Taliban threaten SKoreans as Karzai, Bush set to meet

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Taliban threaten SKoreans as Karzai, Bush set to meet

by Mohammad Yaqob
1 hour, 36 minutes ago

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AFP) - Taliban militants again
threatened Sunday to kill more of their 21 South Korean
hostages, as Seoul said it hoped the Afghan and US
presidents could help secure their release.

The fresh threat from the hardline Islamists -- the first
since Wednesday, when their last deadline expired -- came
as Afghan President Hamid Karzai prepared to meet his US
counterpart George W. Bush at Camp David.

Earlier, a South Korean official said he hoped the two
leaders could break the apparent deadlock in negotiations
for the release of the 21 aid workers, who were abducted
in volatile southern Ghazni province on July 19.

Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi, apparently frustrated
with the lack of progress in the hostage talks, said more
of the captives could be murdered at "any time."

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070805/wl_afp/afghanistanskoreagermanykidnap_070805135509

[Eugene]

1. Afghan doctors deliver medicine to Korean hostages

Source: Reuters

Afghan doctors deliver medicine to Korean hostages
05 Aug 2007 14:21:05 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Releads with doctors delivering medicine)

By Sayed Salahuddin

GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Afghan doctors
delivered medicines on Sunday for 21 South Koreans
kidnapped by Taliban rebels in Afghanistan more than two
weeks ago.

The head of a private Afghan clinic said his team had
dropped more than $1,200 worth of antibiotics, pain killers,
vitamin tablets and heart pills in an area of desert in the
Qarabagh district of Ghazni province as instructed by the
rebels.

"This is a big achievement. Among the Koreans are doctors
who know how to use these medicines," Mohammad Hashim
Wahaj told reporters in Ghazni, the main town of the
province, where 23 South Korean church volunteers were
snatched from a bus on July 20.

"It was a big risk, but we had to take the risk because it is
a humanitarian issue," he said.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05476248.htm

[cliss]

2. This is just -

a strange story. Afghanistan is falling apart, there are some Xtian proselytizers being held hostage. The Taliban is using them to barter for some of their own.

Meanwhile, Karzai is meeting with Bush. Puppet / puppeteer.

Very, very strange.

[ohio2007]

3. And meanwhile, the Taliban grab an engineer from India in this poker game

If they give up the Korean women,they will profit from it and continue the smash and grab tactic. It has worked for several years already.
When the Taliban release the names of those 'fighters' they want freed,
well....... Just say they recently died in their sleep.
I doubt they were locked up for stealing goats and chickens but it seems the MSM fails to look into those details as being unrelated to the crises at hand.
go figger

[fujiyama]

4. But but..

I thought we made GREAT progress in Afghanistan and women got rid of burhkas and men shaved their bears and kids flew kites and it was a democracy!

After all, didn't we go into Iraq to transform it too!

Bush - two lost wars and counting!

[Eugene]

5. Seoul makes first direct contact with S. Korean hostages in Afghanistan

Source: Yonhap News Agency

Seoul makes first direct contact with S. Korean hostages in Afghanistan

SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korean officials have
made direct contact with at least one of 21 South Korean
hostages in Afghanistan, an official said Monday, as the
Afghan and U.S. governments refuse to swap Taliban
prisoners for hostages.

"During a telephone call between our officials at the
(Korean) embassy in Afghanistan and the Taliban on
Saturday, our officials were allowed to speak to one of
the hostages," an official at the South Korean Foreign
Ministry told reporters, speaking on condition of
anonymity.

The official refused to identify who the hostage was or
what they had discussed, citing safety concerns.

A self-claimed commander of the Taliban, who declined to
identify himself, later told Yonhap News Agency that the
militants had allowed three female hostages to speak with
South Korean officials in Korean.

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Read more: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2007/08/06/8/0301000000AEN20070806001600315F.HTML