Portal:Current events/2004 December 7
December 7, 2004 (Tuesday)
- The New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) is awarded the United States Presidential Unit Citation for services in Afghanistan.[1]
- Frans van Anraat is arrested in the Netherlands for shipping chemical weapons precursors to Saddam Hussein during the Iran–Iraq War (CNN)
- High-profile New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a Democrat, announces his campaign for Governor in 2006. (Yahoo)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Two Hamas militants, two Islamic Jihad members, and an Israeli soldier have died following clashes in the central Gaza Strip. (BBC)
- Shahar Dvir-Zeliger, a Jewish settler in Nablus, is sentenced to eight years imprisonment for membership of an extremist group. He was found guilty of being a member of the Bat Ayin cell, which has killed eight Palestinians. (BBC)
- An entire Israel Defense Forces elite unit is suspended from duty while investigations continue into what B'Tselem alleges was a killing of an unnarmed injured Palestinian man. (BBC)
- 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy:
- Ken Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State and co-chair of the 2004 George W. Bush campaign in Ohio – certifies election results. Two parallel vote count efforts are pending, one claims evidence that John Kerry is the legitimate winner of Ohio. (Associated Press) (NYT)
- The U.S. military discusses plans for mandatory visibly worn ID badges, forced labor, DNA testing, and retina scans at "citizen processing centers" for all residents of the rebellious Iraqi city of Fallujah, saying they plan to make it a model city for the whole of Iraq. (Boston Globe)
- Hamid Karzai is inaugurated as President of Afghanistan. (CNN) (BBC)
- ^ "Approval for the acceptance and wear of the United States Navy Presidential Citation by the NZ SAS in Afghanistan". New Zealand Defence Force. 2006-05-19. Retrieved 2007-07-03.