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Missing U.S. Commando Rescued…

Missing U.S. Commando Rescued…
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One member of a four-man Navy Seal reconnaissance team has been rescued after his group was reported missing in a mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan last week, a senior Defense Department official said Sunday.

No details about how the commando evaded Taliban fighters for about five days were disclosed. Pentagon and military officials in Washington and Afghanistan declined to release details of the rescue until the status of the three other members of the Special Operations team, still listed as missing, could be determined.

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