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2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq (March 20, 2003 - December 18, 2011) was the war fought by the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and some other countries against Iraq, to end the rule of Saddam Hussein.[1] The main reason that the war started was the United States thought that Iraq had dangerous weapons of mass destruction that they were not telling the truth about.[2] That turned out not to be true. Many people thought that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one of the leaders of al-Qaeda, was hiding in Iraq after the September 11, 2001 attacks.[3] Though Saddam Hussein was not involved in the planning of the September 11 attacks, many people accused him of giving al-Qaeda a safe place to hide from the United States. However that was not true since only a few low level al-Qaeda members were found hiding in Iraq before the invasion.
4,734 Nato soldiers were killed in Iraq war including 4,416 US soldiers,[4][5] 179 UK soldiers and 139 Other NATO soldiers. 31,882 US soldiers and over 3,600 UK soldiers were wounded in Iraq.[6][7][8] More than 100,000 Iraqi civilians who were not soldiers were also killed.[9]
References
- ↑ "Countries involved in the war". www.islamonline.net. http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-07/30/article04.shtml. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ↑ "Reason for the war". www.whitehouse.gov. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ↑ "Thoughts of the September 11 attacks". www.whitehouse.gov. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ↑ http://www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf
- ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/2010.05.html[dead link]
- ↑ iCasualties: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Casualties
- ↑ http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf
- ↑ http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/7E86BD05-D4FF-4677-97AA-CCFBDCFE4E34/0/optelic_31jul09.pdf
- ↑ Iraq Body Count Archived 9 November 2009 at WebCite
Other websites
- War Report. More than 5,000 articles, documents and analyses of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, updated four times a week—Project on Defense Alternatives.
- CIA’s final report
- Occupation of Iraq Timeline at the History Commons
- Morgues so full, bodies turned away
- The War In Context News aggregator
- ProCon's examination of Iraq Invasion
- by Professor Dr. Sedat Laciner, "Ten Impasses of the Resistance in Iraq"
- Amnesty International Report on Iraq[[fi:Liittouman hyökkäys Irakiin vuonna 200
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