Rrëmbehet një tetovar në Kabul, Afganistan

[Cimo]

Kabul, 28 shtator (MIA) - Një nëpunës i Kryqit të Kyq nga Maqedonia është rrëmbyer të mërkurën në Afganistan së bashku me tre persona të tjerë, transmeton MIA.

Nga Ministria e Punëve të Jashtme për MIA-n konfirmuan se janë të kontakt të vazhdueshëm me Komitetin Ndërkombëtar të Kryqit të Kuq.

Përfaqësues i talebanëve dje njoftoi se luftëtarët talebanë në jugperëndim të kryeqytetit të Afganistanit Kabul, në provincën Vardak, kanë rrëmbyer katër të huaj të punësuar në Komitetin Ndërkombëtar të Kryqit të Kuq, duke shtuar se ata së shpejti do të lirohen, pa komentuar kombësinë e tyre.

Ai theksoi se nuk kanë ditur se bëhet fjalë për nëpunës të Kryqit të Kuq dhe pasi tabelanët "nuk kanë asgjë kundër Kryqit të Kuq", të rrëmbyerit së shpejti do të lirohen.

Komitetit Ndërkombëtar i Kryqit të Kuq e konfirmoi ngjarjen, duke theksuar se nëpunësit e tij nuk janë rrëmbyer, por se janë mbajtur dhe se së shpejti do të lirohen.

Zëdhënësja e Komitetit Grazela Leite Pikolo kumtoi se bëhet fjalë për një shtetas të Maqedonisë dhe një Mianmar, si dhe për dy afganë.

"Ne jemi në kontakt me palët e involvuara", theksoi Pikolo pa dhënë hollësira tjera.

Guvernatori i provincës Vardak, Sajed Abad deklaroi se në vijim janë negociatat me talebanët për lirimin e të rrëmbyerve.

"Kryqi i Kuq na këshilloi të mos ndërmarrim aksion ushtarak në interes të sigurisë të të rrëmbyerve," duke theksuar se problemi do të zgjidhet "me ndërmjetësimin e liderëve të fiseve", theksoi Abad.

[RaPSouL]

Ishalla si ndodh gje dhe leshohet se shpejti , mos edhe ketu nga ne mos , shpresojm qe te lirohet sa me shpejt pa pesuar pasoja te tjera , se kta kinse besimtaret e fort mendojne se ne kete menyre do te arrijne dicka , mirepo duket se nuk arihet asgje se di pse ende vazhdojne me keto kidnapime , ne pergjithesi flas , ncnc.!

[Nolird]

Ndegjova per kete ngjarje emrin me duket se e kishte Irfan.............ishalla e lirojn

[Cimo]

Po, Irfan Sulejamni eshte liruar sot dhe pritet se shpejti te niset per ne Maqedoni.

[RTP]

Last 7 South Korean hostages released
Last Updated: Thursday, August 30, 2007 | 9:10 PM ET
CBC News
All seven remaining South Korean hostages were freed Thursday by their Taliban captors as part of a deal that has been criticized by both Afghan and Canadian officials.


South Koreans at a railway station in Seoul watch a TV program displaying pictures of the seven remaining South Korean hostages in Afghanistan.
(Lee Jin-man/Associated Press)
Two men and two women were handed over to officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross on a road in the Ghazni province of central Afghanistan, and later in the day, three female hostages were released.

"They are very happy at the moment," Irfan Sulejmani, a Red Cross official, said as he drove the last three released women to Ghazni city.

"They are holding each other's hands. They are very relieved."

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Sulejmani, speaking to CBC News by cellphone, said all seven hostages, travelling in a convoy of trucks, will be reunited with Korean officials in Ghazni city. As the convoys were travelling to the city, the hostages were waving to each other out the windows of their trucks, he said.

The hostages are expected to be back in South Korea by Sunday.


Three of the hostages who were released on Wednesday.
(Musadeq Sadeq/Associated Press)
They were among 23 South Korean Christian aid workers seized by Taliban militants as they travelled by bus from Kabul to Kandahar on July 19. In late July, the militants shot and killed two male hostages, but in mid-August, they released two female hostages.

On Wednesday, 12 of the remaining 19 hostages were freed, and militants promised that the last seven would be freed soon after.

The decision to free all 19 remaining hostages followed a deal struck Tuesday between South Korean officials and Taliban representatives in which Seoul reaffirmed its pledge to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year and to suspend South Korean Christian missionary work there.

No money was involved in the deal, both sides say.

The militants had originally demanded the Afghan government and the U.S. military release Taliban prisoners in exchange for the hostages' safe return, but the militants backed off that demand in their negotiations.

'We do not negotiate with terrorists': Bernier
Soon after the hostages' release, a Taliban spokesman vowed to abduct more foreigners.

"We will do the same thing with the other allies in Afghanistan, because we found this way to be successful," spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi told the Associated Press, speaking on a cellphone from an undisclosed location.


His comments appear to reinforce the worries of Canadian officials and others, who say Seoul might have set a dangerous precedent in directly negotiating with the Taliban.

Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier expressed regret late Wednesday over South Korea's handling of the crisis.

"We do not negotiate with terrorists, for any reason," said a statement from Bernier's office. "Such negotiations, even if unsuccessful, only lead to further acts of terrorism."

The United States government has also expressed fear over negotiating with the Taliban, with spokesman Tom Casey saying Thursday that the U.S. has a long-standing policy "not to make concessions to terrorists."

Afghan Commerce Minister Amin Farhang also voiced criticism, stating that the South Korean-Taliban negotiation will only make the problems in Afghanistan worse.

"We fear that this decision could become a precedent. The Taliban will continue trying to take hostages to attain their aims in Afghanistan," Farhang said Thursday.

Analysts say the Taliban have emerged from the crisis with renewed political legitimacy because for the first time since they were ousted from power in 2001, they have negotiated with a foreign government.

"Taliban now have diplomacy, they have got spokesmen, they value cameras, they have a political dimension for their movement, and their aim is to be recognized as legitimate," said Mustafa Alani, director of security and terrorism studies at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Centre.

[RTP]

Taliban release four kidnapped Red Cross hostages
30/09/2007

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Macedonian citizen Irfan Sulejmani and three of his co-workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross were released on Saturday (September 29th), after three days of captivity in Afghanistan. T
he four men are in good health and said they were treated well by their abductors. A Taliban commander told the AP that he ordered the kidnapping because he thought they were spies, but decided to let them go after it was proved they were Red Cross employees. The four men were in Afghanistan's Wardak province to help win the release of a German hostage. (AP, Makfax, AFP, A1, Dnevnik - 29/09/07)