Not by giving that humanitarian aid - I think you are blurring the issue there instead of making a point, since you made a factually incorrect statement and based your point on that. There were a lot more differences between the two governments, the main one being that the Saudi-Arabian is friendly with the US administration and, at least openly, opposed to terrorism. The Taliban were pretty openly on the terrorists' side. Note that I am not defending the Saudi government, but there is also the issue of the places holy to the Muslims being located in Saudi-Arabia, as well as Saudi-Arabia being an extremely important country for worldwide oil supply, as well as the current government in Saudi-Arabia being the lesser of two evils as compared to almost any other government that could take charge there...
Looks like they'll kill anybody... Millitants Threaten to Behead South Korean Hostage By ROBERT H. REID, AP BAGHDAD, Iraq (June 20) - The Arab satellite TV network Al-Jazeera aired a videotape Sunday purportedly from al-Qaida linked militants showing a South Korean hostage begging for his life and pleading with his government to withdraw troops from Iraq. The kidnappers, who identified themselves as belonging to a group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, gave South Korea 24 hours to meet its demand or ''we will send you the head of this Korean.'' But a South Korean official said Seoul would not change its position on sending troops to Iraq. ''Korean soldiers, please get out of here,'' the man screamed in English, flailing his arms. ''I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I know that your life is important, but my life is important.'' South Korean media identified the hostage as Kim Sun-il, 33, an employee of South Korea's Gana General Trading, Co., a supplier for the U.S. military. The video came two days after news of the beheading of American hostage Paul Johnson by al-Qaida-linked militants in Saudi Arabia, and an announcement Friday by South Korea that it will send 3,000 soldiers to northern Iraq beginning in early August. Once the deployment is complete, South Korea will be the largest coalition partner in Iraq after the United States and Britain. After showing the hostage's plea, the tape showed him kneeling in front of three masked men, two of them armed with Kalashnikovs. The man standing in the middle read a statement in Arabic. ''Our message to the South Korean government and the Korean people: We first demand you withdraw your forces from our lands and not send more of your forces to this land. Otherwise, we will send to you the head of this Korean, and we will follow it by the heads of your other soldiers.'' The statement gave Seoul 24 hours from sunset Sunday to meet its demand. But Deputy Foreign Minister Choi Young-jin said Monday there is no change in South Korea's plan to send troops to Iraq. The group identified itself as Monotheism and Jihad; its purported leader, al-Zarqawi, is a Jordanian-born terrorist linked to al-Qaida. Al-Zarqawi's group claimed responsibility for the videotaped beheading last month of American businessman Nicholas Berg. An Al-Jazeera staff member at the network headquarters in Qatar, Mohammed al-Saadi, told The Associated Press by telephone that the two-minute videotape was mailed to the Al-Jazeera bureau in Baghdad. ''Our office in Baghdad received an unknown package. They opened it and they found the tape,'' al-Saadi said. A South Korean television news station, YTN, said Kim had been in Iraq for about eight months. His distraught sister, Kim Jung-sook, told the station that his family last spoke to him in April. At that time, she said, Kim Sun-il was in the Fallujah area and planned to leave the area in July. On Saturday, Seoul warned its people not to travel to Iraq, saying its decision to send troops might prompt terror attacks on South Koreans. The warning came amid news of the beheading of Johnson, although it did not mention the incident. ''At this time, we cannot rule out the possibility of harm to our nationals, following the official announcement of the additional troop dispatch to Iraq,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil said in a statement. ''The government urges the people to refrain from visiting Iraq,'' it said. South Korea plans to send 900 troops to Kurdish-controlled Irbil in early August, followed by about 1,100 troops between late August and early September. An additional 1,000 soldiers will travel to Iraq later. South Korea already has 600 military medics and engineers in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. Seoul has portrayed the dispatch as a way of strengthening its alliance with the United States, thereby winning more support from Washington for a peaceful end to a long-running dispute over North Korea's nuclear weapons development. Johnson, 49, an engineer who had worked in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade, was kidnapped last weekend by militants who followed through on a threat to kill him by Friday if the Saudi kingdom did not release its al-Qaida prisoners. bastards
After "extending the deadline" they sent a tape out to AJ showing them killing the Korean guy. There's a special ring of hell for these bastards.
Horrible. I hope these people will get the punishment they deserve. ------------------ Iraqi Militants Reportedly Behead Korean Jun 22, 12:59 PM (ET) (AP) A man identified as South Korean Kim Sun-il, front, sits in front of his captors in this image... Full Image CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Iraqi militant group has beheaded its South Korean hostage, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. The pan-Arab station said it had received a videotape showing that Kim Sun-il had been executed. Kim, 33, worked for a South Korean company supplying the U.S. military in Iraq and was abducted last week, according to the South Korean government. Al-Jazeera, which had not broadcast the tape, said the execution was carried out by the al-Qaida-linked group Monotheism and Jihad. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040622/D83C6AO00.html
We need to fight fire with fire...... When caught bury them in Pigs skin so they have no hope of redemption in their religion. Hold no quarter, these freaks deserve to die. What cowards. DD
Yet another truly horrendous act, by these terrorists. This is becoming a horrible, and disgusting trend. I want these terrorists wiped off the face of the earth. We need to pursue both justice, and a comprehensive policy that strikes at all the resources and causes championed by terrorists.
No doubt they will whether it is in this life or the after-life. These terrorists have been testing the resolve of our nation for some time now. They have started and will continue to test the resolve of the rest of the world. These losers will be squashed.
and I am still so confused how these people can say they are religious.... I pray for that mans family
