One soldier was killed during a mortar attack on his unit and another died from wounds during a sniper ambush May 14. The third soldier was killed when his vehicle overturned during a patrol shortly after midnight May 15.
....small skirmishes continued in and around Najaf and Sadr City...military engagements overnight between members of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia and coalition and Iraqi security forces led to several members of Sadr's militia being killed.
Coalition forces were attacked four times today, resulting in two more militiamen killed. He said one coalition soldier was wounded during those engagements.
In the past 24 hours, Kimmitt said the coalition conducted 1,614 patrols and 19 offensive operations, and captured 38 anti-coalition suspects :
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Day is done,
gone to the sun
from the lakes, from the hills,
from the sky.
All is well, safely rest.
God is high.
Thanks and praise,
for our days
'neath the sun, 'neath the stars,
'neath the sky,
As we go, this we know,
God is nigh.
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