{"id":1040,"date":"2007-07-22T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_taleban_holding_korean_missionaries_in_afghanistan_have_been_located_an\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T23:08:00","slug":"the_taleban_holding_korean_missionaries_in_afghanistan_have_been_located_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"The Taleban holding Korean missionaries in Afghanistan have been located and isolated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Korean hostages were abducted from a bus travelling from Kandahar to Kabul on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They are reportedly Christians on an evangelical and aid mission. At least 15 are said to be women. A Taleban spokesman said on Sunday that they were in good health.<\/p>\n<p>The Taleban say they want to swap the 23 men and women for jailed fighters and are also demanding that South Korean forces leave Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Gen Mohammad Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for the Afghan defence ministry, told the BBC: &#8220;We have surrounded the area. We haven&#8217;t launched an attack right now and we are assessing the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Nato forces said it was unaware of an operation but was ready to help the Afghan and South Korean governments if asked.<\/p>\n<p>The seizure is the largest-scale abduction of foreigners since the fall of the Taleban regime in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6910461.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Korean hostages were abducted from a bus travelling from Kandahar to Kabul on Thursday. They are reportedly Christians on an evangelical and aid mission. At least 15 are said to be women. A Taleban spokesman said on Sunday<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1040\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,201,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}