| The trashing of the offices of the American Chamber of Commerce by "college radicals" |
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On February 19, days after a top lieutenant of President Kim Dae-jung called George W. Bush "the embodiment of evil" group of 20 anti-American terrorists weilding steel pipes seized control of the offices of the American Chamber of Commerce in Seoul. The attackers were so brazen that they videotaped the event and posted it on the Internet at ohmynews.com. The video shows them threatening AmCham's executive director Tammy Overby hostage and her staff with metal pipes and marching them out of the office. Then the students got down to work. The tossed computers into a pile against the door and smashed a huge plate glass window. In the words of IHT reported Don Kirk, the office was "trashed." However, the Korean courts and press did not see the act as anything to rasise a fuss about. The students were not given two years of probation and no criminal records and were not required to pay damages. The Korea Herald blamed Bush's policies for the attack and called the U.S. embassy's request for the names of the perpertrators an "overreaction." This photo, taken by the terrorists themselves, reveals that not all were students. |
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