[edit] 7 October 2005 (Friday)

• Conflict in Afghanistan: U.S. Troops kill four Afghan police, after mistaking them for militants in the Girishk district of the Helmand Province. (BBC)
• Militants kill at least 8 members of the Ahmadiyya faith inside a Mosque as worshippers were performing Salah. The attack occurred in Mandi Bahauddin in Punjab, Pakistan. (BBC)
• Conflict in Iraq:
  • At least twenty-nine Iraqi fighters and six U.S. Marines are killed in major fighting in western Iraq. (BBC) (Reuters)
  • British forces have detained 12 people, including three police officers, in connection with a series of deadly attacks on UK forces in southern Iraq. (BBC)
• The UN International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei share the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons. (CNN) (Aftenposten) (Nobel Prize)
• Three Hamas members are kidnapped from their homes in the West Bank. A group, supportive of the Palestinian National Authority, calling itself the "Omar Ben al-Khatib Warriors" claims responsibility for the kidnappings of the three, and one is later freed. (Ynetnews)
• According to the BBC, the industrial solvent gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) is being used in the UK as a club drug, with lethal results. (BBC)