Coalition says soldier may be missing in Afghanistan

Source: AFP

KABUL (AFP) - The US-led coalition said Wednesday it was investigating reports that a soldier was missing in Afghanistan, as the Taliban claimed to have captured a foreign trooper.

"We have unconfirmed reports that a soldier is missing. We are investigating," coalition spokesman Major Chris Belcher told AFP.

Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said the movement had captured a foreign soldier in uniform in the Sangin district of volatile southern Helmand province.

"One NATO force soldier with a uniform and gun was captured by our mujahideen (holy warriors) yesterday (Tuesday)," Ahmadi told AFP by telephone from an unknown location.



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Afghanistan Taliban say have missing foreign soldier

KABUL, June 13 (Reuters) - A foreign soldier went missing on Wednesday in Afghanistan and the country's Taliban movement said it had kidnapped him.

Two officials for the U.S.-led military and for NATO confirmed to Reuters that a foreign soldier went missing in an area of southern Helmand province, part of the Taliban's main bastion.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL100284.htm

... on the Afghan plain,
and the women come out to cut up what remains,
roll to your gun and blow out your brains.
And go to your God like a soldier."
Kipling

Vietnam, or Iraq, or Afghanistan... Not a good thing to be captured.

Good thoughts directed at this poor soul, and the poor souls in US custody, too.

Source: Reuters


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Apparently the captured "NATO soldier" and missing UAE security team
member reported here are one and the same.

LOL