If this has been done, it must be treated as the rejection of standards of humane treatment for captured combattants by the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

A purported Taliban spokesman said Saturday that the group had beheaded a missing American commando, but he offered no proof. The U.S. military said it was still searching for the Navy SEAL.

The man is the last of a four-member elite commando team missing since June 28 in Kunar, near the Pakistani border. One of the men was rescued, and two were found dead.

"This morning in Shagal district, in Kunar province, the Taliban killed the American soldier and cut his head off," Mullah Latif Hakimi, the purported spokesman, told The Associated Press in a telephone call. "We left the body on a mountainside in this area so Afghan or U.S. soldiers there can find it."

Upon confirmation of this attrocity, thee will no longer be any moral basis for meeting any Geneva Convention standards for the Gitmo detainees -- and those standards have been met and exceeded byt the United States up to this point.

Islamism Delenda Est.

UPDATE: The body of the last of the lost unit has been recovered.

The body of a U.S. Navy SEAL has been found and recovered in Afghanistan, a senior defense official said Sunday.

This would account for the fourth member of a reconnaissance team that disappeared two weeks ago in Afghanistan. Only one of the four survived.

The body of the SEAL was found near the other two bodies and all three had died in a shootout with insurgents, according to an initial assessment from the field, the senior official said.

This senior official said that "no way" had the SEAL ever been in captivity, contrary to Taliban claims that he had been abducted.

I thank God that the Taliban claim was untrue -- and pray that these honored dead are soon avenged.

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