what happened in the year 2007?
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2007 began with the inauguration of the eighth general secretary of the UN, the South Korean Ban Ki Moon, who succeeded the charismatic Kofi Annan. Ban made it clear in his speech before the general assembly that the world organization is modest in means, but not in values. According to information published by the UN, 35,000 civilians died in 2006 in Iraq. The government of the United States continued to be the target of international criticism as the violence in Iraq persisted. Neither foreign troops nor government institutions this year stabilized the Arab country. In May 2007, World Bank President Paul Wolfowirz resigned. The close collaborator of George W. Bush was accused of corruption and influence peddling to the benefit of his sentimental partner of privileges in the world organization. Karl Rove, Bush's closest and most controversial adviser, announces his resignation in August. In October hundreds of thousands of people protest in eleven states of the American Union against Bush's war policy. Each month the pentagon allocates 10 billion dollars for the war against terrorism. At the beginning of November eleven prisoners are released from the US military base in Guantanamo, Cuba. But 320 terrorism suspects are still detained.