KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. forces desperately scoured rugged Afghan mountains Friday for an elite American military team missing after fierce fighting that included the shooting down of an Army Special Forces helicopter with 16 soldiers aboard earlier this week, U.S. officials said.
A purported Taliban spokesman claimed to have captured one of the soldiers.
The developments further worsen the already stinging blow the U.S. military suffered from the deaths of the 16 on the MH-47 Chinook chopper, and comes as it scrambles to deal with an insurgency that threatens three years of progress toward peace.
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