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Taliban warns of more kidnappingsAug 06 2007, 16:12 GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban will continue to kidnap foreigners in Afghanistan, a purported Taliban spokesman said August 6, as Afghan doctors sent medicines for ailing South Korean hostages held by the insurgents for nearly three weeks. An Afghan doctor who heads a private clinic said he had dropped off almost US$2,000 worth of antibiotics, vitamins and first aid kits in rural Ghazni province August 5 intended for the Koreans, two of whom are said to be extremely ill. Dr. Mohammad Hashim Wahwaj said their Taliban captors told him that they had picked up the medicines. Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, said the lives of the 21 South Korean hostages rest in the hands of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. President George W. Bush, who are holding two days of talks at Camp David, Maryland. "Karzai and Bush will have responsibility for whatever happens to the hostages," Ahmadi said. A South Korean presidential spokesman, however, cautioned against expecting the summit to lead to a resolution of the hostage crisis. "It is our government's standpoint that we should work separately from the summit to resolve the hostage issue. It is inappropriate to have any premature expectations or to overly interpret the summit," Cheon Ho-sun said in Seoul. |
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Russian court issues new arrest warrant for exiled Kremlin critic Boris BerezovskyAug 07, 17:50 20 Taliban killed in attack on base in southern AfghanistanAug 07, 17:08 7 dead in floods in northern BulgariaAug 07, 17:06 EBRD will not help fund Gazprom-led Sakhalin-2 energy projectAug 07, 17:04 Smithfield Foods to slaughter some 16,000 pigs amid swine fever outbreak in RomaniaAug 07, 17:01 Georgia accuses Russia of dropping missileAug 07, 16:58 Czech vice premier cleared following investigation into alleged briberyAug 07, 16:50 Georgia says Russian aircraft violated its airspaceAug 07, 13:53 Vandals spray Nazi symbols on dozens of gravestones at Jewish cemetery in PolandAug 06, 16:55 Moldovan student drowns in MaineAug 06, 16:15 |
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