Zarqawi Group Shows Beheading of Japanese-Web (on US flag)

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041102/wl_nm/iraq_japan_hostage_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480


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DUBAI (Reuters) - A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi showed the beheading of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda in Iraq (news - web sites) while he was lying on top of a U.S. flag in an Internet video posted Tuesday.


Al Qaeda Organization of Holy War in Iraq said Tokyo had offered a ransom of "millions of dollars" for 24-year-old Koda. It warned Japan to withdraw its forces from Iraq or "drown in the hell of the mujahideen" along with "crusader forces."


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Japanese officials confirmed Sunday that the body and severed head of a man found in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad was that of Koda. Zarqawi's group gave Tokyo a 48-hour deadline late last Tuesday to save Koda by withdrawing its forces from Iraq, a demand that the Japanese government refused.


The video showed the hostage, who was wearing a white T-shirt, kneeling with a U.S. flag laid out behind him. Koda's hands were tied behind his back and three masked men dressed all in black stood beneath the group's banner.

[Catt03]

1. Ignorant bastards

No torture with exception: I hope whomever cathes this animal (Zarqawi) kills him slowly.