Koreans flood wrong Al Jazeera Web site on hostage

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Koreans flood wrong Al Jazeera Web site on hostage

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SEO231131.htm

SEOUL, June 22 (Reuters) - South Koreans bombarded an English-language "Al Jazeera" Web site on Tuesday to urge Muslim militants not to behead a South Korean hostage, but the site did not belong to the Arabic television station of that name.

Militants kidnapped 33-year-old Arabic graduate Kim Sun-il on June 17 and threatened on Monday to kill him within 24 hours. A mediator told Reuters in Baghdad the militants had agreed to give more time for talks on his fate.

Al Jazeera broadcast a videotape of Kim pleading for his life. Its English-language Web site is www.english.aljazeera.net.

But South Koreans headed to another Web site on Tuesday, possibly because of the more common dot com address.

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