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Japan Will Not Withdraw Troops from Iraq, Despite Kidnapping of 3 Civilians1
Steve Herman
Task forces have been set up in Tokyo at the prime minister's office and the Foreign Ministry2 to deal with what is evolving into the biggest crisis the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has faced in its two-and-a-half years in office.
Japan's government says it is working with the United States and other coalition3 partners in Iraq to find out more about the previously4 unknown Iraqi group, the Mujahideen Brigades, that reportedly says it will kill its three Japanese hostages if Japan does not agree to withdraw its peace-keeping troops from Iraq within three days.
A defiant5 government spokesman, Yasuo Fukuda, says the Japanese troops in southern Iraq are going nowhere.
Mr. Fukuda, the chief cabinet secretary, says Japan will demand that the three be safely released. He says their apparent abduction is an unforgivable act.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi says she learned of the kidnappings through a call to the ministry from the Arabic-language satellite television channel, Al-Jazeera, saying it would soon be broadcasting videotape of two kidnapped men and one woman.
The foreign minister says she is dispatching Vice6 Foreign Minister Ichiro Aizawa to Jordan Friday afternoon, to coordinate7 efforts in the Middle East to gain the safe release of the hostages.
The Al-Jazeera footage of the three civilians, blindfolded9 and surrounded by gunmen, is being continually rebroadcast on Japanese television.
The videotape shows the hostages' passports and other identification. The three are identified as 33-year-old Nahoko Takato, a woman volunteer doing aid work with Iraqi children; 32-year-old freelance journalist Soichiro Koriyama; and 18-year-old Noriaki Imai, who graduated from high school in northern Japan just last month.
Task forces 任务部队
Tokyo [5tEukjEu] n. 东京(日本首都)
previously [5pri:vju:slI] adv. 先前,以前
Mujahideen Brigades 回教圣战旅
hostage [5hCstidV] n. 人质
defiant [di5faiEnt] adj. 挑战的,挑衅的
abduction [Ab5dQkFEn] n. 诱导
unforgivable [5QnfE5^ivEbl] adj. 不可原谅[饶恕]的
kidnapping [5kidnApiN] n. 诱拐,拐骗
broadcast [5brC:dkB:st] v. 广播
dispatching [dis5pAtF] vt. 分派,派遣
footage [5futidV] n. 连续镜头
blindfold8 [5blaindfEuld] vt. 将……眼睛蒙起来,蒙骗
freelance n. 自由作家,自由记者
journalist [5dVE:nElist] n. 新闻记者
1 civilians | |
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓 | |
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3 coalition | |
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合 | |
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adj.无礼的,挑战的 | |
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6 vice | |
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的 | |
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7 coordinate | |
adj.同等的,协调的;n.同等者;vt.协作,协调 | |
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8 blindfold | |
vt.蒙住…的眼睛;adj.盲目的;adv.盲目地;n.蒙眼的绷带[布等]; 障眼物,蒙蔽人的事物 | |
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v.(尤指用布)挡住(某人)的视线( blindfold的过去式 );蒙住(某人)的眼睛;使不理解;蒙骗 | |
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