227:, 165 feet apart and facing in opposite, outward, directions, each with four soldiers, seven of them U.S., one Iraqi soldier, sat guard, looking for insurgents planting explosives, and was ambushed and attacked by a group using automatic weapons and explosives. Initial reporting stated that PFC Murphy was wounded but survived the initial attack along with the other three captured soldiers, but refusing to surrender and continued struggling upon attempted capture, was executed on the spot by the attackers.
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359:(ISI) posted a 10-minute video on Internet. It shows footage of what appears to be the planning stage of the 12 May attack and of apparently the attack itself; a recorded broadcast of TV network Al-Jazeera of soldiers searching fields; and it contains an audio commentary in Arabic, saying:
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