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Militants threaten to kill Korean hostage in Iraq

Seoul vows to send troops, 4 US soldiers found dead

AGENCIES, Baghdad
Muslim militants in Iraq threatened to behead a South Korean hostage by last night unless his country scrapped plans to send 3,000 more troops -- a demand rejected by Seoul.
Also yesterday, four US soldiers have been found dead west of Baghdad, apparently killed in an attack by Iraqi insurgents, witnesses said.
A videotape aired on Arabic Al Jazeera television on Sunday night showed 33-year-old Korean busi-
nessman Kim Sun-il pleading for his life. A banner in the background named his captors as Jama'at al-Tawhid and Jihad, the group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian accused of links to al Qaeda.
"Please get out of here," Kim begged, referring to South Korean troops already in Iraq. "I don't want
Kim, an Arabic speaker and evangelical Christian who has worked in Iraq for a year as a translator for a Korean firm supplying goods to the U.S. military, was seized in Falluja on June 17, the day
before Seoul announced its troop plan.
"We ask you to withdraw your forces from our land and not to send any more troops, and if not we'll send you this Korean's head," one of a group of armed, masked men standing around the terrified South Korean said in the videotape.
The group said Seoul had 24 hours to comply.
Several other people were abducted by Islamic militants at the same time as the South Korean hostage now being threatened with death, the man's employer said, according to Yonhap news agency.
South Korea will go ahead with its plan to send 3,000 troops to help rebuild Iraq, the foreign ministry said yesterday.
FOUND DEAD
In Ramadi, another restive city west of Falluja, four U.S. soldiers were killed by insurgents. Their bodies lay sprawled on the ground. The U.S. military had no immediate information on the attack.
North of Baghdad, a roadside bomb attack on a convoy near Mosul killed four Iraqis and wounded four, the U.S. army said. Witnesses said the dead Iraqis worked for a security company.
Insurgents, thought to include Saddam Hussein loyalists, Sunni nationalists and foreign militants, have sought to disrupt the handover to Iraq's new interim government with bombings, killings and attacks on the oil industry, its economic bedrock.
(Reuters and AFP)