--- A series of Suicide Bomb ings kill 74 Shia worshippers at two Mosque s in eastern Iraq while in Baghdad two Car Bomb s destroy the blast wall protecting a hotel housing foreign journalists and kill eight Iraqis. (Ynetnews)(BBC)
--- Two car bombs strike outside a Baghdad Interior Ministry building at the centre of a detainee abuse scandal. (BBC)
The United States House Of Representatives reject a Republican resolution offered by Duncan Hunter ( R - California ) "expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately" by a vote of 403-3. Ohio Republican Jean Schmidt is forced by Democratic (and quiet Republican) protests to apologise to Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha for reading a letter from a marine in which those wishing to "cut and run" from Iraq are called "cowards". (Associated Press)
