*sigh* Another kidnapped in Iraq, this time a S. Korean
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- Agent-Commando
*sigh* well they killed him..thats' 3 now...
by Agent-Commando » Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:21 am
Kidnapping shocks South Korea
By Sohn Jie-Ae
CNN Correspondent
Monday, June 21, 2004 Posted: 7:23 AM EDT (1123 GMT)
The video of Kim and his captors has been broadcast repeatedly in South Korea.
SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- The kidnapping of South Korean civilian Kim Sun-il has shocked his nation, but it is especially haunting to Ohm Electric.
Last November, Iraqi militants shot dead two Ohm employees doing electrical engineering work for the U.S. military.
"It took us a long time to get over not only the economic loss, but also the social stigma," says Hwang Jang-Soo of Ohm Electric.
Undaunted, Ohm was making a comeback.
Joining hands with U.S. and Iraqi partners, Ohm seemed to be in a good position to bid for reconstruction projects -- until the kidnapping.
"I am afraid that we will see a surge of anti-war, anti-American protests, which could delay deployment," says Hwang.
"Then the image of South Korea in Iraq will deteriorate, and companies like us will pay the price."
There are street protests demanding Seoul scrap plans to send an additional 3,000 troops to Iraq.
The deployment would make South Korea the third largest coalition force in Iraq after the U.S. and Britain.
"We need to stop the deployment before even a tragedy that is 10 and 100 times worse happens," said one protester.
Though many South Koreans reacted with shock to the kidnapping -- particularly because of television footage of Kim imploring people to help free him -- some said Seoul should not alter its decision to send troops.
"I felt terribly chilled this morning watching the Korean crying and yelling in front of the terrorists' camera. I am so sorry for his family. But feeling sorry and national security should be considered separately," The Associated Press quoted Sung Jeong-hun as saying.
"If we accept the terrorists' demand this time, the terrorists will continue threatening the world with the horrible terrors," the 29-year-old graduate student in Seoul says.
The South Korean government has so far shown no signs buckling under, even as the hostage's mother pleads for her son's life.
"I used to think the troop dispatch had to take place even though my son was in Iraq, but now I feel my son must be saved first," says Shin Young-Ja.
Seoul's decision to send additional troops to Iraq has never been a popular one, with an overwhelming number of South Koreans feeling that at least the schedule needs to be adjusted.
But Vice Foreign Minister Choi Young-jin told reporters Monday that while the government would do its best to secure Kim's release, it would not back down from the deployment.
"There is no change in the government principle that the troop deployment is for the reconstruction of Iraq," Choi said after an emergency meeting of President Roh Moo-hyun's National Security Council to discuss the crisis.
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This is getting beyond control, this clearly shows it's not only Americans these f**#$#@ers are after, it's anyone and everyone in that f*#$%$ed up region of the world.
By Sohn Jie-Ae
CNN Correspondent
Monday, June 21, 2004 Posted: 7:23 AM EDT (1123 GMT)
The video of Kim and his captors has been broadcast repeatedly in South Korea.
SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- The kidnapping of South Korean civilian Kim Sun-il has shocked his nation, but it is especially haunting to Ohm Electric.
Last November, Iraqi militants shot dead two Ohm employees doing electrical engineering work for the U.S. military.
"It took us a long time to get over not only the economic loss, but also the social stigma," says Hwang Jang-Soo of Ohm Electric.
Undaunted, Ohm was making a comeback.
Joining hands with U.S. and Iraqi partners, Ohm seemed to be in a good position to bid for reconstruction projects -- until the kidnapping.
"I am afraid that we will see a surge of anti-war, anti-American protests, which could delay deployment," says Hwang.
"Then the image of South Korea in Iraq will deteriorate, and companies like us will pay the price."
There are street protests demanding Seoul scrap plans to send an additional 3,000 troops to Iraq.
The deployment would make South Korea the third largest coalition force in Iraq after the U.S. and Britain.
"We need to stop the deployment before even a tragedy that is 10 and 100 times worse happens," said one protester.
Though many South Koreans reacted with shock to the kidnapping -- particularly because of television footage of Kim imploring people to help free him -- some said Seoul should not alter its decision to send troops.
