Reply #5: Aisawa would be wise NOT to visit Fallujah. [View All]

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He said resistance fighters also wanted Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Ichiro Aisawa, now in Amman as Tokyo's point-man for the crisis, to visit the rebel town of Fallujah west of Baghdad to "see the massacres perpetrated by US forces" there.

If I were a member of the Iraqi resistance, and I was of the mindset that taking hostages might work, I'd be drooling over the chance to abduct a member of Japan's government.

Not a good idea to visit Fallujah, IMHO. Far too risky.