"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.