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An Arabic TV channel has reported that a US soldier missing in Iraq since an ambush west of Baghdad in April has been shot dead by his captors.
Al-Jazeera TV broadcast video which it said showed Private Keith Maupin, 20, kneeling blindfolded just before his killing by anti-American militants.
A US military spokesman said it was too early to confirm the soldier's death.
The video emerged hours after the US handed over power to an interim Iraqi government two days early.
US administrator Paul Bremer left the country after transferring sovereignty to an Iraqi judge. Hours later, the first US ambassador to Iraq in a decade, John Negroponte, arrived in Baghdad.
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Al-Jazeera TV broadcast video which it said showed Private Keith Maupin, 20, kneeling blindfolded just before his killing by anti-American militants.
A US military spokesman said it was too early to confirm the soldier's death.
The video emerged hours after the US handed over power to an interim Iraqi government two days early.
US administrator Paul Bremer left the country after transferring sovereignty to an Iraqi judge. Hours later, the first US ambassador to Iraq in a decade, John Negroponte, arrived in Baghdad.
BBC Read More
