Report: Japanese Hostage Killed in Iraq

The latest from AP:

TOKYO - A Japanese civilian taken hostage in Iraq by militants has been killed, Kyodo News agency reported Saturday, citing a member of Japan's ruling party. But national broadcaster NHK said the government was still trying to confirm the information.

Government officials could not be reached early Saturday to comment on the report.

Islamic militants threatened on Tuesday to behead hostage 24-year-old Shosei Koda within 48 hours unless Japan withdrew its troops from Iraq. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi firmly rejected that demand, saying he would not give in to terrorists.

Kyodo said a body found near the city of Tikrit had been identified as Koda.

However, the Iraqi Interior Ministry had dismissed an earlier report that the body of an Asian man was found near Tikrit. The ministry said the body was that of an Iraqi man.

It was unclear whether the new Kyodo report referred to a new identification of the same body or a second body found in Tikrit.

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BREAKING FOX NEWS 15:05 EST. OCTOBER 29,2004

IMAM SAYS MAN ON TERROR TAPE IS U.S. CITIZEN ADAM GADAHN

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dby, http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/003698.php
Cross:
" why would any enemy want to scare a population that holds tens of thousands of incredibly deadly nuclear weapons "
That was a rhetorical question, an answer to it was not necessary. The meaning of the sentence is that it is foolish to provoke a Military power that possesses an overwhelming destructive capacity.
I'll have to grab a snack and attempt to converse with you on your other points.
Posted by: cross at October 29, 2004 02:50 AM

COULD IT BE THEY BELIEVE AND FOR YOU NEA SAYERS THINK ABOUT THOSE WHO WARNED ABOUT 9/11 OTHERS LIKE SAID COULD NEVER HAPPEN
THE REASON IN ENGLISH IS THEY ARE NOT GETTING THEIR SCARE THROUGH CAUSE WE REDNECKS DON’T UNDERSTAND ARAB SPEAK??
CROSS JUST SO YOU UNDERSTAND ONE MORE TIME THEY WANT TO DIE??
Qur’an 6:66
“The people reject this (Book) and call it a lie though it is the truth. Say: ‘I am not a warden over you.’ ...When you see men who meddle with Our Revelations, turn away, withdrawing from them. Satan makes you forget.

NOW YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF WHAT THE HELL IS THE REVELATIONS??

Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO VICTORY TO DEFEAT ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM AMEN
PS WHAT ABOUT ALL THOSE WHO APPLAUDED AT KERRYS RALLY ABOUT OUR TEAM [MILITARY] GETTING BLOWN UP WITH EXPLOSIES
Its funny because it is so fake.
It also smells like government.
Posted by: AmericanRebel at October 29, 2004 04:27 AM

ANOTHER AMERICA HATER YEA 9/11/2001 DIDN’T HAPPEN EITHER


pss

JUST SAW THE PICTURE OFubl and [still no see since 2001 dec] stage hollywood can see the blue line???

Japan our hearts are with you we are sorry for your loss may God ease the Pain and may we have Victory Amen

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137017,00.html
ubl for kerry??

