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| May.1 |
USA |
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Bush calls end to 'major combat' Map of Lincoln USA From the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln President delivers a nationally televised address | |
| May.2 |
Iraq |
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Key 'weapons official' held US have arrested 3 senior members of regime, including former Deputy Prime Minister Abd al Tawab Mullah Huwaysh
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Mosul |
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U.S. inspects truck for biological weapons
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Iraq |
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'Multi-national force' for Iraq
| May.3 |
Washington |
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Bush: U.S. will find banned Iraqi weapons U.S. plans to send 1,000 experts to aid troops in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction
| May.4 |
Washington |
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Rumsfeld: Iraq WMD will be found Defense Secretary predicted that a better way to learn the location would be through Iraqis volunteering information
| May.5 |
Iraq |
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Iraqi woman biologist held Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash was number 53 of the U.S. list of the most wanted Iraqis. She negotiated her surrender | |
| May.6 |
Iraq |
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$1 billion withdrawal from bank probed
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Washington |
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Rumsfeld expected to cite mobile bio-lab
| May.7 |
Iraq |
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Purported Saddam tape urges resistance An audiotape calls on the people of Iraq to reject the 'invaders,' while promising that victory is coming
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Iraq |
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Former regional chairman detained
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Southern Iraq |
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Cholera outbreak feared
| May.8 |
Basra |
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Cholera spreading in Basra
| May.9 |
UN |
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US, UK seek to run Iraq for at least year
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Iraq |
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Exiled Shia leader returns
| May.11 |
Washington |
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U.S. shakes up Iraq interim team Jay Garner will turn over command within weeks to L. Paul Bremer III, appointed as presidential envoy | |
| May.12 |
Iraq |
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'Dr Germ' detained Coalition forces have taken into custody Dr Rihab Rashid Taha, who has been working to create anthrax
| May.14 |
Iraq |
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Grave may hold 11,000 The bodies buried at mass graves about 55 miles south of Baghdad
| May.15 |
Iraq |
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Shiites demand large role
| May.16 |
Iraq |
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Purge of Saddam loyalists Thousands of members of Baath Party have been banned from holding government jobs
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Germany |
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Iraq sanctions: Berlin backs U.S.
| May.17 |
Sunni Triangle |
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Cousin of Saddam surrenders General Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti was a secretary general of the Republican guard
| May.19 |
Iraq |
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Helicopter crash kills 5 Marines A U.S. Marine Corps twin-rotor CH-46 Sea Knight used mainly to transport troops
| May.20 |
Iraq |
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Saddam brother-in-law arrested Recent Coalition police patrols have arrested nearly 500 people, including Luay Khayrallah
| May.22 |
UN Security Council |
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Council lifts Iraq sanctions Resolution 1483 gives the U.S. and Great Britain authority to control Iraq until an elected government is in place | |
| May.23 |
Iraq |
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U.S. dissolves Iraqi army, 2 ministries Bremer dissolved the Iraqi Armed Forces, the ministries of Defense and Information
| May.24 |
Iraq |
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Oil exports could flow soon The country could start exporting oil within the next 2 weeks
| May.26 |
United Arab Emirates |
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U.N. Iraqi ex-ambassador: War isn't over Mohammed Aldouri said the United States still must show that it came 'as liberator and not as invader'
| May.27 |
Sunni Triangle |
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2 U.S. soldiers die in Fallujah firefight A hostile force fired on the U.S. Army unit with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms
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Iraq |
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U.S. forces find suspected gold cache For the second time in a week, troops have discovered gold bars hidden in a truck
| May.28 |
Washington |
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U.S. rejects Amnesty charge Amnesty International claimed the war against terror is sowing fear and danger in the name of global security
| May.29 |
Iraq |
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Blair thanks UK troops in Iraq Row over weapons of mass destruction continues
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Iraq |
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Missile targeted coalition HQ during war U.S. official: The Iraqi military came within seconds of possibly wiping out the headquarters on March 27
| May.30 |
Iraq |
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US widens Iraq weapons hunt Instead of methodically visiting sites inspectors will also be interviewing officials and relying on interrogations | |
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