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The families of the remaining 21 South Korean hostages being held in central Afghanistan say they have all but lost hope for the survival of their loved ones after a second hostage's body was recovered.The Afghan government has ruled out a prisoner swap and has urged the Taliban to release the women being held.The bullet-riddled body of Shim Sung-min was found Tuesday in the Chahor Devor area of the Ghazni province,the same province where the 23 South Koreans were kidnapped from their bus on July 19,according to an Afghan Interior Ministry official."We still hold the same faith but after the death of Pastor Bae and Shim Sung-min,the families are in greater pain,"the families said in a joint statement read on Korean TV by the mother of Lee Sun-young,a 37-year-old woman held by the Afghan captors."It's almost impossible to have hope for the remaining 21 hostages.Which parents can sit still when their child is dying before their eyes?"Bae Hyung-Kyu,42,a pastor at the church attended by the hostages and the leader of their group,was shot and killed last week.His body was found Wednesday in Ghazni's Qara Bagh district with 10 bullet wounds,Ghazni's provincial police chief said.The South Koreans are members of a church group and came to Afghanistan to perform volunteer medical aid.Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told CNN that Shim was killed Monday,hours after Taliban leaders had threatened to kill more hostages if Afghan leaders did not give in to their demands to release rebel prisoners.In their statement,the families pleaded with the US"to be more actively involved"and get more countries to cooperate in thenegotiations to free the hostages."The Korean government awhile ago announced there's a limit and there are things that can't be solved,"they said in the statement."But we still believe in the government and that it's doing the best to protect its people."They expressed"worry"about reports that negotiators are considering trying to free the hostages through force."Please don't use force.Please save them through peaceful and humanitarian ways.Please help."Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid,in a telephone interview with CNN Monday,said that hostage Shim had been killed Monday.The announcement came hours after Taliban leaders had threatened to kill more of the 22 Korean hostages they have been holding if Afghan leaders did not give in to their demands to release rebel prisoners.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/31/taliban.hostage/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
PS:FOLKS,this is what ISLAM does to those that are not muslims....especially jews and christians.It's been happening all over the world and is still happening.
If you are NOT a MUSLIM and DON'T WANT TO CONVERT,then...you are an ENEMY OF ISLAM and therefore you have to die....
For ISLAM,LIFE means a "BIG 0"...NOTHING...
I'm still waiting to hear the UPROAR from people all over the Middle East for this senseless BUTCHERY and God knows I'm watching and listening and reading the news most of the day and there is only one thing and that is :SILENCE.....DEAFENING SILENCE....
Again:
ISLAM is NOT a RELIGION of PEACE....BUT of SWORD!!!!!!!
If you don't believe me,fetch a history book and read it there.....
As in the days of Noah....
