Coalition Provisional Authority
Coalition Provisional Authority Arabic: تحالف السلطة المؤقتة | |||||||||
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| 2003–2004 | |||||||||
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| Status | Provisional government under U.S. military occupation | ||||||||
| Capital | Baghdad | ||||||||
| American Administrator | |||||||||
• 2003 | Jay Garner | ||||||||
• 2003-2004 | Paul Bremer | ||||||||
| American Deputy Administrator | |||||||||
• 2004 | Richard Jones | ||||||||
| President of the Iraqi Governing Council | |||||||||
• 2003-2004 | Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum (first) | ||||||||
• 2004 | Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer (last) | ||||||||
| Legislature | Iraqi Governing Council | ||||||||
| Historical era | Post–Cold War era Iraq War War on terror | ||||||||
| April 21 2003 | |||||||||
• Founding of the Iraqi Interim Government | June 28 2004 | ||||||||
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Iraq came under United States military occupation following the invasion of the country on 20 March 2003 by U.S.-led Coalition forces that marked the fall of the Ba'athist regime led by Saddam Hussein. As a result, the U.S. formed the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) that served as the transitional government established in May 2003 under the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 (2003) and the laws of war, and vested itself with executive, legislative, and judiciary authority over the Iraqi government from the period of the CPA's inception on 21 April 2003 until its dissolution on 28 June 2004.
The CPA was admonished for its mismanagement of funds allocated to the reconstruction of post-invasion Iraq, with over $8 billion of these unaccounted for, including over $1.6 billion in cash that emerged in a basement in Lebanon. The CPA has been described as a puppet government of the U.S..