Taliban extend Korea hostage deadline by 24 hours

by Informed Comment Global Affairs (reposted)

Mon, Jul 23, 2007 6:53AM

From a Sunday, July 22, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin

Taliban in Afghanistan holding 23 Korean Christian aid workers hostage are demanding that Taliban prisoners be released in exchange for them. Taliban also held two German hostages, demanding that German troops leave the country, and one of them was found dead on Sunday. That discovery made saving the Korean hostages seem even more urgent.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel angrily rejected the idea of Germany being blackmailed by the Taliban into leaving Afghanistan. She pledged to work to free the remaining German hostage.

Video on the Korean hostage situation from Kabul, courtesy Euronews/ YouTube.

For more information: http://icga.blogspot.com/2007/07/taliban-e...

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