Takechanpoo wrote:he deserved it
allahu akbar!
You mean he deserves his Darwin Award?
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Takechanpoo wrote:he deserved it
allahu akbar!
Samurai_Jerk wrote:I wouldn't assume he didn't understand the danger. There are plenty of people who get off on that kind of shit. There's still no confirmation that he was killed so who knows what's going on?
Wage Slave wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:I wouldn't assume he didn't understand the danger. There are plenty of people who get off on that kind of shit. There's still no confirmation that he was killed so who knows what's going on?
I'm not sure what you mean by confirmation but:
https://twitter.com/OmarJerbi/status/501102629280559104
and the track record of what this group do to unarmed civilians never mind POWs mean that the balance of probabilities is pretty heavily weighted in favour of him being executed.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:There's no evidence but according to this article in Japanese, a local commander (whatever that means) in Aleppo has claimed in an email to an NGO that Yukawa is still alive.
When Haruna Yukawa was captured in Syria earlier this month, a video apparently released by his captors showed them pressing the Japanese man to answer questions friends say he had struggled with for years: Who are you? Why are you here?
In fact, Yukawa, 42, had first travelled to Aleppo four months earlier on what amounted to a hardship course in self-discovery, according to people who know him and his account.
Changes in Yukawa’s life in suburban Tokyo had been fast and disorienting. Over the past decade, he had lost his wife to lung cancer, lost a business and his house to bankruptcy and been forced to live in a public park for almost a month, according to Yukawa’s father and an online journal he maintained.
The hard times led to soul searching. By his own account, he had changed his name to the feminine-sounding Haruna, attempted to kill himself by cutting off his genitals and came to believe he was the reincarnation of a cross-dressing Manchu princess who had spied for Japan in World War II.
By late 2013, Yukawa had also begun a flirtation with Japan’s extreme right-wing politics and cultivated a new persona as a self-styled security consultant, according to his Facebook page and blog posts, though he never did any work as a consultant.
He borrowed money to travel to Syria and dreamed of providing security to big Japanese companies in conflict areas like the coast of Somalia. The Syrian civil war was a new start — and his last chance to make a success in life, he told friends and family. Later this year, he planned to head to Somalia “where the danger factor will be amped up.”
“He felt his life had reached its limit,” said Yukawa’s father, Shoichi, 74.
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The hard times led to soul searching. By his own account, he had changed his name to the feminine-sounding Haruna, attempted to kill himself by cutting off his genitals and came to believe he was the reincarnation of a cross-dressing Manchu princess who had spied for Japan in World War II.
yanpa wrote:The hard times led to soul searching. By his own account, he had changed his name to the feminine-sounding Haruna, attempted to kill himself by cutting off his genitals and came to believe he was the reincarnation of a cross-dressing Manchu princess who had spied for Japan in World War II.
No, that would be Dave Spector.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Interesting. Looks like we were right about his gender bending. Poor bastard.
The Islamic State terrorist group (IS, formerly ISIS) said in a video it will execute two Japanese nationals unless a $200-million ransom is paid within 72 hours.
The threat came on Tuesday in a video published on several Islamist websites. The militant group said they are demanding the money because Japan had pledged to pay the same amount to the US-led campaign against IS.
The video features two Asian men wearing orange fatigues standing on their knees and a masked man in black holding a knife, reading the demand. The hostages are Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yukawa, according to the video.
Goto is an independent journalist, who has been covering events in Syria, as shown by his Twitter account and website.
The terrorist is said to be a British man, who was featured in previous execution videos released by IS.
Since 2008, various terrorist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda have netted at least $125 million from kidnap ransoms, mostly from European governments, according to a report published last year in the New York Times.
CrankyBastard wrote:Two hundred million dollars!
I'm assuming they want cash as opposed to using paypal.
I wonder what the protocol is for paying that amount.
How is it handled?
Coligny wrote:Whut did Abe said ?
And since when Haruna Yukawa has been undeaded ?
Do isis gave him the H1Z1 virus to contaminamate the Tokyo ?
Still pending: where are my pants...
Cyka UchuuJin wrote:I think Abe's statement all but guarantees their death.
I really wish he'd have made that pledge quietly. The louder these governments shout their support, the more innocent citizens of those countries are going to get hit.
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