Iraqi hostage-taker says beheaded Japanese wasn't tortured

Iraqi hostage-taker says beheaded Japanese wasn't tortured

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hussein Fahmi, who has confessed to his involvement in the murder of Japanese backpacker Shose Koda in 2004, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in an Iraqi Interior Ministry facility in Baghdad on March 6.

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