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	Kurdish History Timeline
		The Kurds have lived in a mountainous, roughly 74,000-square-mile region known as Kurdistan for the past two millennia.
		The Kurds are conquered by the Arabs, beginning centuries of living under the rule of others.
		The Kurds of northern Iraq, led by Mustafa Barzani, leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party, revolt against the government of Abdul Karim Kassem.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/kurds3.html (838 words)

	2003 invasion of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On March 20, 2003 at approximately 02:30 UTC or about 90 minutes after the lapse of the 48-hour deadline, at 05:33 local time, explosions were heard in Baghdad.
		On 22 July 2003 during a raid by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division and men from Task Force 20, Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, and one of his grandsons were killed.
		On 2 April 2003, in a speech given in New York City, British Home Secretary David Blunkett commented on what he believed to be sympathetic and corrupt reporting of Iraq by Arab news sources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq (8891 words)

	Timeline 2003h
		2003 Aug 19, It was reported that women in Kenya had begun rebelling against a traditional "cleansing" ritual whereby new widows were required to sleep with a designated "cleanser" in order to be inherited by male relatives and freed of haunting spirits.
		2003 Aug 26, In the face of criticism, President Bush defended his handling of the war and reconstruction of Iraq, telling an American Legion conference in St. Louis the fight was essential to the U.S. campaign against terrorism.
		2003 Aug 30, A Russian nuclear-powered submarine, K-159, sank in the Barents Sea as it was being towed to a scrapyard, killing 9 of the 10 sailors on board.
	www.timelines.ws /21stcent/2003_8.HTML (8410 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kurds hope U.S.-Iraq war will end suffering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The estimated 4 million Kurds living in northern Iraq are riveted by the diplomatic endgame being played out between the United States and Iraq.
		To prepare for war, Kurds have been stockpiling food and fuel, hoarding cash and visiting villages along the Iranian border to arrange for places to stay should they have to flee.
		The Kurds have asked the United States for masks and medicines to fight off chemical and biological agents, but have not yet gotten a response, Abdulkadir says.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-01-26-kurds-usat_x.htm (1406 words)

	KURD_IT_GROUP
		The Kurds take part in ruling the dynasty, and due to their ancient warlike traditions, are able to provide significant military assistance against the Greeks and Romans.
		After some limited autonomy is gained by the Kurds in Iraq, the PDK begins to attack Iraqi forces to take control of the Kurdish province of Kirkuk.The United States abandons the project, and the Kurdish revolts are suppressed by Iraq.
		Kurds participate in the new government of Iraq and the PDK and PUK, along with several other smaller Kurdish parties, unite under one Kurdistan Alliance list.
	groups.msn.com /KURDITGROUP/historyofthekurdsthetimeline.msnw (1193 words)

	NPR : Beyond the War with Iraq : Timeline
		April 15, 2003: With the fall of Tikrit, the Pentagon declares an end to major fighting in Iraq and begins withdrawing troops, warships and aircraft from the Gulf region.
		Listen to an April 11, 2003, White House news briefing on the war in Iraq.
		March 17, 2003: President Bush gives Saddam Hussein and his sons 48 hours to leave Iraq or face "the full force and might" of the American military "at a time of our choosing." In a prime-time address to the nation, Mr.
	www.npr.org /news/specials/iraq2003/war_timeline.html (3293 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Country profiles \| Timeline: Iraqi Kurds
		Tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians and fighters are killed, and hundreds of thousands forced into exile, in a systematic attempt to break the Kurdish resistance movement.
		Around 1.5 millions Kurds flee before the Iraqi onslaught, but Turkey closes the border forcing hundreds of thousands to seek refuge in the mountains.
		2003 3 March - KDP and PUK create a "joint higher leadership" in the Kurdish-held north, under the chairmanship of the two party leaders, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/2893067.stm (1916 words)

