Iraq Militants Issue Hostage Death Threat to Japan
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Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s militant group threatened to behead a Japanese hostage it said worked with Japan&#39;s forces in Iraq if Tokyo did not withdraw its troops from the country within 48 hours.
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Militants have piled more pressure on Washington's military allies in Iraq, seizing an Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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An armed group in Iraq has taken a Japanese traveler hostage and threatened to kill him unless Tokyo withdraws its Self-Defense Forces troops from the country within 48 hours, government officials said in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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Insurgents in Iraq threatened Saturday  to kill 13 hostages, including two Americans and a Briton, and  staged car bomb attacks killing 23 people in Kirkuk and two  U.S. soldiers near Baghdad.
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Insurgents in Iraq have threatened to kill 13 hostages, including two Americans and a Briton, and staged car bomb attacks killing 23 people in Kirkuk and two US soldiers near Baghdad.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi threatened to behead a Japanese hostage it said worked with Japanese forces in Iraq if Tokyo did not withdraw its forces from the country within 48 hours.
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A decapitated body found in Iraq was identified Sunday as a Japanese backpacker taken hostage by Islamic militants, but Tokyo insisted it would not cut short its dispatch of troops there and vowed to combat terrorism.
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A video posted Tuesday on a militant Islamic Web site in the name of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s group showed what it claimed was a Japanese captive and threatened to behead him within
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Militants piled more pressure on the United States&#39; military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under death threat.
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The family of a Japanese man being held hostage in Iraq begged for his life on Friday after the expiry of a deadline set by his captors, who have threatened to behead him unless Japan withdrew its troops.
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A headless body found in Baghdad has been confirmed as that of a Japanese hostage whose captors had threatened to kill him if Japan did not pull out its troops, Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said on Sunday.
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Video posted Tuesday on a militant Islamic Web site showed what it claimed was a Japanese captive kidnapped by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group and threatened to behead him within 48 hours unless Japan pulls its troops from Iraq. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rejected the demand.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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Insurgents threatened to behead two  Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad on Saturday and  launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in  the northern city of Kirkuk that killed at least 23 people.
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A group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it would behead a member of Japan&#39;s forces it had captured in Iraq if the Japanese government did not withdraw its forces from the country within 48 hours.
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Japanese leaders struggled on Thursday to make contact with Islamic militants in Iraq who took a Japanese traveler hostage as the 48-hour deadline approached for the young man's threatened beheading. Tokyo stood firm in its refusal to meet the kidnappers' demand to withdraw troops from Iraq.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi  insisted on Wednesday that Japan would not withdraw its troops  from Iraq despite a threat by a militant group to behead a  Japanese hostage unless Tokyo pulled them out.