“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 […]
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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 […]
5/16/2003
“In mid-May [16, 2003], the new American administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, announced an indefinite postponement of the earlier plan to form a national assembly and interim government by the end of the month. The United States was supported in this decision by its partners, the British. ‘It’s quite clear that you cannot transfer […]
5/16/2003
On May 16, 2003, Director of Reconstruction in Iraq Paul “Bremer told Iraqi leaders that an interim government would not be formed by the end of the month [as was originally planned by Jay Garner when he was Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance]–and that the idea of an interim government with […]
5/16/2003
“Following the US-led invasion of Iraq on 19 March 2003 there was a dramatic escalation of al Qaeda-linked attacks against European and Jewish targets. On 16 May 2003 suicide bombers killed forty-five and wounded up to 100 in coordinated attacks on a Jewish cultural center in Casablanca [Morocco].” – Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History […]
5/16/2003
From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “May 16, 2003: Casablanca, Morocco: A series of suicide bombings strike a Spanish restaurant, a hotel, a Jewish center, and the Belgian consulate, killing thirty-three people.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin Laden, […]
5/16/2003
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 […]
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 […]