J-hostage saved from getting his head sawed off?

[Buraku]

Japanese hostage is alive, driver released in Afghanistan (3rd Lead)

Kabul - A Japanese aid worker, who was kidnapped Tuesday in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, was still alive and his driver was released by the abductors, said an aid official.

'I can confirm that the driver was released and he told us that our Japanese colleague is still alive, but in hands of his captors,' Noor Zaman, deputy director for Peshawar-Kai, a Japanese aid group, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

'This morning four armed men, who were hiding among the cornfield, arrested the Japanese worker as he was getting off from his vehicle in Khewa district to supervise a project,' Zaman said, citing the released driver.

Earlier Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, had reportedly claimed responsibility for the abduction and said that the Japanese hostage was killed during a clash between their fighters and Afghan security forces.

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[pheyton]

I know the clown is in the center, but the real clown is the one holding the RPG. If that went off, they all die. Since when are Africans in Afghanistan?

[Kanchou]

LOL, you beat me to it.

I can't imagine how stupid you've got to be to threaten someone at 2 feet with an RPG.

[Greji]

LOL, you beat me to it.

I can't imagine how stupid you've got to be to threaten someone at 2 feet with an RPG.

How about those that try strapping on a vest full of C2, Nitro, or dynamite in hopes of killing a couple of folks. I don't need the virgins that bad. If I had my druthers, I'd druther stay in Tokyo and work with the already-been-used stuff.

[Mulboyne]

EarthTimes: Afghan police find dead body of Japanese hostage

Police and Afghan villagers found the dead body of a Japanese aid worker on Wednesday morning, who was abducted by four armed men the previous day, officials said. "I can confirm that the dead body of our colleague has been found in Naw area of Khewa district in a mountain and the body has been seen and confirmed by our other colleagues in the area," Noor Zaman, an official from Peshawar-Kai, a Japanese aid group, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "The police forces in the area are waiting for explosive specialists, because they suspect that there might be a mine placed under his body," Zaman said. Shukerullah Durani, district administrative chief of Khewa district also confirmed that the body of the hostage was found and said that he was shot dead by the kidnappers. Kazuya Ito, 31, an employee of Peshawar-Kai, a Japanese aid group, along with his Afghan driver was kidnapped in Khewa district of eastern Nangahar province on Tuesday morning as he was on his way to inspect an ongoing irrigation project in the area.

[pheyton]

Sad news, but foreigners should stay out of warzones.

[Takechanpoo]

Sad news

Don't tell a lie. I do know western gaijins never feel sad if Japanese or other mongoloid people are killed. It is the same as we Japanese never feel sad so much if some westerners are killed.

[GomiGirl]

Don't tell a lie. I do know western gaijins never feel sad if Japanese or other mongoloid people are killed. It is the same as we Japanese never feel sad so much if some westerners are killed.

Bullshit. Maybe you think this way but certainly I do not.

Stop professing opinions about other people that you know nothing about. It is not clever or funny.

[Takechanpoo]

And in Afganistan, many Korean moonies fuckin pretend to be Japanese to propagate Afganistans, muslims who wholeheartedly hate christian, under the name of humanitarian aids. So we cannot deny the likelihood that kidnapper regarded Kazuya Ito as one of Korean moonies.

[canman]

Take what a stupid thing to say. Just because a few people said it was dangerous and perhaps foolish to go to war zone, nobody wants to see another person killed for no reason. Do you really believe that all foreigners here in Japan are heartless and could care less for the people we marry, live with, work with? This has to be without a doubt the stupidest thing you have ever written and I am about to put you on the ignore list.

[Jack]

Don't tell a lie. I do know western gaijins never feel sad if Japanese or other mongoloid people are killed. It is the same as we Japanese never feel sad so much if some westerners are killed.

This is stupid even by my standards.

[Buraku]

And in Afganistan, many Korean moonies fuckin pretend to be Japanese to propagate Afganistans, muslims who wholeheartedly hate christian, under the name of humanitarian aids. So we cannot deny the likelihood that kidnapper regarded Kazuya Ito as one of Korean moonies.

wow so you can actually blame those zainichi kankokujins for all this shit right ? and all along I was thinking the islamic terrorists were to blame, I congratulate you Takechamp for having such a fucked up twisted logic

Don't let the clown pic fool you because I do feel for this aidworker fucker even if he was silly enough to walk into a terrorist warzone without armed escort

[pheyton]

Don't tell a lie. I do know western gaijins never feel sad if Japanese or other mongoloid people are killed. It is the same as we Japanese never feel sad so much if some westerners are killed.

Oh Take,

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[Buraku]

sounds like they got him

RIP

Kidnapped Japanese aid worker found dead in Afghanistan
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/27/japan-aid-worker.html

[Greji]

sounds like they got him

RIP

Kidnapped Japanese aid worker found dead in Afghanistan
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/27/japan-aid-worker.html

I think there was no kidnapping. They popped him right off. One should think about it a bit, before taking a sanpou in Taliban Poppy Fields.

