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Guarding against retaliation

Police guard the Central Mosque in Seoul, South Korea, today during the call to prayer. Police have been standing guard since receiving threats from angry callers earlier this week threatening to blow up the mosque in retaliation for the killing of a South Korean hostage by Iraqi terrorists. Kim Sun-il, 33, was beheaded after South Korea refused the kidnappers' demand to stop a troop dispatch to Iraq.

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