“Early in April 2003, the CIA flew [Shi’ite cleric Majid] al-Khoei to Iraq and escorted him to his native city of Najaf. A few days after his arrival [April 10, 2003], he was hacked to death by a mob with the apparent complicity or even encouragement of a younger and then relatively unknown [radical Shi’ite] […]
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4/9/2003
In Iraq, “April 9 [2003] was the symbolic end of Saddam’s rule. His government collapsed as the US army occupied the banks of the Tigris River, and US Marines swept into downtown Baghdad… Watching some of the coverage between meetings, the US president [Bush] noted how small the crowds seemed to be.” – Bob Woodward, […]
4/9/2003
“The invaders took control of central Baghdad on April 9 [,2003]. Saddam had vanished, and other Iraqi leaders had surrendered or run away.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 33 […]
4/9/2003
“At 11:27 a.m. [on April 9, 2003, President] Bush spoke with [Spanish President Jose Maria] Aznar. ‘The strategy [in Iraq] is paying off,’ the president said. …Two days earlier, they had bombed a restaurant where they believed Saddam and his sons were, though they had not yet seen proof that any survived the first night’s […]
4/9/2003
In Iraq, “By April 9 [2003] Baghdad had fallen, and two days later U.S. and Kurdish fighters captured the final stronghold of Mosul to the north. In a campaign that lasted just over three weeks, 300,000 coalition troops had been deployed and only 140 had lost their lives.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, […]
4/9/2003
In Iraq, “the only government building in Baghdad that was protected [by U.S. military forces] against the attentions of the looters [who were ransacking most of the city in the immediate aftermath of the April 9, 2003, fall of the city] was the Ministry of Oil, which remained in pristine condition with two Abrams tanks […]
4/9/2003
“On 9 April [2003], US troops entered Baghdad and ‘helped’ a small group of Iraqis to topple a statue of Saddam Hussein.” – Clare Short, An Honourable Deception?, Page 195 […]
4/9/2003
“On entering Baghdad on April 9 [2003], the American troops stood by as looters burned and ransacked public buildings, including government ministries–except for the Oil Ministry, which they guarded diligently. Within the next few days, at a secret meeting in London, the Pentagon’s scheme of the sale of all Iraqi oil fields got a go-ahead […]
4/9/2003
“In April [9] 2003, Iraqis, with the help of US troops, toppled the bronze statue of Saddam Hussein in capital Baghdad, marking the fall of the Saddam regime.” – China Daily Staff, “Profile: Former Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein,” China Daily, June 30, 2004 […]
4/9/2003
Following the U.S. occupation of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, “The first seeds of Iraqi cynicism must have been sown by the discovery that the Ministry of Oil was one of the very few public buildings secured by US forces.” – Robin Cook, The Point of Departure, Page 329 […]