Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 1: De-Ba’athification of Iraqi Society
Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2: Dissolution of Entities
Iraq’s Transitional Administrative Law of 8 March 2004
Iraq’s Constitution passed in October 2005
Hague Convention IV of 1907
Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949



Iraq body count
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health survey October 2006 – estimates up to 655,000 Iraqis have died
Iraq Coalition Casualties



The death of Baha Mousa
Judgment in the High Court of Justice, 14 December 2004
Judgment in the Court of Appeal, 21 December 2005



Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
International Advisory and Monitoring Board for Iraq
US Government Accountability Office



Hans Blix’s report to the UN Security Council, 28 February 2003
British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith’s secret legal advice on the Iraq war, 7 March 2003
Former US weapons inspector David Kay’s testimony to Senate Armed Services Committee, 28 January 2004
Hutton report into the death of scientist David Kelly, 28 January 2004
Butler report into intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, 14 July 2004
Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication, September 2004
(notes America’s failure to win ‘hearts and minds’)



US President George Bush on 15 February 1991 calls Iraqis to rise up against Saddam:
first and second speech from that day
Human Rights Watch account of the uprising - Endless Torment: The 1991 Iraq uprising and its Aftermath



Saddam takes power - read the Guardian’s report from 18 July 1979
Documents at the National Security Archive of The George Washington University
British politician Tony Benn interviews Saddam Hussein
Human Rights Watch criticises the Saddam trial