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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. Summer 2002: Chalabi: Iraq Has Far More Chemical Weapons Than UN Reports
  2. August 2002: US Suspects Factory of Being Bioweapons Facility; Actually Storage Facility for Foodstuffs
  3. July 2001: Rice Says Iraq Not a Serious Military Threat
  4. 1950s: The First Zippe-Type Centrifuge is Produced
  5. December 2003: Mexican Government Asks British If UN Member States Were Spied On Before Iraq Invasion
  6. March 2003: US Learns of Initiative to Introduce Alternative UN Resolution, Thwarts Attempt
  7. Late January 2003: British Officials Order Translators and Analysts to Work with US Spy Operation Targeting UN Members
  8. March 2001: Cheney’s Energy Task Force Eyes Iraq’s Oil Reserves
  9. Mid-January 2004: Paul O’Neill Says He Never Saw Any Evidence that Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Destruction
  10. Early January 2002: Neoconservatives Purge Defense Department of Opponents to Iraq War
  11. July 2003: Office of Special Plans Renamed to its Old Name
  12. Early Summer 2002: Condoleezza Rice Learns that Energy Department Scientists Disagree with CIA Opinion on Aluminum Tubes
  13. May 2002: DIA Issues Fabricator Notice for Iraqi Defector Mohammad Harith
  14. 2001-2003: US Intelligence Bases Assessements on Information Provided by INC
  15. August 2002: Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group In Pentagon Disbanded
  16. 2000: US Political Parties Advocate Regime Change in Iraq
  17. July 2001: International Atomic Energy Agency Skeptical That Iraq Intended to Use Confiscated Tubes as Centrifuge Rotors
  18. February 2003-March 2003: US and Britain Spy on UN Secretary General
  19. February 2003-March 2003: Britain Joins US in Pressing for Second UN Resolution on Iraq
  20. December 2002: Iraq Producing Rockets Identical to Italian-made Medusa 81 rockets
  21. Early 2002: Office of Special Plans Ignores DIA Intel That Contradicts Its Assumptions on Iraq
  22. February 2002: Cheney to Inform Middle East Leaders of US Policy Towards Iraq; Will Not ‘Beg for Support’
  23. March 2003: Robin Cook: Blair Delayed War in Iraq by Several Months
  24. 1991-March 2003: Secret British Intelligence Cell ‘Cherry-Picked’ Intelligence
  25. May 2003: American Nuclear Physicist Attempts to Connect US Defense Officials with Iraqi Nuclear Scientist; Defense Officials Show No Interest
  26. Late February 2003: UN Nuclear Experts Certain that Aluminum Tubes Were Meant to be Used in Conventional Rockets
  27. October 2002: Chalabi Meets with US Oil Execs to ‘Carve Up’ Iraq’s Oil Fields after Hussein Overthrow
  28. 1991-2003: British Disinformation Campaign Exaggerates Iraqi WMD Threat
  29. Early July 2003: UN Official Sees No Evidence of WMD Program at Suspected Sites in Iraq
  30. Mid-September 2001: Neoconservatives Look to Tie Iraq to 1993 WTC Bombing, but Evidence Contradicts Their Theory
  31. Early November 2001: USA Today: Decision to Invade Iraq Made at This Time
  32. Early November 2001: New Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’ Is Drawing up Plans for Take Over of Iraq
  33. Early January 2003: President Bush Reportedly Tells Condoleezza Rice ‘We’re Going to Have To Go To War’
  34. Autumn 2001 and after: Senior Official: Bush’s Decision on Iraq Influenced by Other People
  35. Early March 2002: Bush Diverts Resources from War on Terror
  36. January 2002: Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group Under New Leadership
  37. August 2002: Neocons Give Unconvincing Presentation on Iraq Ties to Al-Qaeda; Information Used by Bush, Tenet, Right-Wing Supporters
  38. EarlyJuly 2002: Condoleezza Rice Tells State Department Official Decision to Invade Iraq Has Been Made
  39. 2002: Cheney Replaces CIA Briefer; ‘Chills’ Agency
  40. Fall 2001: CIA Analyst Presents State Department Intelligence Unit with ‘Unpersuasive’ Argument that Aluminum Tubes Were Intended for Iraqi Nuclear Program
  41. Early August 2002: Bush and Blair Discuss Plans to Depose Hussein
  42. Summer 2002: Officials Tell British Cabinet Minister the Decision to Invade Iraq Has Been Made
  43. Summer 2002: Wolfowitz Disseminates Opinion on Tubes from Non-Expert to his Friends in Government
  44. September 2002: ’Office of Special Plans’ Created; ‘Stovepipes’ Questionable Intelligence Reports to Office of Vice President
  45. May 2002-February 2003: Feith Holds Unrecorded Meeting with Israelis
  46. Late 2001: CIA Provides a ‘Compelling Case’ to Australian Intelligence Services that Aluminum Tubes Meant for Iraq Nuclear Program
  47. June 2002: Defense Official Secretly Attends Secret Meeting in Paris without White House Approval
  48. After the 1950s: Aluminum No Longer Used in Gas Centrifuges
  49. February 1999: Iraqi Ambassador’s Trip to Africa Is Widely Reported; US Shows No Concern
  50. (Summer 2006): Nine US Officials Say They Believe Forged Niger Documents Were Part of Covert Operation