10 years since 9/11

In 5 days it will be the 10 year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. I will continue to highlight those events of 2001.


November 2, 2003
A U.S. Chinook helicopter is shot down by insurgents near Fallujah, killing 16 soldiers and wounding 20 — the heaviest one-day loss of coalition troops since the end of major fighting.

November 27, 2003
President Bush makes a secret Thanksgiving Day visit to Baghdad in an attempt to boost morale among coalition troops.



December 13, 2003
U.S. 4th Infantry Division captures former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Adwar, a small village near Tikrit.



January 11, 2004
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq, says that members of the country's interim government must be selected by direct vote rather than in regional caucuses as the U.S. wants.

January 15, 2004
Tens of thousands of Shiites hold a peaceful demonstration in Basra in support of direct elections.