Following Coalition Provisional Authority leader Jerry Bremer’s May 16, 2003, decision to outlaw the Baath Party: “Lieutenant General Richard Sanchez, the U.S. Commander in Iraq, subsequently described the order as ‘devastating… [E]ssentially it eliminated the entire government and civic capacity of the nation.’ “ – Dov S. Zakheim, A Vulcan’s Tale, Page 204 […]
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5/16/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 1 (de-Ba’athification of Iraq Society).” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, May 16, 2003 […]
5/16/2003
“One of [Paul] Bremer’s first acts, on May 16 [2003], was to disband the Iraqi army and the Iraqi Defense Ministry. He also dissolved the police force, removed members of Saddam’s Ba’ath Party from government posts, and dismissed many teachers and other civil servants who had connections with the Ba’athists.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, […]
5/16/2003
“By [Lieutenant General Jay] Garner’s calculation the U.S. now had at least 350,000 more enemies [in Iraq, on May 16, 2003] than it had the day before–the 50,000 Baathists, the 300,000 officially unemployed soldiers from the army, and a handful from the now defunct Iraqi leadership group.” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 200 […]
5/16/2003
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) leader L. Paul “Bremer’s first act of business in Iraq was to define his powers as administrator of the CPA with the enactment of Coalition Provisional Authority Regulation Number 1 on May 16, 2003. …Bremer altered Iraqi law in order to implement an economic model preferred by the Bush administration…to implement […]
5/16/2003
Director of Reconstruction in Iraq L. Paul Bremer issued Coalition Provisional Authority Order No. 1 on May 16, 2003. It “provided for the ‘De-Ba’athification of Iraqi Society.’ All Ba’ath party members holding any position [of importance]…were removed from their jobs. With this Order, 120,000 of Iraq’s most experienced and highest ranking civil servants…were fired.” – […]
5/16/2003
On May 16, 2003, “another series of al Qaeda-linked bombings erupted in Casablanca, Morocco, with a death toll of forty-one.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 443 […]
5/16/2003
On May 16, 2003, “the New York Times reported that…[9/11 mastermind] Khalid Shaikh Mohammed had confessed to interrogators that ‘landmarks in New York and Washington, previously selected by Mr. bin Laden, remain on al Qaeda’s target list.’ Included on that list was the Sears Tower in Chicago…” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page […]
5/16/2003
“On May 16 [2003], a week after [Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul] Bremer arrived [in Iraq], he signed Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 1, which was designed to extinguish the Baath Party and Baathists from Iraqi government and society. …Excising Baathists hollowed out the entire Iraqi civil service and professional control over the ministries. […]
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 […]