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Keith Matthew "Matt" Maupin (born July 13 1983, died c. 2004) was a United States Army Private First Class (PFC) captured by Iraqi insurgents on April 9 2004, while serving in the Iraq War, after his convoy came under attack by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire near Baghdad, Iraq.
Iraqi militants killed an American soldier they have held hostage for nearly three months, saying the killing was because the U.S. government did not change its policy in Iraq, Al-Jazeera television said Tuesday.

The grainy videotape of a frightened-looking 20-year-old US soldier, wearing camouflage shirt and a floppy hat, is the latest move by extremist Iraqis to pull at the heartstrings of the American people.

"My name is Keith Matthew Maupin. I am a soldier from the 1st Division," the hostage said into the camera. "I am married with a 10-month-old child. I came to liberate Iraq, but I did not come willingly because I wanted to stay with my child."

The gunmen, their faces covered by kaffiyehs( ...)He said the soldier was being treated well, in accordance with Islamic law.

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Troops hunt near Baghdad for captive US soldiers

AL-AWSAT, Iraq (AFP) — US and Iraqi troops swooped by helicopter before dawn on Friday on two Sunni Arab villages near Baghdad in search of Al-Qaeda fighters believed to have captured two American soldiers.

The operation, targeting the small farming villages of Al-Awsat and Al-Batra, just 25 kilometres (15 miles) southwest of the capital


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