S. Korean hostage executed
Seoul reiterates it will send 3,000 troops to Iraq
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Al-Jazeera via AP fileSouth Korean Kim Sun-il is seen sitting in this image from a videotape sent by his captors to Arab media last Sunday.
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Updated: 3:39 p.m. ET June 22, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi militant group believed linked to al-Qaida beheaded a South Korean hostage after the Seoul government refused to remove its soldiers from Iraq.
Kim Sun-ils body was found by the U.S. military between Baghdad and Fallujah, 22 miles west of the capital, at 5:20 p.m. Iraq time, said South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil.
The South Korean embassy in Baghdad confirmed that the body was Kims by studying a picture of the remains it received by e-mail, Shin said.
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, coalition deputy operations chief, said the body of an Asian male was found west of Baghdad on Tuesday evening. It appears that the body had been thrown from a vehicle, Kimmitt said in a statement. The man had been beheaded, and the head was recovered with the body.
After news of Kims death broke, South Korean television showed Kims distraught family members weeping and rocking back and forth with grief at their home in the southeastern port city of Busan.
Kim, 33, worked for Gana General Trading Co., a South Korean company supplying the U.S. military in Iraq. He was abducted last week, according to the South Korean government.
Statement read on new video
A videotape of Kim, apparently made shortly before his death and aired on Al-Jazeera television, showed him kneeling, blindfolded and wearing an orange jumpsuit similar to those issued to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Five hooded men stood behind Kim, one reading a statement and gesturing with his right hand. Another captor had a big knife slipped in his belt.
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>One of the masked men said the message was intended for the Korean people. This is what your hands have committed. Your army has not come here for the sake of Iraqis, but for cursed America.
The video as broadcast did not show Kim being executed.
Al-Jazeera said the video claimed the execution was carried out by the al-Qaida-linked group calling itself Monotheism and Jihad.
In Washington, President Bush condemned the execution and said he remained confident that South Korea would go ahead with plans to send 3,000 troops to Iraq.
The free world cannot be intimidated by the brutal actions of these barbaric people, the president said.
The grisly killing was reminiscent of the decapitation of American businessman Nicholas Berg, who was beheaded last month on a videotape posted on an Al-Qaida-linked Web site by the same group, which claimed responsibility for Kims death.
In Saudi Arabia, American helicopter technician Paul M. Johnson Jr., 49, was kidnapped by al-Qaida militants who followed through on a threat to kill him if the kingdom did not release its al-Qaida prisoners. An al-Qaida group claiming responsibility posted an Internet message that showed photographs of Johnsons severed head.
Kims kidnappers had initially threatened to kill him at sundown Monday unless South Korea canceled a troop deployment to Iraq. The Seoul government rejected the demand, standing firm with plans to dispatch 3,000 soldiers starting in August.
NKTS, a South Korean security firm doing business in Iraq, told the AP in Baghdad earlier Tuesday that Kim was still alive and that negotiations for his release continued, with the company president expected to arrive in Baghdad from Seoul by Wednesday.
In a dispatch from Baghdad, South Koreas Yonhap news agency quoted an informed source as saying that negotiations with the kidnappers collapsed over the South Korean governments refusal to drop its plan to send troops.
As a condition for starting negotiations for Kims release, the kidnappers demanded that South Korea announce that it would retract its troop dispatch plan, the source was quoted as saying. This was a condition the South Korean government could not accept. As the talks bogged down, the kidnappers apparently resorted to an extreme measure.
Al-Jazeera did not say when Kim was killed.
South Korea convened its National Security Council shortly after Kim's death was confirmed and afterward reiterated its earlier decision to send more troops to Iraq.
S. Korea to evacuate 22 nationals
South Korea earlier Tuesday said it will evacuate the last of its 22 nationals in Iraq by early next month. Most work for South Korean companies that supply the U.S. military.
Kim was believed to have been kidnapped about 10 days ago. A videotape broadcast Sunday by Al-Jazeera showed him pleading for his life.
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A South Korean television news station, YTN, said Kim had been in Iraq for about eight months.
Recent abductions and attacks appear aimed at undermining the interim Iraqi government set to take power June 30, when the U.S.-led occupation formally ends. U.S. and Iraqi officials have vowed to go ahead with the transfer.
