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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...