As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “656. Discussion between the US and UK on the content of a new UN Security Council resolution began the same day. Resolution 1483 (2003) was eventually adopted on 22 May.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report […]
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5/22/2003
“The United States acted swiftly to ensure that oil would remain dominantly a dollar commodity, by an executive order empowering Iraqi oil sales to be returned from euros to dollars. [President] Bush’s order of May 22, 2003 [Executive Order 13303], declaring a ‘national emergency,’ did not directly mention the dollar as such; but it directed […]
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 […]
5/21/2003
Former CIA Director George Tenet discussed al-Qa’ida’s attempt to get sanctions from the clergy to use weapons of mass destruction. Shaykh Nasir bin Hamid al-Fahd “helpfully gave al-Qa’ida just what they needed. In a document published in May [21] 2003 called ‘A Treatise on the Legal Status of Using Weapons of Mass Destruction Against Infidels,’ […]
5/20/2003
“After lowering the U.S. terror alert level following the conquest of Baghdad [Iraq], on May 20 [2003] the Department of Homeland Security brought the level back up to orange. The move was a response to intelligence suggesting the high risk of a new al Qaeda attack on U.S. soil. …former White House Press Secretary Ari […]
5/19/2003
“At [the entrenchment location of U.S. forces in Baghdad dubbed] Curley, however, most of the fighting had been against foreign Arabs and jihadists. Interrogation reports indicated that the Arab fighters were organized into platoons of thirty to forty and that there were an estimated 200 to 300 at Curley. Many had been brought over from […]
5/16/2003
Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul Bremer’s disbanding of the Iraqi army on May 16, 2003, “contradicted the recommendations of an interagency planning group chaired by the National Security Council.” – James Risen, State of War, Page 3 […]
5/16/2003
“The Bush Administration has paid a double penalty for excluding the UN from any real power in Iraq. The first penalty from freezing out the UN is the loss of expertise. No other body has as much experience as the UN in the management of nations after a conflict. …No UN official would have taken […]
5/16/2003
“The policies on de-Ba’athification, promulgated in [Director of Reconstruction in Iraq L. Paul] Bremer’s first act as Administrator, his CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] Order 1, issued on 16 May, 2003 and entitled ‘De-Ba’athification of Iraqi Society,’ angered large numbers of people. The Order called for the implementation of the previous CPA decision to disestablish the […]