Breaking: Taliban kill one South Korean hostage
posted at 9:18 am on July 25, 2007 by Bryan
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23 hostages, 18 of whom are women, taken at gunpoint while working in hospitals doing humanitarian work in one of the world’s poorest countries. Students of the religion of peace do what they do best:
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants claimed they shot and killed one South Korean hostage on Wednesday while a group of abductees was freed and taken to a U.S. military base, officials said.
Purported Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed that one of the hostages had been shot and killed around 4 p.m. (7:30 a.m. EDT), and a police official who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation said militants told him the hostage was sick and couldn’t walk and was therefore shot.
The story goes on to say that the Taliban freed some of the hostages, and those freed have been moved to a nearby US base. None of this is confirmed.
Now back to your round-the-clock Lindsay Lohan marathon.
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