By Considering the people I have seen before hanging around outside US military bases in Korea, I don’t find this surprising:
A Pakistani man who claims to be a member of the Taliban has been arrested for passing through South Korea 17 times on a fake passport, police said Friday, revealing problems with the country’s immigration control ahead of a summit of the world’s 20 major economies in November, according to Yonhap News.The 31-year-old man, who claims to be a member of the militant group, traveled on a passport belonging to another Pakistani individual when he first entered the country in August 2003, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said.
The man later rentered South Korea multiple times, pretending to be the religious leader of a local mosque in Korea. He last entered South Korea in July 2008 for the 17th time, according to the police.
“He entered Korea with his own passport in 2001 and stayed through June 2003. He confessed that he was asked by Taliban leaders to collect information about the U.S. military bases in Korea,” an office with the Seoul police said.
Police are currently investigating whether the man succeeded in passing on information about Korea to the Taliban. [Korea Herald]
Considering that this guy passed any and out of Korea 17 times in less than seven years just makes you wonder what else this guy was up to?
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9:58 am on February 20th, 2010 1
It's not shocking, at all. In fact, the hard part is figuring out how they finally caught him. Were they waiting for him to die of old age?
10:26 am on February 20th, 2010 2
"Police are currently investigating whether the man succeeded in passing on information about Korea to the Taliban."
Do they think he didn't have enough time to pass it along?
10:44 am on February 20th, 2010 3
Considering that this guy passed any and out of Korea 17 times in less than seven years just makes you wonder what else this guy was up to?
English teacher?
11:09 am on February 20th, 2010 4
English teacher sounds a little far fetched but not surprising
2:23 pm on February 20th, 2010 5
The depressing thing is that Immigration would have been more vigilant if he had been an English teacher.
2:31 pm on February 20th, 2010 6
This story stinks, somehow.
Ten years of motiveless "spying" on US military bases… a "claim" to be Taliban affiliated… using the passport of someone else to needlessly come and go…
Naw… the Taliban angle sounds like the same alarmism
being used to promote global warming.
I vote he was a drug mule.
2:49 pm on February 20th, 2010 7
If he has been in and out of Korea 17 times, that makes him ordinary resident an unable to get a job as determined by CCK.
5:14 pm on February 20th, 2010 8
We should have had CCK on the case.
"pretending to be the religious leader of a local mosque in Korea"
I think I see the problem right there ma'am…
6:31 pm on February 20th, 2010 9
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12:14 am on February 22nd, 2010 10
I would have checked it out if I were the Immigration officer because, to the best of my knowledge, the few imams in Korea are all Korean.
12:20 am on February 22nd, 2010 11
That makes sense.
2:53 am on February 22nd, 2010 12
Interesting…I wonder how long the USFK has had the Itaewon Mosque on its radar…if they have, they haven't tipped their hand yet, despite the DoD's stance on being PC…
Nothing wrong with profiling and Korea is where it can be done without issues. It's been said for a very long time, since the Berlin bombings that the bases or nearby areas are ripe for targets.
7:50 pm on February 22nd, 2010 13
Another article with more information
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/…
1:16 pm on February 23rd, 2010 14
I didn't Know Korea times was a newspaper,I always assumed it was some gutter press
7:44 pm on March 14th, 2010 15
[...] Taliban spying on US military in ROK (allegedly) [...]
4:05 am on March 15th, 2010 16
These are the alternative sources to think about:
http://www.kiwo.or.kr http://www.dgislam.or.kr
4:40 am on March 15th, 2010 17
Well…
I learned the coolest insult.
http://www.kiwo.or.kr/index.php/reflection
"Pigman in Hell"
I'll greet those bastards with bullets and shoes!
9:58 pm on March 15th, 2010 18
It was not an insult. That's (“Pigman in Hell”) what they are against also.
The main idea of those images are to show what a man willsee when he wears this or that glasses.
They welcome and compromise with only the last one – "Human glasses".
12:49 pm on March 16th, 2010 19
Mr. Press…
"It was not an insult."
Well, then, I suppose if I call you Pigman in Hell, you won't be offended?
I didn't say it was THEIR insult… I said it was AN insult.
…and it assembles well with other words and phrases.
"Zounds!, you Pigman in Hell, I won't be your puppet lackey, for thou art hung like a chicken."
7:15 pm on March 16th, 2010 20
That makes more sense than allot of the other choices. Korea may be an awesome place to corrupt with afghan drugs. I say that with a hesitation as it not a thought I enjoy. Shese back in 81 they caught North Korean spies. Well they usually gave themselves up after coming and going for years decided to live the "good" life. The ones that got caught, and didn't want to give up had those little like zippo lighter bombs, they would blow their hands and face up with. It's really wild the stuff that no one is ever told about Korea then the things that are told. I just gotta wonder what the angle is. What secrets do we have in Korea for the Taliban? WTF is this really about. What secrets do we have in Korea for anyone?
Yup I think he was making drug money or using it for a long round about route to go somewhere else. Possibly on vacation? I mean he was part of the Taliban could be the Juicy girl's turned him on. LOL
7:25 pm on March 16th, 2010 21
I Drink to that!! Feel my classes