Five or six U.S. servicemen are dead and two captured in Afghanistan. Five died in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan. One more (according to the Taliban) died in captivity after a vehicle was seized south of Kabul. Two other soldiers in the vehicle are now captives of the Taliban.
Here are articles on the incidents from CNN, Reuters, and AP.
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Frank Chadwick said:
Here’s an update. The two servicement were sailors, not soldiers. One was killed in the encounter with the Taliban and one remains alive and a prisoner. The two were driving an armored Toyota land cruiser in Taliban territory when the attack took place but U.S. officials have not been able to say why the two sailors were in that area. Here is a link to a recent story on the attempts to recover the surviving sailor and the remains of the other.
July 26th, 2010 at 6:28 am