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Posted on 04/11/2008 8:48:45 AM PDT by fishhound
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will not allow the squad of Chinese flame guards to intervene with the Beijing Olympic torch's progress when it arrives in a Japanese city this month, the national police head was quoted as saying on Friday.
"We should not violate the principle that the Japanese police will firmly maintain security," Kyodo news agency quoted Shinya Izumi, head of the National Public Safety Commission, as saying.
"We do not know what position the people who escorted the relay are in," Izumi was quoted as saying. "If they are for the consideration of security, it is our role."
The torch is set to arrive in Nagano, central Japan, where the Winter Games were hosted in 1998, on April 26, after passing through Buenos Aires, Mumbai, and Canberra, among other cities.
A phalanx of large and physically fit Chinese men in blue-and-white track suits has been trotting besides the torch along its ambitious global torch route and turned off the flame several times in Paris earlier this week.
Chinese state media have reported that the "flame protection squad", consisting of some 70 members of China's People's Armed Police, has been employed by the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee to safeguard the fire for 24 hours a day.
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Think the IOC is regretting their decision to have Beijing host?
Probably not.
ping
In reading this I realized that our government let them,70 strtong, into our country. Does anyone think that our people watched thier 70 as close as they monitored the torch?
70 strtong = 70 strong
sorry bad typing
Bravo, Tokyo!
Beijing's true colors have bled through for all the world to see.
P.S. How do you say in Chinese, "No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it still remains a pig?"
CNN referred to the goon squad as members of the Olympic committee. Snort.
E. Cartman wrote:
Japan says no to Chinese torch guards: reports
Bravo, Tokyo!
Beijing’s true colors have bled through for all the world to see.
P.S. How do you say in Chinese, “No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it still remains a pig?”
But Feinstein’s husband has been kissing that pig for years(Pick which one I am referring to, either way you are right!).
The US media will cover this and the Olympics any way the Chinese demand it.
They will probably have Rcheal Ray show us new and exciting recipes for dog.
No..they’re about how wonderful China is. /S
The advertisers are gonna richly deserve what they’ve got coming....
The IOC got its bribes. They don’t give a $hit. Same with Russia getting the winter olymics when it was dead last in the list of countries trying to get it.
无论唇膏您投入了猪, 这仍然保留猪
(according to Babelfish, anyway... but I can proudly boast of knowing five of those characters! Chinese takes a while to learn, but it seems like darn good exercise for the memory!)
Thanks!
Einstein also theorized that the study of Chinese might enhance a person's mathematical ability.
This what the US and every other country should have done.
I can’t decide which is going to be more “entertaining”. The Chinese Olympics or the Democratic Convention in Colorado!!!
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