“Clashes between Shi’ite militiamen and security forces in Baghdad’s Sadr City slum killed seven people and wounded 19 overnight, Iraqi police and hospitals said on Thursday. The dead were all men and the wounded included three women and three children, they said. The U.S. military, which has been engaged in nearly two months of urban warfare with militants in Sadr City and other strongholds of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, said it knew of two deaths in fighting overnight.” (05/15/08)