Why was the korean hostage beheaded?

[Digitaholic]

Got this from KoreanHerald.com

Can u see if u agree with me on this?

Optimism that hostage Kim Sun-il might be alive, and even released, swept across the nation on Tuesday evening after domestic and foreign news reports that the captors had delayed their threat to behead him.

The government's diplomatic efforts, including Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon's appeals for the release of Kim in an interview with the Arab satellite TV network Al-Jazeera, gave grounds for hope that the 33-year-old Korean hostage might be saved, like three Japanese hostages kidnapped by Iraqi militants in April but rescued after successful negotiations.

But Kim did not come back alive to his hometown.

Experts said the biggest reason why Kim was executed was that the militants who kidnapped him, and those who abducted the Japanese hostages, were very different.

"The militants who abducted the Japanese civilians were an organization consisting of Iraqi natives. They are members of a religious body and the Muslim leaders who appealed for the release of the hostages were very influential," the director of the Institute of Middle East Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Park Jong-pyung, said.

"However, the combatants who kidnapped Kim are the most radical political terrorists whose headquarters are located in Jordan. They called for the retraction of the troop dispatch decision from the beginning. Religious leaders' appeals, lobby money and diplomatic efforts could not save him," added Park.

In a videotape, the militants said Kim's execution was inevitable after the Korean government decided to go ahead with the troop dispatch.

"Though we warned you, you rejected it. Your military forces came to Iraq not for the war-ravaged country, as you insisted, but for the cursed American military forces," the combatants announced.

Park added that the militants may have had no intention of saving Kim from the beginning, because the 24-hour deadline was too short. "The radical militants wanted to prove their power and give a kind of warning to the world. Perhaps Kim was already dead when the first video tape, in which he begged for life, was released."

Hong Sun-nam, another professor teaching Arabic cultures at HUFS, agreed there was little hope from he start, because the radical combatants apparently did not want to negotiate.

"It is so difficult for a diplomatically weak country like Korea to rescue him from radical terrorists," Hong sighed.

"Kim worked at a company which delivered necessities to the Korean troops in Iraq. As a result, the combatants may have considered Kim helped the war led by United States," Park said.

Form the beginning, the kidnappers were members of a purely political organization interested only in the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq, not in money, he added.

Now, many civic associations and activists nationwide are demanding the cancellation of the troop dispatch to Iraq, incited by Kim's tragic death.

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Why? They are a free country....a country that is an ally of the US. These clowns are so desperate, they will go after anyone they can....for any reason.

[Blaise Veteran]

Why?  They are a free country....a country that is an ally of the US.  These clowns are so desperate, they will go after anyone they can....for any reason.

yep

and the fact is that no matter what the US does, untill it (the USA) becomes a 7th century like theocracy, they will not be satisfied.

after all that is their long range goal; to have the population of the world living our lives according to their twisted interpretation of one religion

[TheElite]

according to their twisted interpretation of one religion

correct.

[Samoa]

Why? They are a free country....a country that is an ally of the US. These clowns are so desperate, they will go after anyone they can....for any reason.

Yep, which is why they need to be stopped:yes:s: