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2001 in Iraq
Summary
The following lists events that happened during
2001
in the
Iraqi Republic
.
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2000
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Iraq
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2002
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Decades:
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See also:
Other events of 2001
List of years in Iraq
Incumbents
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President
:
Saddam Hussein
Prime Minister
:
Saddam Hussein
Vice President
:
Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf
Vice President
:
Taha Yassin Ramadan
Events
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February
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February 16 -
British
and
U.S
. forces carry out
bombing raids
, attempting to disable Iraq's air defense network.
February 17 -
Baghdad
is bombed by US and UK war planes, killing three people.
February 19 - The
Arab world
and the
UN Security Council
criticise the attacks by the US and UK two days ago.
[1]
February 20 - The critics of the raids by the UK and US claim that foreign ministers are planning to refine the
sanctions against Iraq
.
[2]
August
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August 27 - A
U.S. Military
RQ-1B Predator
unmanned aerial vehicle
failed to return from a routine reconnaissance mission, Iraq claims to have shot it down.
[3]
September
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September 11 - 2,996 killed in the
September 11 attacks
on the
World Trade Center
in
New York City, New York
,
The Pentagon
in
Arlington, Virginia
, and
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
.
Saddam Hussein
immediately declares that his
government
played no part in the attacks. Also that day a U.S. military RQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle crashed near
Basra, Iraq
claims to have shot it down.
[4]
External links
edit
Iraq portal
References
edit
^
"February 2001". 20 March 2001
. Retrieved
22 March
2015
.
^
"Iraq sanctions to be eased". 20 February 2001
. Retrieved
22 March
2015
.
^
"U.S. pilotless spy plane lost over Iraq, Pentagon sources say". CNN. 27 August 2001.
^
"U.S. spy drone missing over Iraq". CNN. 11 September 2001.