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U.S. forces desperately scoured rugged Afghan mountains Friday for an elite American military team missing in the same area where a U.S. helicopter was shot down.
A purported Taliban spokesman claimed militants captured one of the men.
In central Afghanistan, Taliban rebels kidnapped and killed nine tribal leaders and sent a boy to offer to exchange the bodies for those of dead militants, an official said. The tribal leaders were among 25 people killed in three days of fighting in Uruzgan province.
The missing troops are a small team from the special operations forces, said military officials, speaking Friday on condition of anonymity because rescue operations were still under way.
