Insurgent video shows IDs of missing US soldiers

Dubai, June 5: A Web video posted by an al Qaeda-led group in Iraq showed pictures of what appeared to be ID cards of two missing US soldiers it said it captured last month, suggesting they may have been killed.

''Fearing the occupying army will continue its searches, harming our Muslim brothers ... (the Islamic State in Iraq) decided to settle the matter and announced the news of their killing to cause bitterness to God's enemies,'' said a speaker on the video, obtained from the US-based SITE Institute.

Web sites often used by al Qaeda-linked groups said earlier today they would soon show the abduction of three Americans, apparently referring to three US soldiers who went missing in Iraq last month after a clash.

The US military has carried out an intensive search and found the body of one of the three US soldiers missing after an attack south of Baghdad.

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