KABUL, Afghanistan, July 22, 2007

Confusion Amid Taliban Hostage Crisis

Body Of German Hostage Is Found; S. Korea Still Negotiating Hostage Swap For Imprisoned Taliban Militants

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(AP)  Afghan villagers found the body of a German aid worker kidnapped in southern Afghanistan, a police chief said Sunday, while a delegation of South Korean officials arrived hours before a purported evening deadline set for 23 Korean hostages.

The body of the German was found in southern Wardak province, where two Germans and five Afghans were kidnapped on Wednesday, said provincial police chief Mohammad Hewas Mazlum.

A purported Taliban spokesman on Saturday said militants shot and killed the Germans because Germany hadn't pledged to pull its 3,000 troops from Afghanistan. But Afghan and German officials said intelligence indicated that one died of a heart attack and the other was still alive.

Mazlum said he did not immediately know the cause of death of the German whose body was recovered.

The eight-man Korean delegation planned to meet with President Hamid Karzai and Afghanistan's foreign and interior ministers, said Sidney Serena, a political affairs officer at the Korean Embassy in Kabul.

A senior South Korean official said the team would negotiate with the Taliban through intermediaries. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, has said the hard-line militia would release the 23 Koreans in exchange for the freedom of 23 Afghan prisoners. The militants kidnapped the Koreans on Thursday while they were riding on a bus from Kabul to the southern city of Kandahar.

Ahmadi has said that 7 p.m. Sunday was the deadline for the Afghan government to agree to the trade. Neither the Afghan nor Korean governments have commented on the purported offer.

U.S. and Afghan forces moved into the region in southern Ghazni province where the Koreans are thought to be but haven't started any offensive operations, the Afghan Defense Ministry said.

"We will only launch rescue operations or military action at the request of the Afghan and Korean governments," said U.S. Lt. Col. David Accetta. "We do not want to jeopardize the lives of the Korean civilians, and we expect that the governments of Korea and Afghanistan can secure their release peacefully through negotiations."

Serena said the 23 South Koreans, including 18 women, work at an aid organization called the Korea Foundation in Kandahar.

Though the Koreans have been reported to be Christians, Serena said the embassy "strongly denies" that they were carrying out any sort of religious activities.

The chief of the South Korean parliamentary defense committee, Kim Sung-gon, said Sunday in Seoul that the country's 210 troops in Afghanistan have started preparations to pull out of the country by the end of the year as planned.

The Defense Ministry stressed that the process had begun well before the Taliban demanded the withdrawal of South Korean troops from the war-ravaged country.



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by radiob-2009 July 23, 2007 5:24 PM EDT
Lars there were not any photos of men using cutting torches at the site you referenced. That is what I was referring to, more photos of them cutting with torches and easier to find than the one that I posted. Some people will look for a conspiracy anywhere.
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by lars008-2009 July 23, 2007 4:36 PM EDT
Like those photos Lars? They should be easier to find and access.
Posted by radiob at 11:42 AM : Jul 23, 2007

hahahahaha

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by radiob-2009 July 23, 2007 2:42 PM EDT
Like those photos Lars? They should be easier to find and access.
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by lars008-2009 July 23, 2007 12:02 PM EDT
FF1

Photos of men actually cutting the columns.
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Posted by radiob at 12:56 PM : Jul 22, 2007

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by ringading3 July 23, 2007 2:44 AM EDT
All the little dandy Bush-haters are out tonight. I guess there is no action at "the baths" tonight!
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by toolmangler-2009 July 22, 2007 6:54 PM EDT
Posted by radiob at 12:56 PM : Jul 22, 2007


HiYa radio, feely is a AlQeada shill. He knows the ones that flew into the towers personally. He's too full of 'Chicken..........shavings' to own up to it.
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by radiob-2009 July 22, 2007 3:56 PM EDT
FF1

Photos of men actually cutting the columns.
http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/WTCTorchAngleCuts1.jpg/WTCTorchAngleCuts1-full.jpg
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by lars008-2009 July 22, 2007 3:23 PM EDT
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by bgreen415 July 22, 2007 12:37 PM EDT
Trade them, track the Taliban, and eliminate them.
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by ram849 July 22, 2007 11:15 AM EDT
Famous presidential quote!!!'When I take action, I%u2019m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.' By Dipsiht G.W
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by ram849 July 22, 2007 11:07 AM EDT
Besides a colonoscopy he might also look into Human Relations 101.
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by tbweb July 22, 2007 8:01 AM EDT
Take the 38,000 troops out of Korea and put them in Baghdad.

Posted by zoltaric at 12:35 PM : Jul 21, 2007,,,

I proposed that a while ago. If North Korea wanted to attack South Korea, those 38,000 U.S. troops would not stop them from doing it anyway. A new surge of 38,000 troops from S. Korea would secure Baghdad and give the Iraqi government the time it seeks but Americans are not going for that at this point.
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by randalds July 22, 2007 6:13 AM EDT
Bush is fu*cking up the one war we should have fought and won. First by turning North to Iraq because it was on his neocon hot parade in their unbelievably ignorant idea that it would be a push over, then use it as a launching pad for invasions or Iran and Syria and that way control Middle-Eastern oil supply. Now he's taken his eye off the ball in Afghanistan and done such a sh*itty job off that war that the few nations left that are still stupid enough to make any alliance with him are having to pull out. I don't care what the results of his colonoscopy showed, he still has his head up his as*s!
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by lars008-2009 July 21, 2007 6:35 PM EDT
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by zoltaric July 21, 2007 3:35 PM EDT
Take the 38,000 troops out of Korea and put them in Baghdad.
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by zoltaric July 21, 2007 2:54 PM EDT
Yes, South Korea pull out so mwe can pull out of South korea. Let them see what living under tyranny is like. Maybe then they will learn to appreciate freedom.

Death To Islam!
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by lars008-2009 July 21, 2007 2:40 PM EDT
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry

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by iceman_1960 July 21, 2007 1:01 PM EDT
"Somebody needs a pyschological exam not a colonoscopy."
Posted by radiob at 08:52 AM : Jul 21, 2007

In Dubya's case it's the same procedure.
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by radiob-2009 July 21, 2007 11:52 AM EDT
Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressre
leases/stories/2005/10_october/06/bush.s
html
Posted by Iceman_1960


Somebody needs a pyschological exam not a colonoscopy.
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by iceman_1960 July 21, 2007 11:47 AM EDT
Here's another woman who hears God's commands, just like George W. Bush:

"LAMAR, Colorado (AP) -- A woman accused of drowning her infant son and 4-year-old daughter in a bathtub told police she had received a "sign" that she should kill the children: a spider crawling across her hand, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.

Rebekah Amaya, 32, said she is usually afraid of spiders but "felt at peace" when the spider crawled on her, the affidavit said. "She felt it was a sign to set her children free."

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