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A California company has found a way to profit from the recent beheadings of Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-Il.  By providing material support for al-Qaeda and terrorism, traffic to their hosted sites has exploded exponentially.  (Key provisions in the 'Patriot Act' against providing material support for terrorism w.r.t. the internet were nullified last month by a Federal Court in Idaho).  Free web server companies obtain revenue through increased bandwidth. The FBI has been contacted. A spokesperson for the FBI disputes alegations that the government is keeping the sites on online (perhaps for monitoring or tracking IP information, etc.). "Free Speech"...

Following is the message from the family of Kim Sun-il, slain Korean hostage in Iraq, during the funeral held in a gym in Pusan on Wednesday. _ ED. Faced with the tragic news of from Iraq thousands of miles away, we, Kim Sun-il's brothers and sisters, cried out all night and our father and mother fainted and fell to the ground again and again. When we were told of what Sun-il endured from the kidnapping to death, our heart-wrenching grief turned into uncontainable rage. We thought that our family's rage could somehow speak for his unjust death. But Sun-il did...

Kim Sun-il's Funeral Ceremony His family at the front row A South Korean protester burns a banner with depicting al Qaeda-linked militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who's militant group claimed to have killed South Korean Kim Sun-il, at a hospital in Pusan, south of Seoul June 30, 2004. Kim was decapitated in Iraq after South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun rejected militants' demand to pull military medics and engineers out of Iraq and drop plans to send more troops. REUTERS/Ahn Young-joon/PoolReuters - 23 minutes ago A friend of South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il, who was killed by Islamic militants in Iraq , holds...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. forces launched an airstrike targeting militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi after his group beheaded a South Korean who had pleaded "I don't want to die" in a heart-wrenching videotape.

In the Washington Post's story Wednesday about the beheading of South Korean hostage Kim Sun Il, reporters Jackie Spinner and Anthony Faiola assert: "Kim's death appeared almost certain to broaden opposition in South Korea to the country's already unpopular involvement in Iraq." Spinner and Faiola did not provide any evidence for why they thought the brutal murder was "almost certain to broaden opposition ..." There was a good reason for this. It wasn't true. The Asia Times reported on the same day that "the execution has galvanized the people, pushing many into the deployment camp. Preliminary surveys indicate a more...

In a clandestine and dangerous meeting near Baghdad Hala Jaber was told the chilling story of a hostage’s death by one of the terror gang IN A small, bare house to the west of Baghdad, a highly educated Arab fighter armed with an unusual combination of computer skills and European languages was packing spoils of war into cardboard boxes last week as his resistance cell prepared to take its battle into the Iraqi capital. He removed aerial photographs from the walls, saying he had obtained them by hacking into a US military database in Iraq, and stacked laptops that had...

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Blood is boiling to the point of scorching explosion in some quarters of South Korea toward terrorist [and by extension], Islam, as news settles in that a South Korean man had been beheaded this week by Islamic fundamental terrorists in Iraq.Police cordons are being thrown up around Islamic mosques in S. Korea. The main mosque in Seoul has been flooded with death threats and bomb threats.Last night (US time), a building housing Islamic interests in Inchon, South Korea (about a hour from Seoul) was hit by vandalism. People are really pissed at these murders and decapitations. Koreans, (the "Irish of...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Members of Seoul's small Muslim community filed past rows of riot police to attend prayers Friday amid bomb threats and an angry backlash over the beheading of a South Korean hostage in Iraq. Police have been guarding the Central Mosque in Seoul since anonymous callers threatened to blow it up earlier this week. "I think a lot of people won't come out today because of the harassment," said Shariq Saeed of the Korea Muslim Federation. "But the security is very good." Noticeably absent from Friday prayers were some of the country's newest followers: a handful...

(The late) Kim Sun-il, who was recently beheaded in Iraq Here is a Black and White video, taken earlier in the month, of South Korean hostage Mr. Kim Sung -il in Iraq. It is unclear who is questioning him, but it appears he is being detained by captives, and the interrogator certainly is not friendly.The captive's English is fair. In it he makes a number of provocative statements.Whether it was "Stockholm Syndrome" or not (in order to save his own skin) there are anti-Bush and anti-US comments.The man is obviously concerned for his safety. As is known now, he...

