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US troops abducted
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Iraqi town of Balad for two missing soldiers admitted yesterday they could not understand how someone would be able to abduct two US soldiers and their armoured vehicle.
"We are all baffled," Sergeant First Class Tyrone Paige, involved in the intensive sweep told AFP, adding: "Everybody in this area knows what to look for. I'm looking for them."
He declined to name the two missing soldiers, but said they were from the 4th Infantry Division.
Blood was found near their post in the vicinity of the flashpoint town, but there was no other trace of the two soldiers or the Humvee, a defence official in Washington said Thursday, asking not to be named.
The fact that just two soldiers were missing suggested they had not been out on patrol, Paige said, explaining that military convoys usually included three Humvees with five soldiers in each vehicle.
At least one person who is believed to know something about what happened had been detained, the US defence official added.
Paige did not speculate on the fate of the two soldiers, while the defence official said simply that the military was "concerned".
There were no helicopters obviously involved in the search yesterday, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.
Meanwhile, one US soldier was killed and nine others wounded late Thursday in an attack on their unit in the town of Kufah, south of Baghdad, a US military officer said yesterday.
The soldiers out on patrol with Iraqi police were attacked by gunmen, Marine Major Rick Hall told AFP in the town, near the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf, around 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of Baghdad.
The attack occurred at around 8:30 pm local time, he added.
"They were conducting a motorised patrol and the exact circumstances are still under investigation," he said.
Another report says, US troops guarding the local government building in the flashpoint town of Fallujah came under rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack overnight, local residents told AFP yesterday.
There were no reports of any US casualties in the attack, at around 1:00 am local time, when an unknown number of attackers fired a single RPG at the US position, they said.
The US troops returned fire but apparently without hitting any of the attackers, who fled. The troops deployed throughout the town, backed by helicopters, and sealed off its main road in search of the attackers.