TALIBAN: SEAL WAS BEHEADED

Taliban terrorists said yesterday they had beheaded the last U.S. commando missing in Afghanistan, while the Pentagon said it had no information to support the claim and that the search for the man was still on.

"We are still conducting a search hoping our missing service member is alive, as we have no proof telling us otherwise," said Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara.

But Taliban spokesman Mullah Latif Hakimi said via satellite telephone that the missing Navy SEAL, the last of a four-man team missing since June 28 in Kunar province, was dead and his body dumped on a hillside.

"We killed him using a knife and chopped off his head," the spokesman for the terror group said. "He is wearing red clothes. We got the information we wanted from him during the interrogation."