Editing 2006 (section)

===December===
* [[December 1]] – [[WikiLeaks]] leaks [[Hassan Dahir Aweys]]' [[conspiracy]] to assassinate [[Somali government]] officials.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Khatchadourian |first=Raffi |date=May 31, 2010 |title=What Does Julian Assange Want? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/07/no-secrets |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711220632/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_khatchadourian |archive-date=July 11, 2014 |access-date=2021-03-09 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-us}}</ref>
* [[December 5]] – The military seizes power in Fiji, in a [[2006 Fijian coup d'état|coup d'état]] led by Commodore [[Frank Bainimarama]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Maynard |first1=Roger |title=Fiji military seizes power in bloodless coup |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/05/fiji.travel2 |website=The Guardian |access-date=February 4, 2021 |language=en |date=December 5, 2006 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225222217/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/05/fiji.travel2 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 11]]
** [[Felipe Calderón]] sends the Mexican military to combat the drug cartels and put down the violence in the state of Michoacán, initiating the [[Mexican Drug War]].<ref>{{cite news |date=December 4, 2011 |title=Mexico's president pledges to continue fighting cartels |url=http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-04/americas/world_americas_mexico-president-speech_1_drug-war-strategy-cartels-human-rights?_s=PM:AMERICAS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127111118/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-04/americas/world_americas_mexico-president-speech_1_drug-war-strategy-cartels-human-rights?_s=PM%3AAMERICAS |archive-date=January 27, 2012 |access-date=January 27, 2012 |newspaper=CNN}}</ref>
** [[Analog television|Analog]] terrestrial television is switched off permanently in the Netherlands.
* [[December 24]] – Ethiopia admits its troops have [[War in Somalia (2006–09)|intervened in Somalia]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6207333.stm|title=Ethiopia dismisses Somali threat|publisher=BBC|access-date=2009-10-13|date=December 24, 2006|archive-date=January 15, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070115174637/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6207333.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – UK settles its [[Anglo-American loan]], post-WWII loan debt.
* [[December 30]] – Former Iraqi president [[Saddam Hussein]], was [[Execution of Saddam Hussein|executed by hanging]].