Body Found In Iraq Not Japanese Hostage
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Tikrit, Iraq -- Iraqi officials say a body found near Tikrit is not that of a Japanese hostage. Initial reports that a bullet riddled Asian body had been found had upset Japan.
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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 Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura announces that Japanese govenment has confirmed that a depapitated body found in Iraq is that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda during an emergency news conference in Tokyo Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004.
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A body found in Iraq resembles a Japanese civilian taken hostage and threatened with execution, but the Japanese government has not yet positively identified it, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
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Japan has confirmed that the headless body found in Baghdad on Saturday is of the Japanese being held captive in Iraq. An armed group in Iraq had on Tuesday threatened to behead Shosei Koda, 24, within 48-hours unless Japan pulled its troops out of Iraq.
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The 48-hour deadline for the execution of a Japanese hostage being held in Iraq, has passed, as the Koyodo newsagency reports that a body has been found in Tikrit.
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TOKYO The Japanese government has convened an emergency session. This, after a report that a body believed to be Asian was discovered in Iraq.
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The body of an American hostage in Iraq, whose beheading was shown on a video on the Internet, has been recovered and identified, a US official said on Monday.
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Japan said no member of its military  stationed in Iraq is missing, after a group led by al Qaeda  ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi threatened to behead a Japanese  hostage in Iraq if Tokyo did not withdraw its forces from the  country.
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Dental records have proved that the body of a Western woman found in Iraq is not that of hostage Margaret Hassan but London still thinks she is probably dead, the Foreign Office says.
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The British government confirmed Wednesday that a Western woman&#39;s body found by US forces in Iraq last month was not that of British hostage Magaret Hassan, who wasbelieved to be killed by her captors.
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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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There are reports that a body reportedly found in Iraq may belong to a young Japanese hostage.
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The body of a man found by the US military in Iraq is not likely to be that of 24-year-old Japanese national Shosei Koda, who was kidnapped in the country, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima said.
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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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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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Japan hasn&#39;t confirmed a news report that a body, believed to be that of an Asian male, was found in Iraq, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters in Tokyo.