Al-Qaeda Claims It Captured Soldiers

US troops comb area south of Baghdad for three missing since Saturday
By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff
Posted May 14, 2007 6:40 AM CDT
Al-Qaeda Claims It Captured Soldiers
Iraqi soldiers take defensive position while on the joint search mission with the U.S. troops near Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 12, 2007. Seven U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi army interpreter were attacked early Saturday while patrolling a Sunni insurgent area...   (Associated Press)

An al-Qaeda umbrella group claims it kidnapped the three US soldiers missing since Saturday. Thousands of troops continue to sweep the area south of Baghdad dubbed the Triangle of Death for their comrades, who disappeared in an ambush that killed four other solders. The so-called Islamic State of Iraq offered no proof for the claim.

The announcement followed one of the bloodiest days in Iraq in weeks; at least 124 people were killed. A truck bomb exploded in the offices of a Kurdish political party, killing 50, and a car bomb in a Baghdad market claimed another 17. (More Iraq stories.)

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