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China-Japan-Koreas
Japan Student Suspected Of Trying To Join Islamic State
2014-10-08
[Ynet] Tokyo police are investigating the possibility that a Japanese student tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday, as the United States carries out air strikes on Lion of Islam targets.

Suga did not elaborate, but the Asahi Shimbun daily said police questioned a 26-year-old man, taking leave of absence from Hokkaido University in north Japan, about plans to go to Syria to join Islamic State as a fighter.

"I am aware police conducted a search based on the criminal law. But I would like to refrain from going into details because the matter is under investigation," Suga told a news conference.
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