Taliban says Korean hostage killed
Al Jazeera's video aired on Monday showed some
of the South Koreans being held hostage by Taliban
Al Jazeera has broadcast an exclusive video showing
some of the South Koreans taken hostage by the Taliban amid claims by a
spokesman for the armed Afghan group that they have executed a male hostage.
Several women wearing headscarves appeared in the
footage aired by Al Jazeera on Monday, with fighters visible in the background.
On Monday, Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters by
telephone: "We shot dead a male captive because the government did not listen
to our demands."
AFP news agency quoted a Taliban spokesman as saying:
"We set several deadlines and the Afghan government did not pay attention to
our deadlines.
"Finally tonight at 8:30 we killed one of the Koreans
named Sung Sin with AK-47 gunshots."
There was no independent confirmation of his death.
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The body of the hostage had been dumped in the Qarabagh
district of the southern province of Ghazni, Ahmadi said.
The area is where 23 South Korean Christians,
officially on an aid mission, were captured on July 19.
They were seized while they were travelling on the
highway between Kabul and Kandahar, in Ghazni, about 140km south of the Afghan
capital
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The South Korean embassy in Afghanistan has refused to
comment to the media on the case.
James Bays, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Afghanistan,
said: "They [the Taliban] have extended [the deadline] in the past, but they
say they are serious this time."
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government and the South Korean government will be responsible."
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He reported there was a build up of security forces in
the area.
"There are a lot of troops and police in the area near
the main highway where the South Koreans were kidnapped."
The leader of the group, Bae Hyung-kyu, a 42-year-old
pastor, was shot dead on Wednesday and his bullet-riddled body found in a
desert area of the province.
Bae's body arrived in South Korea on Monday.
Melissa Chan, reporting for Al Jazeera from Seoul,
said: "The family members have said that they will not hold a funeral until the
rest of the hosatges are back and safe."
Taliban denial
Earlier on Monday, Yousuf had denied that there had
been any agreement to extend talks further.
"We are still awaiting the decision of the leadership
council. We have not extended the deadline till Wednesday," he told Reuters by
telephone from an unknown location.
Reports had said that the Taliban extended their
"final" deadline at the request of Afghan mediators, but insisted that the
release of Taliban prisoners was the only way to settle the crisis.
The "final deadline" was issued by the movement's
leadership council on Sunday and orginally ran out at 0730 GMT.
Demands
The Taliban have demanded the withdrawal of South
Korean troops from Afghanistan and the return of prisoners held by the Afghan
authorities.
Al Jazeera said it obtained the video of the
South Koreans from outside Afghanistan
On Sunday, Yousuf said that the group's demands
remained the same.
He said: "We have the same previous demands; the first
is accepting to withdraw the Korean forces from Afghanistan."
"The second demand is still pending as the Afghan
government delegation has said that it does not have the authority to release
Taliban prisoners."
Hostage swap?
For their part, Afghanistan's interior ministry and the
presidential palace have said a hostage swap is out of the question.
An Afghan team that was supposed to have held more
talks with the Taliban on Saturday could not reach the group because of
security concerns in Ghazni province, a provincial source said.
The Taliban has said that if anything happens to the
South Korean hostages, "the Afghan government and the South Korean government
will be responsible".
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