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Elmer C. Name:
Elmer C. Krause |
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Source:
Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw data
from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews, FOX NEWS online, MSNBC News
online, CNN News online, PJS online, WP online. April 2004. Synopsis: The U.S. military said two American soldiers and seven employees of U.S. contractor Kellogg, Brown & Root were missing after their convoy was ambushed Friday, April 9, near Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad. Only one, Thomas Hamill, a 43-year-old truck driver from Macon, Miss., was previously known to have been abducted. His captors have threatened to kill and mutilate him unless U.S. troops ended their assault on the city of Fallujah. The deadline passed Sunday with no word on his fate. New videotape aired on Friday on Al-Jazeera which broadcast a video which showed a young man wearing camouflage and a floppy desert hat. He was sitting on the floor. He was surrounded by five gunmen, their faces covered by scarves. The U.S. Army soldier identified himself as "Pfc. Keith Matthew Maupin."Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, 40, of Greensboro, N.C., and Pfc. Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio, were previously identified and noted as DUTY STATUS WHERE-A-BOUTS UNKNOWN. The images were the first anyone has seen of Maupin since April 9, when he and Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, 40, of Greensboro, N.C., were listed as missing by the U.S. Army after the attack. Killed in that ambush was Pfc. Greg Goodrich, 37, of Bartonville. All three are members of the 724th. The videotape aired a statement made by armed gunman regarding Maupin: "We are keeping him to be exchanged for some of the prisoners captured by the occupation forces," one gunman said. "Some of our groups managed to capture one of the American soldiers, and he is one of many others. He is being treated according to the treatment of prisoners in the Islamic religion and he is in good health." No other news has been received regarding Krause. He is not seen on the video. Krause is an Army veteran who later joined the reserves. -------------------------
No. 368-04 DoD Announces Change-in-Status of an Army Soldier Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier
previously listed Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, 40, of Greensboro, N.C., has been unaccounted
for since April The incident remains under investigation. ------------------------------ Vallejo-born
Army reservist mourned as hero, prankster == .... Krause described how his brother's body was found in a shallow
grave with four other men and his remains had to be identified using
DNA.
"His eyes watered up and started to tear when I told him that
and he said, 'I'm so sorry' and that 'Elmer was in a better
place,'" Krause said.
Krause and his family spent about 10 to 15 minutes with the
president, he said.
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