"I felt terribly chilled this morning watching the Korean crying and yelling in front of the terrorists' camera. I am so sorry for his family. But feeling sorry and national security should be considered separately," The Associated Press quoted Sung Jeong-hun as saying.
"If we accept the terrorists' demand this time, the terrorists will continue threatening the world with the horrible terrors," the 29-year-old graduate student in Seoul says.
The South Korean government has so far shown no signs buckling under, even as the hostage's mother pleads for her son's life.
"I used to think the troop dispatch had to take place even though my son was in Iraq, but now I feel my son must be saved first," says Shin Young-Ja.
Seoul's decision to send additional troops to Iraq has never been a popular one, with an overwhelming number of South Koreans feeling that at least the schedule needs to be adjusted.
But Vice Foreign Minister Choi Young-jin told reporters Monday that while the government would do its best to secure Kim's release, it would not back down from the deployment.
"There is no change in the government principle that the troop deployment is for the reconstruction of Iraq," Choi said after an emergency meeting of President Roh Moo-hyun's National Security Council to discuss the crisis.
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This is getting beyond control, this clearly shows it's not only Americans these f**#$#@ers are after, it's anyone and everyone in that f*#$%$ed up region of the world.
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by gowhitesox99 » Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:52 am
f'in animals, send in the troops...keep em coming, i'll pay extra taxes if i have to
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by Sir Loin » Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:32 pm
How can we ever give power back to Iraq when someone is getting kidnapped everyday. If its not kidnapping its an f'ing car bomb.
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by NGame » Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:38 pm
We never had this in Vietnam aside Hanoi Jane... but she's one of the most hated people that the Military despies... she's right up there with Hitler.
Although the VC didn't make any video threats and beheadings.
But then again, Vietnam was a very poor country so threats weren't worth a damn thing when you could napalm half of em to Hell.
Although the VC didn't make any video threats and beheadings.
But then again, Vietnam was a very poor country so threats weren't worth a damn thing when you could napalm half of em to Hell.
by Buliwyf » Tue Jun 22, 2004 2:37 pm
taken from CNN
To the South Korean citizens: We warned you," one of the militants says, reading a statement. "This is the result of your own doings. Enough lies, or cheatings. "Your soldiers here are not for the sake for the Iraqis, but they are here for the cursed America."
To the South Korean citizens: We warned you," one of the militants says, reading a statement. "This is the result of your own doings. Enough lies, or cheatings. "Your soldiers here are not for the sake for the Iraqis, but they are here for the cursed America."
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by FarginMofo » Tue Jun 22, 2004 3:16 pm
Agent, nukes won't work. The roaches a.k.a. terrorists would survive it.
"Well, we're not just gonna let you walk out of here."
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by Mighty Mazz » Tue Jun 22, 2004 3:21 pm
Sigh... He was dead the second they kidnapped him. I'm sure they had no plans to release him as their demands were extreme. This is just a way for them to fuel the anti-American sentiment over the world. Kidnap someone, make a crazy demand, kill them and blame America cuz its all our fault right... The sad part is that it actually works in turning people against America.
Just wait till June 30th. That's when the real fun will begin.
Just wait till June 30th. That's when the real fun will begin.
by Jeffro » Tue Jun 22, 2004 4:15 pm
Here's the whole story from yahoo.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi militant group beheaded its South Korean hostage, officials said Tuesday, just hours after a go-between said the execution had been delayed and there were negotiations for the man's release.
On Tuesday night, the United States launched an airstrike in Fallujah on a safehouse used by followers of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — the second strike against the terror network in three days, the U.S. military said.
Al-Zarqawi's Monotheism and Jihad movement was believed to be behind the beheading of the hostage, Kim Sun-il.
The South Korean Foreign Ministry confirmed that Kim had been killed but did not say he was beheaded. However, 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."
Kimmitt said the strike involved precision weapons to "target and destroy" the safehouse and was based on "multiple confirmations of actionable intelligence."
Large explosions rocked the restive Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad. Ambulances raced to the area after the 10:30 p.m. blasts. Wounded and dead were being evacuated, said Iraqi Police Col. Mekky Zeidan. Al-Jazeera TV reported that three people were killed and six were wounded.
