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Captured Japanese Reportedly Had a Gun

Monday, August 18, 2014

A photo taken from a YouTube video purportedly shows a Japanese man kidnapped in Syria. In the photo, the man is seen with his hands tied and being escorted by a militant. He was asked by an unidentified voice in Arabic to repeat the word "Baqiya," which literally means "long live" in Arabic. The full sentence was "Dawlatu al Islam Baqiya," or "Long live the state of Islam."

The title of the video clip on YouTube said: "Japanese spy Fujimoto, who works for the Americans, repeats the word ‘Baqiya,’ after he fell prisoner to the Islamic state."

In another video, he was answering a question on "why he had a gun." He replied that he found it on a dead soldier. Then he was asked, "Did you kill him to get the gun?” He denied that and said he was a photo journalist and “half” doctor. Other clips also branded him as a "spy."

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