Taliban Web site says group has captured a US soldier in Afghanistan

The Taliban are confirming that they're holding an American soldier.

The U.S. military had said that a soldier was noticed missing last week. The soldier was described as possibly being in enemy hands. Details of such incidents are routinely held tightly by the military, as it works to retrieve a missing or captured soldier without giving away any information to captors.

At the end of an otherwise routine list of activities on the Taliban's Web site, the group says "a drunken American soldier who had come out of his garrison" was captured five days ago and "is still with mujahedeen." The short message does not elaborate on the soldier's whereabouts or the Taliban's plans for him. It also does not provide any proof of its claim.

Two U.S. defense sources say the soldier "just walked off" post with three Afghans after he finished working. They said they had no explanation for why he left the base