Back on May 12th a US observation post was overrun and four soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division were killed. Three more were taken prisoner. They were considered missing in action.

On May 28th one of the soldiers, PFC Joseph Anzack Jr, was found dead alongside the Euphrates River near Musayyib.

This video report submitted by the NY Times’ Michael Kamber was run on the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer. It covers part of the search for the soldiers and has a stark report of an IED ambush.

Gorilla’s Guides reports that the body of one soldier has been recovered.

As posted immediately below the independent Iraki newsagency Aswat Al Iraq (Voices of Iraq) are reporting the finding of the corpse of one of the captured American soldiers. According to the report a spokesman for the green zone government Ministry of Defense, said on Sunday, that a combined American/green zone government force found two days ago the body of an American soldier captured about six months ago, in an area 60 Kilometres north of the city of Hilla.

The soldier has been missing since gunmen launched an attack on an American observation post near Mahmoudia south of Baghdad, on the twelfth of May last. During the attack which was complex and well-organised the attackers killed four soldiers patrol and an Iraqi interpreter.

The gunmen captured three other soldiers. The so-called Islamic State of Irak claimed the responsibility for the attack.

The American army immediately launched a massive campaign of searches, in which thousands of American and green zone government soldiers searched the areas south of Baghdad and north of the city of Hilla during the most intense phase about 900 people were questioned intensively and 36 detained. American planes dropped leaflets offering a reward of $200 thousand dollars to those who gave information about the whereabouts of the missing soldiers. The so-called Islamic State issued a video (see report of June 4th 2007 under the heading "Late Breaking Report: for screengrabs) in which a speaker on the video said:

““Fearing the occupying army will continue its searches, harming our Muslim brothers … (the Islamic State in Iraq) decided to settle the matter and announced the news of their killing to cause bitterness to God’s enemies””

Gorilla’s Guides recently updated their website and they have not yet fixed all their coding problems. Go to their page via the link above, then scroll down to find the article titled “The reported finding of the corpse of one of the missing American soldiers” dated November 4th. Then scroll halfway through the day’s report and you will find a highlighted link to a June 4th report which contains information, and half-way through that article there are clickable licks on the left margin to three screen grabs from a tape reportedly photographed by the “Islamic Army” which show ID documents of two of the missing soldiers