- MAHMUDIYA, Iraq (Reuters)
- An Iraqi driver working for two missing Japanese journalists said both
were killed in an attack on their vehicle south of Baghdad, the director
of the hospital where their bodies were taken says.
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- Hospital administrator Imad al-Maliki told Reuters on
Friday the bodies were almost completely incinerated in the rocket attack
on Thursday afternoon, but the driver of the vehicle had told him they
were the bodies of two freelance Japanese journalists.
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- Japanese Dead Journalist - UPDATE From Tokyo
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- Commentary
By Toshikazu Yamaguchi Tokyo, Japan
5-29-4
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- Dear Mr Rense,
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- Thank you for posting my email yesterday ( http://www.rense.com/general53/BBCliedagain.htm),
todays news amplify what I wrote you yesterday.
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- I would like to update you that now more Japanese people
feel that a government hit-squad assassinated our Journalists. The reason
is in the enclosed report below.
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- The question that many Japanese are asking today is:
When every Iraqi knows that he could get one million US dollars for every
Japanese, why would any Iraqi kill the Japanese?
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- Thank You,
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- Toshikazu Yamaguchi
Tokyo, Japan
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- http://www.japantoday.com/
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- Japanese reporter may have been shot to death after attack
Saturday, May 29, 2004 at 12:48 JST
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- BAGHDAD - A body, believed
to be one of the two freelance Japanese journalists attacked Thursday in
Iraq, was found about 10 kilometers south of the attack site, leading local
police to speculate that he survived the initial attack and was shot dead
later.
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- According to the sources, the body was found in Yusufiyah
with a bullet in the head.
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