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	Iraq Crisis, 2002–2003
		The U.S. Britain, and Spain submit a proposed resolution to the UN Security Council that states that "Iraq has failed to take the final opportunity afforded to it in Resolution 1441," and that it is now time to authorize use of military force against the country.
		Iraq's interim governing council, composed of 25 Iraqis appointed by American and British officials, is inaugurated.
		Iraq's deposed leader Saddam Hussein is captured by American troops.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/iraqtimeline2.html (1814 words)

	Operation Desert Scorpion (Iraq 2003) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The area of operation was mainly in north-central Iraq and was conducted between June 15 and June 29, 2003.
		The operation followed Operation Peninsula Strike, which had ended three days earlier, and was part of a U.S response to a major spike in attacks by anti-coalition forces that began in late May of 2003.
		Operation Desert Scorpion also resulted in the seizure of eight million Dollars as well as a large sum of British pounds and Euros.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Desert_Scorpion_(Iraq_2003) (457 words)

	Iraq War - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Iraq War (2003-present) is an ongoing conflict in Iraq, which began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and continues to the present in the form of an insurgent rebellion[1][2].
		The 2003 invasion was undertaken by a multinational "Coalition of the willing"[3] led by the United States and the United Kingdom, which invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein's government on the basis that Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction and so was a threat to the world.
		Conflict between Iraq and the U.N. developed during 1998, however, which led to the withdrawal of the U.N. and the authorization of a bombing campaign by the Clinton administration to destroy suspected WMD facilities.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Iraq_War (4598 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Iraq Update
		The goal of Operation Desert Scorpion, in keeping with our ultimate mission, will be to help establish a permissive and secure environment and to facilitate a rapid transition to Iraqi self-sufficiency.
		Tikrit, Iraq, June 14, 2003 – In a textbook-style, joint operation, the 4th Infantry Division and supporting units from Task Force Ironhorse, concluded an extensive raid on June 12, 2003.
		Operation Peninsula Strike incorporated a variety of units, utilizing the overwhelming firepower and effects of a joint and combined arms team.
	www.defendamerica.mil /iraq/update/june2003/iu061603.html (655 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. begins new military operation in Iraq - Jun. 16, 2003
		American troops in Iraq began a new operation Sunday that targets "Baath party loyalists, terrorist organizations and criminal elements" and delivers humanitarian aid to Iraqis outside Baghdad, according to the U.S. Central Command.
		The operation began early Sunday with raids in the town of Fallujah, where elements believed to be loyal to the toppled regime of Saddam Hussein have launched repeated attacks against U.S. troops.
		Operation Desert Scorpion also includes engineering and civil affairs initiatives to repair damaged infrastructure and to support the growth of police forces and local government.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/06/15/sprj.irq.main/index.html (668 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Iraq War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Iraq War or War in Iraq, is both an informal and a formal American term for the military conflict in Iraq including the 2003 Invasion of Iraq by the United States and United Kingdom, overthrow of the governing regime, ocupation and subsequent military activities by US, UK and other forces.
		The term Iraq war is often left uncapitalized to indicate the legal informality and the lack of clarity in distinguishing among various operations and violent episodes.
		The War of Iraq (2003) was the war in the Middle East country of Iraq, which resulted from the the Iraq disarmament crisis of late 2002 and began with the invasion of 2003.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/iraq_war (6373 words)

	INSTANT 11
		IRAQ: The U.S. military said two soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were killed and one was wounded in an ambush on Sunday when their convoy came under rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire in northern Iraq.
		IRAQ: Soldiers reported that one of their colleagues was killed when he was ejected from his vehicle and two others were wounded when a powerful bomb, apparently hidden in an abandoned vehicle, blasted a truck in a U.S. supply convoy west of Baghdad on Wednesday.
		IRAQ: The pro-American mayor of the western city of Hadithah was fatally shot while driving through the town on Wednesday in continuing violence in Iraq that also took the lives of a U.S. soldier in a supply convoy and an 8-year-old Iraqi in an attack on U.S. forces guarding a Baghdad bank.
	www.emergency.com /iraq_brief2003c.htm (18407 words)

