I think he wanted to believe that --- just like we all did. I think he hoped he could convince some of the muslims that they could be peaceful and freedom loving --- but it just isn't the reality of their ideology, they don't believe in freedom or peace --- except the peace that comes after the entire world submits to them.
Iraq - American and European Hostages Held Hostage: Company Head
Yonhap News (South Korea) ^ | June 21, 2004
Posted on 06/21/2004 2:03:00 AM CDT by HAL9000
(URGENT) American and European Hostages Held Hostage: Company Head
BAGHDAD, June 21 (Yonhap) -- European journalists and American workers are being held hostage along with the South Korean kidnap victim by an armed Arab insurgent group, the head of a South Korean trade company here said Monday.
In a telephone interview with the Yonhap News Agency, Kim Choon-ho, head of Gana General Trading Co., at which the South Korean kidnap victim Kim Sun-il has been working, said that there were some 10 other foreign figures being held hostage by the insurgent group.
The South Korean president of the Iraq-based foodstuff supplier claimed that some European journalists and American employees of a U.S.-based security firm were being held hostage along with his employee.