Posted on 11 February 2015. Tags: balked, channel, crisis, hostage, Islamic, opening, peak, State, Tokyo
At hostage crisis peak, Tokyo balked at opening channel with Islamic State … Japan opened a communication channel with Islamic State in the decisive stages of the recent hostage crisis but was unwilling to use it to start negotiations, according to a Tokyo-based Islamic scholar who served briefly as an intermediary. Hassan Ko …
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