Three Afghan Military Officers Go Missing in US
Three Afghan military officers have gone missing while in the United
States for a joint military training exercise at Joint Base Cape Cod,
U.S. military and law enforcement officials said.
They arrived in the country on Sept. 11, and were reported missing by
base security personnel late Saturday. They were last seen at the Cape
Cod Mall in Hyannis, Mass.
A Centcom official told ABC News there is no indication that the Afghan men reported missing pose any threat to the public.
Base and local police and state authorities are working together to
locate the three Afghans. There are still approximately a dozen Afghan
soldiers still participating in the exercise, which ends Sep. 24th.
Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said the
investigation is being run by the FBI and the Department of Justice, but
Massachusetts state troopers are assisting in "putting the word out"
and searching the area around Camp Edwards.
Just last weekend, two Afghan policemen in the Washington, D.C., for a
DEA training program at Quantico, Va., also went missing while on a
sightseeing trip to Georgetown.
The two men, who were part of a group of 31 Afghan police officers in
the U.S. for the multi-week program, were found safe somewhere outside
of D.C., but officials would not say exactly where, ABC affiliate WJLA-TV reported.
According to WJLA-TV, the DEA said the two men left the group because they did not want to go back to Afghanistan.
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