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Man believed to be Japanese journalist held hostage in Syria freed
[IsraelTimes] Japan’s government says a man believed to be a Japanese freelance journalist who went missing three years ago while in Syria has been released and is now in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says Japan was informed by Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
that the man, believed to be journalist Jumpei Yasuda, has been released.

Yasuda was last heard from in Syria in 2015.

Suga said Qatar’s government told Japanese officials that the man is being protected by the Ottoman Turkish authorities and is being identified, and that he is most likely Yasuda.

Suga said he has notified Yasuda’s family of the news.

Yasuda started reporting on the Middle East in the early 2000s. He was taken hostage in Iraq in 2004 with three other Japanese, but was freed after Islamic holy mans negotiated his release.

His most recent trip to Syria was in 2015 to report on his journalist friend Kenji Goto, who was taken hostage and killed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.
Al Masdar adds:
Yasuda was reportedly taken hostage by the hard-line group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham

Posted by: trailing wife 2018-10-24
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