Taliban Claims to Have 2 U.S. Soldiers

The Taliban has captured two American soldiers and is holding them in Logar province, in the south, according to a Taliban official. A local radio station has broadcast appeals for information that leads to the return of the soldiers, with a $20,000 reward, Reuters reports, but Western forces have offered no comment. The broadcast said the troops, wearing their standard-issue uniforms, had been captured by insurgents somewhere in the province and may have been separated or moved somewhere else. The message added that one of the soldiers is 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, with brown eyes and blond hair; the other is 190 pounds, bald with a moustache, and both have tattoos. A Taliban spokesman said that three soldiers had been captured but one had died.