Taliban kill one Korean hostage: Taliban spokesman

rodeodance

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Wed Jul-25-07 07:49 AM
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Taliban kill one Korean hostage: Taliban spokesman

Source: reuters

Taliban kill one Korean hostage: Taliban spokesman

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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban killed one of the 23 Korean hostages on Wednesday after Kabul failed to free Taliban prisoners, a spokesman for the group said, adding insurgents would kill more if their demands were not met.
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"Since Kabul's administration did not listen to our demand and did not free our prisoners, the Taliban shot dead a male Korean hostage," Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters by phone from an unknown location.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070725/ts_nm/afghan_korea_dc

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Wed Jul-25-07 08:27 AM
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1. updated:-----T. say they shot him cause he was sick and could not walk:

.........Purported Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed that one of the hostages had been shot and killed around 4 p.m., and a police official who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation said militants told him the hostage was sick and couldn't walk and was therefore shot.

Some of the 23 Korean hostages, meanwhile, had been freed and were taken to a U.S. base in Ghazni, two Western officials said who asked not to be identified. The officials did not know how many had been freed. The South Korean news agency Yonhap said eight Koreans had been freed

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Wed Jul-25-07 09:41 AM
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2. Afghan official confirms killing of one Korean hostage by Taliban - Reuters

Edited on Wed Jul-25-07 09:50 AM by Eugene

Source: Reuters

Afghan official says Taliban kill one Korean hostage
25 Jul 2007 14:37:06 GMT
Source: Reuters

KABUL, July 25 (Reuters) - The Taliban killed one of its 23
South Korean hostages on Wednesday, a local government
official confirmed and said efforts were underway to secure
the release of the rest.

"Yes, they have killed one of the hostages and efforts are
underway to have the others released," district chief of
Qarabagh district of Ghazni province, Khowja Seddiqi, told
Reuters.

He did not give details.

Link: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL250567.htm

Source: Reuters

Taliban say kill Korean hostage, set new deadline
25 Jul 2007 14:37:05 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Adds details throughout)

By Ahmad Masood

GHAZNI, Afghanistan, July 25 (Reuters) - Taliban kidnappers
killed one of their 23 South Koreans hostages and will kill the
rest if their demands are not met by 2030 GMT on Wednesday,
a Taliban spokesman said.

A local government official confirmed the death.

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