	Iraq - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Iraq
		Until 2003, the 1970 constitution, amended in 1973, 1974, 1980, and 1988, provided for a president who was head of state, head of government, and chair of a Revolutionary Command Council (RCC).
		The ferocity of the Iraqi counterattack in the north forced more than 1 million Kurds to flee to mountainous regions on the borders with Turkey and Iran, where thousands died from exposure, hunger, and related diseases.
		In response to public outcry at their plight, Allied forces were stationed in the region and a ‘safe zone’ set up, within which humanitarian aid was provided over a three-month period.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Iraq (4111 words)

	sociology - 2003 Invasion of Iraq
		The use of chemical weapons against Kurds in 1983 was known by US intelligence, Donald Rumsfeld, at the time presidential envoy of Ronald Reagan, however spoke of "his close relationship" with Saddam Hussein at that time and visited him.
		For example, the Chicago Tribune on April 10, 2003 reported that the defeat sent a shockwave of incredulity across the Middle East, and quoted a Damascus housewife who believed that jubilant Iraqis were being paid to act that way in front of the cameras [68].
		On April 2, 2003, in a speech given by British Home Secretary David Blunkett while in New York City, Blunkett also commented on what he believed to be sympathetic and corrupt reporting of Iraq by Arab news sources.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/2003_invasion_of_Iraq (9130 words)

	April 2003
		The Kurds hold that they are descendants of the Medes who conquered the Urartu, though more likely is a jump into a shared gene-pool by both.
		Islamic scripture mandates the civilized treatment of the “People of the Book,” that is to say, Hebrews and Christians, but the Kurds in the early days of Islam had no scripture to examine, as their traditions were orally communicated and not written down, and they weren’t afforded “People of the Book” status.
		The Kurds spoke up for their independence, but no one cared, as the ink on the maps had already dried.
	www.flavinscorner.com /april2003.htm (2370 words)

	The History Guy: The Third Persian Gulf War (2003)
		By early 2003, however, the U.S. and British governments claimed that Iraq was not cooperating fully with the UN inspectors.
		On March 19, 2003, at 5:34 AM in Iraq, (6:34 PM on the U.S. West Coast), U.S. Stealth bombers and Tomahawk Cruise Missiles struck "leadership targets" in and around the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to begin the second major war between a United States-led Coalition and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
		Between mid-April, 2003 and early April, 2004, most hostile actions were between the Coalition forces and the old Saddam holdouts and a growing Sunni resistance.
	www.historyguy.com /GulfWar2.html (2455 words)

	Worldandnation: Kurds welcome postwar overseer
		But the Kurds are just one piece of the conflicting jumble of ethnic, religious, political and exile groups competing for power that Garner must balance as he pursues his task of overseeing the postwar reconstruction of Iraq.
		The Kurds have their own tensions, with a long-standing rivalry between the two groups that degenerated into civil war in the late 1990s.
		The Kurds formed a regional government in 1991 under the protection of U.S. jets patrolling northern Iraq's "no-fly zone," where hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees fled after Hussein's troops crushed a Kurdish rebellion.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/04/23/Worldandnation/Kurds_welcome_postwar.shtml (700 words)

	WCPO.com - The Web site of WCPO-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		March 19, 2003 - About three dozen cruise missiles were fired from a small number of ships, in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
		April 10, 2003 - One Marine dies and 20 more are wounded in battles on the streets of Baghdad.
		April 15, 2003 - With the fall of Tikrit, the Pentagon declares an end to major fighting in Iraq and begins withdrawing troops, warships and aircraft from the Gulf region.
	www.wcpo.com /specials/2003/iraq/timeline.html (2759 words)

