Taliban militants in Afghanistan have captured an American soldier and three Afghan security men in the country’s southern Paktika province, according to an Afghan news website.
Maulvi Sangin, who claims to speak for the Taliban in the province, said that the U.S. soldier was kidnapped on Wednesday, according to a report in the Afghan website pajhwok.com.
He added that the Taliban fighters seized the soldiers when they were on way to the Yousafkhel security checkpost and took them to a secret location, according to the report.
Sangin claimed that the abducted soldiers were drunk when they were captured by the Taliban.
Source: www.pajhwok.com, Afghanistan, July 2, 2009
