with a 52–47 vote. The vote came after an all-night debate session, and would have required all US troops to be out of Iraq by April 30, 2008. The vote was primarily along party lines; only four Republicans voted to advance the bill. August August 14 - Bombings targeting the Kurdish Yazidi community in the towns of Kahtaniya and Jazeera (Siba Sheikh Khidir), near Mosul. Iraqi Red Crescent's estimates say the bombs killed 796 and wounded 1,562 people. See 2007 Yazidi communities bombings August 27 – Karbla fallen in chaos and clashes between unknown gunmen and the authority of the city during the pilgrimage of Shias to Imam Al-Hussien Tomb in the mid sha'ban rituals. September September 3 – The British Army garrison in Basra completes a planned withdrawal from the city to an out-of-town airport, leaving the Iraqi security forces in command of the city. September 10 – General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker issue the Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq and testify before Congress. September 13 – Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi (a Sunni leader in the Al-Anbar province one of the leader in a movement of Sunni tribesmen, the Anbar Salvation Council.) was killed along with two of his bodyguards by a roadside bomb near his home in Ramadi, Anbar, Iraq. September 16 – A mass shooting in Baghdad by US private security firm Blackwater killed 14 Iraqi civilians. The company claimed they acted "lawfully and appropriately". October October 8 – Gordon Brown announces that British troop numbers in Iraq will be reduced to 2500 by the spring of 2008. October 13 – Retired US military commander Ricardo Sanchez warns that Iraq is "a nightmare with no end in sight".<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7042805.stm US general damns Iraq nightmare] BBC News retrieved December 14, 2007</ref> October 18 – Turkish MPs give the government permission to fight Kurdish rebels in Iraqi territory. October 21 – 12 Turkish soldiers die in clashes with the Kurdish PKK guerrilla group near the border with Iraq, raising fears that Turkey will launch incursions into northern Iraq. November November 1 – Statistics for October suggest that violence in Iraq has dropped dramatically since the beginning of the US "surge". November 2 – The US declares the Kurdist separatist organisation PKK "a common enemy" in an attempt to prevent Turkey invading northern Iraq. November 7 – 2007 becomes the most deadly year for American troops