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Iraq destroys six more Al Samoud missiles, bringing the total destroyed to 10 out of an estimated 100 missiles ordered eliminated by the UN. The White House continues to dismiss Iraq's actions as "part of its game of deception." Iraq indicates that it may halt destruction of the missiles if the U.S. indicates it will go to war anyway. 3 March 2003
The Iraq disarmament crisis was claimed as one of the primary issues that led to the multinational invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. Since the 1980s, Iraq was widely assumed to have been producing and extensively running the programs of biological , chemical and nuclear weapons .
Protests against a possible invasion of Iraq begin to take place around the world. In Australia, a "NO WAR" slogan is painted on the Sydney Opera House by protesters. [4] [5] This comes as Australia's Prime Minister John Howard announced he will commit troops to any American-led war against Iraq.
Iraq disarmament crisis; United Nations actions regarding Iraq; Support and opposition for the U.S. plan to invade Iraq; Iraq disarmament crisis timeline 1990-1996, 1997–2000, 2001–2003; Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction; Worldwide government positions on war on Iraq
Pages in category "Timelines of the Iraq War" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Iraq disarmament timeline 1990–2003; S.
May 1: U.S. President George W. Bush declares major combat operations in Iraq over.; May 15 - U.S. forces launch Operation Planet X, capturing roughly 260 people.; May 23 - L. Paul Bremer issues Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2, dissolving the Iraqi Army and other entities of the former Ba'athist state.
The US and Britain, while admitting that such a resolution was diplomatically desirable, insisted that Iraq had now been given enough time (noting also the time since the first disarmament resolutions of 1991) to disarm or provide evidence thereof, and that war was legitimized by 1441 and previous UN resolutions.
Iraq War – a protracted armed conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011, which began with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. [1] [2] The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi ...