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Originally Posted by the crispy badger
Help me to understand this thinking by the South Korean government..there were 23 hostages taken by the Taliban but they refuse to take action and will let the innocent hostages die(who incidently were there illegaly)..one was just killed earlier this morning and more will die soon...is an occupation more important then 22 human lives?
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Here's why this one particular hostage was killed:
. . . . . . 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.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19913035/
South Korea is there at the request of the United Nations which in turn was asked for help by the elected government of Afghanistan. NATO is also there at the request of the United Nations.
South Korea had already announced the withdrawal of its troops by year-end, before the unlawful kidnapping of its citizens by terrorists.
Therefore there appears to be no purpose other than terror to the kidnapping and killing of these unarmed foreign civilians . . . . . . OR, most likely these civilians were kidnapped for the age old reason of ransom rather than a purely political agenda and most likely they were targetted because foreign governments in the past have paid ransom and appear to be giving incentive for the practice to continue.
Lastly, government's aren't responsible for their private citizens doing something unendorsed and patently stupid in a foreign land. In South Korea, these missionaries have come under heavy criticism since their abduction:
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/ht...707250040.html
Cowperson