should be six months or two years. December 2–10 U.S. Marines are killed following an insurgent roadside bomb attack in Falluja. December 3 – An attack about 60 miles from Baghdad, involving a roadside bomb, kills 19 Iraqi soldiers. December 4 - Former chief of the RUC police force will head a British investigation into possible infiltration of Iraq's police force by insurgents. Former prime minister Iyad Allawi says he survived an assassination attempt at the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf. Police say his group fled from the Shi'ite Muslim shrine under a hail of debris by a mob. December 6 - Two suicide bombers kill 27 Iraqi Police at a police academy in Baghdad. Deposed Iraq president Saddam Hussein has refused to attend his trial for crimes against humanity, throwing the sometimes chaotic Iraqi proceedings into further confusion. December 7 – Nobel Prize in Literature winner Harold Pinter accuses Britain and the United States of engaging in state terrorism in Iraq and demands the prosecution of George W. Bush and Tony Blair. December 8 – Truck bomb detonates on checkpoint 44 killing one U.S. soldier and wounding many Iraqi police At least 32 people have died following an attack on a bus in Baghdad. December 13 – Four American soldiers are killed following an IED attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The U.S. ambassador issues a statement saying that the total number of abused prisoners found so far in jails run by the Shiite-led Interior Ministry is about 121. The President of the United States, George W. Bush, acknowledges the deaths of approximately 30,000 Iraqi civilians since the commencement of the Iraq War. December 14 – U.S. President George W. Bush says that the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was the result of faulty intelligence, and accepts responsibility for that decision. He maintains that his decision was still justified. December 15 – Voting starts in Iraq to elect the first permanent 275-member Iraqi National Assembly under the new Constitution of Iraq. December 16 – Bulgaria starts withdrawing its troops from Iraq. Iraqi Police claim that they captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2004 and then released him by mistake. December 18 – President George W. Bush defends the Iraq War in a rare primetime Oval Office address. He said, "Not only can we win the war in Iraq—we are winning the war in Iraq." December 19 – Early returns