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June 22, 2004
South Korean Beheaded
The enemy strikes again, this time by beheading South Korean Kim Sun-il: 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.The Japanese did many more terrible things -- both to soldiers and civilians -- during World War II, and it's amazing to me that the enemy would think that these tactics of murdering individual prisoners (or intimidation by displaying images of the carnage) would work today. The problem is, people tend to forget the nature of war, and they think that wishing it away or running away will make the war go away. This beheading could just as easily have happened in Saudi Arabia, or anywhere else. It's going to go on for a long time, and I think it should heighten -- not weaken -- the determination of the people it was intended to shock. UPDATE: The video can be streamed here. (Link via Kevin Aylward.) UPDATE: If the above does not work, try this link. posted by Eric on 06.22.04 at 02:10 PM
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As was unfortunately expected, Kim Sun-il appears to have been executed. These beheadings are becoming disturbingly routine news. images from the hostage video: [Read More] Tracked on June 23, 2004 1:32 PM
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The score is 3-0, three heads to none. Its time to fight violence with violence. Its the only way to get this enemies attention. skeeter · June 23, 2004 9:30 PM if the terrorists want their "brothers" returned to them, then they should be returned.......minus the head!!! If they are outraged by how we treat prisnors.......maybe we shouldn't take any!!! Bryndler · June 25, 2004 7:54 PM simply inhumane. bulbul · July 4, 2004 12:17 AM |
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: Kim was shown in the videotape kneeling,
: blindfolded and wearing an orange jumpsuit
: similar to those issued to prisoners at
: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Or a jumpsuit similar to ... well, orange jump suit pretty much captures it. That little explicative detail feels like a subtle effort at equating the killers in Iraq with US guards at Guantanamo.
At least the orange jump suit should put to rest the conspiracy theorists wondering why Nick Berg was wearing an orange jump suit...unless the FBI killed Kim-Sun-il as well!
If there's a lawn chair in any of this footage, we've got 'em!