On Thursday, the Taliban, declaring “victory,” freed the last of the South Korean hostages it seized in mid-July. The release came after weeks of negotiations between the group and Seoul. Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, promised more kidnappings of foreigners. “We will do the same thing with the other allies in Afghanistan, because we found this way to be successful,” he explained.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/chang/865

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http://flatworld.tagesspiegel.de/?p=437

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