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Iraq War: First strike: Snap missile strike to try and kill a dictator
Title : Iraq War: First strike: Snap missile strike to try and kill a dictator Iraq War: First strike: Snap missile strike to try and kill a dictator
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Creator : Coorey, Phillip
Source : Advertiser, 21 March 2003, p. 2
Date of creation : 2003
Format : Newspaper
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Article describing the first day of the war in Iraq, including an attempt by the US military to kill Saddam Hussein with a 'lighting cruise missile strike' and other bombing raids. An accompanying diagram summarises the first day's action.


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Coverage year : 2003
Further reading :
Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Iraq: The path ahead, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2004

Blix, Hans. Disarming Iraq: the search for weapons of mass destruction, London: Bloomsbury, 2004

Fawn, Rick and Raymond Hinnebusch. The Iraq war : causes and consequences, Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006

Keegan, John. The Iraq war, New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004

Murray, Williamson and Robert H. Scales, Jr. The Iraq war : a military history, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003

Pax, Salam. The Baghdad blog, Melbourne, Victoria: Text Publishing, 2003

Why the war was wrong, Raimond Gaita (ed.); with contributions by Robert Manne ... [et al.], Melbourne, Victoria: Text Publishing, 2003
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