Posted on 09/15/2007 9:00:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan police killed three Taliban commanders allegedly involved in the abduction of 23 South Koreans two months ago, the Interior Ministry said.
The police operation took place Friday in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province, where insurgents seized the 23 South Koreans on July 19, the Interior Ministry said.
"The commanders who were killed during this operation were directly involved in the kidnapping case of the Korean hostages," the ministry said in a statement Saturday. It did not provide any further details or the identities of the slain Taliban.
There have been several military operations in Ghazni since the release of the last of the captives on Aug. 30, possibly reflecting the Afghan government's desire to assert authority over the rebellious region following the abductions.
Earlier this month, Afghan officials said they killed a Taliban commander called Mullah Mateen, accused of being behind the kidnapping of the South Korean church workers.
Two of the Korean hostages were slain soon after the kidnapping. Two women were released during Taliban negotiations with South Korea, and the remaining 19 were freed after Seoul repeated a long-standing commitment to withdraw its 200 soldiers in Afghanistan by year's end and prevent Christian missionaries from traveling to Afghanistan.
More bad news for MoveOn’s DemocRATik Party.
Looks like the Afghan authorities are going to make damn sure that kidnapping loses its lustre as a fund-raising ploy.
Good news!
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The word alleged needs to be banned from the English Language.
YAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Que?
LOL....It is used so indescriminantly.
You would think that allegedly means guilty as sin.
ban it and every reporter, every newspaper, every talk show host, etc,. would be sued to he*l and back. That would include our good guys too -
On one of those cop shows they showed some guy running through red lights, around spike strips, hitting other cars....”the suspect then sped through the intersection..”
Yeah. A “suspect” doing the act, caught on film.
How much you wanna bet that the ransom money that the South Koreans paid to these Taliban mooks also contained satellite-based tracking devices, wired directly to Fort Bragg.
I think the agreement to pay ransom was used to find the kidnappers.
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