Director of Reconstruction in Iraq L. Paul Bremer issued Order No. 2 on May 23, 2003. It “dissolved Iraqi ‘entities,’ including the Iraqi army and intelligence services. This order threw the entire Iraqi army–half a million men–out of work at a time when unemployment in Iraq was estimated at between 50 and 70 percent. With […]
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5/23/2003
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) leader in Iraq L. Paul Bremer said: “On May 23 [2003], I signed CPA Order No. 2, ‘Dissolution of Entities.’ These included the Defense Ministry, all related national security ministries and offices, and all military formations, including the Republican Guard, Special Republican Guard, Baath Party Militia, and the Fedayeen Saddam. The […]
5/23/2003
Director of Reconstruction in Iraq L. Paul Bremer issued Coalition Provisional Authority Order 2 on May 23, 2003, which abolished the Iraqi Army. “The Order had called for the payment of a one-month stipend to the cashiered force. Following the riots [by former soldiers], however, and under pressure from a number of Iraqi politicians, Bremer […]
5/23/2003
On May 23, 2003, Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul “Bremer issued a second decree dissolving the security apparatus and the Iraqi military. The orders effectively pulled the rug out from under the country’s governing structure and also removed anyone with any knowledge of how the government bureaucracy and the military functioned, leaving the Iraqi […]
5/23/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 2 dissolves some Iraqi and military security structures.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, May 23, 2003 […]
5/22/2003
“The UN Security Council had voted on May 22 [2003] to lift the sanctions on Iraq that were first imposed on Saddam’s regime in 1990.” – L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq, Page 78 […]
5/22/2003
“The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was authorised under UN Resolution 1483, on 22 May, 2003.” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 106 […]
5/22/2003
On May 22, 2003, “the UN had passed unanimously UN Resolution 1483 which gave the UN a key role in all aspects of Iraq’s development.” – Tony Blair, A Journey, Page 449 […]
5/22/2003
“In late May [22, 2003], the Bush administration persuaded the UN Security Council to end the economic sanctions that had been in place against Iraq for nearly thirteen years, and to grant the United States and Britain an international mandate to occupy and reconstruct Iraq. The administration saw this as a significant diplomatic victory, since […]
5/22/2003
On May 22, 2003, “the United Nations Security Council explicitly recognized United States and Britain, under international law, as ‘occupying powers’ in Iraq. Security Council Resolution 1483 called upon America and Britain ‘to promote the welfare of the Iraqi people through the effective administration of the territory,’ while creating the conditions for Iraqis to ‘freely […]