Search for Kidnapped U.S. Soldier Closes in on Sadr City

John Ward Anderson and Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post Foreign Service

American military police backed by Iraqi troops maintained their cordon of Baghdad's Sadr City on Sunday, manning barricades and checkpoints in and around the Shiite slum in an operation to find a kidnapped U.S. soldier and to capture Iraq's most notorious death squad leader. The soldier, an Iraqi American translator whose name has not been released, has been missing for six days. He was abducted by armed men while making an unauthorized visit to see relatives in the Karrada neighborhood of central Baghdad last Monday...

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WP: Twofold Operation Seals Sadr City (Troops Seek U.S. Soldier, Militiaman)