January 28, 2004
David Kay, the former head of the U.S. weapons inspection teams in Iraq, informs a Senate committee that no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq and that prewar intelligence was "almost all wrong" about Saddam Hussein's arsenal.
February 18, 2004
In an interview with the London Telegraph, Iraqi National Congress (INC) president Ahmed Chalabi says he has no regrets about passing faulty intelligence about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction programs to the U.S. government: "As far as we're concerned we've been entirely successful.... That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important. The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat. We're ready to fall on our swords if he wants."
February 23, 2004
U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi issues a report to the Security Council concluding that the earliest that credible, direct elections could be held in Iraq would be late 2004 or early 2005, and recommends that Iraqis themselves draw up a plan for the makeup of this provisional government.
March 2, 2004
Suicide attacks in Karbala on Shiite Islam's holiest feast day kill more than 85 and wound 233 others.
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April 1, 2004
Four American private security contractors, all former members of the U.S. Special Forces, are shot and burned in their cars in Fallujah. A cheering crowd dismembers the corpses and hangs two of them from a bridge over the Euphrates River.
April 4, 2004
Militias led by radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr begin coordinated attacks in the southern Iraqi cities of Kufa, Karbala, Najaf, al-Kut, and Sadr City.
U.S. troops begin an assault on Fallujah.
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