US Criticized for Withholding News of Kim Abduction

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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200406/kt2004062216314653460.htm

The United States on Tuesday faced allegations that it had intentionally kept South Korea in the dark about the abduction of Kim Sun-il, the South Korean interpreter working for a subcontractor to U.S. forces in Iraq.

According to South Korean government officials, it had become aware of Kim being kidnapped on June 21, at least three days after he was taken hostage by an al-Qaida-supported terrorist group. snip

The crux of the allegations of a U.S. cover-up is that the Seoul government confirmed its plan to dispatch an additional 3,000 troops to Iraq, on July 18, the day after Kim was kidnapped. By the accounts of the Seoul government, it wasn¡¯t aware of the incident.

This has touched off speculation that the U.S. didn¡¯t inform Seoul of the kidnapping in order to enable the South Korean government to press ahead with its confirmation of the dispatch plan. Experts say that if the kidnapping had been known to the public, the government would have had a very hard time in pushing ahead with the unpopular dispatch plan.

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[Hoping4Change]

1. Why does that not surprise me?

[Auntie Bush]

2. Isn't it great to live in a country with a free press? Yeah, free to

tell the truth or lie when they feel like it.

[Hoping4Change]

3. That's a keeper. LOL

[tom_paine]

4. There IS NO FREE PRESS in Imperial Amerika

There is a shadow of what once used to be. I can barely distinguish it from the Lie Machinery.

In it's own way (and adjusted for "different countries, different customs, different eras") Imperial Amerikan Press is as bad or worse than Chinese Media and Soviet Pravda at it's height.

And it is sinking ever lower every day, in spite of all efforts to the contrary.

[Hoping4Change]

6. I agree its worse than the others .

What makes it particularly obscene is that except for Faux the other networks donate more to Dems than to Repukes. I believe they do this to enable the lie that the media is controlled by the Left despite all evidence to the contary.

[Robbien]

7. What?

Republicans spred that myth all the time.

[Hoping4Change]

8. I just searched the other day for the information

and was surprised to see that about two thirds of the political donations NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN make go to the Demoocrats. If you have info to the contary please let me know.

[Magleetis]

5. A reliable source has confirmed

the US news media sucks! It has gotten to the point where I have to go to Al Jazeera for reliable news. Sad indeed.