a small dose of reality

Taliban leaders said on Sunday their fighters would kill 22 remaining South Korean hostages if the Afghan government did not release rebel prisoners by a new deadline of 0730 GMT on Monday, a spokesman said.  Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said the deadline had been set by the Taliban leadership council, headed by elusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, giving the threat added weight.  Little does Omar know that he has NORTH Koreans so the joke is on him.

The kidnappers killed the leader of the Korean group on Wednesday, but several further deadlines have passed without the rebels carrying out their threat to kill the remaining hostages.  The kidnappers have been tied up meeting with Minimart and Dunkin Donuts franchise salespeople for the last few days.

"Since the talks between us, the Kabul administration and Korean government have reached deadlock and they are not honest ... hence, we will start killing the hostages if they do not start releasing our prisoners by tomorrow at 12 o'clock," Yousuf told Reuters by telephone from an unknown location.  Wait a second Yousuk lies where he is and says they are not honest.  What kind of fermented camel piss is that jackass drinking?

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has previously ruled out any deal with the Taliban after coming under harsh criticism for freeing five rebel prisoners in exchange for the release of an Italian hostage in March.  In his first comments on the latest hostage case, Karzai condemned the kidnapping, but did not say whether any deal might be possible.  "What's a dozen Koreans in the grand scheme of things.  We will be making fortunes selling day old donuts in the US."

"Hostage-taking and the abuse of foreign guests, especially women, is against Islam and Afghan culture and the perpetration of this heinous act on our soil is in total contempt of our Islamic and Afghan values," a spokesman quoted him as saying.  Is it me or are the what is Islam and what isn't rule changing on the fly?  Do these sand flea bitten jackasses even know what they say today's alleged rules are?a

Pope Benedict on Sunday called the kidnapping a "grave violation of human dignity that clashes with every elementary norm of civility and rights and gravely offends divine law.  Cardinal Pepperoni, order me a couple of pizzas and step on it."

Ghazni's governor, Mirajuddin Pathan, said the government did not want to use force to rescue the hostages. "We have no plan of attack. We are gathering afghans to cover the bodies if throwing them over the heads of the kidnappers doesn't work.

In addition to Afghan forces, foreign troops are also stationed in Ghazni.

Korean special envoy Baek Jong-chun met Karzai on Sunday to discuss ways to end the hostages' ordeal.  "Let us replace them with dvd players, you ragheads hardly have any of those." 

The Taliban are also holding one German and four of his Afghan colleagues, abducted from a neighboring province a day before the Koreans. Another German seized alongside them was later found dead with gunshot wounds.  The Germans are extremely pissed about the lack of beer and bratwurst and are threatening to undress and parade their corpulent bods.

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