On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:39:44 GMT, "FreddieM" <anbel2973@dlink.net>
wrote:

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><Amoredben@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:9218a0e.0404251824.9b03650@posting.google.com...
>> min10012@yahoo.com (min10012) wrote in message
>news:<4b73f353.0404170423.2c56e179@posting.google.com>...
>> > Gov't to ask 3 ex-hostages to cover some costs
>> > http://news.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=295508
>> >
>> > JAP government will ask 3 Jap hostages freed in Iraq to pay some for
>> > the costs it took to rescue them.
>> >
>> > For plane costs, medical checkups costs etc.
>>
>> Why is everyone in Japan so pissed at those hostages? Is it because
>> they felt they were stupid to go to a warzone? I read some Japanese
>> think the whole kidnapping was a hoax, because they were left wing
>> activists. What does everyone here think?
>
>There was always some suspicion that it was a staged "hoax" kidnapping
>because of the activities these hostages were involved in earlier.
>But from I could tell, what really got the Japanese public pissed was the
>behavior and attutude of some of the relatives, mostly the younger brother
>and sister
>of the 34 year old woman. There were all over the TV blaming the govt,
>foreign policy,
>the USA, the prime minister, the SDF...basically everyone except the
>kindnappers.
>Then they demanded that the JP govt abide by the kidnappers demands and pull
>what
>few troops they have in Iraq out. Alot of viwers thought they were being
>pretty self centered
>expecting the country to do absolutely everything for these hostages,
>particularly when
>the JP govt had issed warnings 13 times in 2004 for JP nationalsa not to go
>into Iraq.
>The behavior of the relatives was so bad that the mother of the 34 year
>hostage apologized
>for her son and daughters behavior on TV. Looks like public sentiment has
>not been
>with the released hostages ever since, paricularly as there have been some
>"indicators"
>that maybe the 3 hostages were in fact in on some plot with the kidnappers.
>
>
>
The Japanese government should kill the 3 bastards and be done with
them.




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