SEALs Tried to Locate US Citizen Taken by Afghan Militants
30 Apr 2020
The Associated Press | By JAMES LAPORTA and ERIC TUCKER
WASHINGTON — In the days following the capture of an American contractor in Afghanistan earlier this year, Navy commandos raided a village and detained suspected members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network while the U.S. intelligence community tried to track the cellphones of the man and his captors, The Associated Press has learned.
While the circumstances surrounding the abduction remain unclear, the previously unreported operation described by multiple American officials over the past month shed new light on early efforts to locate Mark R. Frerichs. The disappearance several months ago of the contractor from Illinois has been shrouded in mystery, and the case has been the subject of minimal public discussion by the U.S. government.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/01/watchdog-group-says-us-not-releasing-data-taliban-attacks.html