	Attacking Iraq - Operation Desert Scorpion
		By June 16, 2003 Coalition forces in the Baghdad area conducted 11 raids and detained 156 individuals.
		As of July 29, 2003, Operation Desert Scorpion was summarized by DOD officials as having consisted of 13 raids and resulted in the capture of 38 detainees, including nine captured by the 1st Armored Division in the course of the seven raids the unit conducted in Baghdad.
		Operation Desert Scorpion had also resulted in the seizure of $8M as well as a large sum of British pounds and Euros.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/desert_scorpion.htm (405 words)

	Enigma America » Timeline on Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Iraq, with the blessing and official approval of the US government, purchased computer controlled machine tools, computers, scientific instruments, special alloy steel and aluminum, chemicals, and other industrial goods for Iraq’s missile, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs.
		April 15, 2003 Gen. Jay Garner, appointed by the United States to run post-war Iraq until a new government is put in place, met with various Iraqi leaders to begin planning the new Iraqi federal government.
		July 7, 2003 Bush administration concedes that evidence that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapons program by seeking to buy uranium from Africa, cited in January State of the Union address and elsewhere, was unsubstantiated and should not have been included in speech.
	enigma.blogtemps.com /iraq-war-us-involvement-timeline (5824 words)

	Operation Desert Scorpion : Fool Moon
		After the three-hour operation in Fallujah, eight suspected leaders of the anti-American resistance were taken into custody.
		The nationwide campaign, dubbed Operation Desert Scorpion, "is a combat operation to defeat the remaining pockets of resistance," said a spokesman for the Army's V Corps.
		Officials said the operation was designed to limit inconvenience to residents.
	foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php?Number=92221 (269 words)

	Troops step up sweeps against loyalists / U.S. hunts down Hussein holdouts, stashed weapons
		The operation, named Desert Scorpion, is the broadest military effort in Iraq since major combat ended May 1.
		The broad and long-term nature of the operation suggests that Americans here expect prolonged resistance and believe that unless the instigators are rooted out, it will be impossible to create the safe environment necessary to set up an independent Iraqi government and allow aid organizations to work.
		Desert Scorpion is the broadest operation in scope and size since the end of the war," said Sgt. Brian Thomas, the spokesman in Baghdad for the Coalition Joint Task Force 7.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/16/MN128973.DTL (849 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. evaluates success of 'Desert Scorpion' - Jul. 8, 2003
		Britain's foreign secretary defends intelligence dossiers on Iraq's weapons capability amid accusations that the claims were inaccurate.
		Operation Desert Scorpion is the largest military deployment since the height of the Iraq war.
		The commando -- an Army Ranger serving on Task Force 20, the special operations unit spearheading the hunt for Saddam and other fugitive leaders of his regime -- was in a vehicle with other soldiers when it passed by a vehicle loaded with explosives that detonated, a military official told CNN.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/06/27/sprj.irq.main (1149 words)

	Flashpoints USA . America at War . In Focus . Post-9/11 Timeline \| PBS
		Iraq agrees to destroy all the equipment associated with its Al Samoud missile program.
		U.S. authorities in Iraq seize a trailer at a checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul.
		U.S. and British intelligence experts conclude that the two trailers found in northern Iraq — which the Bush administration continues to insist are mobile biological weapon factories — are part of a mobile system to produce hydrogen for weather balloons.
	www.pbs.org /flashpointsusa/20040629/infocus/topic_01/timeline_jan2003.html (1441 words)

	1st Battalion 22nd Infantry News June
		AL OWAJ, Iraq (Army News Service, June 23, 2003) - In the darkness outside a six-foot metal gate blocking the entranceway to a Ba'ath party farm complex, 4th Infantry Division soldiers were poised for a raid early June 16.
		The battalion has also supervised the equal distribution of gasoline (called benzene in Iraq), restored electrical power to the greater Tikrit area, supervised the distribution of humanitarian aid, provided security at key infrastructures such as hospitals and universities, conducted medical assessments of local hospitals and villages and treated patients in the field.
		She said doctors operated on her 19-year-old son's right arm in a military field hospital, adding that he will be transferred Saturday to a U.S. hospital at Ramstein Air Base in Germany for more surgery.
	1-22infantry.org /current/breakingjune.htm (3320 words)

