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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Iraqi militant group has beheaded its South Korean hostage, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. The South Korean foreign ministry issued a statement confirming the report.
Kim's body was found by the U.S. military between Baghdad and Fallujah, west of the capital, at 5:20 p.m. Iraq time, said South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil.
The South Korean embassy in Bagdad confirmed that the body was Kim's by studying a picture of the remains it received by e-mail, Shin said.
"It breaks our heart that we have to announce this unfortunate news," he said.
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.
Kim was shown in the videotape kneeling, blindfolded and wearing an orange jumpsuit similar to those issued to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The tape showed five hooded men standing behind Kim, one reading a statement and gesturing with his right hand. Another captor had a big knife slipped in his belt.
One of the masked men said the message was intended for the Korean people. "This is what your hands have committed. Your army has not come here for the sake of Iraqis, but for cursed America."
The video as broadcast did not show Kim being executed.
Al-Jazeera said the video claimed the execution was carried out by the al-Qaida-linked group Monotheism and Jihad.
News of the apparent beheading reached the White House in the midst of a briefing by spokesman Scott McClellan, who said he was not aware of the report.
"That would be horrible news," McClellan said. "There simply is no justification for those kinds of atrocities that the terrorists carry out. We've seen some of the barbaric nature of the terrorists recently when it comes to an American citizen that was killed in Saudi Arabia and it is a reminder of the true nature of the terrorist."
Al-Jazeera did not say when Kim was killed.
Kim's kidnappers had initially threatened to kill him at sundown Monday unless South Korea canceled a troop deployment to Iraq. The Seoul government rejected the demand, standing firm with plans to dispatch 3,000 soldiers starting in August.
NKTS, a South Korean security firm doing business in Iraq, told the AP in Baghdad earlier Tuesday that Kim was still alive and that negotiations for his release continued, with the company president expected to arrive in Baghdad from Seoul by Wednesday.
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Jesus. I saw the video on CNN of him standing there begging for his life. It is beyond me how someone could actually slowly cut someones head off while their alive and screaming.
Shows what kind of people the military is dealing with.
F*cking savages.
Is it just me or does anyone else think that the terrorists are slowly turning the tide of a propaganda war in Iraq that until recently they were winning...
Pete (thinks that these beheadings will result in sympathy for Americans and allies)
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Originally posted by plezercruz Is it just me or does anyone else think that the terrorists are slowly turning the tide of a propaganda war in Iraq that until recently they were winning...
Pete (thinks that these beheadings will result in sympathy for Americans and allies)
Possibly, but there are still many that think what they are doing is god/allah's will
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Originally posted by plezercruz Is it just me or does anyone else think that the terrorists are slowly turning the tide of a propaganda war in Iraq that until recently they were winning...
Pete (thinks that these beheadings will result in sympathy for Americans and allies)
While I wish you are right, I'm not optomistic. Seems that blaming America is the "in" thing at the moment. Perfect example at how terrorists are succeeding in reversing world politics is what happened with the Spanish election. Fact is that people are weak, feeble, stupid, and more importantly, extremely malleable, and now the terrorists are capitalizing on this. Sad thing is, I think much of the American public is the same way.
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Terrorism is self-defeating. The only reason it's been so successful in the mid east is because there was no organization of people strong enough to oppose it, and the technology for everyone to see it didn't exist yet. It's sort of like those neighbors with barking dogs who never tell them to shut up.
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Originally posted by plezercruz Is it just me or does anyone else think that the terrorists are slowly turning the tide of a propaganda war in Iraq that until recently they were winning...
Pete (thinks that these beheadings will result in sympathy for Americans and allies)
The strange thing is that CNN sent out breaking news alert emails about the 2 two Americans but not the Korean victim. Makes me kinda think that American media places less value on non-American victims...
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These beheadings are not primarily intended to terrorize the West and certainly not the U.S. or it's military allies (a professional military cannot be terrorized). They are primarily intended for the Arab "street". Westerners simply do not understand Muslim culture and the thinking of the average, uneducated, brainwashed, and easily manipulated Arab and non-Arab Muslim. In the eyes of these people, and the way they think about Westerners (especially Americans), these beheadings are justified and the perpetrators are considered heroes and great warriors doing Allah's work.
The victims of these fanatics are merely props in their grand drama. Until we, the West (especially Europe) wake up to this fact and confront these maniacs where ever they are we will continue to be sacrificed in their effort to implement their fantasy ideology of restoring Islam to it's once glorious position in the world.
World War III has been declared and it seems that only the current American administration and a few of it's allies understand this fact. Those anti-war and hyper-critical liberals who refuse to recognize this will be like the Jews in Nazi Germany who denied the threat to their existence all the way to the gas chambers. Wake up!
Why beheading though? From the pictures I`ve seen, everyone at the "executions" is holding an AK or some kind of assault rifle.
Does chopping off someones head have some kind of religious of cerimonial segnificance in their F`ed up world?
>> Does chopping off someones head have some kind of religious of cerimonial segnificance in their F`ed up world?
I know that it's required by their religion to behead animals they eat for food. Maybe these terrorists are butchers by trade?
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"While I wish you are right, I'm not optomistic. Seems that blaming America is the "in" thing at the moment. Perfect example at how terrorists are succeeding in reversing world politics is what happened with the Spanish election. Fact is that people are weak, feeble, stupid, and more importantly, extremely malleable, and now the terrorists are capitalizing on this. Sad thing is, I think much of the American public is the same way. "
That's a rash assertion if I've ever heard one. It isn't the "in" thing to do, it's the RIGHT thing to do, there is a differance. It isn't 100 percent Americas fault but we certainly cannot be considered innocent by any stretch of the imagination. Moreover, I'd rather be what you call "weak, feeble, stupid and malleable" than be some brainwashed, closeminded, zombified, follower of a tyrant, because it makes you NO BETTER THAN AL QAEDA.
>> That's a rash assertion if I've ever heard one. It isn't the "in" thing to do, it's the RIGHT thing to do, there is a differance.
It's wrong thing to do. The U.S. has saved freedom in the world many times, and it's doing it again now.
>> It isn't 100 percent Americas fault but we certainly cannot be considered innocent by any stretch of the imagination.
It's not a stretch to say that the last people in the world trade center were 100% innocent.
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Iraqi Militants Behead Korean Hostage
