after a suicide bomb attack in Hilla. Prisoners at an Iraqi detention centre revealed to the BBC details of apparent widespread use of torture and abuse in prisons and detention centres in Iraq. At least thirty people have died following a car bomb outside a hospital in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Khadim Sarhid al-Hemaiyim, one of the most important Sunni Arab tribal leaders in Iraq, has been shot dead, along with his three sons and a son-in-law in Baghdad. The gunman appeared to be a member of the new Iraqi Army. November 25 – German archaeologist Susanne Osthoff is kidnapped in Iraq. November 26 – Four Western peace activists are kidnapped and held hostage by a previously unknown group and threatened with execution unless the United States releases all Iraqi prisoners. November 27 - Four Westerners have been kidnapped in Iraq while in Baghdad. The former Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, has claimed in The Observer newspaper, that human rights abuses by members of the Government of Iraq are as bad now as they were in the time of Saddam Hussein. November 28 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani called the former prime minister Iyad Allawi's comments "nonsense". Allawi claimed that the human rights abuses in Iraq were as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein. Talabani stated that the government was against any form of torture or harming of prisoners. The tribunal trying Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants adjourned for a second time after hearing posthumous evidence. November 30 – The US military has been covertly paying to run news stories written by US Military "information operations" troops. The stories, usually praising the work of the United States Military, appeared in Baghdad newspapers. A new campaign against Iraqi insurgents begins with joint U.S.–Iraqi troops conducting Operation Iron Hammer in western Iraq. New policy document on American involvement in Iraq, "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq", is published by the White House. December December – The U.S. has long maintained its involvement there is with the support of the Iraqi people, but in 2005 when asked directly, 82–87% of the Iraqi populace was opposed to U.S. occupation and wanted U.S. troops to leave. 47% of Iraqis supported attacking U.S. troops. The poll taken also showed that a large majority of Iraqis favored setting a timeline for the withdrawal of US forces, though this majority divided over whether it