Japanese Hostage Taken by al-Zarqawi

[JAVGOD]

I like the "welcome to dreamland" pics.

[IparryU]

'THAN' foster kids...

English, do you speak it motherfucker ?

Blame SwiftKey.

[matsuki]

'THAN' foster kids...

English, do you speak it motherfucker ?

Does it make sense now?

Apparently I'm not the only person that thinks the mother is crazy...I couldn't watch much past the first bit of rambling but looks like she started going on and on about nuclear power, world peace, and all kinds of unrelated stuff. (why the poor dude cut the umbilical cord seems to make sense)

[wangta]

Sorry but the two Japanese hostages were and are idiots for thinking somehow their Japanese 'exceptionalism' would keep them safe from anybody over the Turkish border. That doesn't mean it's not terrible what is happening to them and what will most likely happen to them but as usual in life, stupid is as stupid does.

The actual journalist/traveller as opposed to off with the fairies 'Haruna' should have known better. Instead he knew it all because he had been lucky enough to be unharmed when he went traversing Syria and other places before. Why anybody would have normalcy bias when it is a warzone is beyond me, especially as the Japanese journalist comes from a normal, peaceful country. He thought he was going to save the day by rescuing his 'friend'.

The only Japanese person who might have got away with going there is a bloke who is a Muslim convert and has real connections in Turkey, Syria etc.I think his passport has been taken away so he can't travel. And no, tearful mothers aint worth shit to killers.

Her doing that just like all the other mothers and fathers of non Muslims was simply being part of the theatre that ISIL/ISIS whatever love because it gives them more perceived power and makes them feel more important. Why would they give a fuck about a few dead non Muslims? They don't and herein lies the lesson for those two Japanese and anybody else who does the same dumb and dumber act.

[JAVGOD]

Goto, I have a "little" sympathy for. Not a measurable amount but a little. Miss Haruna has been a pain in the ass to everybody over there for the last few years. She's been traded by militias more than a whore during fleet week.

Most Japanese I speak with think the pair should not be saved at the country's expense. 200$ million is no bargain. Especially since I can imagine Miss Haruna will be back over there as soon as she can sneak out of Japan again.

Appropriate words for Goto's mom in Arabic are "hamka" (crazy) and "miskeen" (broken). Obviously serious issues there. One thing though, she did not give ISIS what they wanted which was a TV circus of blathering family members begging for the life of their son.

I think the term is "personal accountability."

Sorry but the two Japanese hostages were and are idiots for thinking somehow their Japanese 'exceptionalism' would keep them safe from anybody over the Turkish border. That doesn't mean it's not terrible what is happening to them and what will most likely happen to them but as usual in life, stupid is as stupid does.

The actual journalist/traveller as opposed to off with the fairies 'Haruna' should have known better. Instead he knew it all because he had been lucky enough to be unharmed when he went traversing Syria and other places before. Why anybody would have normalcy bias when it is a warzone is beyond me, especially as the Japanese journalist comes from a normal, peaceful country. He thought he was going to save the day by rescuing his 'friend'.

The only Japanese person who might have got away with going there is a bloke who is a Muslim convert and has real connections in Turkey, Syria etc.I think his passport has been taken away so he can't travel. And no, tearful mothers aint worth shit to killers.

Her doing that just like all the other mothers and fathers of non Muslims was simply being part of the theatre that ISIL/ISIS whatever love because it gives them more perceived power and makes them feel more important. Why would they give a fuck about a few dead non Muslims? They don't and herein lies the lesson for those two Japanese and anybody else who does the same dumb and dumber act.

[kurogane]

Yeah, stupid as Goto is he had some fine intentions. Almost Brave, one might call it. Still tragic and stupid, but at least he's not a navel gazing agony aunt looking for a fiery exit. There's too many people that deserve better than they have to worry about wankheaded mental patients anymore.

[kurogane]

Yeah, stupid as Goto is he had some fine intentions. Almost Brave, one might call it. Still tragic and stupid, but at least he's not a navel gazing agony aunt looking for a fiery exit. Wilde's trenchant dictum on prisons and asylums aside, there's too many people that deserve better than they have for societies to worry about wankheaded mental patients anymore.

