Two members of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were reported missing today and the Taliban said they were holding the bodies of two drowned foreign soldiers, according to Reuters. The Islamist militants" spokesman Qare Yousuf told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location that they had recovered the bodies of the drowned soldiers on Wednesday in the western Badghis province. The province"s police chief, Abdul Jabar, said the two service-members were Americans, who drowned in a river after arriving in the area during a gunbattle on Wednesday. Earlier the NATO-led force in Afghanistan said two of its members were reported missing during a routine resupply mission in the west of the country on Wednesday. "We continue exhaustive search and rescue operations to locate our missing service members. We are doing everything we can to find them," said U.S. Navy Captain Jane Campbell, a press officer for the NATO-led force. "The families of these service members have been notified about their loved ones" status, and we will continue to keep them informed as information becomes available."
