The War in Iraq

9/11 Highjackers American Airlines Flight 11  Mohamed Atta - Egypt Abdul Aziz al Omari - Saudi Arabia  Wail al Shehri - Saudi Arabia Waleed al Shehri - Saudi Arabia  Satam al Suqami - Saudi Arabia United Airlines Flight 175  Fayez Banihammad - United Arab Emirates Ahmed al Ghamdi - Saudi Arabia  Hamza al Ghamdi - Saudi Arabia Marwan al Shehhi - United Arab Emirates, pilot  Mohand al Shehri - Saudi Arabia American Airlines Flight 77  Hani Hanjour - Saudi Arabia, pilot Nawaf al Hazmi - Saudi Arabia Salem al Hazmi - Saudi Arabia Khalid al Mihdhar - Saudi Arabia Majed Moqed - Saudi Arabia United Airlines Flight 93  Saeed al Ghamdi - Saudi Arabia Ahmad al Haznawi - Saudi Arabia Ziad Jarrah - Lebanon, pilot  Ahmed al Nami - Saudi Arabia

President George H. W. Bush (1989 - 1993) – president during the first Gulf War in 1991 when Iraq invaded Kuwait President George W. Bush (2001 – 2009) – president on 9/11 and during the start of the Iraq War

Saddam Hussein President/Dictator of Iraq from 1979 – 2003 Invaded Kuwait in 1993 Executed in 2006

Key Terms Regime Change – forcefully changing another country’s government; regime implies an illegitimate dictatorship UN Security Council – responsible for maintaining international peace and security; issues sanctions and peacekeeping, inspects for illegal weapons, enforces treaties Weapons of Mass Destruction – nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons

US Justification of Invasion The U.S. stated that the intent was to remove "a regime that developed and used weapons of mass destruction, that harbored and supported terrorists, committed outrageous human rights abuses, and defied the just demands of the United Nations and the world."