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Complex Legal Issues Slow Closing of Gitmo

» by GI Korea May 24th, 2008 at 10:49 am » Comments (4)

There was an excellent article in the Washington Post this week in regards to status of the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba that shows what a complex issue trying to ...more »

US Requests that Korea Returns to Afghanistan

» by GI Korea April 12th, 2008 at 10:19 am » Comments (16)

It looks like South Korea could be returning to Afghanistan, but in a civilian capacity and not a military capacity: The United States has asked South Korea ...more »

South Korea Returns to Afghanistan

» by GI Korea February 12th, 2008 at 10:32 am » Comments (8)

For the love of God can we please keep these people out of Afghanistan?: The government will send a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) of civic medical experts ...more »

Desperate to Discredit

» by GI Korea September 23rd, 2007 at 1:34 pm » Comments (0)

Here is the most pathetic attempt I have seen yet to discredit General Petraeus.  I can only imagine what the leftists are going to come up with next. more »

Taliban Kidnapping Leader Killed

» by GI Korea September 20th, 2007 at 6:46 am » Comments (1)

US forces in Afghanistan continue to destroy the Taliban leadership: Mullah Abdullah Jan, the Taliban commander who led the kidnappings of 23 Korean hostages in Afghanistan, was ...more »

Hostages Beaten and Forced to Convert to Islam

» by GI Korea September 13th, 2007 at 5:16 pm » Comments (10)

The Korean missionaries taken hostage by the Taliban have broken their silence and explained some of the ordeal they went through: "We were beaten by them many ...more »

Defending General Petraeus

» by GI Korea September 11th, 2007 at 10:29 pm » Comments (7)

If you haven't already seen or read General Petraeus' testimony to Congress already I have his complete testimony and accompanying Powerpoint slides posted at Forward Deployed.  Additionally I have posted ...more »

Abductee Shopping Spree

» by GI Korea September 7th, 2007 at 9:57 am » Comments (5)

You have been kidnapped by a religious death cult, two of your friends have been murdered by the death cult, your nation has just paid millions of dollars in ransom ...more »

Taliban Threatens to Attack Koreans

» by GI Korea September 4th, 2007 at 2:26 am » Comments (2)

The Taliban can definitely smell weakness: Afghanistan's rebel group Taliban on Sunday threatened to attack South Korean facilities, accusing Seoul of not pulling out all its citizens as promised in exchange ...more »

NIS Chief Negotiates with Terrorists, Media Confirms Ransom Payment

» by GI Korea September 3rd, 2007 at 6:13 am » Comments (7)

The Korean National Intelligence Services (NIS) director Kim Man-bok was spotted at a hotel in Kabul and would not out right deny that a ransom payment had been made: ...more »

More Claims of Ransom; Were Hostages Sexually Assaulted?

» by GI Korea September 2nd, 2007 at 8:31 am » Comments (9)

The Korean hostages are now safely back in Korea but the controversy around their release continues to boil.  Via Nomad, comes this news of the amount of the suspected ransom ...more »

Negotiating with Terrorists and the Jill Carroll Case

» by GI Korea September 1st, 2007 at 3:24 am » Comments (3)

With the Korean hostage crisis concluded, more reports are coming out about the under the table payment given to the Taliban which as I have posted was probably laundered by ...more »