S.Korean Hostage in Iraq Wins More Time

[NewYorkerfromMass]

Militants threatening to behead a South Korean hostage in Iraq unless Seoul pulls troops out of the country have agreed to give more time for talks on his fate, an Iraqi mediator told Reuters Tuesday....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=4&u=/nm/iraq_dc

Wow. Could this story have a good ending?

[Renew Deal]

1. Yes, they will shoot him instead.

:eyes:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Charming.

But we try.

[chenGOD]

3. I was watching the Korean news tonight and...

this guy was actually kidnapped at the end of May. He and his company had almost negotiated his release, but then there was an American attack either in Fallujah, or near Fallujah that killed someone important. Directly after this the South Korean govt. announced that they were indeed going to deploy troops to Iraq. And that is apparantly what led up to this tragic situation.

[Tempest]

4. US Criticized for Withholding News of Kim Abduction

US Criticized for Withholding News of Kim Abduction

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200406/kt2004062216314653460.htm

The United States on Tuesday faced allegations that it had intentionally kept South Korea in the dark about the abduction of Kim Sun-il, the South Korean interpreter working for a subcontractor to U.S. forces in Iraq.

According to South Korean government officials, it had become aware of Kim being kidnapped on June 21, at least three days after he was taken hostage by an al-Qaida-supported terrorist group. snip

The crux of the allegations of a U.S. cover-up is that the Seoul government confirmed its plan to dispatch an additional 3,000 troops to Iraq, on July 18, the day after Kim was kidnapped. By the accounts of the Seoul government, it wasn¡¯t aware of the incident.

This has touched off speculation that the U.S. didn¡¯t inform Seoul of the kidnapping in order to enable the South Korean government to press ahead with its confirmation of the dispatch plan. Experts say that if the kidnapping had been known to the public, the government would have had a very hard time in pushing ahead with the unpopular dispatch plan.

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