iraq war

By alonzo the king of death

  • the US being the invasion of iraq

    The United States begins the Invasion of Iraq; coordinating a satellite-guided tomahawk cruise missile strike on Baghdad. American, British, Australian, Polish, and Danish military operations begin; moving ground troops move into Iraq.

  • The fall of Baghdad

    April 10: Fall of Baghdad: Coalition forces moved into Baghdad, symbolically ending the end of the twenty-four year reign of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

  • President George W. Bush

    declares major conbat operations over.

  • U.S forces launch

    Operation Planet X, capturing hundreds of people.

  • L. Paul Bremer issues

    Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2, dissolving the Iraqi army and other entities of the Baathist state.

  • The U.S. military begins

    Operation Desert Scorpion, a series of raids across Iraq intended to find Iraqi resistance and heavy weapons.

  • Six British Royal Military Police

    Royal Military Police killed by a mob in Al Majar Al Kabir in Southern Iraq.

  • President Bush

    challenges those attacking US troops to "Bring 'em on!"

  • The Iraqi Governing Council

    is established under the authority of the US Coalition Provisional Authority

  • Uday and Qusay Hussein

    Saddam Hussein's sons, are killed in Mosul

  • Jordanian embassy is bombed,

    the first car bombing of the occupation.

  • Canal Hotel bombing

    Truck bomb at the United Nations headquarters kills the top UN envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and 21 others

  • Influential Shiite

    cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim is killed in a car bomb blast as he leaves his mosque after Friday prayers. At least 84 others are killed.

  • First post-Saddam government.

  • Gallup poll

    shows majority of Iraqis expect better life in 5 years. Around two-thirds of Baghdad residents state the Iraqi dictator's removal was worth the hardships they've been forced to endure.

  • David Kay's Iraq Survey Group

    report finds little evidence of WMD in Iraq, although the regime did intend to develop more weapons with additional capabilities. Such plans and programs appear to have been dormant, the existence of these though were concealed from UNSCOM during the inspections that began in 2002. Weapons inspectors in Iraq did find a clandestine "network of biological laboratories" and a deadly strain of botulinum. The US-sponsored search for WMD has so far cost $300 million and is projected to cost around $60