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08-13-2007, 07:20 AM | #1 |
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| Hostages Freed Wasn't sure where to post this. I'm not Korean, but my boyfriend is. This is extremely good news ever since the beginning of the situation. source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...rss_topstories Two female South Korean hostages, captured by the Taliban along with 21 others in Afghanistan more than three weeks ago, have been released, an Afghan official told CNN. The two freed female hostages did not say anything to reporters after their release Monday. Mirajudin Patan, the governor of Ghazni province where talks to secure the group's release have been taking place, said the pair were freed Monday, 25 days after they were seized. Patan said the pair -- identified as Kim Kyung Ja and Kim Jina -- were now in Ghazni's provincial capital, also called Ghazni. The group of volunteer Christian workers were seized as they traveled by bus from Kabul to Kandahar on July 19. Nineteen of the hostages -- 18 of them female -- are still being held. The Taliban has killed two male hostages. Witnesses who saw the pair arrive in the village of Arzoo, near Ghazni, in a saloon car driven by two tribal elders told Reuters they appeared to be well despite earlier reports suggesting they were seriously ill. "We saw them getting into a Red Crescent vehicle," one of the witnesses said. "They were able to walk and appeared to be well, but they were very emotional and were crying," Reuters reported the witnesses as saying. The Associated Press reported that the two women broke into tears after seeing international Red Cross officials at a U.S. base. The women said nothing to waiting reporters, who had been alerted to the handoff, as they got out of a dark gray Toyota Corolla driven by an Afghan elder and into one of two waiting Red Cross SUVs, AP said. The pair wore scarves on their heads, khaki trousers and a traditional Afghan shirt hanging to the knees. Both carried bags with them, AP said. News that the women might be released came over the weekend after a Taliban spokesman said the militant group would free them as a gesture of "goodwill," and "without any condition or return." Delegations from the Taliban militant movement and the South Korean government held face-to-face negotiations over the weekend in Afghanistan on the fate of the hostages. Negotiators discussed a Taliban prisoner-hostage swap with eight militants being held in Afghan prisons being exchanged for eight of the Koreans. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said Saturday that his group had provided a list of eight prisoners to negotiators. Once they were released, other lists would be provided until the exchange was complete, Ahmadi said. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has vowed his government will not exchange Taliban prisoners for hostages. But the government has never publicly said it would rule out an exchange of funds to free the kidnapped. Along with a prisoner and hostage swap, the Taliban negotiators have also demanded the withdrawal of Korean troops from Afghanistan. please keep them in your prayers.
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