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2003 · Lebanon History

• 13 March 2003Nasrallah against the Iraq invasion
• 20 March 2003The US invasion of IraqOn 20 March 2003 the US–British invasion of Iraq began on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction, and Baghdad fell…
• 13 July 2003Collapse of Bank al-Madina; Rustom Ghazaleh accused of siphoning $72mIn 2003 Bank al-Madina collapsed with a gap estimated at between 1.2 and 1.65 billion dollars. Its chairman Adnan Abou…
• 18 July 2003Mahdi Army founded
• 2 August 2003Assassination of Ali SalehOn 2 August 2003 Ali Hussein Saleh, a Hezbollah cadre, was killed when his car exploded in the southern suburbs; the…
• 29 August 2003Assassination of Sayyed Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim
• 1 September 2003The Kennedy-Lugar YES exchange programme for school students
• 6 September 2003Assassination attempt on Sheikh Yassin and Haniyeh in Gaza
• 9 November 2003Israel's cabinet approves the German-mediated exchange with Hezbollah
• 12 December 2003The Syria Accountability ActThe Congressional "Syria Accountability Act", for Syria's failure to take part in the war on terror.
• 13 December 2003Capture of Saddam Hussein