11 Iraqis Detained in Search for Missing Soldiers
Jodi at Webloggin on May 15 2007 at 10:00 am | Filed under: Military, The War on Terror
The AP is reporting that 11 Iraqis have been detained in the search for the abducted soldiers.
U.S. troops have questioned hundreds of people and detained 11 in the search for three American soldiers feared captured by al-Qaida during a weekend ambush south of Baghdad, the military said Tuesday.
For a fourth day, jets, helicopters and unmanned surveillance aircraft crisscrossed the skies over the sparsely populated farm area near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad to search for the missing soldiers. U.S. and Iraqi troops — backed by dog teams — searched vehicles and pedestrians. Other teams peered into crawl spaces and probed for possible secret chambers in homes.
The Pentagon has also said that they believe that the soldiers are in the “hands” of terrorists.
On Monday, the Islamic State of Iraq — an al-Qaida front group that claims it has the soldiers — warned the U.S. to halt its search by about 4,000 troops, and the Pentagon acknowledged for the first time that it believes the soldiers are in terrorist hands.
Let’s pray that our guys are safe and that they are released without harm or that our military finds them and kicks terrorist butt.
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Michelle Malkin
Iraqis, American soldiers, al-Qaida, Baghdad, the Islamic State of Iraq
