Posted on 06/22/2004 8:36:00 AM PDT by kattracks
Just breaking on Fox.
I wonder what's really going on here....
Pussies.
If they haven't killed him, it leads me to believe the Korean may be a collaborator, like those three Japanese who were taken hostage a few months ago.
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I've been saying this for two days now, and it looks like I was right all along.
Maybe he is already dead and the terrorists are trying to finagle a way out.
I do believe al-Qaeda may be thinking twice about tangling with South Korea.
SEOUL, June 22 (Reuters) - Muslim militants holding a South Korean businessman have dropped their demand that Seoul pull its troops out of Iraq and not send more, a security company president was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
The JoongAng Ilbo newspaper's website quoted Choi Seung-gap as telling South Korean reporters the abductors of 33-year-old Kim Sun-il had made other demands that were acceptable, but he declined to elaborate for fear of jeopardising the negotiations.
"It is highly likely we will see a resolution because in Iraq they have a good impression about South Korea," said Choi, president of the NKTS security company that provides bodyguards to Jordan's royal family and has an office in Iraq.
Focking negotiating with terrorists.
Thanks S. Korea! We'll look forward to more beheadings in the future!
I wonder if the "acceptable demands" are to pull out the SK civilians? This is something mentioned in another article.
I wonder if they are going to pay them any money.
Maybe past South Korean governments would stand up to threats, but the last two South Korean governments have been incompetent left-wing boobocracies that spent all their time and effort tripping over themselves trying to get a liplock on Kim Jong Il's tookus.
These guys are afraid of paper cuts. They wouldn't stand up to a perfumed fart.
Something fishy here. "Other demands"? Sorry, but any backchannel communications would risk revealing the location of at least one terrorist. That's why terrorists have to make very public demands. Regardless, any negotiating as a result of a kidnapping will only result in more kidnappings. Anyone got a background on our Korean captive?
Yeah I had this feeling that they would not kill him. They wanted to bring out all the peace yoyos in Korea. Now they will make nice with the Koeans and turn this in to a big win! But who knows I could be dead wrong. It seems like they only Behead American white guys!
I guess Bush's tough on terrorists stance is working now isn't it.
You don't see phrases like this from Americans very often: "I do not like the United States and I was opposed to my country's involvement in this war, but if you harm that man I will use every bit of my money and ounce of my energy to destroy your country, your culture, and your religion."
That's the kind of attitude that can topple a parliamentary government.
(Updates with more quotes, background)
SEOUL, June 22 (Reuters) - Muslim militants holding a South Korean businessman have dropped their demand that Seoul pull its troops out of Iraq and not send more, a security company president was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
The JoongAng Ilbo newspaper's website quoted Choi Seung-gap as telling South Korean reporters the abductors of 33-year-old Kim Sun-il had made other demands that were acceptable, but he declined to elaborate for fear of jeopardising the negotiations.
The militants kidnapped Kim and threatened on Monday to behead him within 24 hours if South Korea did not withdraw the 670 military medics and engineers it has in Iraq and ditch plans to send another 3,000 troops. Seoul rejected the demand.
A mediator told Reuters in Baghdad the militants had agreed to give more time for talks on his fate.
"It is highly likely we will see a resolution because in Iraq they have a good impression about South Korea," said Choi, president of the NKTS security company that provides bodyguards to Jordan's royal family and has an office in Iraq.
It was Choi's colleague in Baghdad, Mohamed al Obedi, who mediated with the militants.
South Korean reporters asked Choi what the militants' conditions were. "If they are revealed it could jeopardise his safety but previously we agreed to drop the condition on the pullout of troops and the deployment of more troops in our negotiations," he said.
Choi said Obedi had told him Kim was safe and there was no evidence he had been tortured or hit.
The company president said he would leave for Iraq on Wednesday to help in the negotiations.
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