See also August 5, 2004 - August 2004 - August 7, 2004 | Days in 2004

• Pacific Islands Forum leaders call for assistance for Nauru to prevent the emergence of another "failed state". (The Age)
• U.S. Senate election, 2004: Alan Keyes, a resident of Maryland, indicates he will seek the Republican nomination for the Illinois seat, to run against Barack Obama. (CNN)
• Mohammed M. Hossain and Yassin M. Aref, leaders of the Masjid as-Salam mosque in Albany, New York, are arrested for their part in an alleged plot (actually an FBI sting operation) to use an RPG-7 to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat in New York City.
• A Kuwaiti transport company says it is willing to pay millions of dollars ransom to secure hostages' release. (Times of India)
• In Derry, Northern Ireland, police are attacked by people carrying petrol bombs. (Reuters)
• Saudi police arrest terror suspect Faris Ahmed Jamaan al-Showeel al-Zahrani. (ABC)
• Israel reopens the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after a three-weeks shutdown, allowing 1,500 Palestinians on the Egyptian side to return home. (AP)
• Two Afghan men deny being enemy fighters, in appearances before U.S. military tribunals reviewing the status of Guantanamo Bay detainees. For the first time, the US allows journalists to attend the hearings. (BBC)
• Radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr calls for a truce to be restored after a day of heavy fighting between his militia and U.S. troops in Najaf. (BBC)
  • The U.S. claims that over 300 of Sadr's fighters have been killed in two days of clashes. (Reuters)
• Chess master Bobby Fischer, apparently seeking to avoid deportation to, and trial in the U.S., says he is renouncing his U.S. citizenship. (AFP)