a market in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. September 18 – insurgents in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad kill three, including the Kurdish Member of Parliament, Faris Hussein. Iraqi Police uncover at least 20 bodies in the river Tigris at Balad, north of Baghdad. September 19 Two UK soldiers under arrest by Iraqi police in Basra following a car chase. Police officials accused them of planting bombs in a public place while dressed in civilian clothes. After being approached by Iraqi police, the two soldiers reportedly fired on the police, killing two, after which they were apprehended, sparking clashes in which UK tanks came under attack. Two civilians were reportedly killed and three UK soldiers were injured. One Iraqi official claimed that 150 prisoners escaped including the two soldiers. The arrests followed the detention of two high-ranking officials of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army A US diplomat and three American security guards are killed following an insurgent Suicide car bomb attack in Mosul, northern Iraq. At least 10 people, nine police and one civilian, have died following a series of explosions at a Shia festival marking the birth of the Imam Mehdi in Karbala. September 20 – Five U.S. troops die following three insurgent attacks, two in Ramadi and one in Baghdad. September 23 – Five Iraqis, including three members of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, die following a bomb on minibus in the capital Baghdad. September 24 – Human Rights Watch reports whistleblowers accuse U.S. troops of routinely torturing Iraqi prisoners and declining to investigate complaints. September 25 – At least four Shia Muslims, believed to be members of the Mahdi Army are killed by US soldiers in a gunfight following a United States raid into Sadr City, eastern Baghdad. Nine people die following a bomb attack on a police station in Hilla. Over 100,000 people attend Anti Iraq War rally held in Washington, D.C. September 26 U.S. Army PFC Lynndie England is found guilty of six of seven charges by a military court in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. A sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin September 27. Five school teachers were killed in an insurgent attack in Iskandariya, south of Baghdad. At least 7 people die when a car-bomb explodes as they queued at the police academy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. September 27 – Abu Azzam, claimed by the US to be an aide to