AFGHANISTAN - July 30 - Taliban Kills S Korean Hostage.

From: APS Diplomat Recorder | Date: August 4, 2007 | Copyright information

Taliban kidnappers shoot dead a male South Korean hostage, a spokesman for the group -aid, accusing the Afghan government of not listening to rebel demands for the release of Taliban prisoners. "We killed one of the male hostages at 6.30 this evening (1400 GMT) because the Kabul administration did not listen to our repeated demands", spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousuf told Reuters by telephone from an unknown location. The Taliban seized 23 Korean Christians, 18 of them women, 11 days ago from a bus in Ghazni on the main highway south from Kabul and killed the leader of the group ...

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