Iraq body &#39;not Japanese hostage&#39;
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A body found in Iraq first thought to be that of 24-year-old Japanese hostage Shosei Koda is now likely to be someone else, according to Japanese officials.
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A mutilated body found in Iraq is not that of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan, the British government said Wednesday. But the Foreign Office said it continued to believe Hassan had been murdered, although the evidence was not conclusive.
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A body found in downtown Baghdad Sunday has been identified as that of a Japanese man abducted by a militant group, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said.
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BAGHDAD: A body found in Iraq cannot be confirmed as that of a young Japanese man taken hostage and the corpse has been sent to Qatar for identification, Japan&#39;s Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa said yesterday.
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An Iraqi official said a man who is in custody is not a top deputy of former president Saddam Hussein, as had been suspected earlier.
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TOKYO  - A body found in Iraq resembles a Japanese civilian taken hostage by Islamic militants and threatened with death, but the government has not yet positively identified it, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
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THE body of a Western woman found in Fallujah was not that of Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker believed murdered in Iraq, the Foreign Office said yesterday.
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The Kyodo news agency said a doctor at the Japanese embassy in Kuwait confirmed Saturday a body found in Iraq is not that of a Japanese citizen.
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TOKYO - The Japanese government convened an emergency session Friday following a media report that a body believed to be Asian was discovered in Iraq.
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By Natalie Obiko Pearson, Associated Press, 10/30/2004 01:52. TOKYO  A body resembling a Japanese hostage held by Islamic militants has been found in Iraq, the government announced Saturday, and officials
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The body of an Asian man found in Iraq does not resemble a Japanese hostage and was shot dead two days ago, well before a deadline to execute the young traveller expired, forensic experts said.
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Japan has said it will keep its troops in Iraq, despite the beheading of a Japanese hostage by Islamic militants. Officials had earlier confirmed that a body found in Baghdad yesterday was that of Shosei Koda
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TOKYO: A body resembling a Japanese hostage who was studying English in New Zealand just weeks ago has been found in Iraq and is being shipped to Qatar for identification.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday he won't withdraw troops from Iraq despite information a Japanese man has been taken hostage there, Kyodo News reported.
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&quot;There is a possibility that this is the body of the Japanese hostage, but it has yet to be identified,&quot; a ministry spokesman said on Saturday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says Japan won&#39;t yield to terrorism by withdrawing its troops from Iraq, in response to reports an Iraqi group kidnapped a Japanese
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A decapitated body wrapped in an American flag and found in an insurgent-controlled section of Baghdad was that of a Japanese man kidnapped by Islamic militants, a Japanese official said Sunday.