Zarqawi takes credit for Japanese slaying
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The Iraqi militant group led by al-Qaida associate Abu Musab Zarqawi took credit on a Web site Tuesday for the beheading of a Japanese hostage, Kyodo reported.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Iraqi army recruits, according to an Internet statement.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi showed the beheading of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda in Iraq while he was lying on top of a US flag in an Internet video posted on Tuesday.
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Sky News and Reuters are both reporting at this hour that Japanese AQ hostage 24-year-old Shosei Koda, has been decapitated by the terrorists who held him in Iraq.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed on Sunday that Japanese troops would continue their domestically unpopular mission in Iraq after Islamic militants demanding a pullout killed a 24-year-old Japanese tourist.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is now claiming responsibility for two explosions in Baghdad today that killed three Americans and two others.
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BAGHDAD - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who heads a group of Islamic extremists affiliated with the al-Qaida network, said in a statement posted on a website Tuesday that his group is responsible for the murder of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, while repeating
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[World News]: Tokyo, Oct.31 : The Japanese government on Sunday confirmed that a decapitated body found in Iraq is that of a Japanese hostage taken hostage by Islamic militants earlier this week.
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TOKYO - A Japanese civilian taken hostage in Iraq by militants has been killed, Kyodo News agency reported Saturday, citing Japanese government officials.
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TOKYO -- A Japanese government official said a body found in Iraq resembles a Japanese civilian taken hostage by militants. But he said the man&#39;s remains haven&#39;t been positively identified yet.
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The organization of &quot;Qaida al-Jihad in the Mesopotamia&quot; which is led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it had kidnapped one member of the Japanese forces in Iraq and threatened to execute him if Tokyo will not withdraw its forces from Iraq 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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Statements posted on an Islamic Web site claim the group headed by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was responsible for two major attacks in Iraq yesterday that killed a total of more than 59 people.
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A group led by Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed in the Internet that it masterminded attacks that killed at least 38 people in Baghdad and the cities of Samarra and Ramadi on Saturday.
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As Tokyo Correspondent Mark Simkin reports, the remains of Shosei Koda were found in Baghdad. &quot;The decapitated body was wrapped in an American flag.
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A body found in Iraq is probably that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, taken captive by an Islamic militant group in Iraq, according to information obtained by the Japanese government.
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The Islamic militant group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi reportedly claims to have taken a Japanese citizen hostage in Iraq. In a video shown on the Internet, the group threatens to execute him if Tokyo does not withdraw its troops from Iraq in 48 hours.