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