OMIYAGE bomber!

[cstaylor]

Even if the murder charges don't stick, isn't he at least guilty of manslaughter?

[Steve Bildermann]

[Taro Toporific]

Even if the murder charges don't stick, isn't he at least guilty of manslaughter?

Still, it seems VERY odd that a Japanese won't admit any guilt... he won't fess up. Hanseishinai is the worst crime in Japan

[Taro Toporific]

First offence, no intent, 18 months, suspended sentence ... that's about as "good" as Gomi-san or a rich kid with laywers could expect.

Mainichi man gets 18 months in Jordan jail for explosion
Mainichi and wire reports, June 1, 2003
AMMAN, Jordan -- Former Mainichi Shimbun photographer Hiroki Gomi was sentenced Sunday to 18 months in prison over an explosion at an airport...The Jordanian State Security Court convicted Gomi, 36, of negligence resulting in death and injury, while acquitting him of illegal possession of explosives on the grounds that he was not aware the object would explode. The Mainichi Newspapers Co. is poised to ask the Jordanian government to grant Gomi amnesty...

[GomiGirl]

Has anybody else noticed his full name..

Hiroki Gomi (pick-up rubbish)

His parents mustn't have liked him very much...

[Steve Bildermann]

I haven't see anything on the 'net yet but I just heard on the radio that Gomi san has received his (much expected) pardon and will be released soon.

Welcome home party at the Mainichi next week.

[Steve Bildermann]

Did I imagine this story?

I just took a look around the Japan news sources and nobody is reporting this? Interesting.

Anyway *if* it's true, remember you read it here first!

[American Oyaji]

Where did you hear this ?

[Taro Toporific]

Where did you hear this ?

Jordan's King May Pardon Japanese Photographer Today, NHK Says
Bloomberg - 8am June 16, 2003


NHK full text
Note that just this once I invoke "Fair Use" since the reporting is so bad on the topic....

Japanese photojournalist likely to be pardoned soon
Jordanian palace sources say a convicted Japanese photojournalist is expected to be released soon on special pardon of King Abdullah.

On June 1, Jordan's military court sentenced the Mainichi newspaper photojournalist, Hiroki Gomi, to 18 months in prison for a fatal blast at Amman's airport on May 1.

A bomb he brought in his luggage as a souvenir of his news coverage of the Iraq war exploded at the security checkpoint of Amman's airport, killing one airport worker and injuring five others.

His defense lawyer had asked for special pardon, saying his client did not know the war souvenir in his luggage was a real bomb.

Jordanian palace sources told NHK that King Abdullah is expected to announce his special pardon to the Japanese photojournalist possibly on Monday.

[Steve Bildermann]

[GomiGirl]

Maybe this new Kusuri I'm taking is developing my physic precognitive powers. Cool.

I'll have to setup a HOT line.

Well if Dionne Warwick can do it..

[Steve Bildermann]

I knew you were going to say that

[Taro Toporific]

[American Oyaji]

Ahhh.

p o l i t i c s

[ramchop]

Japan is a major aid donor to Jordan.

And the lesson here is whoever you are; whether you're a manslaughtering photojournalist in Jordan, or a tresspassing slapper dental nurse in Tokyo. Money will get you off.

[Taro Toporific]

Ahhh.
p o l i t i c s

See Mr. Gomi being sentenced, pardoned and interviewed here At the "FeedRoom"...

Warning: This Associated Press site "FeedRoom" highjacks your browser in nasty ways.

http://www.feedroom.com/?rf=rss&fr_story=4148f815d4cfc01dd557b00e123b504289e9626f

[Taro Toporific]

Ahhh.
p o l i t i c s

King pardons jailed Japanese journalist
Jordan Times / Tuesday, June 17, 2003 AMMAN ....
...Gomi and his wife spent three years in the country during their employment with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) between 1996-98. JICA Project Officer Dima Hammoudeh... pointed out that Gomi had grown to love the culture here during his stay, even giving his three children Arabic names.

[American Oyaji]

ahhh

r e l i g i o n

[GuyJean]

Released Mainichi Employee Returns from Jordan
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030619p2a00m0dm033001c.html

Okairinasai! I have a present for your hard work; pixy dust. But, I'm not sure.. It could be anthrax spores. I have no fucking clue actually, because I too am an internationally respected reporter from Japan.. And because I am TOTALLY fucking clueless, I am TOTARRY innocent of any of my actions (whether now known or hereafter devised), throughout the universe, inperpetuity.. Now snort with all your might.

