Military: 'High-value targets' among 11 arrested, 460 questioned as 4,000 troops search for missing soldiers

BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops arrested 11 people, including four wanted men, as they continued their hunt for three missing US soldiers thought to have been kidnapped by an Al Qaeda linked group...

"We have conducted more than 460 tactical interviews and detained 11 individuals, four of them are considered high value targets," said U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver...

Helicopters had logged more than 255 hours and other US security agencies had deployed their assets in the race to locate the soldiers, whom the military still assumed were alive, Garver said. Droners and jets zoomed overhead, and satellite technology had been tapped, as soldiers scoured the hostile area.

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