| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Iraq has received a videotape appearing to show an American soldier being held captive by insurgents there, a defense official said on Friday. he official, who asked not to be identified, did not provide details except to say that the videotape had been received by the military on Friday in Iraq and appeared to show a soldier in American uniform.
"We are, of course, looking at the tape," the official said.
An increasing number of foreign civilian construction and aid workers have been taken hostage in Iraq this month, with their insurgent captors demanding that countries such as Japan and Italy removed their military forces from a U.S.-led coalition occupying the country. At least one of the hostages, an Italian civilian, was murdered.
Two U.S. soldiers are currently listed as missing in Iraq after an attack on a fuel convoy near Baghdad this month. But there was no immediate indication that the videotape in question might include one of those two troops.
SOURCE: REUTERS, Fri Apr 16, 2004 03:34 PM ET | |