/begin my translation Beheading Victim Planned to Marry 24 Year-old Iraqi Woman Kim Sun-il, who was found murdered in Iraq on June 23rd, was to marry Iraqi woman, his friends disclosed, according to June 25th edition of Ilgan Sports(a S. Korean sports daily.) Shim Sung-dae, an English Instructor and Mr. Kim's friend since high school, told a reporter from the sports daily on June 24th, "Sun-il thought out a plan to marry her, and even sent me her picture.", according to the daily. According to Mr. Shim, "On May 30th, a day before his kidnapping, I got the last e-mail...

/begin my translation Kidnapping and Beheading Were Done By Different Groups A new claim surfaced, that the group which kidnapped (beheading victim) Kim Sun-il, the employee of Gana Trading Co., is different from the group which beheaded him. A high level official in (S. Korean) government said on June 25th, "Based on our investigation so far, we suspect that an armed group kidnapped Mr. Kim for ransom. However, their negotiation broke down over the amount of ransom (to be paid), and they turned Mr. Kim over to Tawhid wa al-Jihad(Zarqawi's group.) Paris Jamar, station chief of Al-Jazeera in Jordan, also...

Internet Providers Urged to Block Hostage Video By Kim Tae-gyu Staff Reporter South Korea is scrambling to prevent online footage featuring the beheading of a South Korean hostage in Iraq from spreading as several foreign-based Web sites have started to post the gruesome scenes. The Ministry of Information of Communication (MIC) on Thursday said it ordered all the nation’s Internet service providers (ISPs) to shut down access to Web sites that carry the execution of Kim Sun-il. ``We have found a total of eight foreign-based Web sites showing the savage killing since this morning (Thursday) and blocked Internet access to...

How could this happen? Kim Sun-il, who had been kidnapped by Iraqi extremist terrorists, wound up being cruelly murdered. It is a saddening event. The shock and distress felt by the Korean people, who had been wishing for the safe release of Mr. Kim, is so deep that it is hard to put into words. The Iraqi terrorists who killed Mr. Kim are reportedly insisting they committed the murder because their request for a pullout of Korean troops in Iraq was not accepted. But the kidnapping and murder of an innocent civilian can never be justified under any circumstances. It...

Victim's Last Letters Express Longing for Korea, Displeasure With America By Soh Ji-young Staff Reporter The final letters written by Kim Sun-il just before he was kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents are further deepening the public's sorrow and distress over the precious life lost. Kim's close friend, Shim Song-dae, disclosed to the public Wednesday several emails that Kim had sent to him in May prior to his kidnapping, which revealed his yearning to return home and see his loved ones. In a email dated May 8, Kim wrote, ``With all the Koreans nearly gone, and the church teams gone as well,...

<p>Yesterday, coalition forces found the body of Kim Sun-il. His beheading, and the response of his government, further demonstrate the price of freedom and the cost of failure in the war on terrorism.</p> <p>Mr. Kim, an evangelical Christian, was slain after his government refused to grant the demand of suspected al Qaeda terrorists that the government cancel its planned deployment of 3,000 troops to help rebuild Iraq. Despite Mr. Kim's televised heart-rending pleading for his life, the butchers proceeded with the monstrous crime. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun was resolute in his response.</p>

Korean Internet Users Launch Hacking Attacks on Ogrish.com Korean Internet users have launched "Hacking of Fury" attacks on a website, Ogrish.com, which is trying to obtain and spread the video of Kim Sun-il¡¯s decapitation. This site posted the unabridged video of Nicholas Berg¡¯s beheading in May. The site enraged Korean Internet users by posting an advertisement looking for video of Kim's decapitation when Kim was kidnapped. The site is posting a message on its main page that Kim has been decapitated and is asking people to send in videos or photos of Kim¡¯s decapitation if they have them. In regards...

June 24, 2004 -- AFTER terrorists beheaded Korean hostage Kim Sun-il, The New York Times kept the photo showing the horror of his final moments off yesterday's front page. Instead, the Times' front page bizarrely describes Kim as "sitting or kneeling quietly" as he waited to die — in reality the photo, back on Page A-11, shows Kim with his mouth open wide in terror, and the video shows him shaking with fear. It's just the latest instance of how the press often hesitates to show the true savagery of America's enemies in the War on Terror, whether al Qaeda...

