Baghdad, Iraq – U.S. troops continued searching the capital for a comrade believed kidnapped earlier in the week.
American troops have flooded certain parts of Baghdad searching for the missing U.S. soldier, an Iraqi-American working as a translator for a reconstruction team.
During a rare raid into Sadr City on Wednesday, troops received intelligence that the soldier was being held at a nearby mosque, which they then searched. He wasn’t there.
The soldier reportedly was kidnapped while visiting a relative in Baghdad’s Karada neighborhood during Eid al-Fitr celebrations that mark the end of Ramadan, according to the military. He was last seen Monday afternoon inside Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone.
U.S. troops have blocked parts of the capital and searched door- to-door and by air with helicopters and drones. The soldier’s name has been withheld to protect his family still in Iraq, U.S. military spokesman Gen. William Caldwell said.
