Meet Colonel, a coalition military dog that the Taliban claim to have captured back in December.
According to the Taliban, Colonel was captured during an allied military operation in a volatile region of Afghanistan's Laghman province. The Mujahideen insist he is an American dog but western defence sources have said that Colonel is in fact British.
The Taliban, along with several former members of ZZ Top, showed off their latest high-value coalition captive in a video posted on an insurgent Website.
The video shows the animal being held on a leash in a small, well-lit courtyard surrounded by five men holding guns and grenades.
The narrator says that three rifles, a pistol, a GPS and a flashlight were seized together with the dog
Although Britain's Ministry of Defence has declined to comment on the "nationality of the the animal", it must be secretlyworried that the dark brown canine appeared to wag its tail and prick up its ears as the militants began chanting "Allahu Akbar."
A Taliban spokesman said the captive canine is alive and well, adding that his fate would be determined at a later date.
According to Yahoo News, a NATO spokesman in Kabul confirmed that a dog had gone missing during a December mission.
"We can confirm that a military working dog went missing following an ISAF mission in December, 2013. It is ISAF policy to defer identification to the appropriate national authorities," the spokesman said.
"Military working dogs are used for several purposes, primarily for explosives or drug detection."
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