the face of war: american pow keith mathew maupin
the arab television station al-jazeera aired video footage today showing a 20-year-old US soldier captured by iraqi resistance forces, apparently unharmed and surrounded by five masked men holding automatic rifles. the young man is heard as saying: «my name is keith matthew maupin. i am a soldier from the 1st division. i am married with a ten-month-old child».
al-jazeera reported that a spokesperson for the unidentified iraqi resistance group holding the soldier said on the tape that he was being "treated according to the Islamic way of treating prisoners of war".
the us government is currently trying to confirm the identity of the prisoner.
from the beeb: hostages in iraq - timeline, current as of posting time.
