Mad Dan wrote:
> "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.
> 
> He is a very silly person.
> 
> (Which is not to say he deserves beheading, but really! Silly Billy!)

'Mr Koda had told him he planned to take a public bus the next day to 
Iraq "simply because he wanted to see it" and said he would be "just 
fine" when Mr Shinomiya tried to dissuade him.'

Well, he's having an excellent first hand look now.