[matsuki]

Japan's government considered whether it had the legal basis for a military strike on Isil and concluded it did not, according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

The capture of two Japanese citizens in Syria represents an "unacceptable act of terror," the document says. But it concluded the situation did not meet the legal conditions for the dispatch of Japanese forces.
Japan's pacifist constitution bans its troops fighting overseas, among other restrictions on the military.
However, Abe is trying to ease curbs on exercising the right of collective self-defence, or militarily aiding an ally under attack, in a reinterpretation of the constitution that must now be passed into law.
The document ... avoided a direct answer on whether Japan's Self-Defense Forces had the military capacity to respond to a hostage crisis like the current one.
The top government spokesman said the government was not considering whether collective self-defence would apply to the fight against Isil.

This is getting really bizarre....

[wagyl]

That is all rather interesting. Admittedly it is not an offensive act against Japanese sovereignty, nor an attack on Japan's allies as collective self defence. I would tend to agree, that they can't send out the Jieitai.

[matsuki]

Right...but it also looks like a lame attempt to set themselves up a "couldn't be helped" or "our hands were tied" situation after the fact??

[Russell]

A military invasion seems to be a bit of an overreaction.

[Mike Oxlong]

A military invasion seems to be a bit of an overreaction.

[Coligny]

A military invasion seems to be a bit of an overreaction.

Full blown yes...

But don't they have a Seal Tanaka Team 6 of sorts ?

Or are they too busy tracking Jukujos demonstrating near Tepco's headquarter ?

[Wage Slave]

A military invasion seems to be a bit of an overreaction.

Yeah, but there's been plenty of speculation in London and elsewhere about sending special forces on a raid to capture/kill the dickhead. If there was a chance the hostages could be rescued that could be done using whatever military force was needed.

In the meantime a number of countries are happily sending fighter jets to bomb ISIS forces and supplying and training the Kurds. And I don't disagree with doing it either.

So, given that Japanese hostages are facing televised beheading, I agree it is valid for Japan to consider whether that constitutes sufficient aggression to justify a military response, as allowed by a pretty unique and limiting constitution. It's not, and they said so, but it was right to think about it.

[Coligny]

Once again... Bad luck the hostage are not innocent puppies... Such a missed opportunity for giving traction to the constitutional reform... Where is the false flag D00tch when you need him...

[Russell]

A military invasion seems to be a bit of an overreaction.

Yeah, but there's been plenty of speculation in London and elsewhere about sending special forces on a raid to capture/kill the dickhead. If there was a chance the hostages could be rescued that could be done using whatever military force was needed.

In the meantime a number of countries are happily sending fighter jets to bomb ISIS forces and supplying and training the Kurds. And I don't disagree with doing it either.

So, given that Japanese hostages are facing televised beheading, I agree it is valid for Japan to consider whether that constitutes sufficient aggression to justify a military response, as allowed by a pretty unique and limiting constitution. It's not, and they said so, but it was right to think about it.

I totally agree with supporting the Kurds' fight with areal bombardments, but Japanese boots on the ground is just too risky. Add to that Japan's inexperience with this type of actions, and it is wise to avoid sending special forces.

[Coligny]

I totally agree with supporting the Kurds' fight with areal bombardments, but Japanese boots on the ground is just too risky. Add to that Japan's inexperience with this type of actions, and it is wise to avoid sending special forces..

And never doing is the good way to never gain any experience (omlet, broken eggs and all)
Would have been a perfect setup
Nobody really cares if those guys dies
It would be a perfect failure to justify ramping up efforts and budget for the military...

Once again... Bad luck the hostage are not innocent puppies... Such a missed opportunity for giving traction to the constitutional reform... Where is the false flag D00tch when you need him...

Perfect 180 on 2 posts, I think I crushed my previous record...

[Russell]

to provide us a link.

Sorry SJ, I thought everyone had already seen it, I haven't been able to pass a television anywhere without it being shown on endless loop.

At least some Japanese can think of it for what it is...

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Taro, you were there before the Daily Male!

[Takechanpoo]

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done

[Mike Oxlong]

Obama says terror group has killed Japanese hostage

President Barack Obama is condemning what he calls “the brutal murder” of a Japanese hostage by the Islamic State group.

Obama’s statement doesn’t say how the United States knows that Haruna Yukawa is dead, and the Japanese government is trying to verify an online video that purports to show his death.

That online posting was quickly deleted Saturday, and militants on a website affiliated with the terrorist group questioned its authenticity.

