(4)2 Japanese diplomats killed in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Masamori Inoue (R), a third secretary from the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad, is seen unfolding a Japanese national flag at the embassy on May 8, 2003 when the embassy resumed business after a two-month hiatus. Inoue and Katsuhiko Oku, a counselor from the Japanese Embassy in London, were killed in an ambush in northern Iraq on Nov. 29.

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