BAGHDAD, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The ID cards of two missing U.S. soldiers have been found in a suspected al-Qaida safe house north of Baghdad during a U.S. raid on it, the U.S. military said in a statement on Saturday.
The ID cards found in the raid on June 9 belonged to 25-year-old Specialist Alex Jimenez and 19-year-old Private Bryon Fouty, said the statement.
The two soldiers were abducted along with a third soldier, whose body was found floating on Euphrates last month, after an attack on their patrol south of Baghdad on May 12 which also killed four other soldiers and one interpreter.
The U.S. military launched a massive search operation and offered a bounty of 200,000 U.S. dollars for information that lead to the return of the missing soldiers safely.
Al-Qaida group in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack and abduction.
----------------------------The IDs were seen in a June 4th video released by al-Furqan Foundation for Media Production. Al-Furqan Foundation is the official distributor and producer of multimedia for Islamic State of Iraq - an umbrella insurgent group comprised of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and others.
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