Japan Arrests Five in Al Qaeda-Linked Probe

Yahoo! News ^ | 5/26/04 | George Nishiyama/Reuters

[AmericanInTokyo]

It will be instructive to see if there were any contacts or overtures with DPRK agents, seeing as the bugger was billetted in NIIGATA for a number of months. NIIGATA being one of the main transit places for agents provacateur from North Korea. I've always thought a marraige in hell could be made between al-Qaeda and the DPRK, considering their common enemies are the United States and Japan. What better delivery mechanism and infrastructure (outside the Association of Korean Nationals in Japan: Chongryong) to deliver WMD to the soft underbelly of the second largest economy in the world (and ergo, US bases, too), via illegal islamist operatives in Japan.

[petercooper]

wow, these rats are everywhere

[petercooper]

wow, these rats are everywhere

[AmericanInTokyo]

Just read the article again more closely. Sure enough, Dumant had contacts and 'business dealings' with the DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #21

Yeah, there could be a "deadly" cooperation between them.

[dimk]

Police is maybe only usefull for old ladies but I dont think I ever been in a country where it is more safe to walk the streets any time day or night.

Japanese oppinion of Pakistanis, Thai other non-Japanese and non-Europeans/North American is somewhere between their oppinion on rats and dogs. While they provide usefull work they are tolerated, if any sortof attack occurs in Japan and this status quo is disturbed results for these people will be very bad. Japan migh pull out of the coalition, unfortunately pacifism was deeply ingraned into them after ww2. But big chunk of foreigners will be deported very fast and nobody will cry about it.

US was a bit to successful in making japan a peacefull country. Iraq is the first foreign deployment of Japanese troops since ww2 who knows maybe pacifism can be undone with time.

[AmericanInTokyo]

fyi, get the 'l', 't', 'p' and 'space' buttons on your keyboard fixed! :-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well, I'll be....... one of the terrorist-in-Japan bastards, a Bangaladeshi, is discovered to have had a BUSINESS OPERATION in Yokosuka, Japan (just outside the gate of the large US Navy base there). Police are looking at the prospect of their efforts to get in there and blow up a facility.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Here is a good four minute video report from Japan just today, from TBS Network TV. You can see the Japanese police raiding the al Qaeda suspected agent's hideouts (homes) in Japan, they also show one of the arrested suspect by hidden camera a few days ago in his office in Tokyo, so the Japanese media must have known something was up. Further, there is good coverage of Dumant and his movements in Japan. One can see the perps being led out of their homes and places of work today, too. As always, the video is in Japanese (except for some in French), but it is easy to figure out..... 300k video clip, cut and paste and view:

http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20040526-00000058-jnn-soci-movie-001&media=wm300k

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Southack]

" Japan migh pull out of the coalition, unfortunately pacifism was deeply ingraned into them after ww2."

Nope. Ever since North Korea launched that missile *OVER* Japan, the Rising Sun has been re-arming and expanding her defense roles.

So long as North Korea is agressively Communistic, Japan will continue to move towards a war footing. Pacifism is dead in Japan.

[whadizit]

By the way, when was the last time we arrested anyone associated with Al Qaeda? I heard this afternoon that the FBI is aware of sleeper cells here...why not round them up?