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Kim Sun-il

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Kim Sun-il

Birth
Busan, Busan Metropolitan City, South Korea
Death
22 Jun 2004 (aged 33)
Al Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq
Burial
Busan, Busan Metropolitan City, South Korea Add to Map
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Kim Sun-il, 33, was beheaded by an Al-Quaida linked terrorist group, Monotheism and Jihad, on June 22, 2004. Kim worked for a South Korean company supplying the U.S. military in Iraq. Kim's kidnappers threatened to kill him unless South Korea canceled a troop deployment to Iraq. The Seoul government rejected the demand, subsequently increasing their military presence by a number of 3,000 soldiers.
Kim Sun-il, 33, was beheaded by an Al-Quaida linked terrorist group, Monotheism and Jihad, on June 22, 2004. Kim worked for a South Korean company supplying the U.S. military in Iraq. Kim's kidnappers threatened to kill him unless South Korea canceled a troop deployment to Iraq. The Seoul government rejected the demand, subsequently increasing their military presence by a number of 3,000 soldiers.

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