South Korean man being held hostage!!

[slateman]

Here we go again (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040621/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_korean_hostage&cid=540&ncid=716)

I'm gettin real ....ed off lately. Saw the tape of him pleading for his life. Pretty rough.

[845]

They will probably decapitate this one too.

[penguinpunk555]

I feel sick again.

[Target Practice]

Must...resist...tasteless...joke.

Maybe they just needed help with their homework.

Bah! :cry:

I'm gonna shut up now.

[Butterfingers]

Thats horrible. If I knew i was going to die anyway I would take as many of them with me as possible. Pull all the pins on the grenades. Use the RPG as a CQB weapon. Whatever it takes they are not going to make a political example of me.

[Target Practice]

Thats horrible. If I knew i was going to die anyway I would take as many of them with me as possible. Pull all the pins on the grenades. Use the RPG as a CQB weapon. Whatever it takes they are not going to make a political example of me.


Seriously though. There would be no taking me as a hostage. Screw that man, they would have to kill me. There ain't no way they are gonna get me in front of a TV camera and speak for them.

[MadChild]

if i knew i was gunna die, id make a run for it so they will shoot me instead of cutting my head off...this is horrible they just cut ANOTHER guys head off i think his name was paul johnson. thats soo sad....best regards to his family and i hope they get through okay...

[SIGSays]

i'm gonna say that's kind of his fault... if he's south korean.. and he's in iraq... transporting stuff for the us military... he is obviously aware of the threat... he shouldn't have been there in the first place...

[Miscue]

i'm gonna say that's kind of his fault... if he's south korean.. and he's in iraq... transporting stuff for the us military... he is obviously aware of the threat... he shouldn't have been there in the first place...

He lived there for 10 years.

[Thordic]

I was thinking about this the other day.

These guys seem to love explosives (mortars, grenades, RPGs, whatever). Make a quick grab, pull some pits, hit some fuses, whatever, and bang. You go out with them.

Or, when they try to capture you, make a run for it.

There's no way in hell I'd let them catch me if I could at all avoid it.

[1stdeadeye]

If he ran they would shoot him and then behead him. It is a no win situation. I wish him the best and hope for his safe return. I will not hold my breath though. :(

[Thordic]

You can do whatever the hell you want to my corpse after I'm dead.

[oldsoldier]

i'm gonna say that's kind of his fault... if he's south korean.. and he's in iraq... transporting stuff for the us military... he is obviously aware of the threat... he shouldn't have been there in the first place...

Its his fault terrorists kidnap unarmed civilians? I think not. We need to start doing the same, and taking a MUCH stronger stance. America needs to stop being so tough talking and weak acting. The public needs to come to grips that we need to fight fire with fire...and stop trying to win their haerts and minds, and just start summarily executing any terrorists we find.

[logamus]

this guy is deadder than a doornail.

[Jonneh]

I heard Korea are massing guardians and hydralisks, lets hope the iraqi photon cannons don't work.

[logamus]

seige tanks are no match for photon cannons. and we have plenty of seige tanks. the iraqitoss are in deep trouble.

[1stdeadeye]

You can do whatever the hell you want to my corpse after I'm dead.

Too many bad jokes are possible with this line! ;)

Nah, I'll be good!

[Hasty8]

if i knew i was gunna die, id make a run for it so they will shoot me instead of cutting my head off...this is horrible they just cut ANOTHER guys head off i think his name was paul johnson. thats soo sad....best regards to his family and i hope they get through okay...

Let's not also forget Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg.

Also, they shoot you then they cut your head off.

Personally, if I was in the forces right now I'ld be making as many bacon fat-bombs as I could. Let them die with bacon smeared shards of shrapnel in their bodies.

[Hasty8]

i'm gonna say that's kind of his fault... if he's south korean.. and he's in iraq... transporting stuff for the us military... he is obviously aware of the threat... he shouldn't have been there in the first place...

This is the same kind of sympathetic liberal trash that puts the blame of a rape on a woman cause she likes to dress sexy.

"Hey, she gave me a hard on and was touching me then she said no. I lost control and next thing you know.....bang!"

