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 […]
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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, “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, […]
4/8/2003
On April 8, 2003, “A cassette tape purportedly from Bin Laden called on Muslims to rise up against Arab governments that were supporting the US-led attack on Iraq. ‘I ask the Muslim women to join jihad by providing food to mujahideen [holy warriors]. Elders should pray for us. I am proud of those martyrs who […]
4/8/2003
“On 8 April [2003], bin Laden issued a tape urging people to take up arms and join a jihad against the Muslim governments which supported the US invasion–namely Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He also addressed those already carrying out guerrilla operations inside Iraq to start a campaign of suicide bombing: ‘Do not […]