DAR AL ISLAM - AFGHANISTAN: MOSLEM JIHADISTS ABUCT 23 CHRISTIANS - - - DOES TORTURE, CRUCIFICTION & BEHEADING AWAIT THEM?!?

Taliban kidnap 23 Christian missionaries from Afghan bus

Taliban insurgents have kidnapped 23 Korean Christians from a bus in Afghanistan, the biggest group of foreigners seized so far in the militant campaign to oust the government and its Western backers.

Taliban fighters have increasingly turned away from classic guerrilla warfare and instead have taken up what Afghan officials call "terror tactics" - kidnapping, suicide attacks and roadside bombs.

"Twenty-three Korean citizens, 15 women and five men, were very carelessly travelling in a chartered bus from Kabul to Kandahar yesterday, on the way to Kandahar their bus was stopped by armed men ... and they took them away," said Interior Minister spokesman Zemari Bashari.

He said the incident happened in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province, some 175 km (110 miles) south of Kabul.

"We are still investigating which organisation they were with, and why they were travelling to Kandahar," he said.

The Taliban said they had seized 18 Koreans, 15 men and three women.

"They are safe with us, we are investigating them and our demands and reaction will be announced later." said Taliban spokesman Said Yousuf Ahmadi by telephone from an undisclosed location.

Earlier, local police said the bus was travelling from the southern city of Kandahar to the capital Kabul.

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