	Operation Desert Scorpion continues throughout Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Operation Desert Scorpion continues throughout Iraq, said Army 5th Corps officials June 17.
		Army forces from the 3rd Infantry Division, the 4th Infantry Division, the 101st Airborne Division, the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment have conducted raids throughout the country.
		In the central region, units continue to escort fuel convoys throughout the area of operation.
	www.dcmilitary.com /airforce/beam/8_24/national_news/23756-1.html (345 words)

	Middle East Online
		"Operation Desert Scorpion is the Combined Joint Task Force 7 operation designed to isolate and defeat remaining pockets of resistance that are seeking to delay the transition to a peaceful and stable Iraq," US Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement.
		The blast was apparently the latest in a spate of attacks which have targeted US troops in recent days as the US military launched a massive hearts and minds operation across northern and central Iraq to try to stem public hostility to its presence.
		In the face of the new violence, Centcom vowed to "isolate and defeat remaining pockets of resistance that are delaying the transition to a peaceful and stable Iraq."
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=5993 (684 words)

	Loyalists hit Iraqis aiding U.S. / Sniper kills GI -- military raids snare hundreds
		Fallujah and Khaldiya are in the arc of towns and cities to the north and west of Baghdad where armed resistance to the U.S. occupation has been fiercest.
		Paul Bremer, the American civilian administrator in Iraq, said Tuesday he had issued an order making it illegal "to incite political violence" and "violence either against coalition forces or violence against women." The latter prohibition apparently referred to attempts by conservative religious authorities to compel women to wear robes and veils in public.
		A prominent member of the former Iraqi opposition, Iyad Alawi, on Tuesday criticized the U.S. military operations, saying that raids more narrowly directed at individual members of the former government would be more effective and less inflammatory among the Iraqis.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/18/MN290949.DTL (837 words)

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		The aim of the war on Iraq was to only harm the regime of the government and the dethrone them of their power.
		The torment might be compared to being poisoned by scorpion or even alcohol where the body is convulsing as it tries to get rid of the poison by vomiting.
		The appearance of a helicopter to a first century man is both of a locust because it flies, and of a scorpion because of it shape… The rotors spinning fast look like the wings of a locust, a blur of movement… The tail section shaped upwards like the stinger of a scorpion.
	id-chip.4t.com /Iraq2003.htm (2325 words)

	Operation Sidewinder information - Search.com
		During the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, or Iraq War, Operation Sidewinder was designed in support of Operation Desert Scorpion, and took place from June 29 to July 7, 2003.
		This United States military article is a stub.
		Categories: Operations of the 2003 Iraq conflict
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Operation_Sidewinder (92 words)

	Operation Desert Scorpion : Fool Moon
		Soldiers have stormed into the homes of hundreds of sleeping families in Baghdad and near the cities of Tikrit and Kirkuk as part of the operation to "defeat remaining pockets of resistance".
		In order to bring stability to Iraq, those who are fighting and killing soldiers need to be stopped.
		Anti-American feeling in Iraq is high because that is what the opposition wants and are actively trying to cultivate.
	foolmoon.com /showflat.php?Number=92221 (945 words)

	2003 IRAQ NEWS ARCHIVE \| HavenWorks.com/world/iraq/archive/2003 Iraq History
		"Iraq's U.S.-appointed interim government established a war crimes tribunal Wednesday to try former members of Saddam Hussein's regime, and two U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded in a northern city."...
		Iraq's interim Governing Council said on Saturday a transitional sovereign government would be in place by next June and an elected government would follow by the end of 2005 after the drafting of a constitution."
		The soldier's death raised the number of combat fatalities in the Iraq war to 146, one shy of the combat death toll of US soldiers in the 1991 Gulf War.
	www.havenworks.com /world/iraq/archive/2003 (7074 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Operation Desert Scorpion Continues Throughout Iraq
		WASHINGTON, June 17, 2003 - Operation Desert Scorpion continues throughout Iraq, said Army 5th Corps officials.
		This includes air power and special operations forces as needed, said 5th Corps officials.
		Humanitarian missions are a component of the operation.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2003/06/iraq-030617-afps01.htm (375 words)

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