Korean Internet Users Divided on Response to Hostage Slaying Related Articles - Kim Sun-il Executed by Captors in Iraq - Hostage Executed as Soon as Gov't Rejected Iraq Deployment Demands - An Unpardonable Act of Barbarism - Korea Reaffirms Decision to Send Troops to Iraq - Int'l Governments Condemn Beheading of Korean Hostage - Foreign Media React to Killing of S. Korean Hostage - Booby Traps Installed Around Kim’s Body - Kim Sun-il Possibly Abducted on May 31 Korean Internet users are split between those wanting to take reprisals for the killing of Kim Sun-il in Iraq and those...

SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Foreign Ministry was notified by a U.S. television company in early June of the kidnapping of a South Korean hostage beheaded earlier this week, a U.S. news report said Wednesday. The beheaded body of Kim Sun-il, 33, a worker for Cana General Trading Co., a Jordan-based South Korean firm, was found by the U.S. military outside Baghdad on Tuesday. An al-Qaida-lined terrorist group claimed responsibility. His South Korean employer, Cana President Kim Chun-ho, said the worker was believed to have been kidnapped on May 31, not June 17 as previously claimed by...

Parents of slain Kim Seon-il broke down upon hearing the news of his death. Kim Jung-sook, a sister of Kim Seon-il, wails. Kim Seon-il during his military service (middle) Kim Seon-il's funeral in preparation His Alma Mater mourns his death. Parent of Kim Seon-il holding his photo Ambassadors to S. Korea from Mid-Eastern countries confering at Foreign Ministry Muslims walk by at a Mosque in Seoul, S. Korea while police are watching.

The Brutal Murder of a Peaceful Korean Despite the public pleadings of an innocent man, Islamic militants have once again showed that they have yet to step on the ladder of civilization - by beheading Kim Sun Il, a translator working in Iraq. Kim Sun Il (&#44608;&#49440;&#51068; - Kim is the family name, Sun Il is the first name) was studying to become a priest while taking a job as an Arabic translator for the Gana General Trading Company. He took the job in order to help the Iraqi people by assisting to rebuild Iraq. He was 33 years old....

I'm not sure if this was posted. But once again the Islamo Nazis put the beheading of an innocent person on some Islamo site. Beheading of South Korean Hostage Shown on Web Site DUBAI (Reuters) - An Islamist Web site has posted a videotape of the beheading of the South Korean hostage killed by militants in Iraq. Kim Sun-il, an Arabic-speaking translator, was executed on Tuesday by his captors after Seoul rejected demands for South Korea to stop contributing troops to U.S.-led forces in Iraq. The tape shows heavily armed and masked men standing over a kneeling Kim, who was...

could someone capture the stills? We must let the world see what animals these people are. God plus his soul VIDEOS HERE

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The South Korean hostage beheaded in Iraq was likely kidnapped at the end of May and not June 17 as initially reported by his employer, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday. Controversy about when Kim Sun-il was abducted arose after an Islamic militant group made good on threats to kill him when the South Korean government refused to cancel plans to send more troops to Iraq. In early June — before it was widely known that Kim was missing — a videotape was delivered to Associated Press Television News in which Kim says in English...

Execution in Iraq stirs up hornets' nest By David Scofield Will the kidnapping and execution of a Korean contractor prompt South Korea to rethink its dispatch plans? Like the tragic execution of American Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia, Kim Son-il, a 33-year-old South Korean man working for a Korean US military contractor in Iraq, has become the latest victim in a campaign targeting independent contractors supporting the United States military in the region. Initially it seemed Kim, a student of Arabic, may have been granted a reprieve as the time of his execution lapsed and Arab television later reported his...

I was just given this. On the homepage is a few pictures. Then u can find the video at top by clicking any of those arabic links.. BE WARNED!!!!! BEHOLD THE FACE OF EVIL ISLAM AT WORK. http://www.hostinganime.com/iraqnews2/

Muslim Community Hopes Killing Doesn't Affect Perception of Islam Muslims bow down in the direction of Mecca, during a service at a mosque in Itaewon. Korean Muslim Imam Lee Hang-rae said during an interview at a mosque in Itaewon, Seoul on Wednesday that, ¡°We Muslims were also shocked and felt heartbroken like everyone else. I am worried that this incident may damage the perception of Islam on the whole. The group that kidnapped and murdered Kim Sun-il is a political group that has nothing to do with Islam. They do not obey Islamic doctrines and are even against Islam....