Kim's body was found by the U.S. military between Baghdad and Fallujah, 22 miles west of the capital, at 5:20 p.m. Iraq (news - web sites) time, said South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil.
After news of Kim's death broke, South Korean television showed Kim's distraught family members weeping and rocking back and forth with grief at their home in the southeastern port city of Busan.
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die," Kim pleaded in a first video released by his captors Sunday as he begged his government to end its involvement in Iraq.
The South Korean embassy in Baghdad confirmed that the body was Kim's 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," Shin said.
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.
The videotape of Kim, apparently made shortly before his death, 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.
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 Monotheism and Jihad.
President Bush (news - web sites) condemned the beheading of a South Korean hostage as "barbaric" Tuesday and said he remained confident that South Korea (news - web sites) would go ahead with plans to send thousands of 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 Kim's 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 Johnson's severed head.
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.
Kim Chun-ho, president of Gana General Trading, the company that employed the victim, were traveling to the site to collect the remains, Shin said.
South Korea convened its National Security Council at 2 a.m. to discuss the government's reaction, Shin said. Later, the government reaffirmed it would send troops to Iraq as planned, but ordered all its nonessential civilians to leave Iraq as soon as possible.
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 Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted an "informed source" as saying that negotiations with the kidnappers collapsed over the South Korean government's refusal to drop its plan to send troops.
"As a condition for starting negotiations for Kim's 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."
Also Tuesday, gunmen opened fire on a U.S. military convoy north of the capital, killing two American soldiers and wounding a third, the military said.
The convoy was attacked by small arms fire at 12:45 p.m. near Balad, 50 miles from Baghdad, the military said in a statement.
U.S. officials, meanwhile, said they would hand legal custody of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and an undetermined number of former regime figures to the interim government as soon as Iraqi courts issue warrants for their arrest and request the transfer.
However, the United States will retain physical custody of Saddam and the prisoners, while giving Iraqi prosecutors and defense lawyers access to them, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A car bomb exploded in a Baghdad residential neighborhood near the international airport Tuesday, killing three people, including a 3-year-old girl, and wounding six other Iraqis, said Maj. Phil Smith, a U.S. military spokesman.
U.S. troops sealed off the area after the late afternoon explosion, but neither American nor Iraqi security forces were in the area at the time of the blast, witnesses said. Three cars were burned and several shops were damaged in the Amiriya neighborhood.
On Monday, a mortar attack in Baghdad and two assaults on U.S. forces northeast of the capital killed one soldier and wounded nine others, the military said, as militants showed no sign of easing their attacks ahead of next week's transfer of sovereignty.
The 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.
Coalition spokesman Dan Senor said that by week's end, all Iraqi government ministries would be under full Iraqi control.
The coalition official who briefed reporters about the prisoner custody issue said the Americans will keep Saddam and others under U.S. guard even after the June 30 handover because the Iraqi government does not yet have capacity to hold such prisoners, the official said.
U.S. troops captured Saddam in December near his hometown of Tikrit.
U.S. authorities Tuesday released three busloads of prisoners from the notorious Abu Ghraib detention center, bringing the total number set free in the last two months to more than 2,000. The prison is at the center of a scandal over abuse of inmates by U.S. troops.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi militant group beheaded its South Korean hostage, officials said Tuesday, just hours after a go-between said the execution had been delayed and there were negotiations for the man's release.
On Tuesday night, the United States launched an airstrike in Fallujah on a safehouse used by followers of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — the second strike against the terror network in three days, the U.S. military said.
Al-Zarqawi's Monotheism and Jihad movement was believed to be behind the beheading of the hostage, Kim Sun-il.
The South Korean Foreign Ministry confirmed that Kim had been killed but did not say he was beheaded. However, 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."
Kimmitt said the strike involved precision weapons to "target and destroy" the safehouse and was based on "multiple confirmations of actionable intelligence."
Large explosions rocked the restive Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad. Ambulances raced to the area after the 10:30 p.m. blasts. Wounded and dead were being evacuated, said Iraqi Police Col. Mekky Zeidan. Al-Jazeera TV reported that three people were killed and six were wounded.
