Japanese hostage reported killed in Iraq
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A JAPANESE hostage abducted in Iraq has been killed, the Kyodo news agency reported last night. A body found near the town of Tikrit was identified as that of Shosei Koda, a 24-year-old
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BAGHDAD - A militant Islamic group has killed three hostages in Iraq, a video posted on its website shows. The three men, identified as members of an Iraqi Kurdish group, were killed for helping the Americans, a statement accompanying the tape said.
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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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October 29, 2004 -- BAGHDAD, Iraq - The body of an Asian man â-ith gunshot wounds to the head and body â - reportedly found in Tikrit last night after the deadline passed for Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, who had been shown in a video aired early
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A body resembling a Japanese captive has been found in Iraq and is being shipped to Qatar for identification, Japanese officials have said.
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A body resembling a Japanese hostage has  been found in Iraq and is being shipped to Qatar for  identification, Japanese officials said on Saturday, after  Tokyo refused a demand by his captors to pull out its troops.
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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.
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Al Jazeera television said on Thursday an Iraqi group had killed an Italian hostage who appeared in video footage aired by the Arabic channel.
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Japan on Sunday denounced the beheading of a Japanese hostage in Iraq after a day that saw the heaviest United States casualties for six months and the bloodiest attack on a media organisation since the start of the war.
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BAGHDADâA militant group has claimed to have killed two hostages, one a Turk and the other an Iraqi who was a longtime resident in Italy, the Arab news network Al-Jazeera reported yesterday.
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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's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa said.
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An American hostage in Iraq has been killed by his captors, who say they will also kill a second American and a Briton they are holding, a message on an Islamist Web site said Monday.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  - British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been killed by his captors in Iraq, Abu Dhabi television reported Friday. Britain and the U.S. military in Iraq said they could not confirm the report.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley kidnapped on Sept. 16 by militants in Iraq has been murdered by the captors, Bigley&#39;s brother confirmed Friday.
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A militant Islamic website showed a video Tuesday of what it claimed was a Japanese hostage, and threatened to behead him within 48 hours unless Japan pulls out its troops from Iraq, the Associated Press reported.
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An Italian captive identified as Salvatore Santoro has been killed by his captors in Iraq , Aljazeera television reported. Aljazeera on Thursday broadcast pictures of Santoro&#39;s passport and showed him sitting
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  - British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been killed by his captors in Iraq, Abu Dhabi television reported Friday. The British Foreign Office said it could not confirm the report.