Posted on 10/28/2004 10:04:17 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan was checking a media report on Friday that an Asian body had been found in Iraq after a deadline expired for the beheading of a Japanese youth whose captors had demanded that Tokyo withdraw its troops.
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A Japanese youth? How old was this hostage? Sad, if he has been butchered by the terrorist scum, but I doubt if he is a teenager.
Anyone have any more info? Do you think Japan will cave a la Spain?
The story lists his age as 24 if I am reading it correctly.
24? That's an adult. A young adult, perhaps, but not a youth which implies at the very most, a teen-ager.
Current news reports state it may not be the Japanese hostage's body.
I agree. I haven't heard too much about the female hostage the last day or so.
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