May
- May 2: Gunmen in Afghanistan kill Abdul Sabur Farid, a member of the House of Elders and former Prime Minister.
- May 6: Eight Afghan police are killed in Farah Province in a clash with the Taliban in which at least 17 insurgents are killed or injured.
- May 15: Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute has been chosen to be President Bush's "war czar," overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- May 19: Three German soldiers are killed with four civilians in a suicide bombing in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan.
- May 20: A suicide bomber kills at least 10 people and injures 32 people in Gardez, the capital of Afghanistan's Paktia Province.
- May 24: The United States House of Representatives approves a US$100 billion bill to fund the US war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan without a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
- May 30: A CH-47 Chinook helicopter on a NATO mission in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, is shot down killing all seven service personnel (5 American, 1 Canadian and 1 British) aboard. Taliban fighters claim responsibility for the attack.
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Famous quotes containing the word may:
“The heavy burden of the growing soul
Perplexes and offends more, day by day;
Week by week, offends and perplexes more
With the imperatives of “is and seems”
And may and may not, desire and control.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)