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Japan’s Beheaded IllusionsTOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was on a six-day tour of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine, when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) posted a video online threatening to murder two Japanese hostages, Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, if his government did not pay $200 million within 72 hours.

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And it turned out that lots of the hostages died as a result of inhaling the gas.

The final toll of hostages is a little unclear, but it's certainly a few more than that, because other people died over the next few days.

During the Mumbai siege, terrorists were so dependent on technology that several witnesses reported that as the terrorists were shooting hostages with one hand, they were checking their mobile phone messages in the very other hand.

I also know that I'm very lucky compared to other hostages.

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