ANTI-USA/PRO-ACTIVIST JAPANESE WEBSITE OF JAPAN 'HOSTAGE' FOUND/TRANSLATED (IRAQ)

Noriaki Imai Website (in Japanese) ^ | 8 April 2004 | AmericanInTokyo (Freepranslation/Research)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Discovered, just now, on the internet in Japanese, and translated by Freeper “AmericanInTokyo”. This is the last e-mail dispatch (yesterday) in Japanese by Mr. Imai, who is reported to have been taken hostage and threatened with death by terrorists in Iraq, along with (2) other young Japanese.

The writings are on a Japanese language website that gives strong indication that the kidnapped Mr. Noriaki Imai was connected to an anti-American, pro-peace activist group in Japan, with activities centering on "DU" (depleted uranium) and the US mission in Iraq. To readers in Japan, he makes reference to his dangerous travel yesterday from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad, along with another Japanese who is also listed as a kidnap victim. It is now reported he and the other two Japanese never made it to Baghdad, and have been given three days to live by Islamofascist terrorists.

The Japanese website of the kidnapped Japanese Mr. Imai is: http://www.nodu-hiroshima.org/

Further, he writes in his e mail (yesterday) that he his being accompanied by Miss Nahoko Takahashi (who has also been captured and threatened with death). One can conclude that either the hostages were sympathetic to the enemy but are being used by them, or there is perhaps a conspiracy by the “hostages” to get Japan to withdraw from Iraq (since that was the intent of the political homepage, in Japanese, of Mr. Imai and his associates) URL:

Text:

”E mail from Imai-san, on Wednesday, April 7, at around 3:00 a.m. “This is Imai. I am sending this to various people. I had intended to depart around 6:00 a.m., but now it is 10:00 a.m. and I am leaving. Well, there is a lot of concern about the safety of the situation, but in another sense there are also no concerns about safety, so I am just leaving it up to fate, as it were.

” I met a ‘free cameraman’ at the Cliff (spelling) Hotel, and got along well with that person. He said he is going to Baghdad by chance, both both Ms. Takahashi (note: also a hostage) and he and I will go down there together. I also met, per chance, Ms. Noriko Morisawa at the Cliff Hotel. I talked a lot with her until just now. I also learned that ( also a journalist) Ms. Mizue Furuya is also here in Amman, so I have become a little more happy.

At any rate, tomorrow (it will be near midnight in Japan), I think we will reach Baghdad. After that, we can go with the JVC’s Hara-san to Mansour Hospital as well as Central Hospital. At any rate, it looks like I can move around with Hara in Baghdad for the time being.

Regarding photograph(s), it is difficult to say if I can get photos in Baghdad because of the chaotic situation ,but I did get photos in Amman.

I don’t think I can send another email from Amman, but I should be able to send from Baghdad next time. Of course, I hope it will be easy, but the situation has considerably worsened from yesterday, so I am a bit concerned.

At any rate, I want to pray for the fate of both Takahashi-san and the free cameraman we are with. From, a little nervous Imai.” (Note: Imai is with Ms. Takahashi. And you can access her website from Iraq at http://www.clubwee.com/bbs2/light.cgi

[scarface367]

Thanks a lot for posting this. Also, how sure are we that Imai is/was involved with anti-war/pro-peace activities?

[Kramer_AL]

Kurt Russell playing Wyatt Earp said it in the movie Tombstone... not sure if the real Earp actually ever said it or not.

[thedugal]

As soon as I saw the news report on Japanese news I got the feeling it was either staged or the kidnappers were at least associates of the peaceniks. One thing that strikes me odd is what the kidnappers are demanding, that the JSDF be withdrawn completely in 3 days. It sounds like something that a Japanese peacenik would think of, not something a Muslim terrorist would think of. Too unrealistic and immature, very typical of young Japanese, atypical of Islamonutters.

[MarMema]

You would have thought these peaceniks would have learned a lesson with him.

But way before Danny Pearl, aid workers, red cross personnel, baptist ministers, and humanitarian peoples were being caught, held and killed in brutal ways in Chechnya.

The chechens taught their fellow muslims how to run the deals and use kidnappings. Back in the mid-nineties. And just around that time they ran a human slave market in Grozny, where they sold and traded hundreds of kidnapped people. Until Russia leveled Grozny....and the world told the Russians what bad guys they were to pick on the poor chechens.

[MarMema]

In fact the site Kavkaz.org, is run by one of the largest former slave traders from chechnya, before he was run out of the country.
He now lives in Turkey and the Turks refuse to deliver him to Russia for trial.

[arasina]

Pinging you to this very interesting find! Investigate and get the word out!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thanks. I am sure there will be much more today in the news reporting cycle. The Japanese media I have seen so far today purposely did not go into the 'han sen' (anti war) proclivities of one, two or all of the Japanese hostages.

