22 terror suspects arrested

Baghdad: Twenty-two people were arrested by US and Iraqi forces as efforts to get information about two soldiers who were abducted on May 12 were heightened.

US soldiers were airlifted across the Euphrates River by helicopter to Yusufiya, a town just south of Baghdad, where they surrounded the mosque, the military said in a statement.

"They detained 22 suspected terrorists, including four that had fired upon them as they entered the area," the statement said.

The two missing US soldiers, Specialist Alex Jimenez and Private Byron Fouty, were abducted along with a third soldier, whose body was later pulled from the Euphrates, after an attack on their patrol in Yusufiya on May 12.

Four US soldiers and an Iraqi translator were killed in the attack.