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Release…and submission.

Cutting a deal with Taliban.

Have you forgotten?

“Gesture of good will.” More: The released hostages are Kim Gina, 32, and Kim Kyung-ja, 37, ministry spokesman Cho Hee-yong told reporters.

Eugene Cho keeps track of all the latest twists, turns, and continued apathy/hostility towards South Korean Christian hostages being held by Taliban thugs in Afghanistan. The Islamo-killers changed their minds and have decided not to release two women captives after dangling a promise to do so earlier this weekend. Not much solid info. Here’s Chosun’s [...]

The latest on the South Korean Christian hostage crisis: Karzai appeals to terrorists’ sense of shame. Something tells me this ain’t gonna work.

Update: A hostage makes a phone call plea to AFP…”It’s difficult, they’re very dangerous,” she said, speaking at times in English and at times in Dari,” she told the news agency. “She gave her name as what sounded like Sing Jo-Hin but there was no way of verifying she was one of the hostages. ‘Most [...]

More waiting, watching, and pussyfooting around.

The martyrs no one cares about.

Killed by the Taliban in the name of Allah.

Update 9:45pm Eastern. Al Jazeera has aired video of seven of female South Korean Christian hostages. Here’s a still:

Update 2:45pm Eastern. Yonhap reports, “The Taliban, claiming Monday to have executed another male South Korean hostage, threatened it will continue to kill more of them and more frequently. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, who claims to speak for [...]

Mourning, watching, waiting, praying.

“All of us are sick and in very bad condition.”

Jihadi bastards take an innocent life. Victim is a male pastor, Bae Hyung-kyu. Taliban threatens to kill more.

Plus…breaking: German journalist said freed by Taliban

Bumped…originally posted July 24, 2007 @ 08:21am
Update 2:45pm Eastern. The “final stage”…Now they want money. Meanwhile, still very little American coverage of the ongoing crisis. Maybe if the kidnapped South Korean Christian missionaries were journalists or drunken celebrities, the story would get some attention.
Update 2:15pm Eastern. “Negotiations” continue, Afghan villagers protest Taliban: CBS News [...]

“”The Taliban won’t have any option but to kill the hostages.” Plus: Taliban talks to AP by satellite phone.

Convert or die.