South Korean Christian Hostage Update Options

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South Korean Christian hostage update

"We are all sick and in bad condition."


First victim - Pastor Bae Hyung-kyu.

May he Rest In Peace.


Shim Sung-min, the second hostage reportedly killed. I hope and pray he's not.

God bless him.


Mourning, watching, praying and waiting.

Two lawmakers—one of them a former Taliban member—and several influential elders have joined negotiations with the hardline militia to step up pressure for the release of 22 South Korean hostages, an official said Saturday.

A South Korean presidential envoy, Baek Jong-chun, was scheduled to hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday, an official from the South Korean Embassy in Kabul said. She spoke on condition of anonymity because of embassy policy.

The Taliban has demanded the release of insurgent prisoners in exchange for the South Koreans, who were captured on July 19. One of the original 23 captives was shot to death on Wednesday.

A former Taliban commander—Abdul Salaam Rocketi, now a member of parliament—has joined the talks, said Shirin Mangal, spokesman of the Ghazni provincial governor. A second lawmaker and several respected leaders from around Qarabagh, the area in Ghazni province where the hostages were taken, have also joined, he said.

“Today we are hopeful to get a good result because more and more elders have gathered from Ghazni,” said Qarabagh police chief Khwaja Mohammad. “I hope the Taliban will listen to these negotiations now because they are neutral people—elders from around Qarabagh
michellemalkin.com

God Bless these beautiful people - from those Blood Thirsty HEADCHOPPING Maniacs!

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Operation to rescue Koreans begins: Afghan official

Wed Aug 1, 2007 7:55AM EDT

The Update: Korean hostages sick


KABUL (Reuters) - An operation aimed at rescuing the remaining 21 Korean hostages held by the Taliban began on Wednesday in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a provincial official said, hours after the expiry of another Taliban deadline.

"The operation has started," said Khowja Seddiqi, the district chief of Ghazni's Qarabagh district, where the Taliban kidnapped 23 Korean Christian volunteers nearly two weeks ago.

He did not give more details or say who was involved.

VIDEO HERE:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/08/01/brea...on-is-underway/

We well wait and pray.

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A video letter from Ryu Hang-sik to his wife Kim Yun-yeong who is being held hostage by the Taliban.

To my dearest wife in Afghanistan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA_yTkOCvus

We are all praying.

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Afghanis rally on behalf of the Korean hostages held by the Taliban.

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Taliban Release 2 Female Korean Hostages

Monday, August 13, 2007


GHAZNI, Afghanistan — Two South Korean women kidnapped by the Taliban burst into tears Monday after being released into Red Cross custody on a desert road where one of the original 23 hostages kidnapped in mid-July was dumped after being shot and killed.

The women's release was the first significant breakthrough in a hostage drama now more than three weeks old and came after two days of face-to-face talks between the Taliban and a South Korean delegation. Two male captives were executed by gunfire in late July. Fourteen women and five men are still being held.

A spokesman for the hardline militants said they released the women as a show of goodwill and because negotiations were going well. Qari Yousef Ahmadi also reiterated the militants' demand that Taliban prisoners be released in exchange for the remaining 19 hostages. The Afghan government has ruled out any prisoner swap.

Officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross waited for the Koreans on a stretch of desert road 5 miles south of the city of Ghazni. When a dark gray Toyota Corolla stopped, two women got out of the back seat and began crying at the sight of the waiting Red Cross SUVs.
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A convoy carried the women to the U.S. base in Ghazni city, where American and Afghan soldiers blocked the road. The women got out of the car, U.S. soldiers searched them and then escorted them inside.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293058,00.html

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We all know what happened. The Pastors were murdered because they wouldn't convert to Islam and the women were raped! I believe most of us could have forecast the ending...

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Thanks for all the info but I thought all these happened in Afganistan, not in Iraq.