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Article: Uncertainty surrounds circumstances under which soldiers were captured.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- April 2, 1999
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ALGUNJA, Macedonia _ The U.S. soldiers drove down a straight, quiet road lined with tall poplars and blossoming cherry trees before they turned off into the rocky hills that led to the Yugoslav border.
It was about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday when the proprietor of a market saw the Americans in their three camouflaged Humvees make the turn past his store in the Gypsy village of Algunja. They were headed onto a rugged dirt road accessible only by four-wheel.
About 2:15 p.m., the soldiers radioed from Sjedince, a tiny, nearly deserted village that straddles the Yugoslav border, with an urgent message for their commanders at the Skopje airport.
``They ...