Video Shows Beheading of Japanese Hostage

Politics | November 2, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00

A group led by al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi showed the beheading of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda in Iraq in an Internet video posted on Tuesday. The video showed the execution of the Japanese hostage while he was lying on top of a US flag. Al-Qaeda Organisation of Holy War in Iraq also warned Tokyo to withdraw its forces from Iraq or "drown in the hell of the mujahideen" in the country along with "crusader forces".

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