Beheaded Body of Shosei Koda Identified

From the Associated Press:

A decapitated body wrapped in an American flag and found in an insurgent-controlled section of Baghdad was that of a Japanese man kidnapped by Islamic militants, a Japanese official said Sunday.

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said in Tokyo that the government confirmed that the body found Saturday was that of Shosei Koda, 24.

Fingerprints from the body were sent to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, and police experts there positively identified the body as Koda's. Koda was beheaded by an al-Qaida-linked group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

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