To mark the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website...
On the day the US celebrated the capture of Saddam International Airport by renaming it...
Blog archive: Iraq
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5th April 2013
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4th April 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website... Saddam international airport, 10 miles to the west of central Baghdad, appears to be...
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3rd April 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website... Yesterday was the best day for US forces since the invasion began. They appear to have broken through...
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2nd April 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website... The battle for Baghdad is about to begin in earnest, according to numerous reports this...
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1st April 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website... The invasion forces suffered another self-inflicted disaster in the battle for hearts and...
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31st March 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here. 31 March 2003: Military chiefs accuse Rumsfeld. ...
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30th March 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here. 30 March 2003: First suicide bombing. Four American soldiers...
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29th March 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here. 29 March 2003: Fifty dead in Baghdad market blast. Iraq suffered...
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28th March 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here. 28 March 2003: Richard Perle resigns. Amid admissions that Iraq has...
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27th March 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here. 27 March 2003: More than 1,000 members of the US 173rd Airborne...
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26th March 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here. 26 March 2003: After a series of setbacks, and with the advance on...
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25th March 2013To mark the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Iraq war, I am re-posting diary entries that I wrote at the time for the Guardian's website. They are posted here day by day and the full collection can be found here. 25 March 2003: The only good news today is that the invasion...