THE 23 South Koreans did not expect to be held hostage by the Taleban, the group branded terrorists and now being hunted down by the US.

The nightmare started on July 19 while they were on their way to Kandahar. The bus they hired was just two hours outside Kabul. In the Qarabagh, Ghazni, district, the Taleban stopped the “evangelists.”

The hostages were taken to the Taleban stronghold in the Hindu Kush region. There is only one road into t