May 2007: Iraq War timeline

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This article was published on 06.07.07

DATE	EVENT	U.S DEAD	IRAQI CIVILIAN DEAD
4.29	The N.Y. Times reports that of eight completed U.S. reconstructionprojects in Iraq, seven no longer function properly.	3,351	62,657
5.3	U.S. completes wall around Baghdad’s Adhamiya district, despite protests from Iraqis.	3,364	62,897
5.8	Report claims the Tigris River is dying; pollution from oil, chemicals, military waste and corpses have made the water in Sadr City undrinkable.	3,381	63,204
5.10	Iraqi Christian leaders demand that the government protect Baghdad’s Christians from Al Qaeda violence.	3,388	63,450
5.12	Al Qaeda claims to have captured three U.S. soldiers missing from the battlefield. The N.Y. Times reports that $5 million-$15 million in Iraqi oil “disappears” every day.	3,394	63,571
5.13	The Sunday Observer of London reports that death squads have killed 234 Baghdadis in 11 days.	3,396	63,610
5.22	The S.F. Chronicle reports that troop levels could be doubled, from 52,500 in January 2007 to 98,000, by the end of the year.	3,433	64,132
5.25	President Bush signs $100 billion Iraq-spending bill after Congress removes timetable for withdrawal.	3,448	64,291
5.26	U.S. officials claim that a militant in custody in Iraq has ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.	3,457	64,348
5.29	U.S. anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan retires, citing congressional Democrats’ failure to end the war.	3,472	64,522
5.30	President Bush envisions a U.S. presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea, according to spokesman Tony Snow.	3,474	64,593
5.31	A Baghdad suicide bomber kills 20 while Al Qaeda clashes with a rival Sunni faction in the southern city.	3,476	64,664

Sources: Reuters, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Sunday Observer, Department of Defense, Iraq Coalition Casualties, Iraq Body Count

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