Nevertheless, the 'han sen' ites in Japan are now going into the streets, ramping up their anti-US and anti-SDF Iraq deployment activities and banners.

My, how "convenient"?????

[BrooklynGOP]

Yea, what's his name...Udugov? I used to read kavkaz.org and qoqaz.net all the time.

[jjm2111]

Good find and thanks for the hard work, very interesting. This is what makes FR so worthwhile.

[Publius6961]

Your name isn't Red Chief is it?

[olde north church]

No, sir. This is the only identity I have ever posted/replied under.
Respectfully,
ONC

[livius]

Al Sadr is now coming out and saying they didn't kidnap anybody and his followers wouldn't do something like that. For what it's worth...

[arasina]

BTTT

[AmericanInTokyo]

This KIDNAPPING OF JAPANESE IN IRAQ looks more and more like a staged, anti-USA/anti-Japan Self Defense Forces 'set up' by Japanese Rachel Corrie-type leftists.

At any rate, here, as follows (today, 9 April), is the anti-USA/anti-Japan propagandist garbage that the Japanese organization of Mr. Imai (one of the 'hostages' in Iraq right now) is putting out on its Japanese website at this moment ( http://www.nodu-hiroshima.org/ ) . They have rushed up new e mail hotlinks to the Prime Minister's office and the Foreign Ministry of Japan, urging people in Japan and worldwide to ask the 'mujahadeen' to not harm the 'hostages' but also for Japan TO WITHDRAW SDF TROOPS FROM JAPAN. Again, this group is called "DU" (strange coincidence), for "Depleted Uranium", which is it's self-proclaimed "mission" in Iraq.

Here is the questionable text:

(English) "Appeal for the Release of the three Japanese Taken Hostage in Iraq Issued by the Anti-DU (Depleted Uranium) Groups in Japan April 8, 2004 Today Mr. Noriaki Imai, 18 years old, and two other other Japanese were taken hostage by an armed group in Iraq. Mr. Imai is a member of the Campaign to Abolish DU (Depleted Uranium) as well as director of the NO DU Sapporo Project. The armed group has issued the statement to the effect that they will kill them unless Self-Defense Forces of Japan withdraws within three days. Mr. Imai has been deeply saddened by the fact that many innocent Iraqi children have been suffering from cancer and leukemia. He has become engaged in the activity for abolition of depleted uranium so that DU weapons would not be used again. He has been opposing of Iraq War and the dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq. He went to Iraq in order to see the reality of the DU damage by his own eyes and convey it to as many people as possible. He has been planning to produce a picture booklet about Iraqi children as a means for such purpose. Japanese Government should not have such well-meaning citizens killed. We request that Japanese Government hold the regard for life to be of the greatest importance. It should not be allowed to sacrifice citizens for the sake of the Self-Defense Forces deployed in Iraq. What is needed most in Iraq now is not to send an army, but to extend medical relief for the still increasing victims by the war and the DU weapons. We demand strongly that Japanese Government withdraw the Self-Defense Forces immediately and to try every means to save the three hostages as soon as possible. As the fighting intensifies, similar captures can occur to the civilians of many nationalities engaged in the relief activities in Iraq. On the previous day three shells fell just near the base camp of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in Samawah. Now that the whole land of Iraq including Samawah area has become the fighting field, the condition of not sending the SDF to a fighting field has already collapsed. The swift withdrawal of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces must be the sincere hope of the majority of the people, not only that of particular groups, in Iraq. Anti-DU Groups in Japan Campaign for Abolition of DU Weapons, Tokyo Citizens Network for DU Abolition, NO DU Hiroshima Project , NO DU Sapporo Project, Hokkaido Peace Net"

(English Translation)

[Redbob]

But there's really nothing in that translated e-mail to suggest the hostage situation was faked, and I certainly don't find it surprising that a "journalist" is a part of some anti-American organization!

Take Peter Jennings for instance... Please!

[AmericanInTokyo]

if you were going to fake something like a bogus kidnapping for political purposes, one would suppose you might not make a straight out reference to your impending tactic, right on the internet in e mails. i am simply putting 2 and 2 together, and coming up with something very fishy about this whole thing. thanks, by the way, about the peter jennings observation. one thing is sure, two of the three appear to be rachel corrie types, and either they faked it, or they did not fake it, but are in danger, and must be very surprised that the people they allied with are going to kill them--they must hope for saviors in the form of US or Japanese hostage-rescue special forces. let's see.

[Bigg Red]

Kurt Russell playing Wyatt Earp said it in the movie Tombstone...

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Thanks. I was hoping it was someone in our military, though.
(BTW, I think you mistyped and put in commin' for comin'. )

[VOA]

bump -- get the truth out about this likely ruse by these leftist/pacifist wackos

[M Kehoe]

Good one.

5.56mm

[jpsb]

Tragically stupid. I hope he and his friends survive.