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Friday, December 02, 2005

Guardian | Iraq timeline: July 16 1979 to January 31 2004

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Iraq timeline: July 16 1979 to January 31 2004: "Iraq timeline: July 16 1979 to January 31 2004January 31 2004
Twelve people died and at least 50 were injured yesterday in two attacks by Iraqi insurgents in northern Iraq.
Nine killed in bomb attack on Iraq police

January 30 2004
Condoleezza Rice, one of US president George Bush's most trusted lieutenants and a strong advocate of the invasion of Iraq, admits that the intelligence that said Iraq had WMDs may have been wrong. 'What we have is evidence that there are differences between what we knew going in and what we found on the ground,' she tells CBS News.
Rice admits US doubts on WMD

January 28 2004
David Kay, the former head of the US weapons inspection teams in Iraq, tells a senate committee 'we were almost all wrong' in believing before the war that Saddam Hussein had chemical or biological arms.
We were all wrong, says ex-weapons inspector

January 19 2004
Tens of thousands of Shia Muslims demonstrate in Baghdad to demand prompt elections.
100,000 demand Iraqi elections

January 18 2004
A suicide bomber detonates a pick-up truck laden with 500kg of explosives at the main gate of the US headquarters in Iraq, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 100.
Suicide bomb at US headquarters kills 20 and injures more than 100

January 17 2004
The number of US soldiers killed in Iraq since the invasion in March climbs to 500 when a roadside bomb killed three US soldiers and two Iraqi troops.
Bomb takes US toll in Iraq war to 500

January 9 2004
At least five people were killed and dozens more injured when a bomb exploded near a mosque in the central Iraqi town of Baquba.
Five killed in Iraq mosque blast

January 6 2004
Two French nationals working in Iraq were shot and killed after their car broke down in the troubled town of Falluja, the French foreign ministry announces.
French workers shot in Iraq

January 5 2004
Three American soldiers have been discharged after being found guilty of viciously beating and harassing Iraqi prisoners of war, it is revealed.
US soldiers sent home for beating prisoners of war

January 1 2004
Two experienced members of the SAS were are in a crash in Baghdad
SAS men killed in Baghdad crash"

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