Two missing sailors in Afghanistan, one dead other still alive

Taliban: One U.S. service member is dead, other is alive in Afghanistan
By Joshua Partlow and Javed Hamdard
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, July 25, 2010; 10:50 AM

KABUL--One U.S. Navy service member was killed in a shoot-out with Taliban insurgents in Logar province and the other is alive and in insurgent custody, a Taliban spokesman and Afghan officials said on Sunday.

NATO officials have not confirmed these reports and still characterize the two men as missing since they drove off their Kabul base Friday.

Afghan police and army commanders in Logar said in telephone interviews that U.S. troops have recovered the bodies of one of the sailors and are searching cars and houses for the surviving one.

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