Japanese hostages stick up for their captors

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/01/1083224593654.html

May 1, 2004 - 12:07AM

Despite being held captive for more than a week and threatened with death, two Japanese people kidnapped in Iraq expressed sympathy for their captors yesterday.

In their first public remarks since they were taken hostage on April 9 and released nine days later, 18-year-old aid volunteer Noriaki Imai and photojournalist Soichiro Koriyama, 32 , said they were kidnapped at a gas station near Fallujah after taking a detour from the highway to Baghdad.

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Koriyama and Imai said they were treated relatively well most of the time.

Imai said the abductors told them to act afraid and to cry during the video, but added that they were rough with them while the cameras were on "and so it was really frightening".

But he said they had been assured before the video that they would not be killed.


Seems the Iraqi 'terrorists' know how to treat people a lot better, than most of our US forces? What a contrast. And we're supposed to be the civilized ones?

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1. Looks like

after the recent photos, Fallujah and Najah we have guaranteed that the United States will have noting to offer the Iraqi of Arabs. They'll not allow us to have a thing to do with the formation of a new government. Maybe I'm missing something.