Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/search-intensifies-for-ambushed-u-s-soldiers-near-baghdad Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The U.S. military continued to search Monday for three troops who were ambushed while driving in a convoy south of Baghdad over the weekend. New York Times reporter Edward Wong provides an update. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. RAY SUAREZ: Ed, maybe we could begin with the latest from the U.S. military on their search for the missing service people. EDWARD WONG, New York Times: Well, the U.S. military is saying that it's putting a lot of resources into the search for the three missing men. They say that there are 4,000 troops involved in the search, that they're sweeping through villages and towns that are south of Baghdad in this Euphrates River valley area.And they're using a lot of overhead resources. They're putting out aircraft. They're using surveillance drones, and they're having a lot of helicopters fly over the area. It's not an easy area to cover. There are a lot of palm groves in this area, in villages, as well as tributaries to the Euphrates River, and so they have a lot of work ahead of them. RAY SUAREZ: Along with that high-tech surveillance I guess goes the more old-fashioned, door-to-door searching? EDWARD WONG: That's right. There are some areas where they've been going to houses. We understand that they've been arresting groups of people, questioning them. It's very intense at the moment.Yesterday, we heard reports that they have surrounded the town of Yusufiya, which is fairly rife with insurgents, and that they were not letting people in or out of the town, and that they were going house-to-house there, searching for the abductees.