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2003 Invasion Of Iraq

---Australian Prime Minister John Howard announces that Australian forces in Operation Falconer will completely pull out by June.

---The Bechtel Corporation is awarded a $680 million contract for the rebuilding of parts of Iraq s electricity system, water supplies and other key infrastructures.

--- Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti , top advisor and half-brother of Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces (the second of Hussein's half brothers captured this week). {Link without Title}

--- Save The Children announces that U.S. forces continue to prevent their Airplane from landing in Arbil , Iraq to deliver medical supplies and emergency feeding kits. U.S. officials contend that the area is not yet safe, while the United Nations has already declared Arbil a "safe and secure" area. {Link without Title}

--- Martin Sullivan and Gary Vikan , of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee On Cultural Property , announced their resignations in protest of the US failure to prevent looting of the Iraqi National Museum . {Link without Title}

Sir John Stevens releases the Stevens Report , which states that the Police and other security services in Northern Ireland colluded in the murders of many innocent people, including Pat Finucane and Francisco Notarantonio , in the 1970s and 1980s .