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Iran and US deny kidnap of 7 American soldiers
[Al Arabiya] Iran's Revolutionary Guards and the Pentagon denied on Sunday that Seven US troops were kidnapped by Iranian border guards, calling the report "unfounded", the state-run English language Press TV said.The semi-official Fars news agency reported earlier in the day that border guards had detained seven U.S. troops as they tried to illegally enter the Islamic state. The agency later withdrew the story, which had given no source. Iran's Arabic-language television al-Alam quoted Iran's Revolutionary Guards, in charge of Iran's border security, as denying that any such incident had happened in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan. In Washington, a U.S. Defense Department front man said: "Reports by state-run Iranian media that seven U.S. soldiers were detained after crossing into Iran are false." A front man for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Captain Ryan Donald, said no U.S. soldiers were missing. Posted by: Fred 2010-09-20 |
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