В пятницу два военнослужащих с военной базы в Логаре (на Юг от Кабула) попали в плен к талибам. Ездили на гражданском автомобиле. Были ли они в военной форме или нет - не сообщается.
Американцы развернули компанию спасения: вертолеты, громкоговорители, денежные премии за информацию о местонахождении.
Уже есть информация, что талибы убили одного пленного. За всю войну, не считая этого случая, талибы взяли в плен только одного американского солдата (2009 год).
это были мареманы, заехавшие в "неправильный район"
Типа, местная дорога в округ Чарх провинции Логар выглядит лучше, чем главная дорога. А туда, куда они заехали (на базар в Чархе), афганское пр-во не заходит.
Талибан предложил обменять тело на заключённых.
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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.
Samer Gul, the chief of Logar's Charkh district, said a four-wheel drive armored sports utility vehicle was seen Friday night by a guard working for the district chief's office. The guard tried to flag down the vehicle, carrying a driver and a passenger, but it kept going, Gul said.
"They stopped in the main bazaar of Charkh district. The Taliban saw them in the bazaar," Gul said. "They didn't touch them in the bazaar, but notified other Taliban that a four-wheel vehicle was coming their way."
The second group of Taliban tried to stop the vehicle, but when it didn't, insurgents opened fire and the occupants in the vehicle shot back, he said.
"Charkh district is very dangerous. No government officials or employees are willing to go to that area," said Wali, the provincial council official. He said there is a well-paved road that goes in the direction of Charkh and suggested the Americans may have mistaken that for the main highway—which is a much older and more dilapidated road.