Mainichi Shimbun employee Hiroki Gomi -- who had been convicted over the fatal explosion...

See!? Still employed!.. Is his desk next to yours, Marvin?

GJ

[GuyJean]

Mainichi President Reacts to Amman Charges with Own Punishments
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200305/19/20030519p2a00m0dm033000c.html

Mainichi Newspapers President Akira Saito held a news conference Monday night and announced in-house punishments meted out to Gomi and Mainichi officials, including himself.

Saito said that for the moment Gomi had been stripped of his title within the Tokyo Head Office editorial department.
(Translation: editor for the WaiWai section)

"We will monitor his trial closely and will punish him severely in accordance with our in-house rules," the president said.
(Translation: we will make him bow deeply, force tears from his eyes, and snot from his nose)

Saito also announced that he is personally forfeiting all executive remuneration ad interim to take responsibility over the fatal incident.
(Translation: no whores for a month)

Managing Director and Editor Masato Kitamura had a 50 percent reduction of his monthly executive remuneration for one month while Tokyo Head Office's Editorial Division Editor Yutaka Asahina and Photo Editor Yoshiaki Takeda were suspended from their managerial position for one month.
(Translation: free time and whores for a month)

(Note to self: next time I kill someone, act retarded and/or Japanese)

GJ

[Taro Toporific]

Mainichi President Reacts to Amman Charges with Own Punishments
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200305/19/20030519p2a00m0dm033000c.html

..for the moment Gomi had been stripped of his title within the Tokyo Head Office editorial department.
(Translation: editor for the WaiWai section)

Mr. Gomi's real punishment is that he has to sit next to FG Marvin and write about sniffing schoolgirl panties. Oh, the horror.

[ramchop]

Mr. Gomi's real punishment is that he has to sit next to FG Marvin and write about sniffing schoolgirl panties. Oh, the horror

Gomi's a photographer not a writer. I'm certainly not going to complain if we get more visuals to go with the Wai Wai stories.

[ramchop]

No wait.... maybe photos are not a good idea:

Some 20 obese Osakans have been put out of work with the police having put the finger on a pair who swelled their bank accounts by hundreds of millions operating the service supplying hefty whores.

[Taro Toporific]

[GuyJean]

A photographer at a leading Japanese newspaper was fired today after a cluster bomb he was carrying as a souvenir of the Iraq war exploded at Amman airport, killing a security guard and wounding three others

I wonder why the change of heart; From being "stripped of his title within the Tokyo Head Office editorial department", to being fired.. Does this mean Saito is still "personally forfeiting all executive 'whore' funds"?

When is sodai Gomi day?

GJ

[Steve Bildermann]

[kurohinge1]

* bump *

There really is nothing new under the sun.

I couldn't help but remember this thread when I read this article:

Fatal fun

September 21, 2005

A hand grenade kept as a souvenir from Lebanon's civil war exploded in a Kuwaiti government office as a worker played with it, killing the man and injuring two other people.

The dead and injured were all Lebanese employees of the Kuwaiti Information Office. Ayas al-Alayli, 36, took the grenade from a shelf and threw it to the floor to show Mirna Mugharbel, a secretary, that it would not explode, an employee in the office said.

It was unclear why the grenade was kept in the office, but the Kuwaiti ambassador told reporters it had been there for more than two years.

That special kind of stupid is surely elligible for a Darwin Award for "the improvement of the human genome".

[Captain Japan]

Gboothe, how'd someone get that shot of your desk?

[Greji]

Gboothe, how'd someone get that shot of your desk?

Why did I know you were going to call me on that? But, it is not my complaint section. Mine is up to number six already. It really does work well in cleaning out management positions!

[Taro Toporific]

OH NO! IT'S ANOTHER OMIYAGI BOMBER!

Japanese held at NAIA for carrying tear gas canister
Inquirer News Service[ Nov 06, 2005, 02:09pm (Mla time)
AIRPORT security personnel on Sunday arrested a Japanese national when he accidentally squeezed his small tear gas canister and the fumes then directly hit the face af a Filipina, who was standing behind him at the final security check line.
Kaguwa Nagai, who was supposed to leave for Fukuoka, Japan on board Philippine Airlines flight 426, is still being investigated at the Police Center for Aviation Security office for having a tear gas canister inside his hand carried bag, which is prohibited....
Aside from Echavez, who was hit by the gas directly on the face, other passengers also had coughing fits when the fumes spread throughout the line.