/begin my translation <Beheading of a S. Korean> Exploding Demands to Military for Retaliation (Seoul: Yonhap News) Hwang Dae-il reporting After the news of Kim Seon-il(age:33)'s murder by Iraqi Resistance Group spread over the country, the website of Ministry of Defense was flooded with messages urging retaliation. Especially, some posters were so consumed with rage that they vent their hatred against not only the terrorist group which murdered Mr. Kim, but also Iraq as a country and the Iraqis as a whole. A guy whose handle name is 'I am a corporal, too' exhorted, "Wipe out everything in Iraq, to...

His death was met with outrage in Washington and remorseful determination in Seoul. On the streets of Baghdad, there was little sympathy for South Korean Kim Sun-Il, beheaded by his captors and dumped on the road between Baghdad and Fallujah. Abu Zaman, a 53-year-old driver, was blunt on the fate of the 33-year-old evangelical Christian: "He deserved it. I object to beheading, but if he was co-operating with the Americans he made a bad decision." A portrait of Kim Sun-Il, who was killed by Iraqi militants, is displayed in front of a bible at a hospital in Busan. Photo: AFP...

Police on Wednesday beefed up security around the Islam mosque in Seoul after some people, agitated by the death of the South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il on Tuesday in Iraq, made threats on Muslims. Cho Min-haeng, an official of the Islam mosque in Hannam-dong in Seoul, said he received several phone calls from early in the morning from people threatening to set the mosque ablaze and kill believers of Islam. ``We are terrified to receive the threatening calls," Cho said. ``We are asking believers to stay home for a while and refrain from meeting people outside. Police believe some angry...

/begin my translation Muslims 'Shocked'...Worry about 'Angry Public Backlash' Police beefs up the security around Mosques (Seoul-Yonhap) Ahn Hee reporting: When the news reported that Kim Seon-il(age:33) was murdered by Iraqi armed group which kidnapped him on 23rd (of June), irate citizens made 'threatening phone calls' to the mosque in Hannam-dong Yongsan-ku, Seoul, (S. Korea), which raised the tension inside. Muslims who came to a prayer found it incredulous that the kidnapped S. Korean was murdered in the end. They also worried about the public backlash from S. Koreans. Cho Min-haeng, the deputy-chief of administrations at the mosque told us,...

When the body of Kim Sun-il was found 35 km west of Baghdad toward Falluja at 5:20 p.m. (10:22 p.m. Korean time) on June 22, it was discovered that a booby trap had been installed in his body.

This is appearing today on the S. Korean conservative Chosun Ilbo Daily newspaper website and in their paper today, slamming 50 lawmakers in Korea who immediately called for a S. Korean retreat from Iraq in the wake of the beheading of Mr. Kim Sun-il.Captions:(Comment): "Hey Boss! Things are going as we have planned!"(TV News): "S. Korean Lawmakers Push for Iraq Withdrawl After Hostage Death"(Terrorist, sitting down): "Abu Musab al-Zarkawi"(terrorist)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's president strongly condemned the beheading of a South Korean hostage in Iraq but remained determined to send more troops, saying they were needed to help rebuild the country. President Roh Moo-hyun rejected the kidnappers' claim that South Korea's plan to send 3,000 additional troops to Iraq would hurt Iraqis. The captors killed Kim Sun-il, a 33-year-old South Korean working in Iraq, after Seoul rejected their demand to cancel the South Korean deployment. "The South Korean plan to send troops to Iraq is not to engage in hostilities against Iraqis or other Arab people...

June 23, 2004 -- As horrific as was yesterday's news that al Qaeda-linked thugs beheaded another hostage in Iraq — a 33-year-old South Korean, Kim Sun-il — the incident, in a sense, still marked a kind of victory for the civilized world. This, after all, was the third high-profile decapitation by the thugs in recent weeks, following the slaughter of Nick Berg in May and Paul Johnson on Friday. And what do the terrorists have to show for it? Nothing. Their demands that South Korea keep its troops out of Iraq were summarily ignored. So kudos to Seoul for its...

Spurning a South Korean's desperate plea to live and frantic late bargaining by his government, Al Qaeda-linked terrorists beheaded another civilian hostage in Iraq yesterday. Arab news network Al Jazeera broke the news, running footage of Kim Sun-Il, 33, blindfolded and kneeling in an orange suit in front of five hooded captors. One had a huge knife in his belt, but the clip ends before the men decapitate their victim. In South Korea, Kim's younger sister, Kim Jong-Sook, rocked back and forth at word of his death, then flung herself from the room, wailing, "Bring back my brother, bring back...

