31.   Meadows is accused of driving a car carrying the other two soldiers, according to local police officials.

32.   Military officials say they are investigating whether the three soldiers were connected with any broader extremist political group at Fort Bragg.

33.   On Sunday, the bodies of the two soldiers were flown to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where they received military honors.

34.   Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said in Washington that the three soldiers would undergo debriefings for two or three more days.

35.   Since Friday, the village had been heavily shelled by the government after the mine blast had killed the eight soldiers near there.

36.   Sommaruga said he was not optimistic that the three soldiers would be released before the war ended.

37.   Soon, the two soldiers were in desperate hand-to-hand combat against Germans who were hurling grenades.

38.   The officials welcomed the announcement that the three soldiers would be freed on Sunday, but they did so warily lest it fall through.

39.   The other eight soldiers were described as former skinheads or white supremacists without skinhead associations.

40.   The other soldiers were suspicious of them, of their dusky skin and high cheekbones and dark eyes, reminiscent of the Japanese enemy.