Captured US Soldiers Shown on Al Jazeera TV

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Captured US Soldiers Shown on Al Jazeera TV

Al Jazeera TV Sunday broadcast the images and a statement of the five US soldiers captured by the Iraqi military, including one injured and one woman.

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Al Jazeera TV Sunday broadcast the images and a statement of the five US soldiers captured by the Iraqi military, including one injured and one woman.

Several dead bodies, obviously US soldiers killed in Iraq, were also shown on the screen.

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Sunday said in Washington that there had been report of a missing coalition aircraft, addingthat some US troops might have gone missing in Iraq and could be held as prisoners of war.

Earlier Sunday, an Iraqi eyewitness said that two British pilots were found hiding in the tall grass on the west bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad and were handed over to Iraqi officials after their warplane was shot down by Iraq's air defense fire.

Captured US soldiers from Texas, New Jersey

Al Jazeera TV on Sunday broadcast images of five prisoners, including two wounded, one of them a woman, saying they were from Texas and New Jersey.

Also shown on the television were several dead bodies, apparently of US soldiers killed in Iraq.

Three of the soldiers, captured alive by Iraqis, said they werefrom Texas, including the woman who identified herself as Shauna, aged 30, and one, a sergeant, from New Jersey. It was not immediately clear where the fifth prisoner was from.

The bodies shown were wearing bloodstained camouflage uniforms and some appeared to have bullet wounds to the head.

The sergeant and the woman said they were from the 507th Maintenance Company.

The sergeant and Shauna were shown being interviewed by Iraqi media, the captured woman soldier was wearing terrified expressionwhen interviewed, the Al Jazeera footage showed.

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