Last Missing US Soldier in Iraq Identified

Staff Sgt. Ahmed Kousay al-Taie was kidnapped at gunpoint
By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 26, 2012 3:57 PM CST
Last Missing US Soldier in Iraq Identified
ARLINGTON, VA - OCTOBER 31: Members of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment 'The Old Guard' carry the flag-draped casket of U.S. Army Specialist Michael D. Elm of Phoenix, Arizona, to his final resting place during his funeral October 31, 2011 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia....   (Getty Images)

The US military has identified the remains of America's last service member missing in Iraq—an Army interpreter who was kidnapped at gunpoint in 2006, the AP reports. Staff Sgt. Ahmed Kousay al-Taie, a native of Iraq who lived in Michigan, had sneaked off base by motorcycle to visit his Iraqi wife. Today the Army said his remains had been positively identified at the military mortuary in Dover, Delaware. But officials released no other information about his death or the finding of his remains. (More Iraq war stories.)

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