CCTV International: Taliban kills 2nd S Korean hostage

by angryindian | July 31, 2007 at 10:33 am

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The Afghanistanian Taliban have reportedly executed a hostage from Korea, bringing the situation to an entirely new level. This is the second hostage killed by the kidnappers leaving 20 other hostages at the mercy of the Taliban.

The U.S. government has repeatedly claimed that the Taliban were significantly reduced to a harmless gaggle of hardcore irregulars. Their activity has grown in recent months from random attacks against the Coalition of the Willing forces to well-organised attacks and the kidnapping of non-military as well as military personnel. This hardly seems like a dis-functional threat to the stability the Bush administration is selling to the global public in regards to Iraq. And with the Pat Tillman scandal taking on new proportions, the instability of Afghanistan is at the root of a much larger problem. If all this aggression against first Afghanistan and later Iraq, is teh United States really any safer?

This is not a trick question. - The Angryindian

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The mother (C) and family members of Sim Sung-min, a 29-year-old man who is one of 22 South Koreans in Afghanistan kidnapped by the Taliban, react after watching television news about Sim in Seongnam, south of Seoul, July 31, 2007. REUTERS/Han Jae-Ho

CCTV International The Taliban has killed a second South Korean hostage. Song Kin-Shi, was shot dead at around 8:30 p.m. local time on Monday. His body was dumped near the Ghazni-Kandahar highway. Al Jazeera broadcast a video on Monday showing several South Korean hostages held by Taliban insurgents hours after the group announced the killing.