25 July 2010

Updates to US MIA

CNN is reporting one sailor dead, one sailor alive and abducted.

One American service member who was abducted in Afghanistan on Friday has been killed, provincial government officials said Sunday.
Den Mohammad Darwish, the spokesman for the governor of Logar province, said he learned from locals that the service member was killed.
Another official, Samar Gul Rashid -- who is the governor of the Charkh district in Logar province -- also confirmed the killing, saying he learned about it through Afghan intelligence officials.
A second service member who was also abducted at the same time is still missing.
Rashid said the second soldier is wounded.
Three U.S. military officials told CNN the two service members are from the Navy.
Taliban Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the two Americans were driving in a civilian vehicle in the village of Dasht, in Charkh district.
The Taliban wanted to take both men alive, but a firefight broke out, killing one of the Americans, Mujahid said. The other is alive and being held in a safe location, he said


By: Brant

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