AP News, June 4th, 2007
More than 25 Americans are believed to have been abducted by militants in Iraq since the beginning of the war. Here are some of them:
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_ May 12, 2007: Three U.S. soldiers were abducted in an ambush south of Baghdad. The body of Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, Calif., was later found May 23. On June 4, a video by al-Qaida-linked insurgents claimed all three soldiers were killed, including Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich. But the video offered no direct proof.
_ Nov. 26, 2005: Tom Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va., and three other men from the Chicago-based peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams were kidnapped. Fox was found fatally shot in Baghdad on March 10, 2006. The three others _ two Canadians and a Briton _ were rescued March 23.
_ Dec. 6, 2005: The Islamic Army in Iraq released a video of a captive Ronald Schulz, 40, of Anchorage, Alaska. A later tape purportedly showed a man with Schulz's identity card being shot in the head. His family said they believe he is dead.
_ Sept. 16, 2004: Militants seized three workers at Gulf Services Co. _ Jack Hensley, 48, a civil engineer from Marietta, Ga., Eugene "Jack" Armstrong, 52, formerly of Hillsdale, Mich., and Kenneth Bigley, 62, of Britain. An Internet message posted days later reported their killings by followers of al-Qaida in Iraq.
_ April 2004: Nicholas Berg, 26, a businessman from West Chester, Penn., was kidnapped and beheaded by a man identified as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. (Al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq in June 2006 by a U.S. airstrike.)
_ April 9, 2004: U.S. Army Sgt. Keith M. Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio, and civilian contractor Timothy Bell of Mobile, Ala., disappeared after an attack on a fuel convoy. Arab TV reported Maupin was killed; the U.S. military lists him as missing.
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