Iraq again

Iraq War

  • Bombing of Baghdad

    Bombing of Baghdad
    The U.S led a coalition that bombed Baghdad after Hussein and his sons refused to leave Iraq.
  • The First Invasion

    The 1st invasion by United States on Ba'athist Iraq.
  • U.S launches Operation Planet X

    This captured hundred's of people
  • Dissolving of Iraqi army and Baathist State

    Dissolving of Iraqi army and Baathist State
    By L Paul Premer issuing Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2
  • The U.S miltary begins Operation Desert Scorpion

    The U.S miltary begins Operation Desert Scorpion
    A series of raids across Iraq intended to find Iraqi resistance and heavy weapons.
  • Uday and Quaysay Hussein killed in Mosul

    Uday and Quaysay Hussein killed in Mosul
  • Canal Hotel Bombing by truck at the United Nations envoy killing Sergio Viera de Mello and 21 others

  • 1st Post-Saddam government

  • Most Baghdad residents state the Iraqi dictator removal was worth the hardships they had to endure

  • Baghdad Bombings and beggining of the Ramadan Offensive

  • President George Bush ,akes visit to Baghdad to boost morale of normal Iraqis and troops.

  • Saddam Hussein captured in Operation Red Dawn

    Saddam Hussein captured in Operation Red Dawn
  • Japanese Iraq Reconstruction and Support Group- riskiest military expedition since WWII

  • 2 suicide bombers strike Kurdish political offices in the northern city of Arbil, killing 117 and injuring 113.

  • Ezzedine Salim killed in suicide attack

  • The New Iraqi government succeeds to the Transitional Governmeb and begins its functions

  • Trial of Saddam Hussein

    Trial of Saddam Hussein
  • A car bomb strikes an American Humvee handing out candy to children, killing up to 35 children

  • President George Bush says that the decision to invade Iraq was the result of faulty intelligence and accepts responsibilityof the decision

  • Constitution presented to Iraqi Parliament

  • Execution of Saddam Hussein

    Execution of Saddam Hussein
  • The last of U.K troops are withdrawn

    The last of U.K troops are withdrawn
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    U.S continues to keep troops in Iraq

  • American combat operations in Iraq end its last combat brigade departs for Kuwait.