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An organization that monitors videos from radicals posted one showing al-Nigiri with what appeared to be an explosive belt around his waist.
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"You see our demands are so easy, so easy if you want to negotiate with us, " al-Nigiri said in the recording broadcast by Algerian television.
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At Sushi Sasaki, a small counter in Toyama city run by Sasaki-san and his wife, I sampled a variety of fresh nigiri and sashimi, washed down with a few glasses of local sake.
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An audio recording of Algerian security forces speaking with the head of the kidnappers, Abdel Rahman al-Nigiri, on the second day of the drama indicated the hostage-takers were trying to organize a prisoner swap.
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In another phone call, al-Nigiri said that half the militants had been killed by the Algerian army on Thursday and that he was ready to blow up the remaining hostages if security forces attacked again.
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Of an evening, the young and well-heeled can be seen propped up on high stools tucking into pieces of nigiri or futomaki, accompanied by a glass of wine and even a cigar, an apparently mandatory male display of wealth.
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