Iraq group threatens to behead S.Korean hostage-TV

Here we go again. These people are barbarians.

"We ask you to withdraw your forces from our land and not to send any more troops, and if not we'll send you this Korean's head," one of a group of armed, masked men standing around the South Korean man said.

The group said South Korea had 24 hours from Sunday night to withdraw its decision last week to send troops to Iraq, al Jazeera said.

A banner in the background named the group as Jama'at al-Tawhid and Jihad, the name of the militant group led by al Qaeda operative in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The video showed the Korean pleading desperately: "Please get out of here, here, here. I don't want to die."

South Korea's YTN television named the hostage as Kim Sun-il, 33, an employee of a South Korean trading firm. It quoted government officials as saying he had only very recently gone to Iraq.

Iraq group threatens to behead S.Korean hostage-TV