News & Politics - South Korean beheaded in Iraq

SuperDeluxe · 06-22-2004, 10:34 AM

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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Iraqi militant group has beheaded its South Korean hostage, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. The South Korean foreign ministry issued a statement confirming the report.

Kim's body was found by the U.S. military between Baghdad and Fallujah, 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 Bagdad confirmed that the body was Kim by studying a picture of the remains it received by e-mail, Shin said.

"It breaks our heart that we have to announce this unfortunate news," he said.

Al-Jazeera said it had received a videotape showing that Kim Sun-il had been executed.

Kim, 33, worked for a South Korean company supplying the U.S. military in Iraq and was abducted last week, according to the South Korean government.

Kim was shown in the videotape kneeling, blindfolded and wearing an orange jumpsuit similar to those issued to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The tape showed five hooded men standing behind Kim, one reading a statement and gesturing with his right hand. Another captor had a big knife slipped in his belt.

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 Monotheism and Jihad.

News of the apparent beheading reached the White House in the midst of a briefing by spokesman Scott McClellan, who said he was not aware of the report.

"That would be horrible news," McClellan said. "There simply is no justification for those kinds of atrocities that the terrorists carry out. We've seen some of the barbaric nature of the terrorists recently when it comes to an American citizen that was killed in Saudi Arabia and it is a reminder of the true nature of the terrorist."

Al-Jazeera did not say when Kim was killed.

Kim's 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.

another innocent murdered.

fleh

***Jerry D*** · 06-22-2004, 02:43 PM

What savages. The world gets to be a scarier place every day. What do these vicious extremists hope to accomplish by doing something like this?

StellaSlight · 06-22-2004, 05:22 PM

Well, those terrorists didn't hesitate to put bombs they knew would kill their own people. But since they noted that the world didn't give a pig's arse about the Iraqis people, they decided that they should get more media coverage if they did it like this.
Kill dozens of Iraqis and you'll get two lines somewhere at the bottom of the international news. Behead one Western citizen or one of ihis friends and you'll get all the headlines.

I agree that it's scarier and scarier to watch the news today. But, according to Dubya, now that Saddam's captured, the world's a safer place, right?

Timeo · 06-22-2004, 06:00 PM

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Originally posted by Jerry D
What do these vicious extremists hope to accomplish by doing something like this?

Kim's 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.

SuperDeluxe · 06-22-2004, 07:20 PM

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Originally posted by Jerry D
What savages. The world gets to be a scarier place every day. What do these vicious extremists hope to accomplish by doing something like this?

Media Attention...propaganda..scaring people into leaving the middle east Iraq etc etc.

I knew when I found out that he was kidnapped. That he was dead. The kidnappers made unreasonable demands..demands that they surely had to know was not going to be met.

and today al qaeda says they will not release the video of the beheading..because it is 'distressing' Lets not forget the fact that the act itself was pretty distressing.

Mapledonuts · 06-26-2004, 09:25 PM

God, that's awful! The guy was just simply making a living and he gets tortured and killed like that? It's sick that they videotaped something so brutal!

This is the first time I've heard something like this happen...I'm kinda out of the loop her on the Iraqi war so was that terrorist act a result of that war? Are they trying to send a message to the Americans to get out?

At this point, I don't see how the "war on terrorism" could have possibly been worth it. They made such a big deal about catching Saddam Hussein but nothing has really changed. Looks like the war has done more harm than good.


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