Militants in Iraq behead South Korean hostage
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Islamic militants Tuesday beheaded a South Korean who pleaded in a heart-wrenching videotape that "I don't want to die" after his government refused to pull its troops from Iraq. He was the third foreign hostage decapitated in the Middle East in little over a month.
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