Friday, September 12, 2008

Hostages

Another question (the last one has elicited a grand total of zero responses, so my hopes are not high): Have there been an any American soldiers captured and held hostage during the Afghanistan and/or Iraq Wars? I don't know the answer, do you?

UPDATE: Thanks to Vicki in comments who reports there have been hostages, however in limited numbers. With all the fighting and deaths in the last five years, the low number of hostages is certainly a testament to the military's ethos of leaving no man behind.

1 comment:

Vicki Claudio said...

Yes, there have been several in Iraq.

Spc. Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie was kidnapped Oct. 24, 2006 in Baghdad and is still missing.

Pfc. Joseph Anzack, Spc. Alex Jimenez, and Pvt. Byron Fouty were abducted May 12, 2007 near Mahmudiya, Iraq. The body of Pfc. Anzac was found about a month later, while the bodies of Spc. Jimenez and Pvt. Fouty were recovered this July.

Sgt. Matt Maupin was kidnapped April 9, 2004; his body was finally recovered in March of this year.

You can find out more about these and other hostages at my website Not Ready for my Burqua.