Internet Video Says Japanese Man to Be Beheaded Unless Japan Pulls
Troops From Iraq
The Associated Press
Oct. 26, 2004 - A video on a militant Islamic Web site Tuesday showed a
captive it said was a Japanese man kidnapped by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's
group and threatened to behead him within 48 hours unless Japan pulls
its troops from Iraq.
The man, who appeared in a white T-shirt, was identified only as
someone connected to the Japanese armed forces. He spoke briefly in
English and Japanese, before one of three masked militants standing
behind him read a statement.
"They want to withdraw the Japanese troops from Iraq or cut my head,"
the man said.
One of the militants said Japan had 48 hours with withdraw the troops,
"otherwise his fate will be the same as his predecessors, Berg and
Bigley and other infidels," referring to the beheadings of British
engineer Kenneth Bigley and U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg.
The video bore the logo of al-Qaida in Iraq, the new name for
al-Zarqawi's group, which has claimed responsibility for the beheadings
of Bigley and Berg, as well as numerous car bombings and other attacks.
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