South Korean Civilian begging for his life and then
brutally beheaded in Iraq
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Queda Terrorists brutally cut off the head of a South Korean Civilian after Seoul refused
their demand to withdraw its troops and scrap plans to send more.
South Korea said U.S. soldiers had found the body of 33-year-old Kim Sun-il, five days
after he was seized in Falluja, a guerrilla hotbed 32 miles west of Baghdad.
Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera broadcast footage of four heavily armed men standing
over a kneeling Kim, who was dressed in an orange tunic and with an orange blindfold -
mimicking the orange jumpsuits worn by prisoners in U.S. detention facilities like
Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
"We warned you and you ignored (the warning)...Enough lies. Your army is not here for
the sake of Iraqis but for the sake of cursed America," one of the killers said.
A spokesman for the television network said the tape went on to show one of the men
cutting off Kim's head with a knife.
A group led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it was holding Kim and
would execute him unless Seoul pulled out its 670 military medics and engineers in Iraq
and canceled plans to deploy 3,000 more troops.
South Korea said after Kim's killing that it stood firm on its troop decision. "Our
government's basic spirit and position has not changed," said a Foreign Ministry
spokesman.
U.S. officials say Zarqawi's group also beheaded U.S. hostage Nicholas Berg in Iraq last
month and that Zarqawi himself probably wielded the knife in Berg's killing.
President Bush, speaking after Kim's death, said "the free world cannot be
intimidated by the brutal action of these barbaric people."
"...They want us to leave. They want us to cower in the face of their brutal
killings, and the United States will not be intimidated by these people," he added.
In footage of Berg's decapitation, he was shown wearing an orange tunic. The captors of
Paul Johnson, a U.S. contractor beheaded in Saudi Arabia by militants linked to al Qaeda,
also dressed him in orange before they killed him.
Dozens of foreign hostages have been seized in Iraq, many around Falluja. Most have been
freed but at least four have been killed by their captors.
Kim, an Arabic speaker and evangelical Christian, had worked in Iraq for a year as a
translator for a South Korean firm supplying goods to the U.S. army.
A Seoul commerce ministry spokeswoman said all South Koreans working for firms in Iraq
were likely to leave the country soon. |