The captors of South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il in Iraq beheaded him today. The Seoul foreign ministry confirmed the killing after Al-Jazeera television first reported it. The South Korean government also reports Kim's body was found by U.S. military personnel between Baghdad and Fallujah. Terrorists holding Kim, a 33-year-old businessman, had threatened to kill him if Seoul didn't withdraw its troops from the nation and cancel the deployment of additional personnel. The killing came despite reports the militants had agreed to allow more time for negotiations. Al-Jazeera reports it received a videotape showing Kim had been executed. It shows the...

The distraught parents of the hostage beheaded in Iraq today accused the South Korean government of betrayal for failing to prevent his grisly execution. The parents of Kim Sun-Il, overcome by grief, shed bitter tears for their only son, who was abducted and killed by Islamic militants demanding all South Korean troops be removed from Iraq. "Bring my son back to life, bring my son back to life," wailed the mother of Kim, a translator whose decapitated body was found yesterday by the US military dumped on the road between Baghdad and Fallujah. Shin Young-Ja, 63, hugged her daughter and...

A South Korean hostage threatened with execution in Iraq has been killed, officials in Seoul have confirmed. The beheaded body of translator Kim Sun-il, 33, was found between Baghdad and the town of Falluja. Mr Kim was working for a security company supplying the US military when he was abducted last week. South Korea rejected demands from the al-Qaeda-linked kidnappers that it end its military role in Iraq in return for Mr Kim's life. This is what your hands have committed - your army has not come here for the sake of Iraqis, but for cursed America Militants' statement The...

CAIRO, Egypt - An Iraqi militant group has beheaded its South Korean hostage, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. The pan-Arab station 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 (news - web sites) and was abducted last week, according to the South Korean government. Al-Jazeera, which had not broadcast the tape, said the execution was carried out by the al-Qaida-linked group Monotheism and Jihad.

SEOUL, June 23 (Reuters) - South Korea's National Security Council, which advises President Roh Moo-hyun, met on Wednesday to discuss the killing by Muslim militants of a South Korean hostage in Iraq. The Council's standing committee issued the following statement after the meeting: (Translation by Reuters. About 180 words) 1. The government strongly condemns the killing of Kim Sun-il by a terrorist group in Iraq as an inhumane act of terror. 2. The government decided to ask for cooperation with the Iraqi interim government and coalition forces to resolve the incident and push for the early repatriation of the victim's...

Slain South Korean Spoke Arabic, Was Devout Christian Tue Jun 22, 2004 03:59 PM ET By Martin Nesirky SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) - On Monday, Kim Sun-il stood gesticulating as he shouted desperately at the camera, "I don't want to die." On Wednesday, the Arabic interpreter and devout Christian who dreamed of missionary work in the Arab world knelt silently and impassively before his Muslim militant captors beheaded him. The scenes from videotapes aired on Arabic television station Al Jazeera were broadcast repeatedly on South Korean television, sending a chill through many people who already had reservations about the government's...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Koreans bombarded an English-language "Al Jazeera" Web site on Tuesday to urge Muslim militants not to behead a South Korean hostage, but the site did not belong to the Arabic television station of that name. Militants kidnapped 33-year-old Arabic graduate Kim Sun-il on June 17 and threatened on Monday to kill him within 24 hours. A mediator told Reuters in Baghdad the militants had agreed to give more time for talks on his fate. Al Jazeera broadcast a videotape of Kim pleading for his life. Its English-language Web site is www.english.aljazeera.net. But South Koreans headed to...

CAIRO, Egypt -- 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 Sun-il'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...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush condemned the beheading of a South Korean hostage as "barbaric" Tuesday and said he remained confident that South Korea 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. Bush made his comments in an Oval Office photo opportunity with Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy of Hungary, a close ally in Iraq and the war on terror. Medgyessy said his country would not withdraw its troops from Iraq despite the recent killing of a Hungarian soldier there....

(Updates with quotes and details) SEOUL, June 23 (Reuters) - Militants in Iraq killed a South Korean hostage and dumped his body, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil told reporters at a briefing at 2:00 a.m. (1700 GMT) the U.S. military had found 33-year-old Kim Sun-il's body and informed South Korean officials. Earlier, Arabic television station Al Jazeera reported the group which had kidnapped Kim on June 17 had carried out its threat to behead him. Al Jazeera had broadcast a chilling video tape on Monday of Kim pleading "I don't want to...

The S. Korea government has confirmed the hostage has been killed. His body has been recovered.

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