Taliban threatens to kill 23 Koreans

[oberliner]

Source: Associated Press

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban threatened to begin killing 23 South Korean hostages Monday evening if the government doesn't free insurgents held in prison. The demands came as the U.S.-led coalition reported killing some 50 militants in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing heartland.

Khail Mohammad Husseini, a lawmaker from Ghazni province, where the Koreans are being held, said provincial leaders tried to meet with the kidnappers Monday but that they didn't show. He said the Taliban increased their demands by telephone, saying all militant prisoners in Ghazni now had to be released.

Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the militia, disputed that report, saying the Taliban were still demanding the release of 23 prisoners.

"If the government won't accept these conditions, then it's difficult for the Taliban to provide security for these hostages, to provide health facilities and food," Ahmadi told The Associated Press by satellite phone. "The Taliban won't have any option but to kill the hostages."


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070723/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan;_ylt=AhNw4LknllOJE7VH6E83DQys0NUE

[Eugene]

1. Afghan Taliban extend deadline for Korean hostages

Source: Reuters

Afghan Taliban extend deadline for Korean hostages
23 Jul 2007 16:17:19 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Recasts with hostage deadline extended)

By Sayed Salahuddin

KABUL, July 23 (Reuters) - The Taliban on Monday gave 23 Korean
hostages another 24 hours to live to allow the South Korean
government to open direct talks with the kidnappers, a Taliban
spokesman said on Monday.

Spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said negotiations with the Afghan
government were going nowhere and South Korea had until 1430 GMT
on Tuesday to agree to withdraw its 200 troops from Afghanistan.
Unless it did so, the Taliban would start killing the captives.

It was the second time the Taliban had extended their deadline by
24 hours.

Yousuf said a German hostage the Taliban had said they had killed
was still alive along with four Afghans and they were still held
hostage.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL136973.htm

[ohio2007]

2. Christian evangelicals preaching in an Islamic country

hmmmm...



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19862713

Why is the MSM ignoring that spin on this story ?

oh.... they were "vacationing" ? ;)

lol

sure they were

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[Socal31]

7. So they should be taken hostage and executed?

WTF?

[Eugene]

10. He or she did not say that.

Ohio2007 hinted that the MSM is playing down the Christian
missionary angle. I believe his or her goal was more to criticize
alleged soft-peddling of jihadist savagery (and ohio2007 does
that a lot) than to impugn the missionaries.

[Eugene]

3. Afghan governor rejects force to free Koreans

Source: Reuters

Afghan governor rejects force to free Koreans
Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:24AM EDT

By Omar Subhani

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Force will not be used
to free 23 South Korean hostages held by Taliban rebels
in Afghanistan and Afghan authorities are hopeful of a
breakthrough later in the day, a provincial governor said
on Tuesday.

The Taliban have extended a deadline to 1430 GMT on
Tuesday, after which they said they would start killing the
hostages if South Korea did not agree to withdraw its 200
troops from Afghanistan and Kabul did not free Taliban
prisoners.

-snip-

Talks with the Taliban through tribal elders were ongoing
and the government was hopeful of progress by late
Tuesday, Ghazni governor Mirajuddin Pathan told Reuters.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSISL13697320070724

[Eugene]

4. (Wednesday) Taliban Threatens South Korean Hostages

Source: Associated Press

Taliban Threatens South Korean Hostages

Wednesday July 25, 2007 9:46 AM

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A purported Taliban spokesman said
Wednesday that negotiations for the lives of 23 South Korean
hostages have stalled and that the militants planned to kill
“a few” of the captives immediately.

Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the militants, said
the Afghan government hadn't responded to any of its demands
and that between 11:30 a.m. (3 a.m. EDT) and 2 p.m. (5:30
a.m. EDT) the militants would kill “a few” of the hostages.

Though some of Ahmadi's statements turn out to be true, he
also has made repeated false claims, calling into question
the reliability of his information.

Ali Shah Ahmadzai, the provincial police chief, said he thought
talks had been on a positive track and said the new threat was
a surprise.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6803767,00.html

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Source: Reuters

Afghan Taliban say patience running out on Koreans
25 Jul 2007 08:54:07 GMT
Source: Reuters

Ahmad Masood

GHAZNI, Afghanistan, July 25 (Reuters) - Taliban spokesman Qari
Mohammad Yousuf said patience was running out in talks over 23
South Korean hostages kidnapped by insurgents in Afghanistan and
said rebel prisoners must be freed by 0930 GMT on Wednesday.

The warning came as a German journalist and his Afghan translator
were kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan overnight. The Taliban
seized two other Germans and five Afghans last week.

-snip-

"We had assurance from the Koreans that Kabul will release Taliban
prisoners in batches and we will reciprocate," Yousuf told Reuters
by telephone from an undisclosed location.

"We gave them eight Taliban names and they should have been
freed by 7 pm (1430 GMT) yesterday, but nothing happened ...

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL211645.htm

[ohio2007]

6. Korean hostage killed by Taliban

Bae Ho-jung, a father of Bae Hyung-kue who is one of South Koreans kidnapped in Afghanistan, reacts after he watched TV news reports about his son in Jeju, south of Seoul, Wednesday, July 25, 2007. Authorities recovered the bullet-riddled body of a South Korean hostage in central Afghanistan on Wednesday, a police officer who discovered the body said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Kim Ho-chun)

snip

Because of a recent spike in kidnappings — including an attempt against a Danish citizen Wednesday — police announced foreigners were no longer allowed to leave the Afghan capital without their permission.

The male South Korean victim was found with 10 bullet holes in his head, chest and stomach

snip

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan;_ylt=AvlhlZVZPyBHe9SiAwA.bNSs0NUE

[ohio2007]

8. The guy standing on the far right was shot 10 times in the head

chest and stomach.


I can't imagine any pro Taliban media outlet will be posting that picture of the post execution but the harsh reality is it should be viewed by the pro Taliban jihadi sympathizers.

[pinniped]

9. The puppet Afghan .gov will not do their best to obtain their freedumb.

First off, they don't give a shit.

Second, if and when the captors follow through with their threat, it will demonize them more, not that they needed any help.

[ohio2007]

11. Taliban claims prisoner deal

The Italians got a deal that freed an Italian journalist in exchange for five taliban leaders.
Wonder what havoc will be released this time?

Taliban claims prisoner deal

The Taliban is claiming it has agreed a prisoner deal with the Afghan government which could secure the safety of at least some of the 22 South Koreans

snip

..."The Taliban are telling us - and we can not confirm from the government side - that they have had talks with the government and they say the have put forward eight names of eight prisoners they want to see released"

"They say the government has accepted those names and says that those prisoners will be released soon."

snip

Ahmadi said: "The Taliban are not asking for money. We just want to exchange our prisoners for Korean hostages ... When they release, the Taliban we will release the hostages."

Roh Moo-hyun, the South Korean president, spoke with Hamid Karzai, his Afghan counterpart, on Thursday, and they agreed to fully co-operate on freeing the remaining captives, Roh's office said.

But Seoul also said it opposed the launch of a military operation to try to free them.

snip

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killing, accusing the Afghan government and South Korean negotiators of failing to act in good faith after they rejected an initial list of eight Taliban fighters to be freed from prison.



"Since Kabul's administration did not listen to our demand and did not free our prisoners, the Taliban shot dead a male Korean hostage," the Taliban's spokesman said.

snip



Bae, who was killed on his 42nd birthday, was co-founder of the Saem-Mul church which sent the volunteers to Afghanistan.


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2742BBCD-4B6C-496D-AF30-75FEC8FABA08.htm

OK, just give em an inch......
..it's all they want,
an inch