Japanese and Korean nationals kidnapped in Iraq

[nostamj]

breaking on the cable stations.

3 Japanese, 7 Koreans. threatening to kill them if troops don't leave Iraq.

and didn't they grab two journalists yesterday?

how bad will it get?

[charlie]

1. It just got posted to a few Japanese news sites

Here's NHK:

http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/

One of the Japanese is a journalist.

[LittleApple81]

2. Remember that fight in the parliament in Japan when they

decided to send soldiers? Is this going to be a problem for the Japanese government?

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Two journalists and an aid worker -- one is a woman

[charlie]

5. One is 19

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aP6oTnnQFSHo&refer=top_world_news

Koizumi is going to be in some shit over this. He can't withdraw the SDF contingent in Iraq. If those 3 get killed... Japan has been non-militaristic and free from this kind of foreign entanglement for over a generation, the people are gonna take it hard.

[KoKo]

6. Yes, the Shrub put the screws to Koizumi and they are buying our treasury

debt! Japan was only sending "non-combatant" troops. So this is very, very bad for the Chimp. My God how can they spin this to their advantage? They will find some way though....bet on it. :-(

[alcuno]

3. And a Brit.

It's somewhere in LBN.