Tokyo had no immediate comment on Obama’s statement.

Obama says in his statement that the United States will stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Japan. He’s also calling for the immediate release of a second Japanese hostage held by the militants.

The statement was issued in Germany while Obama stopped briefly on his way to India.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/poli ... ed-hostage

[kurogane]

It would be nice if they released the Goto Guy. Stupid, but strangely honorable, or admirable. But stupid, ferschur.

[IparryU]

It would be nice if they released the Goto Guy. Stupid, but strangely honorable, or admirable. But stupid, ferschur.

Fuck it, behead both of them and get this propaganda show on the road.

[Mike Oxlong]

ISIS Butchers Kill A Japanese Hostage, Leave One Alive
The surviving hostage was forced to hold a picture
showing his friend’s severed head and pleads for his life.

Even by the barbaric standards of the Islamic State, the video distributed today by the jihadists plumbs new depths of depravity. It shows a Japanese captive, 47-year-old journalist Kenji Goto Jogo, holding up a picture of his fellow hostage and friend Haruna Yukawa, who has been decapitated.

The nearly three-minute-long video was released after a 72-hour ransom deadline for the two Japanese hostages expired. In it Goto is heard speaking in halting English. He blames Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for Yukawa’s beheading and pleads for his own life. He says the Islamic militants no longer want money for his release—they had been asking $200 million for him and his friend. They will spare him now, he said, in exchange for an al Qaeda female suicide bomber, Sajida al Rishawi, captured in Jordan in 2005.

“I am Kenji Goto Jogo,” he says. “You have seen the photo of my cellmate Haruna slaughtered in the land of the Islamic Caliphate. You were warned. You were given a deadline and so my captors acted upon their words. [Prime Minister Shinzo] Abe, you killed Haruna. You did not take the threats of my captors seriously and you did not act within the 72 hours.”

According to the Japanese government and other sources, the video was uploaded on a jihadist web site and to YouTube sometime after 11 p.m. Japan time.
There are some oddities about Saturday’s video. It has no ISIS logo and no footage of the execution. While Goto purportedly pleads for the Japanese government to get al Rishawi reased in exchange for his freedom, he speaks no Japanese at all in the audio. Moreover, the voice of the man who is presented as Goto seems different from previous news videos featuring the journalist. The delivery is strange and halting.

In a previous video released on Tuesday, the self-styled Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS or ISIL, threatened to kill both men within 72 hours. The deadline expired Friday...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... alive.html

[matsuki]

http://www.bestgore.com/execution/audio ... na-yukawa/

Things are getting weirder....

[wangta]

It's cruel and it sucks but it's Darwin's Law in practice. Haruna Chan was a misfit who deliberately put his life in danger and I am not sure why the Japanese govt was supposed to give 200 million bucks to bail out such people. I include the journo in that as it seems he was deluded enough to think that 'we Japanese' would be treated differently by such Islamofascist cunts.

It's unfortunate Goto spent so much time lurking in Muslim countries and warzones without realising one simple fact - he was a kuffir and therefore outside the circle no matter how many times he'd been around Muslims. I've read a lot of decent articles from independent news sources about Syria etc and the so called 'Free' Syrian Army have elements that are just as bad as ISIS/ISIL and readily betray westerners and others to ISIS/ISIL for cash.

[Samurai_Jerk]

BTW, what's with the name Kenji Goto Jogo?

[wagyl]

BTW, what's with the name Kenji Goto Jogo?

It seems to come from the same place as Haruna Yakwa.

Probably the name he took on when he had a bagel shaped injection of saline in his forehead, if you get my meaning.

[matsuki]

BTW, what's with the name Kenji Goto Jogo?

Sounds like a Star Wars character

[Samurai_Jerk]

BTW, what's with the name Kenji Goto Jogo?

It seems to come from the same place as Haruna Yakwa.

Probably the name he took on when he had a bagel shaped injection of saline in his forehead, if you get my meaning.

He uses the name himself in the latest video from ISIS.

[wagyl]

It could be codeword for "I am being forced to read out this prepared statement verbatim" which doesn't really need to be said. The reports on Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yakwa ostensibly originate with Daesh.


Japanese language net speculation is that it is a baptismal name, but anyone with knowledge of Christian culture will consider that unlikely.