Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO DATE: 6/5/2006
Low Intensity Conflict: Violence Against the Iraqi People
Anna R. Wittman, Bill Elliot
January 2006
Abstract
May 1, 2003: President George W. Bush declares an end to major combat operations in Iraq. U.S. troops killed 15 civilians at a protest in the city.
May 13, 2003: A mass grave with 15,000 bodies is found near Baghdad. The remains appear to be Shiites killed during a 1991 popular uprising.
June 13, 2003: U.S. troops question nearly 400 suspects following Operation Peninsula Strike, the biggest military operation since the end of formal combat operations. Several Iraqis die in the three-day operation.
June 15, 2003: Hundreds of American soldiers swept through Fallujah in an operation called "Desert Scorpion". The operation is intended to defeat organized Iraqi resistance. Over 400 hundred Iraqis are arrested.
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March 28, 2006: In Tikrit, gunmen attacked a car with 3 construction workers, killing 2 and wounding 1.
March 29, 2006: In an upscale Baghdad neighborhood, assailants dressed as security forces stormed a technology-importing firm in Baghdad where they placed eight employees in a room and shot them.
March 30, 2006: A police commando was killed in a drive by shooting as he left his home in Baghdad. In Baghdad, a suicide car bombing killed a policeman and wounded three others. In Basra a lawyer was killed as she approached her office by a drive by shooting.
