Soldiers from Company A, 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division set concrete barriers in place in the surroundings of the southern portion of the Sadr City district of Baghdad May 3. (US Army photo/Specialist Joseph Rivera Rebolled)
ثلاثة وعشرون مهدي جيب قتلت مقاتل يتلقّى يكون ب [أوس] وقوّات [إيرقي] منذ الالعصر شهر ماي
8. [أوس] خاصّ عمليات قتل أفرقة يشغل داخليّة [سدر] مدينة تسعة مهدي جيب مقاتل بما أنّ هم هاجموا عراقيّ و [أوس] قوّات يبني العالقة مادّيّ على [قودس] شارع. وجّه الفريق أيضا غارة جويّة أنّ قتل اثنان كثير مهدي جيب مقاتل. بالأمس, [أوس] قتل قوّات خاصّة اثنان مهدي جيب مقاتل في [سدر] مدينة.
[أوس] قتل جنديّ 12 كثير مهدي جيب مقاتل في [سدر] مدينة من شهر ماي 8-9. [أوس] استعمل قوّات [أونمنّد] جوّيّة عربة, هليكوبتر, [أبرمس] دباب, و [سملّ-رمس] نار [إين رسبونس تو] مهدي جيب هجوم داخليّة [سدر] مدينة.
Followers of rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces to enter all of Baghdad's Sadr City and to arrest anyone found with heavy weapons in a surprising capitulation that seemed likely to be hailed as a major victory for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.
Twenty-three Mahdi Army fighters have been killed by US and Iraqi troops since the afternoon of May 8. US Special Operations teams operating inside Sadr City killed nine Mahdi Army fighters as they attacked Iraqi and US forces building the concrete barrier on Qods Street. The team also directed an air strike that killed two more Mahdi Army fighters. Yesterday, US Special Forces killed two Mahdi Army fighters inside Sadr City.
US soldiers killed 12 more Mahdi Army fighters inside Sadr City from May 8-9. US troops used unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters, Abrams tanks, and small-arms fire in response to Mahdi Army attacks inside Sadr City.