SubscribeTaliban Ups Its Demands For Korean Hostages
From their allies at the Associated Press:
Taliban Raises Demands for Hostages
Published: July 23, 2007
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A purported Taliban spokesman said that negotiations for the lives of 23 South Korean hostages had stalled and that militants would kill the aid workers Monday evening if the government doesn’t free Taliban prisoners.
An Afghan lawmaker said the militants had upped their demands Monday, saying they wanted all insurgent prisoners in Ghazni province released in exchange for the Koreans, though Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the militia, denied that was true.
Khail Mohammad Husseini, a lawmaker from Ghazni province, where the Koreans are being held, said a delegation of provincial leaders tried to meet with the kidnappers Monday but that the militants didn’t show. He said the Taliban increased their demands by telephone, saying all militant prisoners in Ghazni had to be released.
Ahmadi said militants were still demanding the release of 23 Taliban prisoners but said the government hadn’t signaled it was willing to do that.
”If the government won’t accept these conditions, then it’s difficult for the Taliban to provide security for these hostages, to provide health facilities and food,” Ahmadi told The Associated Press by satellite phone. ”The Taliban won’t have any option but to kill the hostages.”
The deputy interior minister, Abdul Khaliq, meanwhile, said Afghanistan was not prepared to make a deal ”against our national interest and our constitution,” though he did not explicitly rule out freeing any prisoners.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai in March authorized the release of five Taliban prisoners in exchange for a kidnapped Italian reporter, but he called the trade a one-time deal. Karzai also was criticized by the United States and European nations who felt that trade would encourage more kidnappings.
Ahmadi said Sunday that the militants were giving the Afghan and South Korean governments until 7 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EDT) Monday to respond to their demands…
Remember through all of this that these are the same people that Musharraf, Nancy Pelosi, “Pinky” Reid and so many others say we need to negotiate with.
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July 23rd, 2007 at 11:23 am
An amazingly simplistic process - Taliban reasoning is that they can’t provide bathrooms or food so the only thing left is to kill them.
”If the government won’t accept these conditions, then it’s difficult for the Taliban to provide security for these hostages, to provide health facilities and food,” Ahmadi told The Associated Press by satellite phone. ”The Taliban won’t have any option but to kill the hostages.”
I wonder how that would have worked for us instead of Gitmo?
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
An update from Forbes:
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Apparently the kidnappers have realized that if they kill the hostages that they will die shortly afterwards since they are surrounded by the Afgan and Coalilation forces
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Like I said before–those people are dead. They’re foreign, they’re Christian, they’re capitalist. It’s gonna suck, but those people are going to die.
When they do, though, they’ll discover why South Korea is still one of our allies–those bastards are going to suffer, when the Koreans step in and do what traitor Democrats won’t allow us to do.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm
The South Koreans won’t do anything. Nor will we. Those Taliban bast—- will hide behind a bunch of women and children ‘civilians’ to prove how brave they are (not). Nice to talk about making those ’slimes glow in the dark, they certainly deserve it, but we don’t have anyone with the stones to make it happen.
Reducing Mecca to rubble won’t stop this crap. They’d just raise the price of oil and build another.
Boiling their leaders in pig fat might help, we won’t do that, either.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:48 am
I know some of you are Vietnam vets. Remember how tough the ROK soldiers were there? I joined the Army about two years after the war and some of the vets would tell me that the ROK soldiers were pretty tough. I don’t think mohaMUD’s followers really want to tick them off that badly.
OG, I disagree. Nuke Mecca and let it glow for a few hundred years, remind them that ONCE in their lives, they gotta visit the place. Hit Meddina, too. This is not an Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan thing. This is a global thing between one religion that wants to dominate the world and a whole bunch of other faiths and beliefs that don’t want to pray to a pedophile. And the Saudis are the ones funding the killing and sitting back laughing all the way to the bank.
I admit there may be some Muslims who disagree with the jihad, just like there were a whole bunch of Germans and Japanese that disagreed with WWII. It don’t matter, you pick your sides, no fence sitters allowed.