Taliban releases SK hostages

Aug. 29 - Taliban insurgents freed twelve South Korean hostages in three separate batches, the first of 19 Christian aid workers the rebels agreed to release

The aid workers were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ghazni province.

The Taliban said it would free the remaining seven South Korean hostages on Thursday.

The Taliban agreed to release the Christian volunteers after South Korea reaffirmed its commitment to pulling its troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Helen Long reports.

SOUNDBITE:


Lee Jeong-Hoon, brother of released hostage Lee Ji-Young,

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[shintaroDaKiIIa]

Brilliant point! Why are Korea's government leaders so stupid, when the truth is obvious!

[stewiegriff1]

kidap a korean win a million dollars

[jojoinhere]

when can this people wake up? it's people like them that scares me. imagine everyone on this planet been religious.......

[fkper]

yes the bible condones such rediculous things, please check the vid. "proving that the bible is repulsive"

[fkper]

Well now,doesn't that show something...

I don't think Irak (or Afghanistan as a country) wanted to wage war with you but suddenly "you where under attack" and HAD to defend your self against those vile muslims in Irak with all their WoMD, possible even nukes...What happened? The "Coalition" invaded a country they had no freakin right to invade.(Irak) But of course the winner writes the history...

[booryokudanin]

we'll disregard them because they are completely worthless.

[pang704]

so wait..im confused...im kinda late on the info but if there were 23 to start with and 19 left...does that mean they killed 4 of the south koreans?

[glodenaegis]

Umm. History repeats itself! And Taliban will keep on abducting and putting up resistance to allied troops. And what shall we do? We'll keep on doing what we do best, "Kick their Asses!" Now learn, justice will be done just as it was done to every other nation!

[shintaroDaKiIIa]

And now more Koreans will be taken hostage, because the Taliban knows that they will pay. So do you think that the Taliban will do good things with that $20M? Don't talk about WWII. That's history. All the decision-makers are dead. Let's look at the present.

[glodenaegis]

I hope I haven't offended any Japanese people out there. But what I sopke is only the truth and nothing more. And for those of you having a bad image of Arabs and Islam, please understand that it's only some facists that are caring out these dreadful terror acts. Not all of them.