Soldiers Reported Missing in Afghanistan: ; Servicemen Were Subject of Rescue Mission in Which Helicopter Was Apparently Downed by Ground Fire

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KABUL, Afghanistan - A small team of U.S. soldiers was missing today in the same mountains in eastern Afghanistan where a special forces helicopter was shot down earlier this week, and U.S. forces are using "every available asset" to find them, a U.S. military spokesman said.

The MH-47 Chinook helicopter - with 16 people on board who all died in the crash - had gone into the mountains Tuesday to extract the soldiers who are now missing. The team on the ground has been unaccounted for since the chopper was downed, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara said.

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Soldiers Reported Missing in Afghanistan: ; Servicemen Were Subject of Rescue Mission in Which Helicopter Was Apparently Downed by Ground Fire

A purported Taliban spokesman, Mullah Latif Hakimi, meanwhile, claimed the rebels ha...

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