	Iraq Timeline
		The Kurds, located in northern Iraq, revolt and demand autonomy; fighting between the Kurds and the government continues for decades.
		A peace agreement is signed between the Iraqi government and the Kurds, granting the Kurds some self-rule (March 11).
		The main issue is control of the Shatt al Arab waterway, an essential resource providing for water and transportation that runs along the border of both countries (Sept. 22).
	www.factmonster.com /spot/iraqtimeline1.html (926 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Iraq
		Al-Jaafari says the cabinet includes Shias, Sunnis and Kurds, but while Sunni factions were promised six ministers and one deputy prime minister, they received only four minor portfolios.
		It also allows some autonomy for Kurds in the northern part of Iraq and sets aside 25 per cent of the seats in the legislature for women.
		At least 58 people are killed and 200 wounded when at least three suicide bombers set off their explosives in a mosque in northern Baghdad as tens of thousands of Shias marked the climax of the Ashoura festival.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/iraq/timeline.html (16571 words)

	Body and Soul: 02/01/2003 - 02/28/2003
		If the US attacks Iraq, the Kurds would be a likely Iraqi target, so, naturally, they've asked the US for gas masks, protective suits, and antidotes to biological agents.
		The Kurds might be to Iraq what the warlords have been to Afghanistan, but seem pretty resistant, at least, to fundamentalists' attempts to co-opt their struggle.
		The LA Times says that Turkish television reported Friday night that the United States had given in to a demand that Turkish troops be allowed into the Kurdish enclave, even close to the oil-rich cities of Mosul and Kirkuk.
	bodyandsoul.blogspot.com /2003_02_01_bodyandsoul_archive.html (10456 words)

	Body and Soul: The birth of outrage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		March, 2003: British journalist Terry Lloyd, one of the few non-embeds, was wounded when coalition forces fired on his jeep, which was clearly labelled "TV." Six months later, it was revealed that he was wounded a second time when a U.S. helicopter gunship fired on the civilian vehicle that was transporting him to the hospital.
		April, 2003: Taras Protsyuk, a Ukranian reporter who worked for Reuters, and José Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television station, Telecino, were killed when an American tank fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, where most international journalists were staying.
		August, 2003: Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana was shot and killed when US troops in two tanks opened fire on him while he was filming outside Abu Ghraib prison.
	bodyandsoul.typepad.com /blog/2005/02/march_22_2003_b.html (8227 words)

	The Kurds
		Outside their home region, there are about 825,000 Kurds in Europe (550,000 of them in Germany) and some 10,000 in the United States.
		Since the overthrow of Saddam in 2003, the Kurds' long-term relationship with the Iraqi state has become a major issue.
		The main Kurdish political organisations in Iraq are the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) led by Massoud Barzani and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) led by Jalal Talabani.
	www.al-bab.com /arab/background/kurds.htm (333 words)

	Iraq Timeline 2003 - Council on Foreign Relations
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		The Bush administration admits that evidence cited in the 2003 State of the Union address and elsewhere that Iraq pursued a nuclear weapons program by seeking to buy uranium in Africa was not corroborated and should not have been used.
	www.cfr.org /publication/8431/iraq_timeline_2003.html (3396 words)

	Mudville Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The 2003 invasion of Iraq is likely to be a contested topic in the American discussion for many years to come.
		While Greyhawk's timeline (at the moment) ends in 2003, I hope that he carries it forward, with a frank acknowledgement of the mistakes that have been made, the lessons that have been successfully learned and corrections applied, and the many real successes that have been achieved so far.
		A timeline of events during the war and up to elections recently (and next month) can certainly add a layer of record for all to judge the administration's handling of the war.
	www.mudvillegazette.com /archives/003840.html (14997 words)

	Timeline - IPS Coverage from the height of the Iraq War (March - May) - Inter Press Service
		Timeline - IPS Coverage from the height of the Iraq War (March - May) - Inter Press Service
		8 April: No-Fly Zone A plan for the establishment of a UN safe-haven in northern Iraq, north of the latitude 36 degrees north, for the protection of Kurds is approved at a European Union meeting in Luxembourg.
		He is Saddam’s cousin and is famous for ordering the 1998 chemical weapons attack on the Kurds.
	www.ipsnews.net /iraq/timeline.asp (2325 words)

