Sep 13, 2008 19:32
The circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and killing of Japanese aid worker Kazuya Ito in Afghanistan last month remain unclear. In the web journal Japan Focus, Michael Penn conjectures that Ito's death resulted from a "botched effort to abduct him, not . . . premeditated murder." The gunshot wounds that caused Ito to bleed to death may have been inflicted in the shootout between his kidnappers and local police. Penn discusses two plausible reasons for the abduction. One is that Pakistani militant groups carried it out in order to undermine the rehabilitation efforts of the current regime in Kabul. The other is that this past summer Japan was considering sending Ground Self-Defense Force troops to Afghanistan, and while the proposal has since been shelved, such talk may have...Read the full story
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