U.S. Elite 'Scouts' Held by Taliban

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PREPARED... Taliban fighters outside the old US embassy in Kabul.

BY MERCURY REPORTER

CONFUSION last night surrounded reports that three members of America's elite special forces have been captured inside Afghanistan.

A Gulf television station said Afghan security forces had seized the Americans, but the Taliban swiftly denied the report.

A Pentagon spokesman in Washington declined to comment.

Later, the foreign minister of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Dr Abdullah Abdullah, said he doubted that US or British special forces were operating within Taliban-controlled areas of the country.

The al-Jazeera satellite television …