Australian PM condemns beheading of South Korean hostage, XINHUA

From: Xinhua (China) | Date: June 23, 2004 | Copyright information


Xinhua (China)

06-23-2004

URL: http://www.xinhua.org
CANBERRA, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard
on Wednesday condemned the beheading of a South Korean hostage by terrorists
in Iraq.
He told reporters here that the murder was a "sickening example of who
we're dealing with, what we're dealing with."
Kim Sun-il, a 33-year-old translator, was killed overnight when the
South Korean government turned down his captor's...

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