Dog Tags of Soldier Killed in Brutal Iraq Attack Missing

Friday, May 18, 2007
BAGHDAD — As the massive search for three U.S. soldiers feared captured by Al Qaeda entered its sixth day Thursday, the military said the ambush on their convoy apparently confiscated the dog tags of one of the four American soldiers who died in the attack.
An explosion also rocked the Green Zone on Thursday in the third attack in three days on the heavily fortified area in central Baghdad where the U.S. Embassy is located and Iraq's government and parliament meets.
Maj. Webster Wright, a spokesman for the Second Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division the unit that was attacked and that is leading the search for the three missing soldiers, said Saturday's assault in an insurgent stronghold south of Baghdad apparently used rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire to severely damage the two Humvees in the stationary U.S. convoy.
He said the dog tags of one of the four American soldiers who died were missing and apparently had been taken from the scene by the attackers. That could explain why the military has only been able to identify three of the four dead U.S. soldiers.
About 4,000 U.S. troops and 2,000 Iraqis are searching for the three U.S. soldiers feared captured by Al Qaeda during the ambush, which also killed one Iraqi soldier.
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