RIP

[Bucky]

Missing journalist

A Japanese freelance journalist has been kidnapped in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan, the government's top spokesman said Friday.Kosuke Tsuneoka, 40, who has covered conflicts in Russia's Chechnya, Iraq and Afghanistan, entered the country last month, visiting Kabul and Jalalabad, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) reported.

"I'm aware of the fact of the abduction," Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano told reporters, declining to give further details about the journalist, who disappeared in the war-torn country's north.

Criminal groups and Taliban insurgents have kidnapped several dozen foreigners, many of them journalists, since the 2001 US-led invasion that ousted the Taliban regime in Kabul and sparked the current insurgency.

The Taliban have denied that they are holding two journalists from France 3 public television, who were snatched with three Afghan assistants in the eastern province of Kapisa on December 30.

Norwegian war reporter Paal Refsdal, 46, was held with his interpreter by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan for five days in November last year, accused of espionage by a local Al-Qaeda official.

In his last Twitter posting on Thursday, Tsuneoka said he had gone into a Taliban-controlled area in the north of the country early Wednesday.

[Bucky]

Found Him!

The idiot doesn't appear have a journalist visa so he was just wandering around without official authorization.

A missing Japanese journalist has turned up in an Afghan jail, another reporter says.

An unidentified local Afghan reporter said Sunday residents of Baghlan province provided information that Kosuke Tsuneoka, 40, was jailed in the province, Japan's Kyodo news service reported. Further details of his incarceration were not provided.


Tsuneoka, 40, was headed to Kunduz in northern Afghanistan where there is a strong Taliban presence and hadn't been heard from since Thursday. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zamary Bashry said authorities didn't know Tsuneoka was in Afghanistan until told of his disappearance, indicating he didn't have a journalist visa.


A Taliban spokesman said the insurgents' commanders in the region denied being involved.


"We assigned our commanders to find out who had kidnapped the Japanese journalist," Zabihullah Mujahid said. "They have reported back that they are not involved in the kidnapping. They do not know who is holding him."


However, Kyodo said a reputed Taliban commander in Kunduz reportedly claimed Saturday his men had seized Tsuneoka without telling Taliban leadership.

[Bucky]

A Japanese journalist who was abducted by apparent Taliban militants in Afghanistan five months ago has been freed by his captors, reports said Sunday.

Kosuke Tsuneoka, a freelance journalist and veteran of war zones, was released Saturday night in good health and was at the Japanese Embassy in Kabul, Kyodo News agency cited government sources as saying. Japan's Foreign Ministry and its embassy in the Afghan capital declined to comment.

Tsuneoka's mother told Kyodo that her 41-year-old son had called home from the embassy after being released in the Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz province.

[align=left][color=#000000]Tsuneoka's captors apparently decided to release him because he is a fellow Muslim, Kyodo said.

According to his personal website, Tsuneoka converted to the religion in 2000 while in Moscow.

[align=left][color=#000000]Tsuneoka's captors apparently decided to release him because he is a fellow Muslim, Kyodo said.

According to his personal website, Tsuneoka converted to the religion in 2000 while in Moscow.

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Allah Akbar

[IparryU]

And in Afganistan, many Korean moonies fuckin pretend to be Japanese to blah.

And dont some Japanese claim that they are not the "typical Japanese" because they speak a different language or they lived overseas?

So many girls say that, fuck, my boss says that. But that is just your typical Japanese that try to elevate above the "norm".

About Koreans acting like they're Japanese, you should be happy because you have people from other countries that want to be what you are...

[Kanchou]

Koreans pretending to be Japanese? Isn't that kind of like Canadians pretending to be Americans?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Allah Akbar

If you're going to be working in that part of the world it's probably worth it to memorize enough Islamic prayers and rituals to fake it just in case.

[IparryU]

Koreans pretending to be Japanese? Isn't that kind of like Canadians pretending to be Americans?

Jim Carey?
John Candy?
Basically the entire SNL cast?

Never!

[Kanchou]

In real life, traveling abroad. Appearing American on TV is important for you career.

[Samurai_Jerk]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100907/ap_on_hi_te/as_japan_afghan_missing_journalist

A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out a message via Twitter that he was alive when his captors asked him how to use a cell phone.

Just days before he was freed, Kosuke Tsuneoka said one of the militants brought him his new cell phone and asked the prisoner to set it up.

The younger militants were more interested in accessing Al-Jazeera on the phone, but Tsuneoka managed to shift their attention to Twitter, successfully getting them to ask him to demonstrate how it worked.

"That's how I got the message out," Tsuneoka told a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday, a day after he arrived safely back in Japan. "I'm sure they never thought they were tricked." .......