This news blurb is spreading pretty fast all over the internet. I noticed this photo moving up the "Most Emailed" photos list and an hour or so later I noticed more news articles coming out about it. Over at DrudgeReport report they picked it up as well with an additional photo of the toy's face.

Apparently the story goes that someone posted a picture of what they claimed to be a "captured" U.S. soldier to a militant website. However, the US military is reporting that none of their units have reported any mission soldiers. At some point one a spokesman from Dragon Modals USA noticed that the soldier in the photo looked a lot like their "Cody" toy. Only about 4,000 of the toys were made in 2003 for the US military and sold in it's Kuwait bases. When you look at the photo and at a photo of the "Cody" toy they really look a lot alike. DrudgeReport has a closeup of the toy face.

You can read the article about the Cody toy on Yahoo and check out the two different pictures that Yahoo has of the apparent toy hoax. View the captured soldier "hoax" photo next to the Cody toy and view a larger close up version of the apparent captured soldier toy photo hoax.

Source: Yahoo