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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (9215)	7/30/2007 2:47:40 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Taliban kill second hostage Associated Press July 30, 2007 at 2:42 PM EDT Kandahar, Afghanistan — A purported Taliban spokesman claimed the hard-line militia killed a second Korean hostage Monday because Afghanistan failed to release insurgents from prisons. Government officials said they hadn't recovered the body and couldn't confirm the claim. Militant spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said senior Taliban leaders decided to kill the male captive because the government had not come through on promises to release Taliban prisoners. “The Kabul and Korean governments are lying and cheating. They did not meet their promise of releasing Taliban prisoners,” Mr. Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, said by phone from an undisclosed location. “The Taliban warns the government if the Afghan government won't release Taliban prisoners then at any time the Taliban could kill another Korean hostage.” Ghazni Gov. Marajudin Pathan said officials were aware of the Taliban's claim but hadn't recovered a body. He said police were looking but he couldn't say if they might find anything before daybreak. A student at the former college of Im Hyun-joo, one of South Korean hostages in Afghanistan, holds her portrait during a rally demanding the safe return of kidnapped South Koreans at their Science College in Daegu, south of Seoul, Monday, July 30, 2007. The body of a pastor shot dead by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan arrived back in South Korea on Monday. (Ahn Young-joon/AP) Videos Hostage makes a plea to the media CTV Newsnet: 'We are so scared,' hostage says in phone call to media Taliban extends deadline on hostages Karzai labels kidnap “shameful” and un-Islamic Pope appeals for 22 hostages to be freed Korean hostage pleads for help in phone call “Ghazni is a very vast area, so we really don't know where the body is,” Gov. Pathan said. The Taliban kidnapped 23 South Koreans riding on a bus through Ghazni province on the Kabul-Kandahar highway on July 19. The militants have told the government they want 23 Taliban prisoners released from jail in exchange for the Koreans' lives. The Taliban has set several deadlines for the Koreans' lives. Last Wednesday the insurgents killed their first hostage, a male leader of the group.