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  • slipgate
    This is what happens when you negotiate with terrorists. They should start executing Taliban prisoners, then when they are all gone, flatten the Taliban.

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/afghanistan.hostages.reut/index.html

    GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- Afghanistan's Taliban killed one of the 23 South Korean hostages on Wednesday after Kabul failed to free Taliban prisoners, a spokesman for the group said, adding insurgents would kill more if their demands were not met.


    Villagers participate in a rally demanding the release of hostages in Ghazni, Afghanistan, Tuesday.

    1 of 3 "Since Kabul's administration did not listen to our demand and did not free our prisoners, the Taliban shot dead a male Korean hostage," Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters by phone from an unknown location. CNN was unable to confirm the report.

    Earlier Yousuf had told Reuters that patience was running out and said rebel prisoners must be freed by 0930 GMT on Wednesday.

    The warning came as a German journalist and his Afghan translator were kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan overnight. The Taliban seized two other Germans and five Afghans last week.

    The kidnappings have made travel outside major cities risky for the thousands of foreign aid workers and United Nations staff in Afghanistan and may weaken public support for military involvement among the more than 30 nations with troops in the country.

    "We had assurance from the Koreans that Kabul will release Taliban prisoners in batches and we will reciprocate," Yousuf told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

    "We gave them eight Taliban names and they should have been freed by 7 p.m. (1430 GMT) yesterday, but nothing happened ...

    "The Koreans should put pressure on Kabul on this, for there is the risk that at any moment, any time something can happen to the hostages. If by two o'clock today (0930 GMT), the Taliban are not freed, then some of them will probably be killed. Our patience is running out."

    Both the Taliban and Afghan government officials had been hopeful of a breakthrough on Tuesday with a Korean delegation negotiating through the mediation of tribal elders.

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    The Taliban are demanding Seoul withdraw its 200 troops from Afghanistan, something the South Korean government said it had planned to do at the end of this year in any case.

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pledged not to swap prisoners for hostages after being heavily criticized for releasing five Taliban from jail in March in exchange for an Italian reporter.

    The 23 Koreans church volunteers -- 18 women and five men -- were seized on the main road south from Kabul last week.

    Two Germans were abducted in a nearby region a day before. One of them was found dead, apparently shot by his captors, the other is still being held.

    The German reporter and his Afghan translator seized overnight in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan were trying to reach a village in the Saangar district, where civilians were reported to have been killed in a NATO air strike two weeks ago.


    "The pair were abducted in Saangar district of Kunar by the enemies of Afghanistan," said the local governor's spokesman Shah Wasi Mangal.

    The Taliban are demanding Germany withdraw its 3,000 troops from Afghanistan, something Berlin has flatly refused to do.
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  • royc38
    This is a classic example of what happens when you keep giving the bully your lunch money.
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  • dakotashooter2
    If I was the Taliban I don't think I'd be screwing around with the Koreans. They won't just slap them on the hand like the rest of the civilized world.
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  • spanielsells
    quote:Originally posted by royc38
    This is a classic example of what happens when you keep giving the bully your lunch money.
    Bingo.

    When the liberal whiners were crying about how we were going to attack Afghanistan, they kept saying that violence does not cure anything.

    But, they fail to understand that when you allow the bully to keep punching you in the face, the only way to stop the bully is to punch back and break his nose.
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  • zipperzap
    I dunno ... "Dump the chumps!" is a pretty graphic phrase.
    I'm sure it can't mean what I think it means.
    [:D]
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  • Colt Super
    ?

    A1
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  • sierrasam
    pink floyds finest album
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  • gbeggrow
    But...but....it's a "peacefull religion".[}:)]
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  • spanielsells
    quote:Originally posted by gbeggrow
    But...but....it's a "peacefull religion".[}:)]
    No, it is a religion of peace.

    When all the earth's inhabitants are Muslim, and part of the right sect of Islam, then there will be peace on earth.
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