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On March 20, 2003 the United States invades Iran to destroy their weapons of mass destruction.
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Three weeks after the U.S invades Iraq, Iraqi citizens and U.S forces take down a statue of Saddam in Baghdad's Firdos Square.
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President George W. Bush declares the end of major combat operations in Iraq from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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Paul Bremer 3, the head of Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, signs an order to disband the Iraq army and intelligence service, sending hundreds of well-armed soldiers into the streets of Iraq.
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Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay are killed by U.S forces during a raid in the Northern city of Mosul.
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A suicide bomber was driving a cement mixer filled with explosives and crashed into the UN headquarters in Iraq killing Sergio Vieira de Mello
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The U.S gained information of Saddams' whereabouts from his bodyguards and family members. U.S troops find Saddam hiding in a one man hole by his childhood home of Tikrit as a means of suppressing violence in the Middle East.
