Three Afghan Military Officers Go Missing in US
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Three Afghan Military Officers Go Missing in US
Sep 21, 2014, 8:28 PM ET
Three Afghan national army officers have gone missing while in the
United States for a joint military training exercise at Joint Base Cape
Cod, U.S. military and law enforcement officials said.
They arrived in the country on Sept. 11, and were reported missing by
base security personnel late Saturday. They were last seen at the Cape
Cod Mall in Hyannis, Mass.
A Centcom official told ABC News there is no indication that the Afghan
men reported missing pose any threat to the public. Officials said all
the Afghan military personnel were fully vetted before they arrived
Base and local police and state authorities are working together to
locate the three Afghans. There are still approximately a dozen Afghan
soldiers still participating in the exercise, which ends Sep. 24th.
A National Guard spokesman told ABC News that officials are trying to
piece together the missing Afghanistan National Army senior officers'
movements.
"It's tough to say what they were doing at the mall. We are gathering
all of the information we can on the officers' now,'' spokesman James
Sahady said.
Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said the
investigation is being run by the FBI and the Department of Justice, but
Massachusetts state troopers are assisting in "putting the word out"
and searching the area around Camp Edwards.
The three officers were participating in Central Command's Regional
Cooperation exercise, an annual command-post exercise. This year's
exercise runs Sept. 17-24 and includes representatives from five
different nations and more than 200 participants.
Just last weekend, two Afghan policemen in the Washington, D.C., for a
DEA training program at Quantico, Va., also went missing while on a
sightseeing trip to Georgetown.
The two men, who were part of a group of 31 Afghan police officers in
the U.S. for the multi-week program, were found safe somewhere outside
of D.C., but officials would not say exactly where, ABC affiliate WJLA-TV reported.
According to WJLA-TV, the DEA said the two men left the group because they did not want to go back to Afghanistan.
ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Dean Schabner contributed to this report.
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