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TechnoratiThus far, the Afghan government has not agreed to release the prisoners and South Korea has emphasized that the troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of the year as scheduled. It was also noted that the Korean troops are mostly working on humanitarian projects.
Prior to Bae’s death, the purported Taliban spokesman said the militant group had “lost their patience with it all” and would begin killing “because a lot of time has passed since the deadline and there has been no response.”
“The Taliban takes no responsibility for the killing,” Ahmadi told AP by satellite phone before the news of a first killing was reported.
The threat came as a surprise to Ali Shah Ahmadzai, the police chief of the Ghazni province where the hostages were captured, who said negotiations were moving in a positive direction.
“I don’t know why they’ve suddenly changed their mind,” Ahmadzai said, according to AP. Several of Ahmadi’s past statements have turned out false or contradicted other statements by Taliban, leading some to question the reliability of his information.
“My message to the Taliban is to use tolerance and be patient,” the provincial police chief said. “This (killing hostages) is against the Afghan culture.”
The kidnapping of the 23 South Korean Christians was the largest abduction of a group of foreigners in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Christian Post reporter Michelle Vu in Washington contributed to this article.
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