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| Al-Qaeda holds 10 foreigners |
| 2004-06-22 |
| AL Qaeda militants threatening to behead a South Korean businessman are holding 10 other foreigners, including a European journalist, it was claimed last night. As the deadline approached for the execution, South Korea refused to bow to demands. It said it would go ahead with plans to send 3000 troops to Iraq despite the abduction of Kim Sun-il and the televised broadcast of his desperate pleas to stay alive. Mr Kim was being held by Jama’at al Tawhid and Jihad, a group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al Zarqawi, which last month beheaded an American hostage, Nick Berg. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported that as many as 10 other foreigners were being held with him, including the journalist and "third country" employees for the US-based contractor, Kellogg Brown & Root. The agency cited as its source Mr Kim’s employer, Gana General Trading, a Korean firm supplying goods to the US military. Kim Chun-ho, the head of Gana, said in Baghdad some of the hostages were seen by an Iraqi go-between who had tried to negotiate the South Korean’s release. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |