Haluk Skywalker wrote:
 > "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com>, haber iletisinde sunlari
 > yazdi:73fde4f0.0410271421.79961670@posting.google.com...
 >
 >> "mr.sumo.snr" <llanelli14NOSPAMSHIT@yahoo.com> wrote in message
 >
 > news:<wEAfd.1$v96.0@fe64.usenetserver.com>...
 >
 >>> http://tinyurl.com/6s5gj
 >>>
 >>> Sounds a lot more serious than the two guys seized earlier this
 >>> year.
 >>
 > Bit
 >
 >>> of a shitty month all round for Japan - typhoon, quakes and now a
 >>>
 >>
 > hostage
 >
 >>> crisis.  Almost 100 dead in the last two weeks is going to pale
 >>> in significance if or when we see video footage of a Japanese guy
 >>> getting
 >>
 > his
 >
 >>> head butchered.  Sad but true. Poor bastard.
 >>
 >> Thing is, it's not like there isn't enough press coverage about how
 >>  Iraq isn't exactly a tourist destination. What shocked me more
 >> than his kidnapping is that there is evidently a major route
 >> between Jordan and Iraq that is known but not secure.
 >>
 >> John W.
 >
 >
 > Now the man having been murdered already; I wonder what kind of press
 >  coverage are there now.
 >
I read somewhere that there isn't expected to be a huge backlash since
the guy went there as a tourist. Seems a lot of Japanese recognize that 
as a boneheaded thing to do. Doesn't mean he deserved what he got; from 
what I read his intentions were mostly positive in that he wanted to 
find a way to help the Iraqi people. That's what made me initially think 
he was related to the group that was captured and released a few months 
back. Imagine the pain his family's going through.

John W.