Four terror suspects escape from U.S. base

Rescuers also find body of missing U.S. commando.

BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- Four suspected Arab terrorists broke out of a U.S. military detention facility in Afghan- istan on Monday -- the first time anyone has escaped -- and rescuers found the body of a missing U.S. commando.

The escape from the heavily guarded lockup at the main U.S. base in Bagram sparked a manhunt for the suspects, identified as Arabs from Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya.

U.S. soldiers set up roadblocks and helicopters clattered low over villages near the base north of the capital, Kabul.

It was another setback for the U.S. military as it struggles with insurgent fighting that has left more than 700 people dead in three months and threatened to sabotage three years of progress toward peace. Over the weekend, 22 Afghan soldiers were killed, including 10 who were beheaded.

The discovery of the body of the U.S. Navy SEAL in Kunar province on Sunday ended a desperate search for the last member of a four-man special forces unit that disappeared after being ambushed June 28 in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

One of the four was rescued July 3, and two were found dead the next day.

U.S. military spokesman Col. James Yonts said the U.S. commando whose body was found Sunday had died in fighting soon after the ambush, and he denied claims by a purported Taliban spokesman that the SEAL was captured alive and beheaded.