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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. Late 1998: ’Downing Plan’ to Overthrow Hussein Government Rejected by General Zinni
  2. August 2002: Funding for Iraqi National Congress Taken up by Defense Department
  3. Mid-February 2003: US Considers Plan to Convince UN to Authorize Use of Force against Iraq
  4. After 1996: Ahmed Chalabi Moves to Washington to Lobby US Government
  5. July 1998: Prominent Neoconservative Says INC Control of Northern Iraq Would Increase Israeli Security
  6. 1997: Ahmed Chalabi Says He Supports Normal Relations between Iraq and Israel
  7. 1998: Ahmed Chalabi Makes Friends with Republican Senators
  8. May 1991: President Bush Authorizes CIA to Create Conditions for Removal of Saddam Hussein; CIA Hires PR Firm
  9. After 1989: Jordanian Investigators Discover that Petra Bank’s Auxiliary US ‘Office’ Is a Chalabi-Owned Estate in Middleburg, Virginia
  10. (1994): Ahmed Chalabi Fabricates Intelligence, Forges Documents
  11. March 1995: Chalabi Military Operation against Saddam Hussein Fails
  12. 1975: US Agrees to Ensure Israel’s Energy Security
  13. 1998: Ahmed Chalabi Speaks of Restoring Iraqi Oil Pipeline to Israel
  14. July 1998: Ahmed Chalabi Asks UN Weapons Inspector to Do Intelligence Work for INC; Reveals His Own Ambitions for Iraq
  15. February 2001: Paul Wolfowitz Promises that Saddam Will Be Removed on Bush’s Watch
  16. February 2002: Ahmed Chalabi Describes Plan to Overthrow Saddam Hussein
  17. 2004: US Government Has Never Questioned Jordanian Investigator about Ahmed Chalabi’s Involvement in the Petra Bank Collapse
  18. September 2000: Chalabi’s Brothers Convicted in Geneva for Forging Documents
  19. Late 1990s: Iraqi National Congress Sets up Office in Iran with US Money
  20. December 1997: Ahmed Chalabi Tells Scott Ritter He Has Close Ties to Iranian Intelligence
  21. 1958: Ahmed Chalabi Flees Iraq with his Family
  22. After May 1991: CIA Contacts Ahmed Chalabi
  23. (December 2004): President Bush Asks the King of Jordan to Pardon Ahmed Chalabi for Role in Petra Bank Collapse
  24. (March 2002): Bush: ‘F__k Saddam. We’re Taking Him Out’
  25. Fall 2002-January 2003: US State Departments and Former Oil Executives Plan Iraq’s Post-Invasion Oil Industry
  26. June 1999: Iraqi Delegation Reportedly Discusses ‘Expanding Commercial Relations’ with Niger
  27. January 1996: CIA Ends Its Relationship with Chalabi
  28. 2000-2002: State Department Begins Funding Iraqi National Congress
  29. Late February 2002: Iraqis Improving Cooperation With UN Weapons Inspectors
  30. 1994: Curveball Starts Working for the Chemical Engineering and Design Center
  31. Late February 2002: Blix Readies List of Disarmament Tasks for Iraq
  32. November 1999: Curveball Seeks Asylum in Germany; Tells Germans that Iraq is Developing Biological Weapons Laboratories
  33. January 2000-September 2001: Curveball Debriefed by German Intelligence
  34. Early 2001: British Intelligence Tells CIA that It Is ‘Not Convinced’ Curveball is a Reliable Source
  35. May 2000: CIA Physician Meets Curveball; Performs Blood Test
  36. July 2003: Iraq Survey Group Member Immediately Concludes Alleged Bio-Weapons Trailers Designed to Produce Hydrogen
  37. March 2004: Iraq Survey Group Member Quits in Protest of CIA Coverup
  38. Mid-March 2004: CIA Interviews Curveball; Confirms that He’s a Fabricator
  39. Late March 2004-May 2004: CIA Recalls Intelligence Reports Based on Information Provided by Curveball
  40. Fall 2003: CIA Informs Bush of Problems with Sources for Claims about Iraq’s Alleged Biological Weapons
  41. June 2003-Late 2003: CIA, German Intelligence Learn the Truth of Curveball’s Background
  42. December 2003: David Kay Tells George Tenet He Believes Iraq Had No WMDs
  43. Late September 2002: Energy Department Official Supports Assessment That Iraq Has Nuclear Program, Ignoring Position of Its Scientists
  44. November 2001: Intelligence Report Assesses that Tubes Imported by Iraq Could be Used for Gas Centrifuge Rotors
  45. September 2002: DIA Report Acknowledges Potential Conventional Use for Aluminum Tubes
  46. Early Summer 2001: British Intelligence Report Suggests Tubes Are Meant for Iraqi Air Force
  47. December 2002: Senior IAEA Official Briefs Powell on Agency’s Investigation of the Aluminum Tubes
  48. 1996: International Atomic Energy Agency Reports that Iraq Is Using Aluminum Tubes for its Conventional Rocket System
  49. Summer 2001: CIA Asks France to Investigate Security of Uranium Mines in France
  50. Late April or Early May 2002-June 2002: French Intelligence Investigates Purported Uranium Agreement between Iraq and Niger; Determines the Allegation Is Baseless