iraqi Weapons Inspections
  8. July 2002: Michael Ledeen Attempts to Deal with Iranians, Despite Previous White House Instructions Not To
  9. March 2001: US Begins Giving Weapons Training to Members of INC
  10. December 2001: US General Tells Rumsfeld US Attacks in Iraq ‘No-Fly’ Zones Should Be Strategic
  11. November 2002-March 2003: US Insists Any Violations of Resolution 1441 Should be Considered Cause for War
  12. Early 2003: Defense Intelligence Agency Concludes Intelligence Leads from INC Are of Little Value
  13. November 2002-March 2003: Officials Say US Ready to Invade Iraq Unilaterally
  14. November 2002-March 2003: US Officials Say UN Weapons Inspectors’ Reports Should Be Used to Show whether Iraq Is Cooperating
  15. 2002-2003: Rationale for Iraq War Alternates between ‘Disarmament’ and ‘Regime Change’
  16. Mid-January 2002: Powell Says Proof of Iraq Noncompliance Forthcoming
  17. December 2002-March 2003: Critics Say US Trying to Use Inspections to Provoke Iraq
  18. Mid-January 2002: UN Finds Iraqis Cooperating with Weapons Inspections
  19. Mid-January 2002: UN Inspectors Find No Evidence of Iraqi WMD
  20. Between 1999 and 2000: France Concerned About Its Uranium Supplies in Niger
  21. March 2000: Italian Information Peddler Agrees to Pay Niger Embassy Source for Documents
  22. Mid-October 2001: Italian Intel Report Based on Forged Niger Documents Delivered to British Intelligence
  23. Summer 2004: Italian Information Peddler Rocco Martino Admits Role in Disseminating Forged Documents
  24. October 2005: Former Powell Aide Calls for Legislation to Reform Inter-Agency and National Security Decision Making Processes; Strongly Criticizes Neocons in Bush Administration
  25. August 2002: Top Bush Officials Form Group to Sell Iraq War to Public, Congress, and Allies
  26. January 2003-March 2003: Bush Officials Debate Whether to Seek Second UN Resolution
  27. 2000: Michael Ledeen: Leaders May Have to ‘Enter into Evil’ under Certain Circumstances
  28. After November 2000: Neoconservative Michael Ledeen Regularly Provides Karl Rove with Advice, which Sometimes Becomes Official Policy
  29. Late June 2002: Italian Information Peddler Sells Fake Documents to French Implicating Iraq in the Attempted Purchase of Uranium from Niger
  30. Late September 2002: CIA Analyst Advises National Security Council Member to Remove Africa-Uranium Claim from Upcoming Speech
  31. February 2002: DIA Suggests Prisoner Probably Lying about Al-Qaeda Ties to Iraq; but His Allegations Will Be Used in Bush Speech Later
  32. April 2002: Neoconservatives Say War against Iraq Is about Redrawing ‘Geopolitical Map of the Middle East’
  33. Late September 2001-Early October 2001: Top Italian Officials Provided with Details of Alleged Iraq-Niger Uranium Deal
  34. 2002-2003: CIA Officer Reportedly Never Sees Evidence of WMD in Iraq
  35. January 2003: CIA Officer Tells 50 CIA Subordinate Officers To Produce Intelligence that Supports Case for War with Iraq
  36. April 2003: US Intelligence Analysts Complain about Pressure to Tie Iraq to Al-Qaeda
  37. 2002-March 2003: CIA Analysts Know that Iraq Has no WMD nor Ties to Al-Qaeda; CIA ‘Serving the Agenda’ of Bush Administration
  38. 2002: Senior CIA Operative Instructed by CIA Managers to Falsify His Findings
  39. 1960s: Ahmed Chalabi Studies at University of Chicago; Meets Albert Wohlstetter
  40. 1977: Ahmed Chalabi Founds Petra Bank in Jordan
  41. 1963: Chalabi Family and Others Found Middle East Banking Corp.
  42. 1979-1989: Petra Bank in Jordan Appears to Flourish
  43. Spring 2004: Neoconservative Calls Chalabi a ‘Treacherous, Spineless Turncoat’
  44. 1997-1998: Ahmed Chalabi Befriends Neoconservatives, Advocates Overthrow of Iraqi Government
  45. June 1992: Iraqi National Congress Formed
  46. October 1992: Shiite Groups Join INC; Individuals Chosen to Lead Group
  47. After mid-April 2003: Other Reasons for Invading Iraq Come to Fore
  48. 1992-1996: CIA Provides Support to the Iraqi National Congress; INC Misuses Funds
  49. August 1996: Iraqi Forces Invade Kurdistan
  50. 1985: Ahmed Chalabi Introduced to Richard Perle