22 June 2004

by Anai Rhoads

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Veriana Media - Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera released a video Tuesday, showing the beheading of 33 year-old South Korean translator Kim Sun-il.

"Your army is not here for the sake of Iraqis but for the sake of the cursed America," one of the masked militants read in Arabic to the camera. "We warned you and you ignored. Enough lies."

The group is said to be linked to al-Qaeda. Jama'at al-Tawhid and Jihad is led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the same militia linked to the April slaughter of Nicholas Berg.

"There simply is no justification for those kinds of atrocities that the terrorists carry out. We have seen some of the barbaric nature of the terrorists recently when it comes to an American citizen that was killed in Saudi Arabia and it is a reminder of the true nature of the terrorist," U.S. spokesman Scott McClellan said in response to the news.

South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil announced that Kim's body was discovered by the U.S. military between Baghdad and Fallujah, not long after the video was aired by Al-Jazeera.

Al-Jazeera did not televise the entire video tape, stating that the images were too gruesome for public view.

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