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Terrorists in Iraq claimed to have kidnapped a U.S. soldier after a firefight in which several of his comrades were killed.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* Terrorists in Iraq claimed to have kidnapped a U.S. soldier after a firefight in which several of his comrades were killed. To bolster this claim, the terrorists posted a picture of the unfortunate serviceman on their website. Strangely, the picture did not show usual identification tags for the alleged captive, and he seemed to be uncommonly stiff and expressionless. The mystery deepened when the U.S. military authorities declared having no knowledge of the firefight in question, nor of any missing troops. Then a ...

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