VIOLENCE
Actors : Partners , Threats , Others - Former Regime Loyalists - SCIRI / BADR Corps - Tribal Sheiks - Muqtada al-Sadr - Criminals
May 1 : President Bush declares major
March 20 : The United States begins the invasion of Iraq
Iraq Spring / Summer 2003
June 15 : Op Desert Scorpion a series of raids across Iraq to find
Iraqi resistance and heavy weapons . May 16 : Bremer issues CPA Order # 1 De-Ba ’ athification .
combat operations in Iraq over . May 12 : Bremer arrives in Iraq ;
CPA established . April 24 : Jay Garner informed Paul Bremer and CPA will replace him
April 18 : Jay Garner and ORHA staff arrive In Baghdad
April 10 : Fall of Baghdad
July 22 : Uday and Qusay Hussein , are killed
Aug 11 : Riots in Basra over shortages
July 13 : The Iraqi Governing Council is established under the CPA
May 23 - Bremer issues CPA Order Number 2 , dissolves Iraqi Army and other former state entities
August 19 : Truck bomb at UN Baghdad HQ kills top UN envoy and 21 others .
Aug 7 : Large car bomb explodes at Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad 17 Killed . First terrorist-style car bombing in Iraq .
Actors : Partners , Threats , Others - Expat Iraqi Nationalists - Kurdish Nationalists - Foreign Jihadists - Economic Opportunists
TIME
Looting escalates across Iraq
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