June 2007: Iraq War timeline

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DATE	EVENT	U.S DEAD	IRAQI CIVILIAN DEAD
6.3	A New York Times editorial points out that the value of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock options has ballooned due to the Iraq war and that his “deferred salary payments” from Halliburton have far exceeded his salary as vice president in each of the years he’s been in office.	3,493	64,698
6.6	According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, 2 million Iraqis are displaced within the country and another 2.2 million have fled to other nations.	3,503	64,879
6.10	The Jerusalem Post reports that senior U.S. military officials say the plan for attacking Iran is “ready.”	3,511	64,879
6.11	New York Times reports that the U.S. is arming Sunni insurgents to try to contain Al Qaeda.	3,512	65,116
6.13	The Askariya mosque, a Shiite shrine, was bombed for a second time, destroying the minarets. The dome was destroyed in an earlier bombing.	3,515	65,228
6.17	U.S. commander General David Petraeus told Fox News that “historically, counter-insurgency operations have gone at least nine or 10 years,” he said.	3,527	65,828
6.18	U.S. and Iraqi troops begin major operations around Baghdad; U.S. troops take on Shiite militia in southern Iraq.	3,527	65,856
6.19	A suicide truck bomb at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad kills 61 worshippers. U.S. forces continue assault on Al Qaeda strongholds outside Baghdad.	3,531	65,880
6.23	The U.S. push in the Baghdad area—named Operation Phantom Thunder—is causing insurgents to attack in areas of Iraq that have been quiet for up to three years, according to a Washington Post report.	3,560	66,315
6.25	Rahim al-Maliki, an Iraqi poet twice imprisoned by Saddam Hussein who gained fame for poems that expressed dreams of peace, was killed in a bomb blast at a Baghdad hotel.	3,562	66,431
6.26	The Washington Post reports that an audit of the contracting firm KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton) revealed inaccurate recordkeeping and cost-overruns in the millions of dollars.	3,570	66,513
6.27	A car bomb in Baghdad kills 25. The beheaded bodies of 20 people found in southeast Baghdad near the banks of the Tigris River. KBR receives one of three $5 billion contracts to provide support services to U.S. troops in Iraq.	3,571

Sources: Iraq Body Count, U.S. Department of Defense, Iraq Coalition Casualties, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Army Times, the Associated Press, Reuters

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