Kim Sun-il, Paul Johnson, Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl.

Not a single one of them were combatants. Three were there to make thier misearble little worlds a little bit better and one was there to give the world information on the status of things in Iraq and these animals murdered them.

They are far to cowardly to face our army in fair combat and instead take it to an innocent citizenry.

But why should this surprise us or did we all forget September 11, 2001?

Also, we can't just go a bomb the Middle East "back to the stone age".

The ME's will be happy for it, grateful for the living condition upgrade.

[SIGSays]

I heard Korea are massing guardians and hydralisks, lets hope the iraqi photon cannons don't work.

why you gotta bust on us like that....

[MaChu]

South Korea despite the hostage is still sending 3000 more troops to Iraq. GO SK! :cheers:

[jdev]

I heard Korea are massing guardians and hydralisks, lets hope the iraqi photon cannons don't work.

hahah, am I the only one that got that, and got a chuckle out of it?

eh.

really crappy situation. not much we can do other than wish the family well and all that.

[logamus]

hahah, am I the only one that got that, and got a chuckle out of it?


no, your just the only one that doesnt read the rest of the replies. :p



props to the s. korean government. i saw quite a few protests on the news tonight and they stuck to their guns. they will not pull their troops out. personally, i think it would be badass if they said that in light of the current situation it seems obvious that MORE troops are needed in the region. now that would really piss off the terrorists. anyway you look at it, the koreans add a new slant to the situation.

[Miscue]

no, your just the only one that doesnt read the rest of the replies. :p



props to the s. korean government. i saw quite a few protests on the news tonight and they stuck to their guns. they will not pull their troops out. personally, i think it would be badass if they said that in light of the current situation it seems obvious that MORE troops are needed in the region. now that would really piss off the terrorists. anyway you look at it, the koreans add a new slant to the situation.

Hurm. They could say... if you kill him, we send twice as many troops!

[joeyjoe367]

This one really hits me pretty hard. Being a korean and a christian. I really REALLY hope that we can do something about this if it isn't too late already.

There's nothing we CAN do aside from finding out where he's being held and rescue him. We ABSOLUTLY cannot succumb to these kinds of demands and I'm glad that Korea has some balls and won't give in (like some spanish-speaking countries that we know). In the end, bargaining for this man's life will cost us more lives, as it encourages this kind of behavior and there's no guarantee whatsoever that he will be released even if their demands are met.

I wish these "insurgents"/terrorists get a clue and stop this hostage-taking crap.

[Load SM5]

Al-Jazeera is reporting that Kim Sun-il has been beheaded. :mad:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5256382/

[taylor492]

This is just getting ridiculous. Hopefully there wont be any pictures or video.

I do have to give props to S. Korea for not backing down and following through with their troops.




(did i just say "props"?!) :cry: :tard:

[jwren00]

America needs to get pissed and do something about this. No more pussyfooting around. :cuss:

[Jonneh]

America needs to get pissed and do something about this. No more pussyfooting around. :cuss:INVADING'S TOO GOOD FOR THEM!

[Miscue]

The Koreans are not a good people to mess with. The ROK soldiers are going to make them regret it.

[1stdeadeye]

He was dead the moment they kidnapped him. Bastards!! :cuss:

[845]

We shuold just start killing our prisoners if they want to play this way. The problem is the American public wont support it so it wont work.

[Bluestrike_2]

Those sick, good for nothing ********!

They beheaded him.....

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/22/iraq.hostage/index.html


If they kill another one....

I say we take a 100 of these terrorists for every person they take. So, let's take a few thousand. Now!!!

[Steelrat]

That won't work, because they don't place anywhere near the same value on human life as we do. The insurgents are blowing up Iraqi civilians left and right, and everyone in the middle east is more upset over the butt pyramid at Abu Ghraib.

[hAppy]

The Koreans are not a good people to mess with. The ROK soldiers are going to make them regret it.
whats ROK soldiers?

seriously, not to sound racist, but the Iraqi soldiers are cold hearted "savages". i mean how do you cut off the head of a screaming man, and feel his warm blood on your hands. its just not "human". you would have to be a freakin airheaded animal to do that. honestly, lets just nuke them, use their land as a landfill and nuclear testing site

[Steelrat]

ROK=Republic of Korea. Their troops were considered to be tough SOBs when they served in Vietnam.

