They KILL them. Another Warm Fuzzy for the "Religion of Peace":
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Taleban 'kill S. Korean hostage'
A Taleban spokesman says a South Korean from a group of 22 held hostage by the Taleban in southern Afghanistan has been killed.
The office of the governor of Ghazni province and local police also told the BBC the killing had taken place, but neither had seen the victim's body.
The Korean Christian aid workers were kidnapped 10 days ago.
The leader of the group was shot by the Taleban on Wednesday. The militants want government prisoners released.
TV footage
"We set several deadlines and the Afghan government did not pay attention to our deadlines," said Taleban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi.
Second Korean hostage found dead
Shim Sung-Min is seen on TV screen at a railway station in Seoul - 31/07/07
South Korea has confirmed that a second hostage has been killed by the Taleban in central Afghanistan.
The foreign ministry identified the latest victim as 29-year-old Shim Sung-min, a former IT worker.
His body was found at the side of the road in the village of Arizo Valley in Ghazni province. He had been shot.
Shim Sung-min was one of 23 Korean Christian aid workers - 18 of them women - seized on 19 July. The body of their leader was found last Wednesday.
A man claiming to speak on behalf of the Taleban said the militants had killed the Korean hostage on Monday evening because the Afghan government had refused its demands to release eight jailed militants.
Earlier, a video of the hostages was aired on Arabic TV station al-Jazeera.
Relatives of South Koreans kidnapped in Afghanistan cry as they display a banner reading 'We want to hug our kids" outside at the US embassy in Seoul, 01 August 2007 Relatives of the hostages want the US to take action Relatives of the South Korean hostages in Afghanistan have made an emotional appeal to the US for help.
They visited the US embassy in Seoul on Wednesday, and were told their plea would be passed to Washington.
The Taleban have already killed two of the 23 hostages, and threatened to shoot more if their demand of a prisoner release is not met.
South Korean officials have reportedly been holding talks with the Taleban to try to secure the hostages' release.