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S.Humvees and Bradley fighting vehicles had taken up positions around Sadr City at nightfall Wednesday.

In other developments:The U.S.

military late Wednesday reported the deaths of three more soldiers, two killed in a roadside bombing and one who died of a non-combat cause.

The bombing victims died Wednesday, the third soldier on Tuesday.Their deaths raised to 119 the number of soldiers killed this month, the third-deadliest month of the war for U.

S.

troops.Get Breaking News Delivered to Your Inbox Taking a swig from a mug of vodka and Red Bull, she said she had been coming to the Solstice ceremony for the past eight years.

"I love the whole vibe, and the energy, and the fact that these stones, that they are alive, they do breathe, and they do grow ..

.and they're massive!" she said.

About 24,000 people gathered at the stone circle in Wiltshire, in southwestern England.