Kim's body was found by the U.S. military between Baghdad and Fallujah, 22 miles west of the capital, at 5:20 p.m. Iraq (news - web sites) time, said South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil.
After news of Kim's death broke, South Korean television showed Kim's distraught family members weeping and rocking back and forth with grief at their home in the southeastern port city of Busan.
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die," Kim pleaded in a first video released by his captors Sunday as he begged his government to end its involvement in Iraq.
The South Korean embassy in Baghdad confirmed that the body was Kim's 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," Shin said.
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.
The videotape of Kim, apparently made shortly before his death, 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.
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 Monotheism and Jihad.
President Bush (news - web sites) condemned the beheading of a South Korean hostage as "barbaric" Tuesday and said he remained confident that South Korea (news - web sites) would go ahead with plans to send thousands of 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 Kim's 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 Johnson's severed head.
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.
Kim Chun-ho, president of Gana General Trading, the company that employed the victim, were traveling to the site to collect the remains, Shin said.
South Korea convened its National Security Council at 2 a.m. to discuss the government's reaction, Shin said. Later, the government reaffirmed it would send troops to Iraq as planned, but ordered all its nonessential civilians to leave Iraq as soon as possible.
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 Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted an "informed source" as saying that negotiations with the kidnappers collapsed over the South Korean government's refusal to drop its plan to send troops.
"As a condition for starting negotiations for Kim's 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."
Also Tuesday, gunmen opened fire on a U.S. military convoy north of the capital, killing two American soldiers and wounding a third, the military said.
The convoy was attacked by small arms fire at 12:45 p.m. near Balad, 50 miles from Baghdad, the military said in a statement.
U.S. officials, meanwhile, said they would hand legal custody of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and an undetermined number of former regime figures to the interim government as soon as Iraqi courts issue warrants for their arrest and request the transfer.
However, the United States will retain physical custody of Saddam and the prisoners, while giving Iraqi prosecutors and defense lawyers access to them, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A car bomb exploded in a Baghdad residential neighborhood near the international airport Tuesday, killing three people, including a 3-year-old girl, and wounding six other Iraqis, said Maj. Phil Smith, a U.S. military spokesman.
U.S. troops sealed off the area after the late afternoon explosion, but neither American nor Iraqi security forces were in the area at the time of the blast, witnesses said. Three cars were burned and several shops were damaged in the Amiriya neighborhood.
On Monday, a mortar attack in Baghdad and two assaults on U.S. forces northeast of the capital killed one soldier and wounded nine others, the military said, as militants showed no sign of easing their attacks ahead of next week's transfer of sovereignty.
The 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.
Coalition spokesman Dan Senor said that by week's end, all Iraqi government ministries would be under full Iraqi control.
The coalition official who briefed reporters about the prisoner custody issue said the Americans will keep Saddam and others under U.S. guard even after the June 30 handover because the Iraqi government does not yet have capacity to hold such prisoners, the official said.
U.S. troops captured Saddam in December near his hometown of Tikrit.
U.S. authorities Tuesday released three busloads of prisoners from the notorious Abu Ghraib detention center, bringing the total number set free in the last two months to more than 2,000. The prison is at the center of a scandal over abuse of inmates by U.S. troops.
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by JimmyTango » Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:08 pm
Originally posted by gowhitesox99
f'in animals, send in the troops...keep em coming, i'll pay extra taxes if i have to
That just makes it worse. These are not Iragis, they are Iraqi insurgents. This means from a different country. These insurgents are going to Iraq for one reason: Americans to fight. The more of us, the more of them.
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by Agent-Commando » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:10 pm
Originally posted by Ralph Wiggum
That's four - you left out Daniel Pearl.
My apologies.
Daniel Pearl's captors were arrested right if I remembered correctly? I hope those who did had fun with them, real fun...
Sigh...
This has got to stop, how are these people being kidnapped so easily???
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by Bullhead » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:43 pm
Originally posted by Agent-Commando
My apologies.
Daniel Pearl's captors were arrested right if I remembered correctly? I hope those who did had fun with them, real fun...
Sigh...
This has got to stop, how are these people being kidnapped so easily???
little blurb I caught on BBC said they suspect the same group who killed Pearl also killed the korean......
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