As far as I know, since the start of the global war on terror, not one single American soldier that was captured ever made it out alive. Our prayers are with him/her and the family.
Also, this is the first American soldier captured in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001.
*Updated info below..scroll down.
KABUL (AP) — US military spokeswoman says insurgents have captured an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan.
Capt. Elizabeth Mathias said the soldier has been missing since Tuesday. She said she could not provide further information.
Mathias said the military was using “all our resources to find him and provide for his safe return.”
The soldier was not taking part in the major military operation launched in the southern Taliban stronghold of Helmand early Thursday.
*update* Taliban speaks
(CBS) A Taliban commander told CBS News’ Sami Yousafzai Thursday that militants had captured one U.S. soldier and three Afghan nationals in Paktika province, near the Pakistani border.
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The Taliban commander, who spoke to Yousafzai via satellite telephone from the region, said a group of militants cornered the American soldier and his Afghan counterparts near a U.S. military base and took them hostage.He said the captives’ fate would be decided by Taliban leaders, but that the Islamic extremist group “would not mind an exchange of prisoners in this case.”
*Update*
The captured soldier was apparently “sold” to a local terrorist group. A video is said to be coming soon.
NY Daily News
An American soldier who went missing from a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan was “sold” to a local militant group – which claims it will soon release a video of the captive and a list of demands, a U.S. military official said.
“Our leaders have not decided on the fate of this soldier,” said a commander with the Taliban’s hard-line Haqqani faction, according to Agence-France Press. “They will decide on his fate and soon we will present video tapes of the coalition soldier and our demand to media.”
The identity of the captured soldier has not been released in order to protect his safety while U.S. troops desperately comb the area for him.
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