Timeline
- 05-01-03 Bush Commends Military (BBC News - Bush)
"Our nation and our coalition are proud of this accomplishment yet it is you, the members of the United States military, who achieved it."
"Your courage your willingness to face danger for your country and for each other made this day possible. Because of you, our nation is more secure. Because of you, the tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free." 5-03
- 05-01-03 Bush Hails Win in Iraq (USAToday.com - McQuillan and Benedetto)
"President Bush joined cheering sailors and Marines on an aircraft carrier Thursday night and hailed America's triumph in Iraq but warned that the war against terrorism is far from over." 5-03
- 05-08-03 Iraq's Debt (BBC News)
"With Iraq's future in the balance and billions in debt to start tackling once the fighting is done, the vultures are beginning to gather." 5-03
- 05-08-03 Lifting Sanctions - Questions and Answers (BBC News - Reynolds)
"At some stage, oil money is going to have to be used to pay for rebuilding and which companies get that money might prove contentious as those are likely to be mainly American and other foreign firms." 5-03
- 05-08-03 Looted Iraqi Artefacts Recovered (BBC News)
"US customs agents working in Iraq say they have recovered thousands of items looted from the national museum in Baghdad following the fall of Saddam Hussein."
"They report that about 40,000 manuscripts and 700 other artefacts have been retrieved after being stolen from the museum, which housed one of the Middle East's most comprehensive archaeological collections." 5-03
- 05-08-03 U.S. Asks for Control of Oil Profits (BBC News)
"Under the US proposals, a new body comprising Britain and the United States - known as The Authority - would decide how income from the sale of Iraqi oil would be spent."
"The UN, which currently controls Iraq's oil revenue, would be confined to an advisory role." 5-03
- 05-08-03 Vice President's Former Company May Operate Iraq's Oil Fields (BBC News)
"Halliburton's role in post-war Iraq includes operating Iraqi oil fields, new documents have revealed." 5-03
- 05-09-03 U.S. Proposal to U.N. for Lifting Sanctions in Iraq (BBC News - U.S.)
Provides "full text of draft resolution the United States plans to introduce to the United Nations Security Council on Friday, co-signed by Britain and Spain." 5-03
- 05-10-03 Americans Seem Uninterested in Finding Weapons (Independent - Reeves)
Describes interviews with Iraqis who work as administrators for the Iraqi rail system. Americans, they say, have not asked them about biological or chemical weapons. "Suggestions that the Americans appear surprisingly unengaged in their mission to unearth weapons of mass destruction come as no surprise to many Iraqis, who have long maintained that the US occupation is about seizing their oil." 5-03
- 05-10-03 Shia Leader Calls for a Free State (Independent - Macintyre)
"The most prominent leader among Iraq's majority Shia Muslims yesterday crossed into the country for the first time after 23 years of exile and told an ecstatic rally of up to 100,000 supporters that Iraq must have a 'totally independent' government." 5-03
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