Al-Jazeera reports South Korean has been beheaded by his Iraqi

0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jun 22, 2004 | by Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt -- An Iraqi militant group has beheaded its South Korean hostage, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday.

The pan-Arab station said it had received a videotape showing that Kim Sun-il had been executed.

Kim, 33, worked for a South Korean company supplying the U.S. military in Iraq and was abducted last week, according to the South Korean government.

Al-Jazeera, which had not broadcast the tape, said the execution was carried out by the al-Qaida-linked group Monotheism and Jihad.