Japanese Female "Hostage" Had Recent Contact With Anti-US Iraqi Terrorists in Baghdad? (Breaking)

Chunichi Shimbun, Yahoo News Chat, Channel 2 Website, etc. ^ | 11 April 2004 | AmericanInTokyo

[AmericanInTokyo]

Breaking. Sorry, its just a quick English synopsis of the Japanese news (link).

Chunichi News in Japan (Nagoya daily newspaper) is reporting from Middle East sources that one of the Japanese *hostages* taken by a new Islamic terrorist group two days ago, MS. NAHOKO TAKATO, is reported to have made contact in Baghdad recently, before the kidnapping of her and two other Japanese, with an affiliate terrorist organization "Army of Muhammand". The casts in some doubt the actual situation surrounding this Islamic terrorist "kidnapping" the other day and the subsequent demands that Japan withdraw its Self Defense forces from Iraq in support of the Coalition.

Breaking hard.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Other developments:

**One Japanese paper on the web now reports that more questions have arisen about the demand note sent by the terrorists to Japan. Japanese investigators are reported to feel that a "Japanese national may be working within this group" because of the way the letter was written, similar to Japanese Red army demands out of the Middle East. They have sent an anti-Japanese terrorist counter intel group to Amman from Tokyo to dig into this.

**Six or so serious questions centering around the Japanese nationals' "kidnapping" are making their way around the web in Japanese.

**Yahoo Japan chat board ( http://messages.yahoo.co.jp/bbs?.mm=NW&action=m&board=552019567&tid=a5a4a5ia5afa4gffckdcbfm94bab&sid=552019567&mid=1&type=date&first=1 ) in Japanese is burning up at this hour. About four posts every 30 seconds, most of them strongly suspicious of this "kidnapping."

**The webpage of left-leaning activist Ms. Takato had been hoping for e mail messages of SUPPORT for her release and in support of the issue of Japanese withdrawl from Iraq under pressure. Instead, it has been FLOODED by irate Japanese expressing their demands for her apology, an explanation, and her responsibility. They have had to close down the board.

[Rams82]

So this could have been staged??

[inkling]

Thanks for the reports -- keep us informed! That whole hostage situation seemed a little odd to me.

[Pukin Dog]

Old news. Washington knows that the Japanese "hostages" were ALL anti-war activists. It was a setup. There are suspicions that the American hostage is playing the same game coordinated with Al-Jazerra and the insurgents.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The minute I heard that she was an "activist", I suspected that activist was a Commie News Network code word for Saddam loving America hater.

[nuconvert]

Very Interesting, thanks.

[Skywarner]

The Japanese aren't the only ones suspicious of this "kidnapping" of the three Japanese citizens.

First, the Islamofascist kidnappers say that Japan has 48 hours to begin withdrawing their forces from Iraq or the three being held will be burned alive....

The, when the 48 hours are up, the Islamofascist kidnappers just LET THEM GO?!?!??!!

It doesn't add up.

Of course, I'm not expecting the alphabet media to cover this story.

[Alia]

WOW!

[XHogPilot]

bump

[ladyinred]

So did they stage this so they could pull out without looking chicken or what?

[Mo1]

Are you serious???

[Pukin Dog]

The idiot girl emailed all her friends to warn them about how she was about to "drastically change the Iraq war" the day before she was 'kidnapped'. She even mentioned it on her own web site.

[LibWhacker]

Awwww, rats . . . And to think I was hoping they wouldn't cut her throat.

[Blood of Tyrants]

"Yahoo Japan chat board in Japanese is burning up at this hour."

Makes me wish I could read Japanese.

[Alia]

I think she was "threatened" with being burned alive.

[Pikamax]

link to that?

[nuconvert]

Update Pong

[AmericanInTokyo]

Old news? The case itself is only about 50 hours old. However, having said that, we had doubts about this expressed on FR on Thursday.

[Pukin Dog]

No link, just a heads up. I was told about it this morning.