Missing Soldiers’ ID Found in Iraq
Identification cards belonging to two missing U.S. soldiers have been found in a house in Samarra, the U.S. military said Saturday.
Spc. Alex Jimenez and Pvt. Byron Fouty were believed to have been kidnapped last month south of Baghdad.
Their IDs was found June 9 when coalition forces raided the house. They also found computers, video equipment, rifles and ammunition, CNN reported. Samarra, located north of Baghdad, is the site of Al-Askariya Mosque, the Shiite shrine bombed Wednesday.Â
Fouty and Jimenez disappeared along with Pfc. Joseph J. Anzack Jr. after they were attacked May 12 south of Baghdad, near Yusufiya. Four American soldiers and an Iraqi soldier died in the attack. Anzack’s body was found in a river south of Baghdad last month.
In the raid on the house in Samarra, two soldiers were wounded when extremists opened fire from a nearby tree and then fled, said a military statement.