Leftists claim mortar attack on Japan Defense Agency: reports

[DuctapeFatwa]

A Japanese militant leftist group said Friday it fired home-made mortar rounds at the Japan Defense Agency as a protest over the sending of Japanese troops to Iraq, reports said.

The group, calling itself "Kakumeigun (Revolutionary Army)," sent letters to several news organisations claiming responsibility for the attack in central Tokyo earlier this week.

The top-selling Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said a letter it received claimed the attack was carried out "in an effort to forcefully stop the deployment of the Self Defense Forces to take part in the counter-revolutionary war in Iraq."



http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040220072022.i7m989bc.html

[Renew Deal]

1. They had raised their terra alert on Friday.

I guess this is the reason.

[tigereye]

2. yes, violence the sure fire way to peace.....

[berry]

3. I suppose there could be such a group

of leftists. But it sure is handy for the hawks that the peace groups look so crazy (and yet do no real harm). I have often and often wondered how many of the leftist groups that engage in violence are really inventions of the militarists. In Japan and here too.

[Kagemusha]

4. It's not good news for Japan.

The public strongly supports the cause of this 'Kakumeigun' even if it does not support (indeed, did not know about) the organization itself.