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2 U.S. Navy Sailors Missing

July 26 2010

Afghanistan

American and Afghan forces are searching for two missing U.S. sailors in eastern Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Taliban claims to have killed one of the men in a Friday shootout and captured the other.

Insurgent leaders will soon meet to decide the fate of the alleged survivor, a Taliban spokesman said. The men were said to have been captured while driving alone in a lightly armored vehicle.

Coalition forces have set up a perimeter in Logar province where...

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