mark occomore
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 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject: Iraq 5 Years On |
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It's Five Years since Iraq was invaded and it's still the most dangerous place in the World.
Did anyone watch GMTV this morning discussing Iraq?
Timeline of events that have taken place since the conflict began
It's been almost five years since British forces went to war alongside their US allies in Iraq.
Britain's remaining 4,100 troops in Iraq are confined to a base at Basra Air Station after handing over control of the city itself to local authorities in December.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said numbers will be reduced to 2,500 from the spring.
2003:
March 20: British troops help invade Iraq as part of a multi-national task force. At the peak of the operation some 46,000 British servicemen and women are deployed.
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April 9: Baghdad falls to US forces. Cheering Iraqis pull down a statue of the former dictator Saddam Hussein.
June 24: Six Royal Military Police soldiers are killed after an Iraqi mob descends on a civilian police station in Al Majar al-Kabir, near Basra.
December 13: Saddam Hussein is captured.
2004:
March 10: Lawyers acting for Attorney General Lord Goldsmith succeed in preventing his advice to the Government on the legality of the war against Iraq from being revealed in court.
March 22: Fourteen British soldiers are injured, three of them seriously, in Basra when hundreds of Iraqis throw stones and petrol bombs during protests about job shortages.
April 30: The Daily Mirror publishes photographs apparently showing the torture of an Iraqi detainee by a British soldier. The photographs are later revealed as fakes.
2005:
January 30: An RAF Hercules transport aircraft crashes north of Baghdad, killing up to 15 British service personnel.
February 23: Two British soldiers are convicted of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
October 19: Saddam Hussein appears in court for the first day of his trial over the killing of 142 men and boys in a 1982 massacre of Shia Muslims
2006:
January 31: Corporal Gordon Alexander Pritchard, 31, is killed in an explosion in Basra province, becoming the 100th member of the British armed forces to die in Iraq since the conflict began.
December 6: The Iraq Study Group's report in the US makes recommendations to President Bush on future policy in Iraq and describes the situation as grave and deteriorating.
December 30: Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging in the capital Baghdad.
2007:
January 10: President Bush announces thousands more US troops will be dispatched to shore up security in Baghdad.
February 5: Second Lieutenant Jonathan Carlos Bracho-Cooke, of the 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, becomes the 100th member of Britain's armed forces to be killed in action in Iraq when his patrol is hit by a roadside bomb in Basra.
February 21: Tony Blair announces the first step in a phased withdrawal of British forces from Iraq with the return of some 1,600 troops over the coming months.
May: Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of Al-Quaeda in Iraq, is reported to have been killed.
July: President Bush admits to limited progress in Iraq despite reinforcing troop levels there.
December: Britain hands over control of Basra to Iraqi forces.
2008:
February: Suicide bombing attack in the capital of Baghdad killing more than 50 people.
February: Prince Harry returns to the UK after spending almost 10 weeks in Afghanistan's volatile Helmand Province. His deployment was kept secret by a deal between officials and the British media. He is reported to be keen to return.
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