Prayers that he keeps his....
Corroboration, anyone?
Cripes. Start executing al Qaeda prisoners wherever they are held. Ten for every hostage that is taken, starting with whomever they want released first. Videotape it. Show it on every news channel around the world.
Increase Coalition presence by 10% every time a hostage is taken.
Obviously an eye for an eye isn't working. So let's make it 10 bodies for an eye.
More Held Hostage in Iraq Than S. Korean Employee: Company Head
BAGHDAD, June 21 (Yonhap) -- The head of a South Korean trade company in Iraq whose employee has been abducted by an insurgent group here claimed Monday that there may be as many as 10 other abduction victims held by the Arab insurgent group.
In a telephone interview with the Yonhap News Agency, Kim Choon-ho, president of Gana General Trading Co., said that several local employees of U.S.-based security firm Halliburton, accompanying the South Korean worker at the time of abduction, were kidnapped along with his South Korean employee, Kim Sun-il.
"After contacting the U.S. military on June 17 to find out why Kim Sun-il, who went on a business trip to the U.S. military camp Ribgee, located about 200 kilometers from Baghdad, did not return, I was told that he had already left (the U.S. installation) and found out that he had been kidnapped along with an Iraqi employee," Kim said.
"I also understand that several third-country employees of the U.S. security firm Kellogg, Brown and Root (an affiliate of Halliburton) who were accompanying Kim at the time had also been kidnapped." The South Korean businessman said he tried to undertake his own negotiations with the kidnappers, who claim to belong to an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group, the Tawhid wa al-Jihad.
"We are taking up negotiations with the kidnappers on the release (of hostages) by dispatching an Iraqi employee to the Fallujah area," Kim said. "We heard from the kidnappers that Kim Sun-il was safe." Kim also said that his Iraqi employee who engaged in negotiation talks with the kidnappers reported seeing "European journalists and other security firm workers" being held hostage along with Kim.
Kim said the number of those being held hostage would exceed 10 when considering the number of other hostages claimed by his Iraqi worker.
Drudge Report carries headline that South Korea cancels decision to send 3,000 troops to Iraq - We have another Spanish partner in peace....
Jeezus.
Anything new on this? Is it being spiked? Jooheeyang, over in SK have you heard anything?
Sh*t.
Scores of foreigners have been kidnapped since the bloody uprising in April, and many are still being held.Kim Chun Ho, the head of the Gana Trading Company, which employed Mr. Kim, has told the Yonhap news agency that several other foreign contractors were traveling in the same convoy with Mr. Kim and were also kidnapped.
He said those contractors were working for Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton and the largest private supplier to the American forces. The company said Tuesday that it could not confirm the kidnappings.