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2003 invasion of Iraq
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The 2003 invasion of Iraq (March 20, 2003 - May 1, 2003) was the war fought by the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Poland and some other countries against Iraq, to end the rule of Saddam Hussein.[1] The main reason that the war started was said to be because the British and American Governments believed that Iraq had dangerous weapons of mass destruction (such as chemical or nuclear weapons) that could be used against other countries.[2] This turned out after the invasion to not be true.
Another reason for the start of the war was that 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. The war was extremely controversial. Many British and American people blamed British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the American President, George W. Bush.
Paratroopers landed in the far north of Iraq and a few soldiers attacked from the sea, but most invaded from Kuwait in the south. 4,734 NATO soldiers were killed in Iraq war including 4,600 U.S. servicemen,[4][5] 179 UK servicemen and 139 Other NATO soldiers with a total of 4900 casualties. 31,882 U.S. servicemen and over 3,600 UK servicemen were wounded in Iraq.[6][7][8] More than 100,000 Iraqi civilians who were not soldiers were also killed.[9]
Aftermath
On December 30 2008, US soldier Christopher Lotter was killed in Tikrit as retaliation for Saddam's execution on December 30 2006 [1]. On April 18 2010, ISIS leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi were killed in a raid 10 km (6 mi) of Tikrit in a safe house.
The United Nations Secretary-General said that, "[F]rom our point of view and from the Charter point of view [the war] was illegal."[10]
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. https://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. https://www.webcitation.org/66PPk4kX1?url=http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ↑ "Archived copy". http://www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf.
- ↑ "Archived copy". http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/2010.05.html.
- ↑ "iCasualties Iraq: iCasualties Home Page". http://www.icasualties.org/.
- ↑ "U.S. Department of Defense". https://www.defense.gov/.
- ↑ "Archived copy". http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/7E86BD05-D4FF-4677-97AA-CCFBDCFE4E34/0/optelic_31jul09.pdf.
- ↑ "Iraq Body Count". http://www.iraqbodycount.org/.
- ↑ Excerpts: Annan interview. 16 September 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3661640.stm.
Other websites
- Encyclopedia Britannica's Article on 2003 War
- Architects of Illegal American-Iraq 2003 war: George Bush jr, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld found guilty of war crimes!
- 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 Iraqfi:Liittouman hyökkäys Irakiin vuonna 2003
