Taliban issue another deadline on Korean hostages

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Taliban issue another deadline on Korean hostages
Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:12AM EDT

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban movement in Afghanistan
has set 0730 GMT (0230 EST) Wednesday as another
deadline for the remaining 21 South Korean hostages, a
Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday a day after the Taliban
shot dead a second captive.

"If the Kabul administration and Korean government do not
give a positive reply to our demand about the release of
Taliban prisoners by tomorrow 12:00 (local time), then we
will start killing other hostages," Qari Mohammad Yousuf
told Reuters.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSISL7431220070731

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Source: Associated Press

Taliban Issues Another Hostage Deadline

Tuesday July 31, 2007 9:31 AM

By AMIR SHAH

Associated Press Writer

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - Police discovered the body of
a second South Korean hostage slain by the Taliban in
central Afghanistan while the group threatened Tuesday to
kill more hostages if their demands were not met by
Wednesday, the latest of several deadlines.

South Korea, meanwhile, pleaded with the international
community to set aside the normal practice of refusing to
cave into hostage-takers' demands, as it urged a peaceful
resolution to a standoff. Twenty-one South Koreans remain
captive.

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The Taliban commanders set a new deadline of noon on
Wednesday.

“If the Kabul government does not release the Taliban
prisoners, then we will kill after 12 o'clock - we are going
to kill the Korean hostages,” Ahmadi said. “It might be a
man or a woman ... It might be one. It might be two, four.
It might be all of them.”

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6817125,00.html

[Spinzonner]

1. They should return the imprisoned Taliban fighters

in a prisoner exchange.

Castrated.