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2015-01-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Why Japan Lacks Sympathy for the Hostages Held by ISIS

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Posted by Fred 2015-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top
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#1 Makes too much sense. Something's gone wrong, fer sure.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-24 00:23|| 2015-01-24 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, UNCONFIRMED Twitterati MESSAGES repor or claim that the ISIS/ISIL has executed the two hostages???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-01-24 00:46|| 2015-01-24 00:46|| Front Page Top

#3 their countrymen think they've brought the problem on themselves

Hurrah for Japanese.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-24 03:53|| 2015-01-24 03:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Haruna Yukawa, 42, a failed businessman who hoped to re-invent himself as a private military contractor

“The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefits program.”
~ Peter Falk as Vincent J. Ricardo, The In-Laws, 1979

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-24 04:03|| 2015-01-24 04:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey Beso: "Serpentine, Sheldon!"

Posted by ed in texas 2015-01-24 09:41|| 2015-01-24 09:41|| Front Page Top

#6 I agree with the Japanese. They knew what they were getting into when they went. Same thing for every other nationality hostage to.

Posted by chris 2015-01-24 10:22|| 2015-01-24 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Reports starting to circulate in the ME that both Japanese hostages have been beheaded.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-24 11:56|| 2015-01-24 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Other reports in the ME of a video of one Japanese hostage holding a picture of the other Japanese beheaded body.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-24 12:00|| 2015-01-24 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 1 beheaded according to Fox News

Posted by Frank G 2015-01-24 12:03|| 2015-01-24 12:03|| Front Page Top

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