1. #5 - War on Terror – Post 9/11 2002-2008
George W. Bush – State of the Union 2002
Convinced Iraq has weapons of mass destruction

2. No Fly Zones
UN Security Council Resolution 687 mandated the destruction of all biological, chemical and nuclear weaponry, facilities and machinery used to develop them and missiles with a range of more than 100 miles. No fly zones were instituted to protect Shiite population in the south and Kurds in the north. Zones were enforced from the end of the Gulf War to 2003.

3. Sept – Feb. 2002
Anthrax spores mailed to political offices and media centers – 22 sickened, 5 deaths
Classified as
bioterrorism

4. Anthrax Bio Terror 2001

5. Bush goes to UN
Iraqi exiles reporting Hussein pursuing WMD of all types, nuclear, chemical & biological
Bush goes to UN to demand Weapons inspections to resume which were stopped in 1998

6. Iraq War
March 20, 2003 – US launches a sudden missile assault on site where Hussein was reported to be.
March 21 –
145,000 soldiers
247 tanks left Kuwait and entered Iraq.

7. April April – US forces take capital, Bagdad
Mobs attack government buildings
US searched for WMD, not found – insurgents arm themselves

8. Saddam Hussein
War with Iran , Kuwait , USA , USA , Hanged

9. Iraqi Army Dissolved
May 2003 – 720,000 military, police, domestic security, presidential security
Demonstrations lead to an insurgency (anti-US)
Thousands of unemployed and humiliated join together

10. ANTI-INSURGENCY COUNTER-INSURGENCY
Anti-insurgency – emphasized finding and killing insurgents
Counter-insurgency – emphasized building civil relationships with Iraqis

11. Insurgency Continues Violence against US “Occupation” Truck bombs
Kidnappings
Religious war Shiite-Sunni
Hussein found (12/13/03)– Publically humiliated – disheveled - checking teeth, checking for lice
Many Sunnis outraged at how Saddam was publically humiliated.

12. Saddam Hussein After Capture December 13, 2003

13. Three Strikes STRIKE 1 Abu Ghraib – Prison – 2004
Prisoners beaten, spat on, humiliated
Photographs go public – media call for resignation of Rumsfeld .

14. STRIKE 2 Assault on Fallujah April, 2004
Two US contractors, killed and dismembered
Marines strike Fallujah – alienate Sunnis

15. STRIKE 3 Muqtada al-Sadr – Cleric Issued threats to attack
US interests inside &
Outside Iraq
US issues warrant for
al-Sadr’s arrest
Alienates Shiites
Elections in 2006 will bring change

16. New Approach Needed - 2007 3 Problems Abu Ghraib – enraged Arab world
Fallujah – angered Sunnis
alSadr – angered Shiites
- Free Elections in Iraq
- Cultural understanding
- Iraqi army trained, but not forthcoming with enough recruits

17. What Now?
Surge of troops ended in 2008 – levels of violence had dropped for a time
Al Qaeda still present
ISIS is a threat
Kurdish people still maintain own army

18. NEW PROBLEM ISIS Proclaimed a worldwide caliphate in June, 2014.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdad named caliph.
As a Caliphate, it claims religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide.
Pledged its allegiance to Al-Qaeda in 1999 joined insurgents in Iraq.

19. ISIS
Islamic State has overrun most of Northern and Central Iraq and Syria
Enforces Sharia Law
US has charged it with war crimes

20. ISIS
Amnesty International charged group with ethnic cleansing on an “historic scale” in Northern Iraq
February al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri  cut all ties with ISIS