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Taliban claim to capture US sailor, kill another (AP)

July 25th, 2010 | Author: admin

A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chats with a driver during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP – The Taliban claimed Sunday that they killed a U.S. sailor and kidnapped another as NATO forces ramped up a massive search for the servicemen, who went missing two days earlier in an area held by the militants.


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Taliban claim capture of US sailor, killing of 2nd (AP)

July 25th, 2010 | Author: admin

A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chats with a driver during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP – The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday.


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Taliban: 1 missing US sailor dead, other captured (AP)

July 25th, 2010 | Author: admin

United States Marine LCpl. Brian Quinnones from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines has an unlit cigarette in his mouth following a gun battle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP – The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday.


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Taliban says ambush kills 1 US sailor, 1 captured (AP)

July 25th, 2010 | Author: admin

United States Marine LCpl. Brian Quinnones from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines has an unlit cigarette in his mouth following a gun battle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP – The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy member they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday.


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US teen sailor reunited with brother after ordeal (AP)

June 26th, 2010 | Author: admin

Zac Sunderland, from California, right who sailed around the world at age 17, meets his sister Abby Sunderland, 16, on the French fisheries patrol boat 'Osiris', Saturday, June 26, 2010, at Saint Denis de la Reunion, in the Reunion island, a French oversea territory in the Indian Ocean. Zac is coming to pick up his sister Abby Sunderland who was rescued by a French fishing boat after her boat became crippled by storms while trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo and nonstop.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)AP – Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland got a big hug from her older brother Saturday on the appropriately named Reunion Island, and again defended her family for letting her try to sail around the world alone.


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US teen sailor reunited with brother after drama (AP)

June 26th, 2010 | Author: admin

Zac Sunderland, from California, right who sailed around the world at age 17, meets his sister Abby Sunderland, 16, on the French fisheries patrol boat 'Osiris', Saturday, June 26, 2010, at Saint Denis de la Reunion, in the Reunion island, a French oversea territory in the Indian Ocean. Zac is coming to pick up his sister Abby Sunderland who was rescued by a French fishing boat after her boat became crippled by storms while trying to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo and nonstop.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)AP – Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland has been reunited with her brother, after her solo around-the-world journey ended when her boat fell apart in an southern Ocean storm.


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Teen sailor healthy, weary after 3 days adrift (AP)

June 12th, 2010 | Author: admin

Marianne and Laurence Sunderland, parents of would-be solo round-the-world sailor Abby Sunderland, talk with reporters at their home in Thousand Oakls, Calif., Saturday morning, June 12, 2010. It was confirmed a French fishing vessel had rescued Abby from her crippled sailboat in the turbulent southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP – A California teenager who spent three days adrift on the turbulent Indian Ocean described her ordeal as “crazy” as she started a long journey home aboard a French fishing boat that rescued her Saturday from her crippled sailboat.


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