Iraq Group threatening to behead Korean hostage

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-06-20 04:32pm

Reuters via Fox. I'll post a link as soon as one pops up.

"we ask you to withdraw forces, or we will you send you this Korean's head"

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-06-20 04:37pm

They're showing a video of the guy begging for his life. Very gut-wrenching stuff.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-06-20 04:37pm

"We are strong we kill unarmed and tied up civilians,we hide our faces like the cowards that we are".

"Sarcastic"

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-06-20 04:38pm

And its our fault for making such a huge media circus out of these beheadings simply because they are gruesome. The best thing we can do right now is ignore these assholes and not give them round-the-clock CNN coverage.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-06-20 04:44pm

Reuters:

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi group has threatened to behead a South Korean hostage if Seoul does not end cooperation with U.S. occupying authorities, a videotape aired on Arabic television station Al Jazeera said on Monday.

"We ask you to withdraw your forces from our land and not to send any more troops, and if not we'll send you this Korean's head," one of a group of armed, masked man standing around the Korean man said.

A banner in the background named the group as Jama'at al-Tawhid and Jihad, the name of the militant group led by al Qaeda operative in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-06-20 04:49pm

Well, shit. There goes another hostage. These people aren't even bothering to make realistic demands, are they?

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-06-20 04:50pm

Well, he's doomed. I wonder how South Korea's going to react to this though.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-06-20 04:52pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:Well, shit. There goes another hostage. These people aren't even bothering to make realistic demands, are they?

They're not interested in making realistic demands. They make demands that are impossible to meet so they'll have "justification" for beheading a hostage. The idea is to scare other foreigners into leaving and over time prompting foreign governments to pull out, leaving the bulk of the Iraqi people to the fundamentalists' tender mercies.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-06-20 04:58pm

RedImperator wrote:They're not interested in making realistic demands. They make demands that are impossible to meet so they'll have "justification" for beheading a hostage. The idea is to scare other foreigners into leaving and over time prompting foreign governments to pull out, leaving the bulk of the Iraqi people to the fundamentalists' tender mercies.

In a way, it's almost a relief. In a way, I'd much rather have terrorists making pie in the sky ransom demands that won't change very much rather than them making specific realistic demands toward a specific strategy. If they were doing the latter, it would mean that they've got a plan that they can execute and are putting the pieces together for, but with "We demand you remove all troops within 72 hours and kiss our toesies on the way out" demands, they are just trying to be scary. It proves that they don't understand Rule #2 of Super Villainy: a Master Plan is composed of incremental realistic goals.

Unfortunately, it's really small comfort, since it means that heads will roll for no reason.