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Events Recently Added to the Iraq Under US Occupation timeline
- 11/18
- Children’s Roadside Soda Stand Evidence of ‘Thousands’ of New Iraqi Businesses, Says Commerce Secretary, Mid-October 2003, posted by blackmax
- 11/12
- Baghdad Museum Losses Far Less than Originally Reported?, June 13, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 11/12
- National Museum Reopens, Many Looted Items Restored, February 23, 2009, posted by blackmax
- 11/4
- White House: WMD Claim ‘Still Stands,’ but Iraq War Justified because Iraqi People Now Free of ‘Tyranny’, June 9, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 11/4
- Generals, CPA Administrator Deny Leadership Role in Finding Iraqi WMD, June 5, 2003, posted by blackmax
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What's New?
8/10/2009 More Entries Forthcoming
We have not forgotten the Iraq Occupation project! However, other projects have taken up the majority of our efforts in recent weeks. We have recently added a lengthy entry documenting the information gleaned from non-coercive interrogations of Saddam Hussein, but much more remains to be documented. We welcome your contributions.
5/15/2007 New Entries for the Week of May 5-12
Recent entries deal primarily with US efforts to pressure the Iraqi government into passing an oil law that would open the Iraqi oil sector up to foreign investment on capital-friendly terms.
5/9/2007 New Entries for the Weeks of April 22-May 4
Thirty-six new entries have been added to the Iraq under US Occupation project since April 22. Nearly all of them relate to the controversial oil law that the US government and international oil companies have been pressuring the Iraqi government to pass. The oil law has been widely criticized by civil society organizations and Iraqi oil workers as a mechanism that … More
4/21/2007 Submissions for week of April 15-21
Entries added this week again focus on attempts early in the occupation to impose neoliberal structural reforms on Iraq’s economy, despite resistance from Iraq’s ministers. Other entries focus on US and British efforts to influence the country’s oil development policy. There’s also one really interesting entry on an op-ed piece written by … More |
Recently Added Events
Showing 1-20 of 100 recently added events: next 20 - 11/18
- Children’s Roadside Soda Stand Evidence of ‘Thousands’ of New Iraqi Businesses, Says Commerce Secretary, Mid-October 2003, posted by blackmax
- 11/12
- Baghdad Museum Losses Far Less than Originally Reported?, June 13, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 11/12
- National Museum Reopens, Many Looted Items Restored, February 23, 2009, posted by blackmax
- 11/4
- White House: WMD Claim ‘Still Stands,’ but Iraq War Justified because Iraqi People Now Free of ‘Tyranny’, June 9, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 11/4
- Generals, CPA Administrator Deny Leadership Role in Finding Iraqi WMD, June 5, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 11/3
- Wolfowitz Says WMD No Longer a Reason to Stay in Iraq, Warns ‘Foreigners’ Not to ‘Meddle in Iraq’s Business’, July 22, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 11/3
- Neoconservative Foreign Policy Adviser Says ‘Relax, Celebrate Victory,’ Prepare for Further Invasions, May 1, 2003 and After, posted by blackmax
- 11/3
- Neoconservative Columnist Claims Only ‘33’ Artifacts Looted from Museum, June 13, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 11/1
- New York Times Reporter Blames Failure to Find WMD on Pentagon Ineptitude, July 20, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 10/30
- Baghdad’s National Museum Ransacked; Over 170,000 Antiquities Stolen or Destroyed, April 13, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 10/30
- General: Only 17 Artifacts Looted from Baghdad Museum, May 7, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 10/30
- White House: WMD Will Be Found Because ‘That Is What This War Is About’, April 10, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 10/30
- Baghdad Museum Evacuated and Locked, April 8-12, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 10/30
- Congress Gives Control of Reconstruction Funds to State Department, April 2, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 10/30
- Neoconservative Says It Is Time for Pro-War Supporters to Celebrate, April 10, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 10/30
- Hussein Barely Eludes Capture by US Troops, April 7, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 10/30
- US Ambassador Tells Israeli Officials that US Will ‘Take Care’ of Other Countries after Iraq, April 3, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 10/30
- Iraqi Journalist Insults Bush by Hurling Shoes at Him, December 14, 2008, posted by blackmax
- 10/29
- Iraqi Orphanage Unveils ‘Shoe Monument’ Honoring Insult to Bush, January 29, 2009, posted by blackmax
- 10/29
- ’Shoe-Throwing’ Journalist to Be Freed from Prison, September 14, 2009, posted by blackmax
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Recently Updated Events
Showing 1-20 of 94 recently updated events: next 20 - 10/30
- Rumsfeld on Looting, Vandalism: ‘Stuff Happens’, April 11, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 8/17
- Bush: ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq, May 1, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 8/12
- Saddam Hussein’s Government Collapses; US Orchestrates Propaganda Stunt with Toppling Statue, April 9, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 8/7
- CNN Military Analyst Admits to Drinking ‘Government Kool-Aid’ as Part of Propaganda Operation, June 25, 2005, posted by blackmax
- 5/19
- US Military Begins Massive Offensive to Retake Fallujah; Observers Cite Systematic Brutality Towards Civilians, November 8, 2004, posted by blackmax
- 4/12
- Reconstruction Agency Chief Admits ‘We Started Very Slowly’, March 11, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 4/12
- Paul Bremer Dissolves Iraqi Army, May 23, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 1/26
- US and Partners Invade Iraq, March 19, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 1/3
- CPA Turns over Iraq’s Sovereignty to Interim Government, June 28, 2004, posted by blackmax
- 12/4
- Pentagon Creates Coalition Provisional Authority, January 2003, posted by blackmax
- 12/3
- Coalition Provisional Authority Arrives in Baghdad, April 21, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 7/26
- US Soldier Jessica Lynch Rescued in ‘Dramatic’ Special Operations Mission, April 1, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 7/16
- Rumsfeld Says Iraqi Government and International Community Should Pay Share of Reconstruction Costs, March 27, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 6/1
- CBS News Anchor Dan Rather Says His News Coverage Has Pro-US Bias, April 14, 2003, posted by blackmax
- 5/28
- Existence of Other Pentagon Propaganda Campaigns Likely, Authors Write, April 29, 2008, posted by blackmax
- 5/3
- McCain Repeatedly Suggests US Will Be in Iraq for ‘Maybe a Hundred Years’—Or Perhaps ‘a Thousand’, January 3-27, 2008, posted by blackmax
- 4/11
- Cheney Dismisses Public Opposition to Iraq Occupation, March 19, 2008, posted by blackmax
- 2/28
- Letter Tying Al-Zarqawi to Al-Qaeda Leaders Makes Front Page News; Later Revealed to Be US Propaganda, February 9, 2004, posted by blackmax
- 2/24
- Bush Administration Considering ‘Salvador Option’ for Iraq, January 8, 2005, posted by Paul
- 2/11
- US Admits Using Napalm-like Bombs Against Iraqis, March 21, 2003 and After, posted by blackmax
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This project is an attempt to document the various US misdeeds committed during its occupation of Iraq, which started in April of 2003. It takes a look at the strategic military blunders, coerced neoliberal reforms, human rights abuses, and corrupt contracting practices that plagued the US’ nation-building efforts and eventually led to Iraq’s current anarchic state of sectarian chaos.
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