Kakkate koi!
That means the ranks of terrorists have swelled again from 18,000 to 17,995. This can't keep happening.
They must not have convenience stores in Japan.
I am not so sure terrorists would have such an easy time getting away with this "stuff" in Japan. For one thing, Japanese don't really like to have a lot of foreigners living in their country (they are afraid too many Koreans and Chinese would want to immigrate there). So Japan is fairly UN-diverse. As a result, any foreigner would have a difficult time blending in as they went about their business.
So if Al Qaida is going to run an operation in Japan, they better be able to find Japanese people who are willing to carry out the operation. Any foreigner that did anything like that would surely be seen and remembered in the police dragnet/investigation that would follow any major terrorist operation. If you don't look like the other 99% of the population, you are going to stand out no matter where you try to hide. From what I have heard, Japanese police are pretty good, and Japanese prisons are NOT very pleasant at all.
I think Japan might be a difficult place for foreigners to mount a major terorist operation, the chances they would be caught afterwards are pretty high (so it better be suicide attack), and the punishment they would suffer afterwards would not be fun. I think Japan has less to worry about than the U.S. and Europe.
the religious cult which released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995
They released SARIN, Which was the same stuff found in the shells in IRAQ. Why does the article say nerve gas?
Weak editorializing passing for news. Just add "I hope" at the end of sentences like this.
One more victory for Civilization! Give Em Hell!
I am in shock. Since when are groups like RAF defined as terrorists much less ultra-left wing terrorists?
Don't you know that they are always classified as heroic activists drawing attention to the plight of the common man?
Send this reporter to the re-education camps!
First US troops sent to Bosnia - 1995
Dumont attemps attack on the Lyon G7 summit - 1996
Dumont arrested, convicted and imprisoned for murdering police officer in Bosnia - 1997
US airstrikes against Yugoslavia - March 24 1999
Dumont escapes from Bosnian prison - 1999
Dumont sentanced to life in absentia by French court - 2001
Dumont enters Japan - Before July 2002
Dumont arrested in Germany but allowed to re-enter Japan - December 2003
Arrested in Japan - May 2004
Sources:
Japan troubled by entry of terror suspect
From above article: "French authorities have long associated Dumont, a Muslim, with the violent Roubaix gang in northern France, which they suspect of ties with Islamic radicals. He escaped a raid on the gang in 1996 that left some members dead, though French authorities say don't have enough evidence to charge the group with links to terrorists.
He headed to Bosnia to fight in the army alongside fellow Muslims and was arrested and convicted of killing a Bosnian police officer during a robbery and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He escaped in 1999 and vanished. Dumont was convicted in absentia and sentenced to life in prison by a French court in 2001." Japan makes first al-Qaeda arrests in dawn raids
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We can learn two things from Dumont:
1. Interpol is not anything close to an effective crime fighting tool (not to mention a guard against terrorism) if it does not even recognize that a twice convicted, double international fugative is sitting in one of their member-country's holding cells.
2. Bill Clinton attended the Lyon G7 summit and would have been on the receiving end of Dumont's scheme, yet there was no known effort by the US to bring to justice those responsible for those who plotted this attempt on the President's life. Remember how much fun this same group made of GWB for going after Saddam for the assasination attempt on his father? Bill apparently has been oblivious to the effects of terrorism even at the risk of his own life and the lives of leaders of the other G7 nations.