Sadly, the families of Sgt. Alex Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Pvt. Byron Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Michigan, were notified that their loved ones’ bodies have been identified. Their remains were flown from Iraq to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Thursday. Both young men were part of the 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum, New York. Their patrol was ambushed by terrorists on May 12, 2007 in Yusufiya, Iraq; when they were kidnapped by terrorists along with Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr, whose body was found previously.

The Sunni Islamist group al Qaeda in Iraq later said in a video that it had killed them.

The U.S. military launched a massive hunt to find the missing soldiers and discovered their ID cards in a raid on a house in Samarra, north of Baghdad, about a month after the attack.

In October, the military said it found an automatic weapon belonging to Jimenez in an arms cache seven miles (11 km) from where the abduction took place. (Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

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Their bodies were identified through dental records.

Pte Fouty’s stepfather, Gordon Dibler, said the military told him the remains of both soldiers were found in the village of Jurf as Sakhr, south of Baghdad, Associated Press news agency reported.

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I feel so bad for these families - after all this time with no word. God bless them all.