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==External links== |
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'''''WARNING:''''' '''The first link has graphic content depicting a decapitation''' - Also <nowiki>Ogrish.com</nowiki> states that only people who are '''18 and older''' may go to the site (again applying to the first link). |
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*<nowiki>http://www.ogrish.com/archives/2004/november/OGRISH-dot-com-ogrish-dot-com-shosei-koda-beheading-video.wmv</nowiki> - Shosei Koda beheading video. |
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*[http://www.al-hesbah.org/v/showthread.php?t=16553 Forum Thread with Koda's Kidnapping] |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 01:01, 29 August 2006
Shosei Koda (香田証生 Kōda Shōsei, November 29, 1979–November 3, 2004) was a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped and later beheaded in Iraq on November 3, 2004 while touring the country.
The captors demanded that the Japanese government withdraw its humanitarian forces from Iraq; the Japanese government refused to give in to the demand. His captors had connections to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
He entered Iraq on October 19 2004 because he stated that "he wanted to know what is happening there", according to Kyodo News.
In his execution video, his three captors stand while Koda sits on the American flag. Koda has his hands tied behind his back and is blind-folded while a captor, behind him, reads a speech which lasts for 2 minutes and 10 seconds. After that, the captors place him on the ground and hold him down as they begin to behead him.
Throughout the beheading, the captors chant, "Allāhu Akbar," which is Arabic for "God is Great."
The video ends with shots of Koda's blood-covered, severed head on top of his body and a few seconds of shots with the banner of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal Jihad.