Im telling you, the Iraqi insurgent and the foreign terrorists just dont place the same value on human life as we do. The way they think is so different, they might as well be aliens.

[hAppy]

Im telling you, the Iraqi insurgent and the foreign terrorists just dont place the same value on human life as we do. The way they think is so different, they might as well be aliens.

maybe they just havent found any value in their life. low education, poverty, no entertainment, i guess they find life meaningless?

[Miscue]

whats ROK soldiers?

seriously, not to sound racist, but the Iraqi soldiers are cold hearted "savages". i mean how do you cut off the head of a screaming man, and feel his warm blood on your hands. its just not "human". you would have to be a freakin airheaded animal to do that. honestly, lets just nuke them, use their land as a landfill and nuclear testing site

They are elite soldiers, in every sense of the word 'elite'.

These "cold hearted savages" ought to be afraid of the ROK soldiers if they have any clue - the Vietnamese knew what was up with them and were afraid. The ROKs are seriously bad *** mofos, as tough and as well trained as they come.

The guards stand like this all day at the DMZ without moving (or complaining).
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Corner guards expose half of their body to reduce target and to watch both sides of the wall.
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All Korean males at 18 years old must join the army for 3 years... this is related with the constant threat of North Korea. It makes no difference how rich you are, or if your dad is the president. They basically beat the crap out of them all the time, and someone dies once in a while. They get to sleep in a bit if they got the crap beat out of them the night before... otherwise they're up at 1AM or something. When American soldiers are outside shivering, complaining about the weather - the ROKs stand at attention for hours without blinking an eye - blinking at the wrong time will get you punished. Officer punches a soldier, knocks him down. Soldier is immediately back up at attention as if nothing happened. They are conditioned for torture, and basically won't give up information if they are tortured. They are very efficient killers. They're all crazy in a way... because they're made to be.

Their discipline is just ridiculous.

Every male Korean... kinda hard to imagine eh.

[hAppy]

miscue, you know a good deal about them. that is pretty intimidating

[Miscue]

miscue, you know a good deal about them. that is pretty intimidating

My uncle was a ROK soldier - I get my info from what he and other family have told me. My grandma had to carry him home a lot because he would get beat up so bad. Edweird was in Korea not long ago, and cleared me up on some stuff... he knows quite a bit about them.

[nippinout]

I spent a summer in Korea 1988. I was 7 years old at the time.

For some reason, I went to school with my cousin. They had year-round classes.

The best part about my trip- the teacher could beat you.

[Miscue]

I spent a summer in Korea 1988. I was 7 years old at the time.

For some reason, I went to school with my cousin. They had year-round classes.

The best part about my trip- the teacher could beat you.

Dude, Koreans have no problem with beating up each other. :p Beating your kids up is perfectly acceptable/normal... right in public, no problem. Teachers can do it, superiors in military can do it... quite different mentality than here.

What's kind of funny lately is this 'acceptable' torture type lists that have been on the news. I tell you what... you don't want to be a prisoner of the ROKs - hell, you wouldn't want them to treat you like their own soldiers, let alone how they would treat an enemy! :p

[joeyjoe367]

They are elite soldiers, in every sense of the word 'elite'.

These "cold hearted savages" ought to be afraid of the ROK soldiers if they have any clue - the Vietnamese knew what was up with them and were afraid. The ROKs are seriously bad *** mofos, as tough and as well trained as they come.

I recently found out that my grandfather and great-uncle both served in Vietnam. My grandfather also served in the Korean War (On the South Side, of course). I don't know much about the ROK and it's cool to know that my grandfather (passed away 12 years ago) was part of this bad-*** group of soldiers.

It's great to learn things like this! :)

[MadChild]

BAD NEWS: they beheaded the hostage and ditched his body on highway in iraq. they booby trapped his body with explosives but they never went off. korea plans to send 3 thousand more troops into iraq.i feel horrible for his family, they showed footage of his family and it was terrible :cry: