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
“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
“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 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 […]
5/21/2003
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
“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
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
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 […]