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Japan on highest terror alert
The Straits Times ^
| 2/21/04
Posted on 02/20/2004 4:47:45 PM PST by mylife
Japan on highest terror alert
TOKYO - Japan raised its terror alert to its highest level yesterday.
Heavily armed police were mobilised around airports, nuclear plants and government offices to guard against a possible attack, an official said.
It was the first time the government had gone on such a heightened alert since the US-led military attack on Iraq last year.
A National Police Agency official refused to say whether the government had new information about a possible terror strike.
The official said riot police would guard Tokyo and Kansai international airports and nuclear power and reprocessing facilities
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: highalert; japan; nuclearplants; terroralerts; tokyo
I wonder whats up?
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posted on
02/20/2004 4:47:45 PM PST
by
mylife
To: mylife
Hmmmmm, funny we haven't heard about some motivation. Sounds serious (series.)
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posted on
02/20/2004 4:54:04 PM PST
by
EggsAckley
({....YES... I AM THE HATED......troll patrol.....(on duty).....})
To: mylife
Fox News had a quick announcement on this. I didn't catch any details if they gave some. I was FReeping and just caught the headline.
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posted on
02/20/2004 5:10:49 PM PST
by
blam
To: mylife
Election year?
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:28:40 PM PST
by
dr_who_2
To: dr_who_2
I think it is an over reaction to expected revenge now that Japan has committed troops to Iraq.
Japanese hand wringing
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:31:50 PM PST
by
mylife
To: mylife
Fear of suicide attacks by the socialist pacifists? :)
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:35:14 PM PST
by
dr_who_2
To: dr_who_2
Givem some credit..they are finally emerging from the yoke of shame and are willing to stand with us.
More than I can say for France
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:46:45 PM PST
by
mylife
To: AmericanInTokyo
Do you have any info on this?
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:48:22 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: mylife
Missing here are the two words
ISLAMIC and
TERRORISTS in the same sentence.
What beef does Islam have against Japan?
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:48:28 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: Happy2BMe
Japan has just sent 3000? troops to Iraq.
The first military deployment of japan since WWII
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:50:30 PM PST
by
mylife
To: mylife
"Japan has just sent 3000? troops to Iraq." Does this mean car prices will go up?
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:51:37 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: Happy2BMe
;^)
Its a big move for japan...Like leavin mamma
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posted on
02/20/2004 8:56:18 PM PST
by
mylife
To: Happy2BMe
"What beef does Islam have against Japan?" The "beef" is that the Japanese aren't praying five times a day to a rock in Mecca. Now isn't that Islam's beef with the rest of the non-Islamic, non-Arab world too?
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:08:39 PM PST
by
StormEye
To: dr_who_2
Reaction to actual intel?
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:29:47 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Any day you wake up is a good day.)
To: mylife
These folks were pretty formidable adversaries in WWII. It's good to have them on our side in the WOT.
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:33:53 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Any day you wake up is a good day.)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
These folks were pretty formidable adversaries in WWII. It's good to have them on our side in the WOT.Amazing what can occur in 60 years.. which is why we must stay the course on the middle east
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posted on
02/20/2004 9:39:21 PM PST
by
mylife
To: StormEye
Yes.
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posted on
02/20/2004 11:35:17 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Paranoia over a long-overdue attack on Tokyo by Godzilla?
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posted on
02/21/2004 12:02:15 AM PST
by
dr_who_2
To: mylife
They deserve a lot of credit, not sure exactly what for, but they do somewhere, somehow. This terror alert thing still is rather strange. Hope they don't have any more wacky doomsday-type cults to worry about.
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posted on
02/21/2004 12:08:20 AM PST
by
dr_who_2
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