According to the militant video released Monday, June 4, 2007, Al-Qaida-linked insurgents killed three American soldiers after capturing them last month in Iraq.
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Captured US Soldiers Killed – al-Qaida
Insurgents linked to al-Qaida issued a video on Monday, claiming they killed all three American soldiers captured in an ambush last month. The video, however, offered no proof for the claims. The U.S. military promise to continue the search.
“They were alive and then dead,” a voice said during a sequence of images that included the military IDs of two Americans who went missing south of Baghdad last month. The video came from the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella insurgent group that includes al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
The three soldiers were abducted after an ambush as they were participating in an operation to watch for insurgents placing roadside bombs near Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad.
A body found on May 23 in the Euphrates River was later identified as Pte 1st Class Joseph Anzack but the other two remain missing.
American military officials said they would study the video for clues and continue searching for the two missing soldiers, Spec. Alex R. Jimenez and Pte. Byron W. Fouty.
“We’ve been on the lookout for something like this,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad. Investigators “will continue to review it for whatever information we can gain from it.”
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