Value of US private 20,000 US Dollars A Amin KIDNAPPED US SOLDIERS WERE NOT IMPORTANT !!!!!

CALLOUS INDIFFERENCE 24 JULY 2010 US soldiers kidnapped by insurgents in July 2010 were not really important and US military showed little interest in locating them . Not the men dealing with this issue at te US eadquarters in Kabul ?????

It was a routine issue ??????? A dear US friend from New Mexico summed it up succinctly :--These are middle class boys , who are here just to make some money , which they could not in the US. In this case e was referring to a US American hadi workin in Bearing Point but in general he meant all US citizens !!!! I witnessed similar attitudes on innumerable occasions ???? The Italians were not like this . They gave great importance to such matters . I personally saw it when an Italian journalist was kidnapped in 2006. A US contractor approached us and we alerted our sources but soon the incident was forgotten . Business as usual !!!!!

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US soldiers captured in Afghanistan, claims Taliban

A $20,000 reward has reportedly been offered for the safe return of two US soldiers who went missing in Logar province

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The US army's forward operating base in Logar province. It is unclear if the soldiers hailed from the base

There are conflicting reports about the fate of two US soldiers missing in eastern Afghanistan. The soldiers, who went missing this morning, are apparently being held in Logar province, south-east of the capital, Kabul, according to aTaliban official. But Samer Gul, the district chief of Charkh district in Logar province, said one of the men may have been killed. He added the two men had ignored warnings and set out on their own from their base in Kabul yesterday evening into a known Taliban-held area. "They didn't pay any attention to the police. Otherwise we could have kept them from going into an insecure area and now this unfortunate incident has happened," he said. Local radio broadcast appeals offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the safe release of the two men, Reuters reported. "Early this morning, two coalition personnel went missing. They are believed to have been captured by insurgents somewhere in Logar province," the news agency quoted the broadcaster as saying. "They may have been separated from one another or maybe in the process of being moved to another location. "Coalition forces are offering $20,000 (13,000) reward for any information that leads to the successful return of these two."

The radio report said the two men, who both have tattoos, were last seen wearing standard US military camouflage. One was described as about 6ft tall, weighing 220lb with blond hair and brown eyes, and the other was described as 190lb, bald with a thin moustache. The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force has yet to make an official comment. A Taliban spokesman told Reuters that three servicemen had been captured but one had died. The only US service member confirmed to be in Taliban captivity is Specialist Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho who disappeared on 30 June 2009 in Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan. He has since appeared on videos posted on Taliban websites. Five US soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the south of Afghanistan today while another died in a separate incident. The latest deaths bring to 75 the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this month, including 56 Americans.