Missing soldiers' duty status changed to 'Missing/Captured'

Above: Alex Jimenez, left, and Byron Fouty, front center. Both were listed as 'Duty Status: Whereabouts Unknown' following a May 12th attack which left 5 dead and 3 missing. Joseph Anzack, one of the missing, was later found dead. On June 4th, a video showing the ID cards and claiming that Fouty and Jimenez had been executed and buried was posted on the internet. Two weeks ago their IDs were found in a raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Samarra.

Two soldiers who disappeared May 12 in an ambush south of Baghdad are still missing and the Defense Department has changed their status to “missing/captured.”

Until June 29, the infantrymen had been listed as “duty status whereabouts unknown,” a temporary designation used while more information about the circumstances surrounding a soldier’s disappearance can be gathered.

The ambush in which Spc. Alex Jimenez, 25, and Pvt. Byron Fouty, 19, went missing also claimed the lives of seven of their fellow soldiers and one Iraqi interpreter...

Six of the soldiers were killed at the scene and the body of a seventh soldier who had been missing since the attack was found May 23 in the Euphrates River.

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