- WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Two US
soldiers are missing following an attack by Iraqi insurgents on their convoy
west of Baghdad.
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- Military spokesman Justin McCue said: "There are
two soldiers missing as a result of an attack on the convoy today ... the
attack occured right around Baghdad International Airport."
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- McCue said it was unknown if the soldiers had been abducted
by insurgents following a flurry of kidnappings of foreigners across Iraq
in recent days.
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- Earlier today, US Central Command announced that a member
of the 13th Corps Support Command had been killed and 12 wounded in an
attack on their convoy near Baghdad International Airport.
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- It was not immediately known if the missing soldiers
were part of the same convoy.
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- McCue said he had no information on missing American
civilians.
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- A CNN report today said several American civilians were
also unaccounted for in Iraq.
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