2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq (March 20, 2003 - December 31, 2011 (planned withdrawel)) was the war fought by the United States, Great Britain, 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 few low level Al qaeda members were found hiding in Iraq before the invasion, all were of lower standings. 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]
[change] 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. 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
- ↑ http://www.icasualties.org/
- ↑ http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf
- ↑ http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/7E86BD05-D4FF-4677-97AA-CCFBDCFE4E34/0/optelic_31jul09.pdf
- ↑ http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
[change] 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