U.S. Team Took 250 Tons of Iraqi Munitions
Friday, October 29, 2004

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Army officer came forward Friday to say a team from his 3rd Infantry Division took about 250 tons of munitions and other material from the Al-Qaqaa (search) arms-storage facility soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April 2003.
Explosives were part of the load taken by the team, but Major Austin Pearson was unable to say what percentage they accounted for. The material was then destroyed, he said.
The Pentagon believes the disclosure helps explain what happened to 377 tons of high explosives that the International Atomic Energy Agency said disappeared after the U.S.-led invasion.
Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita acknowledged the Defense Department (search) did not have all the answers and could not yet account for all of the missing explosives, but stressed that the major's disclosure was a significant development in unraveling the mystery.
"We've described what we know, and as we know more we'll describe that," said DiRita.
Pearson, accompanied by DiRita, appeared at a Pentagon news conference and said his team's mission in April 2003 was to clear material from the Al-Qaqaa facility in order to secure it for U.S. forces. He admitted he was not an explosives expert.
The IAEA reported the disappearance of the explosives to the United Nations on Monday, suggesting they had fallen into the hands of looters after American troops had swept through the area.
U.S. military officials have retorted that they suspect the munitions were removed by Iraqis before Saddam was ousted from power on April 9, 2003.
The officer's story came the morning after new videotape surfaced supporting the contention that the explosives were still at the base following Saddam's fall.
Videotape shot by a Minnesota television crew traveling with U.S. troops in Iraq on April 18, 2003 shows what appeared to be high explosives still in barrels bearing IAEA seals.
The video was taken by a reporter and cameraman employed by KSTP, an ABC affiliate in St. Paul. It was broadcast nationally Thursday on the ABC national network.
"The photographs are consistent with what I know of Al-Qaqaa," David A. Kay, the former American official who directed the hunt in Iraq for unconventional weapons and visited the site, told The New York Times. "The damning thing is the seals. The Iraqis didn't use seals on anything. So I'm absolutely sure that's an IAEA seal."
The Pentagon late Thursday released a satellite photograph of Al-Qaqaa taken on March 17, 2003, just before the war. It showed showing several bunkers, one with two tractor-trailers next to it.
Senior Defense officials said their photo shows that the Al-Qaqaa facility "was not hermetically sealed" after international weapons inspectors had paid their last visits to the facility earlier in the month.
Officials were analyzing the image and others for clues into when the nearly 380 tons of explosives were taken. The munitions included HMX and RDX, key components in plastic explosives, which insurgents in Iraq have used in bomb attacks.
The Pentagon insisted that the image shows the Iraqis were moving something at the site before the first U.S.-launched bombs fell.
Meanwhile, an IAEA report obtained by FOX News said the inspectors noted that despite the fact that the Al-Qaqaa bunkers were locked, ventilation shafts remained open and provided easy access to the explosives.
The IAEA can definitively say only that the documented ammunition was at the facility in January; in March, an agency spokesman conceded, inspectors only checked the locked bunker doors.
The question of what happened to the explosives has become a major issue in the closing days of the 2004 presidential campaign.
Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry says the missing explosives — powerful enough to demolish a building, bring down a jetliner or even trigger a nuclear weapon — are another example of the Bush administration's poor planning and incompetence in handling the war in Iraq.
President Bush says the explosives were possibly removed by Saddam's forces before the invasion.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld entered the debate Thursday, suggesting the 377 tons of explosives were taken away before U.S. forces arrived, saying any large effort to loot the material afterward would have been detected.
"We would have seen anything like that," he said in one of two radio interviews he gave at the Pentagon. "The idea it was suddenly looted and moved out, all of these tons of equipment, I think is at least debatable."
The bunker with the trucks parked next to it in the Pentagon's satellite image is not one known to have contained any of the missing explosives, and Defense spokesman DiRita said Thursday the image only shows that there was some Iraqi activity at the base on March 17.
DiRita acknowledged that the image says nothing about what happened to the explosives.
Rumsfeld, in one radio interview, also cast doubt on the suggestion by one of his subordinates that Russian soldiers assisted Iraqis in removing the munitions.
The Washington Times on Thursday quoted John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, who said he believed Russian special-forces personnel, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material from Al-Qaqaa.
Shaw said he believed the munitions were moved to Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 invasion.
Senior Defense officials urged caution over the Washington Times article because they could not verify its allegations as true.
"I have no information on that at all, and cannot validate that even slightly," Rumsfeld said.
The article prompted an angry denial from Moscow.
At the core of the issue is whether the explosives were moved before or after U.S. forces reached that part of the country in early April.
No one has been able to provide conclusive evidence either way, although Iraqi officials blamed the munitions' disappearance on poor U.S. security after Baghdad fell.
The Pentagon has said it is looking into the matter, and officials note that 400,000 tons of recovered Iraqi munitions have either been destroyed or are slated to be destroyed.
FOX News' Bret Baier, Ian McCaleb and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Defeat ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Eyes of the World to their Threat and give them Courage to Stand and Fight them Amen


PS
UBL got kicked out of his hidie hole?? and he is saying we should not relect President Bush??

??? so ubl supports kerry??

PS

http://www.beecy.net/frank/
Qur’an 74:31 “We have appointed nineteen angels to be the wardens of the Hell Fire. We made a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve and We have fixed their number as a trial for unbelievers in order that the people of the Book may arrive with certainty, and that no doubts may be left for the people of the Book, those in whose hearts is a disease. And for those to whom the Scripture Book has been given, and the believers, there should be no doubt. The unbelievers may say, ‘What does the Lord intend by this?’ The Lord will lead astray whomever He pleases, and He will guide whomever He pleases: and none can know the armies of your Lord except He, and this is no other than a warning to mankind.”

This can be broken by Yes it is the Army of the people of the Book who he has chosen to Free [USA] the Iraqi people as it says

He will guide whomever He pleases: and none can know the armies of your Lord except He, and this is no other than a warning to mankind.”

Yes he has chosen the USA!!
And lets look at another part?

The Lord will lead astray whomever He pleases,

Ubl,saddam,zawari,all who Kill and destroy mankind?
There will be no more warnings?
Earthquake in Iran kills 30,000 who harbors ubls son and wifes??

Comments on new Bib Laden tape:

Any connection to Arafat leaving the country?

Notice how his left shoulder droops and his left hand is less than animated. Is that Tora-Bora brusitis?

Also, how long has Al Jazeera been holding on to this?

D'artist

You get a gold star for the Day!!

Notice how grey ??

And we have the latest in home decore and what is up with the podem the new cave wear?

CNN says he says he wont hurt us if we leave him alone?

sounds like the bully is on the Run!!

Ride Cowboy Ride
wanta have some fun
Ride Cowboy ride

This is a sucker punch you can't take back!!

Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Defeat ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL whi Support them Open the Eyes of the World appesement does not work Amen

Japan has my sympathy, we are in this together. As I have said before, we will hang together or we will hang separately.

I do hope that the Japanese stay the course. It does not matter whether or not the Japanese stay or remain - the islamomaniacs will continue killing until they or we win this war!

jihan

D'artist,
The tape was allegedly made within the last month as he refers to the current Iraq body count. Without a doubt it was made in the last 4 months as Kerry is mentioned.

The date text at the beggining of the tape says it was made last Sunday, but it isn't yet known whether that is the recording date of that particular copy,rather than the original

Catherine,
Nice to have the Japs on our side this time huh???
Who knows what kind of gadgetry they'll be coming up with in the years to come that will be able to help us tear terrorism apart.