	This Far and No Further
		Powell says that some of the evidence he used in his February 2003 presentation to the UNSC was faulty.
		Torture shown to have occured as early as April 2003, and involves prisoners in Afghanistan and Fallujah as well.
		Britain reveals that in June 2003 the senior US military commander in Iraq ordered British troops to attack Iranian forces, an order that was refused, thereby avoiding open warfare with Iran.
	iraqtimeline.com (6782 words)

	CNN.com - Shiite group opposes 'puppet' government - Jun. 7, 2003
		U.S. troops escort a bus carrying a team of U.N. inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency back to their hotel Saturday after visiting the looted nuclear facility in Tuwaitha.
		CNN's Ben Wedeman on Arabs' claim that Kurds drove them out of a central Iraq village.
		CNN's Ben Wedeman on Iraqi police patrolling the streets with U.S. authorities.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/06/07/sprj.irq.main/index.html (1063 words)

	What's New Archive
		For those of you who contribute multi-event timelines, you'll be happy to know that a new form will allow you to enter all of your events at one time without having to submit each event separately.
		The first timeline to be entered in the new method is timeline 571.
		Anonymous submitted a timeline in which, as a result of the south wining the civil war, a United Commonwealth of Kentucky is born.
	www.othertimelines.com /wnarchive.htm (3523 words)

	1984: This Far and No Further
		After Rumsfeld's visit, the New York Times reports that "American diplomats pronounce themselves satisfied with relations between Iraq and the United States and suggest that normal diplomatic ties have been restored in all but name." Later that spring, the US decides to export "dual-use" equipment to Iraq for the establishment of a nuclear weapons program.
		In 2003, Rumsfeld will cite Iraq's 1983 use of poison gas as a reason to attack the country, but now Rumsfeld conveys the US's tacit support of Iraq's gassing of its enemies and its own people.
		This will continue even after the 1988 massacre of 5000 Kurds in the town of Halabjah.
	iraqtimeline.com /1984.html (2201 words)

	Events leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mai Manga said he believed it would be difficult, if not impossible, to arrange a special clandestine shipment of uranium to a country like Iraq.
		February 5, 2003), and cite Harith as one of US Intelligence’s four sources.
		[New York Times, 7/20/2003; London Times, 6/27/2005; Washington Post, 1/15/2003] As Timur Eads, a former US special operations officer, notes in January 2003: “We’re bombing practically every day as we patrol the no-fly zones, taking out air defense batteries, and there are all kinds of CIA and Special Forces operations going on.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_timeline_of_the_2003_invasion_of_iraq&startpos=300 (6492 words)

	Articles by Date -- 2003 -- ZNet Iraq Watch
		Scherrer: DU and the Liberation of Iraq April 13, 2003
		Roy: The Outline of the Beast April 08, 2003
		Chomsky: Iraq is a trial run April 02, 2003
	www.zmag.org /CrisesCurEvts/Iraq/date_2003.htm (1458 words)

	BUBL LINK: Internet resources by type
		Joseph Leidy (1823-1891), known as the 'Father of American Vertebrate Palaeontology', was a pioneer in the areas of parasitology and protozoology whose interest and expertise also extended into the scientific areas of anatomy, natural history, entomology, geology, and pathology.
		This resource provides a biographical timeline of one of America's great scientists, charting his life and work using images and essays.
		Contains news, biographical details (including a timeline), bibliographies, images, notes on new performances of Beckett, and details of forthcoming conferences.
	www.bubl.ac.uk /link/types/biographies.htm (3475 words)

	Portugal, 2003 Timeline
		US President, speaking after his summit meeting in the Azores, has said that tomorrow will be a moment of truth for the world
		See Bush, 2003 Timeline ; World Visit Timeline ; USA, 2003 Timeline ; Portugal, 2003 Timeline ; Portugal Visit Timeline ; Bush on Web ; Portugal on Web
		The government declaring a national disaster as the worst blazes in a generation spread across the country killing 11 people
	www.mapreport.com /years/2003/countries/portugal.html (177 words)

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