Iraqi police have found the body of a man wearing what appear to be U.S. military trousers and boots who has a tattoo on his left arm floating in the Euphrates River. An Iraqi official said it was one of three American soldiers abducted following an Al Qaeda-led ambush on May 12.
The man had been shot in the head and torso, Babil police Capt. Muthana Khalid said. He said Iraqi police turned the body over the U.S. forces.
Said Major Webster Wright, an American public affairs officer:
We are in possession of the body. We have not identified the body. We will give the truth to the families first.
To limit the chance of rumors and information being sent back the U.S., military bases in the area have been put on an Internet blackout, preventing e-mail messages from being sent.
The discovery of the body in Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad in Babil Province, came as U.S. and Iraqi forces continued their massive search for the three soldiers abducted May 12 in an ambush on their patrol near Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad in the Triangle of Death.
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