Summary: Two U.S. Navy personnel have gone missing in action in Afghanistan. According to a Taliban spokesman, on sailor was killed in a brief firefight and the other captured. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 25, 2009 Aubrey Immelman reported that Taliban fighters armed with suicide vests and automatic weapons, for the second time in a week, attacked a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan, triggering hours-long gunbattles that left seven militants dead.