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Fox News Reporting Explosions at U.S. Army base in Japan (Breathe easier: updates at 58 & 73)
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Posted on 02/12/2007 7:56:22 AM PST by BenLurkin

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: 200702; campzama; isolatedincidents; japan; kanagawa; rocketlauncher; zama
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To: Strategerist
Remember to never underestimate Fox News ability to botch a breaking story.

Hear hear; BTTT, etc. I've often thought of collecting their desperate and completely botched efforts to be first into a "Foxed by FOX" thread.

41 posted on 02/12/2007 8:08:04 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Velveeta

bump


42 posted on 02/12/2007 8:09:01 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: BenLurkin

There is a really big middle east, muslim, community in Tokyo.

OTH, homemade rocket attacks are the trademark of the Kakumaruha faction. Sometimes Chukakuha.

Both lefty groups, both fairly radical.

They would attack the base just because it was there and they got bored.


43 posted on 02/12/2007 8:10:26 AM PST by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
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To: steel_resolve

"gorilla" attacks in Japan are nothing to sneeze at!


44 posted on 02/12/2007 8:10:47 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
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To: GoLightly

Thank you for the link

The blast occurred shortly after 11:00 pm Monday (1400 GMT) at a public park 500 metres (yards) from the US army’s Camp Zama, in Kanagawa, 40 kilometres (25 miles) southwest of Tokyo, police said. No one was injured in the attack, a Zama police spokesman said.

Police found a projectile launcher, a metal pipe about 55 centimetres (22 inches) long and about 5.5 centimetres in diameter, at the park as well as scorch marks on the ground, he said.

“The metal launcher was aimed at the US base and we suspect it was a guerrilla attack,” the official said, referring to Japanese radicals. Police found a second launcher, identical in design to the first pipe, and batteries in a thicket outside the park. “We have yet to find any explosives and I cannot confirm any projectiles actually entered the camp,” he said.


45 posted on 02/12/2007 8:12:09 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Al Gator

Yeah I was just looking here http://www.tkb.org/Country.jsp?countryCd=JA and I'd guess Revolutionary Army or Kakurokyo.


46 posted on 02/12/2007 8:12:25 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: BenLurkin
Related Story?:

Hundreds Protest U.S. Jets in Japan

47 posted on 02/12/2007 8:12:58 AM PST by Gamecock (Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda secundum verbum Dei)
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To: DTogo

Japan ping.


48 posted on 02/12/2007 8:13:44 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (Vote for Duncan Hunter in 2008)
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To: BenLurkin; All

Arrival of stealth fighters on Japan delayed

Monday, February 12th, 2007 4:52 AM HST

KADENA, Japan (AP) _ The arrival in Japan of a detachment of the United States' newest and most expensive fighter has been delayed.

The twelve F-22 stealth fighters were to arrive on Kadena Air Base on this southern Japan base on Saturday, but had to turn back after leaving Hawaii.

It is the aircraft's first overseas deployment.

Officials at Kadena and at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii were unable to immediately confirm why the arrival was delayed.

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Very strange

49 posted on 02/12/2007 8:15:14 AM PST by maquiladora
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To: GoLightly

That's a report from 2002


50 posted on 02/12/2007 8:15:22 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: Gamecock

Looks like it.


51 posted on 02/12/2007 8:15:27 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: AU72

Or Chinese: a big explosion at a US base with Japanese casualties will be a big headache for US/Japan relations.


52 posted on 02/12/2007 8:15:50 AM PST by pierrem15 (Charles Martel: past and future of France)
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To: BenLurkin

Ping cause I get lost easily.


53 posted on 02/12/2007 8:16:05 AM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen (Religion of peace my arse - We need a maintenance Crusade - piss on Islam)
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To: Allegra
"Apostrophe's?

Thai'land?

54 posted on 02/12/2007 8:17:45 AM PST by Sam's Army
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To: WakeUpAndVote

Waffen Amish.


55 posted on 02/12/2007 8:18:41 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: NonValueAdded
"gorilla" attacks in Japan are nothing to sneeze at!

Definitely not!


56 posted on 02/12/2007 8:18:56 AM PST by JennysCool (Blink 182 isn't just a band, it's Nancy Pelosi's per-minute average.)
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To: BenLurkin

57 posted on 02/12/2007 8:19:06 AM PST by Gritty (The weakest link in the US ability to sustain military operations overseas is the US media-M Novak)
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To: BenLurkin
TOKYO - A U.S. Army official confirmed a small explosion outside an American base south of Tokyo, but there were no reports of injuries or damage.

- AP

58 posted on 02/12/2007 8:19:42 AM PST by maquiladora
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To: Al Gator
There is a really big middle east, muslim, community in Tokyo.

Really? How did that happen. Japan is so strick with their immigration and relationship laws. I would have thought Japan would be the ONLY place muslims wouldn't get into.
59 posted on 02/12/2007 8:19:48 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx
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To: Velveeta

Oops, shoulda looked at the date on that one too.


60 posted on 02/12/2007 8:19:59 AM PST by GoLightly
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