Coalition spokesman Dan Senor said that by weeks end, all Iraqi government ministries would be under full Iraqi control.
South Korea warned its citizens not to travel to Iraq, saying the decision to send 3,000 troops might prompt terrorist attacks on South Koreans.
Once the deployment is complete, South Korea will be the largest partner in the U.S.-led coalition after the United States and Britain.
S. Korean hostage executed
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i saw pics of the american hostage that was beheaded...that image was gruesome...i wish i hadn't looked
they dont want to negotiate though kat. they just want to piss off the people of america and s.korea with this propaganda (and it works, look at 99 percent of the liberals on this board) and get people to hate the US eventually making us pull out of iraq. the sad thing is now people get pissed at our gov't instead of the attackers, when they should be reacting like 9/11.katsmp3 said:
Actually, I agree with pulling all the troops out of there. BUT! They should blast the hell out of that place untill it is totally flatened, and then those cocaroaches cant hide anymore.
You want to meet Allah??? We can arrange the meeting free of cost, and youll get there in record time.
You want to meet Allah??? We can arrange the meeting free of cost, and youll get there in record time.
Incidents like this doesn't cause americans to hate the US government. The american public don't like the fact that we were lied too and our children are other there dying cause of this war which we was told would be over once Saddam was captured. NOPE!Matthew said:
I agree with pulling our troops but chances are that won't happen for awhile cause Good Ol' Bush opened up Pandoras Box and the worst is yet to come.
Dude are you fried??? This was never about Bush, get off his jock. You are like the majority of these ******* liberals wanting to have something to point for assenine fingers on. This WAR was not started by us, it was brought to us here in our country. But like the majority of the motherfucking pricks that I hear aloft and on this forum say thet Bush planned the attacks. You all should be ashamed. We are there to keep the war and the Islamic bitches away from our shores, away from our loved ones. He didnt open Pandoras box, they did. Now they are running scared. The liberal American public is run by the liberal press(ie:cnn) with all their propaganda bulls***.
You want more healthcare, and you want to feed the poor??? OK, then lets do it. But, now you have to get all those people that are using HRS,Social services, greenstamps, plan b housing ect.. and drive around in bentlys, wear all this gold and ice, tommy jeans, and all that bulls*** and missuse the governments cash, and evict them. Take away their free income that they dont even have to work for, and make them work. You liberals wouldnt like that right??? I didnt think so, because thats what you support. A big government that basically cleans your ass, while you sit at home and drink a fouty, or wrap a blunt. Fix that!!! Becuse you morons are the reason the healthcare is bad, the reason there is all these homeless. We are sitting here taking care of you with our tax dollars.
Before the liberals of this board start the "your a racist bulls***" Im a cuban/american. Im more of a minority than you will ever see.
You want s*** fixed, then ******* fix it! Dont b**** about what happens, or what is done in this war, when the ******* liberals are destroying this country slowly.
You want more healthcare, and you want to feed the poor??? OK, then lets do it. But, now you have to get all those people that are using HRS,Social services, greenstamps, plan b housing ect.. and drive around in bentlys, wear all this gold and ice, tommy jeans, and all that bulls*** and missuse the governments cash, and evict them. Take away their free income that they dont even have to work for, and make them work. You liberals wouldnt like that right??? I didnt think so, because thats what you support. A big government that basically cleans your ass, while you sit at home and drink a fouty, or wrap a blunt. Fix that!!! Becuse you morons are the reason the healthcare is bad, the reason there is all these homeless. We are sitting here taking care of you with our tax dollars.
Before the liberals of this board start the "your a racist bulls***" Im a cuban/american. Im more of a minority than you will ever see.
You want s*** fixed, then ******* fix it! Dont b**** about what happens, or what is done in this war, when the ******* liberals are destroying this country slowly.
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this is indeed a sad incident
though this is to be expected in such a volatile region
these civilians went in there KNOWING of the dangers surrounding them, you can only blame the coalition governments so much. these guys need to take some responsibilities in their own demise as well
i expect more incidents like this to occur in the near future
kinda medieval, all these head chopping...
though this is to be expected in such a volatile region
these civilians went in there KNOWING of the dangers surrounding them, you can only blame the coalition governments so much. these guys need to take some responsibilities in their own demise as well
i expect more incidents like this to occur in the near future
kinda medieval, all these head chopping...
