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Report: S. Korean hostage beheaded The Arab satellite TV network Al-Jazeera reported Tuesday that a South Korean kidnapped in Iraq had been beheaded.
The network said it had received a videotape indicating that 33-year-old Kim Sun-il had been executed. The kidnappers had earlier extended their deadline for his execution, an intermediary said Tuesday. At the same time, the Seoul government said it would evacuate all its citizens working for businesses in Iraq by early July. “This is humanitarian issue and we are working on it and we expect good news,” Ahmed al-Ghreiri, an employee of the NKTS security firm, which is acting as an intermediary, told The Associated Press. Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants had threatened to kill Kim by early Tuesday if the South Korean government did not cancel its planned deployment of 3,000 troops to Iraq. The militants dropped their demand that Seoul pull its troops out of Iraq, a security company president was quoted as saying Tuesday. The Joong Ang Ilbo newspaper's Web site quoted Choi Seung-gap as telling South Korean reporters the abductors had made other demands that were acceptable, but he declined to elaborate for fear of jeopardizing the negotiations. "It is highly likely we will see a resolution because in Iraq they have a good impression about South Korea," said Choi, president of the NKTS security company that provides bodyguards.
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