Iraq Chronology

April 2003:  Fall of Saddam’s regime

May 2003:  Bremer arrives, army and bureaucracy decrees

July 2003:  Governing Council appointed, al-Sistani calls for elections

Nov. 2003:  New US policy, accelerated transfer of sovereignty

April-May 2004:  Falluja and first Sadr uprising

June 2004:  CPA dissolved, Allawi government

January 2005:  Constituent assembly elections

April 2005:  al-Jaafari government

October 2005:  Constitutional referendum

December 2005:  Parliamentary elections

February 2006:  al-Askariyya mosque in Samara’a bombed

April 2006:  al-Maliki government

Summer-fall 2006:  beginning of Anbar “awakening”

November 2006:  Baker-Hamilton Report

December 2006:  Saddam hung

January 2007:  Surge plan announced

August 2007:  Sadr orders 6-month cease-fire

September 2007:  Shaykh Abu Risha of Anbar “awakening” killed days after meeting Bush

Fall 2007:  signs that al-Qaeda in Iraq is in retreat