“Unlike the government, maybe God will hear these people..”

Afghanistan - As the South Korean crisis continues, another hostage of the 23 captured missionaries was found dead today. The new deadline to release Taliban prisoners has been set at noon, Wednesday. Taliban leader, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, had this to say:

If the Kabul government does not release the Taliban prisoners, then we will kill after 12 o’clock — we are going to kill Korean hostages. It might be a man or a woman… It might be one. It might be two, four. It might be all of them.

The Taliban won’t kill all of them because that gives them nothing to bargain with. Of course the U.S. government has done nothing to help in this situation. The South Korean government is just watching as a new body is found along the side of the road. And Afghanistan’s government.. wait wait.. Afghanistan has a functioning government?

This isn’t looking: good.