Posted on 06/21/2004 9:51:27 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
SEOUL, June 21 -- Jolted by video footage showing one of their countrymen being held in Iraq by kidnappers threatening to behead him, hundreds of South Koreans joined candlelight vigils and prayer groups Monday while the government scrambled to negotiate the hostage's release.
In the video, first broadcast Sunday by the Arabic satellite TV network al-Jazeera and rerun countless times here Monday, Kim Sun Il, 33, screamed for his life while his hooded, armed captors demanded that South Korea quit the international military coalition in Iraq. The video was released three days after the government had finalized plans to begin deploying its main contingent of 3,000 troops there this summer.
The kidnappers gave South Korea 24 hours from sunset Sunday to agree; otherwise, they said they would "send to you the head of this Korean."
After an urgent cabinet meeting, South Korean leaders rejected the demand and dispatched an emergency diplomatic mission to Jordan in an attempt to win Kim's release.
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I've never seen anyone wail like this either. It almost seems staged. Methinks that they either shot at him or beat him and or tortured him so he would flail his arms like that. Maybe he saw someone else die a horrible death or is watching someone being tortured.
I have been reading that he was a Christian...wanting to be a missionary. What are you going to scare a missionary with? Heaven?
Dittos to your "pathetic" observation.
Hey I don't blame him..he's a civilian and in a scary situation...
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Yeah and so were the passengers on that ill-fated airliner that plowed into the ground in Pennsylvania. But they didn't cry and wimper ... they went to their doom with grit and determination and saved lots of lives doing so. Remember ??? LET'S ROLL!!!!!
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First of all you don't know how every passenger reacted, do you? Either way it's irrelevant. This guy was in theater. One can safely assume that he knew the Berg and Johnson stories, and that he knew what they were going to do to him. You guys who react to this by ridiculing him are an embarrassment.
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Yeah, like the videus of Nick Berg and Paul Johnson at the hands of the same guys who had him.
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