( Itar-Tass ) - The leaders of the Taliban movement threaten to attack the facilities in Afghanistan, which employ South Koreans, because the South Korean authorities did not live up to its promise to withdraw its people from Afghanistan in exchange for the release of hostages. According to Kari Yusuf Ahmadi, self-proclaimed representative of the rebel movement, their group of Islamic fundamentalists received a report saying that South Korean nationals were still staying in Afghanistan, the Renhap news agency reported on Monday. If Seoul has broken its promise, "we shall attack the South Korean embassy in Kabul," the rebel stressed.
The main conditions for the release of the hostages, negotiated by official representatives of the South Korean authorities and of the Taliban movement, included a full withdrawal of 210 military engineers and doctors from Afghanistan before the end of the year, as well as a complete ban on the stay in Afghanistan of Christian missionaries from South Korea. Aside from it, the South Korean government promised to withdraw all its nationals from that Muslim country.