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Iraq militants behead S. Korean hostage
Islamic militants Tuesday beheaded a South Korean man who pleaded in a heart-wrenching videotape that "I don't want to die" after his government refused to pull its troops from Iraq.
Kim Sun-il was the third foreign hostage decapitated in the Middle East in little over a month.
Fallujah residents said the strike hit a parking lot. Three people were killed and nine wounded, said Dr. Loai Ali Zeidan at Fallujah Hospital. It was the second attack against the terror network in three days, the U.S. military said. Elsewhere, two American soldiers were killed Tuesday and another was wounded in an attack on a convoy near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad. The Arabic language satellite television channel broadcast a videotape of a terrified Kim kneeling, blindfolded and wearing an orange jumpsuit similar to those issued to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Kim's shoulders were heaving, his mouth open and moving as if he were gulping
air and sobbing. Five hooded and armed men stood behind him, one with a big
knife slipped in his belt.
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