Zarqawi group takes Japanese hostage
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worked with Japanese forces in Iraq if Tokyo does not withdraw its forces from the country within 48 hours. &quot;We grant the Japanese government 48 hours to withdraw its troops from Iraq or this infidel will meet the same fate as Berg ... and.
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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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The group led by wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has said it has abducted a member of Japan&#39;s armed forces and is threatening to behead him if the Japanese government does not withdraw its troops from Iraq within 48 hours.
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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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A group threatened to execute a Japanese hostage in Iraq unless Japan pulls out its forces, but Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Wednesday that the Japanese troops would remain in the country.
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Japan has vowed to keep troops in Iraq despite the beheading of one of its citizens by militants. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s group had said it would killed Shosei Koda, 24, within 48 hours if Japan did not withdraw its troops.
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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 video on a militant Islamic Web site Tuesday showed a captive it said was a Japanese man kidnapped by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group and threatened to behead him within 48 hours unless Japan pulls its troops from Iraq.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi said it would behead a member of Japan's forces it  had abducted in Iraq if the Japanese government did not  withdraw its forces from the country within 48 hours.
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TOKYO -- A report says the Japanese government has confirmed that a decapitated body found in Iraq is that of a Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants earlier this week.
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Efforts to rescue a Japanese hostage in Iraq continued Wednesday with a call from Japan&#39;s foreign minister on the abductors to free the young man while the British hostage in
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who leads a militant group affiliated with the al-Qaida network, on Tuesday claimed that his group is responsible for the murder of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, while repeating demands that Japan pull its troops out of Iraq.
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A militant group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility Monday for kidnapping and then releasing three family members of Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi.
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A Japanese hostage has been beheaded in Iraq, Japanese officials said on Sunday, but Tokyo vowed it would keep its troops in the country on their reconstruction mission.
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A militant group in Iraq claims to be holding a Japanese citizen and gives Tokyo 48 hours to withdraw troops.
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US forces have captured a man described as a senior commander of a militant group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi government said on Wednesday.
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Gunmen kidnapped a Japanese engineer in a highway ambush in central Iraq on Wednesday, police said.