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Breaking: Terror Attack at US Base in Japan

Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 8:29:41 am PST

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. An explosion was heard near the base late Monday, and police suspected an attempted attack on the base, Kyodo News agency reported.

The blast was in the area of the U.S. Army’s Camp Zama, Kyodo said. The report did not say whether there were injuries or damage.

Police found parts of “launch pad” near the base, Kyodo said, and investigators suspected a “guerrilla attack.”

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pat Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:30:35am

Commies again?

Poitiers-Lepanto Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:31:04am

The Buddhists again !

shug Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:31:08am

Amish?

Kragar (proud to be kafir) Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:31:45am

Probably Japanese Red Army.

lawhawk Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:31:48am

Launch pad? It sounds like someone was trying to fire mortars or rockets into the camp? Who do they think they are? Palestinian freedom fighters? /if you had to ask..

Peacekeeper Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:32:03am

Japanese communists!

Peacekeeper Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:32:35am

Did they wear matching scarves?

lowandslow Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:32:46am

It's a quagmire, out of Japan now! /

new_tommy Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:32:52am

#4 Kragar

My thoughts exactly. This was probably carried out by left-overs from JRA.

JammieWearingFool Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:33:12am

Let the blame game begin.

Al Gore blames global warming, The Dixie Chicks blame George Bush, and The Pantsuit blames U.S. involvement in Iraq.

Poitiers-Lepanto Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:33:30am

It can't be "commies", they are against global warming, and shooting RPGs or mortars is lethal for the planet...

/ahem

aaron Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:33:39am

#5 lawhawk
Launch pad? It sounds like someone was trying to fire mortars or rockets into the camp? Who do they think they are? Palestinian freedom fighters?

Don't know. Anyone get a look at what kind of scarves they were wearing?

IrishEi Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:33:42am

Ramadan Noodles.

Coincidence?

new_tommy Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:34:12am

There goes Jack Murtha's "Redeployment to Okinawa" Plan. Japan is too dangerous.

mattm Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:34:52am

Either RoPers with help form Iran or maybe even the ChiComs.

shug Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:35:31am

Time to relocate all American forces to Okinawa

/ex marine murtha

Dar ul Harb Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:35:37am

#4, Kragar

Probably Japanese Red Army.

What he said.

JammieWearingFool Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:35:38am

Speaking of Algore:

Czech President Questions Gore's Sanity

Welcome to the party, pal.

J6 Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:35:44am

Obviously, the sheer volume of possible opponents who could be behind this boggles the mind...

I wish we just had one group who had stated their utter hatred for us, their desire to wipe us off the map, and who had threatened to strike us at any foreign soil location possible...

/LLL appeasement blindness

GOBAN Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:36:02am

I hope they didn't hit that nice Gyoza place nearby. They had the BEST Gyoza ever!

Damn JRA!

Just_A_Grunt Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:37:01am

Sounds kind of amateurish in it's execution. There is just too few details at this time. However it is rumored that the attackers were wearing "Hello Kitty" scarves.

sunburned Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:37:38am

I'm with shug (#3) it must be the Amish.

Cognito Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:38:28am

Is the JRA still around? I thought they went belly-up like twenty years ago...

IrishEi Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:38:39am

Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer!
Go Speed Racer Go-o!

Cartman Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:38:58am

It was the Ninja Turtles.

Fellay Timi Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:39:04am

Rove ?

/LLL

taxfreekiller[deleted] Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:40:55am

DavidJSchwartz Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:41:14am

The U.S. if fair game all over the world? I hope Bush & Co. are paying attention no matter who ends up being the culprits.

We need to make it crystal clear that you attack us, and we will hunt you down.

Yeah, I know, Bush already said that, huh?

sunburned Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:41:35am

#25 cartman

I take offense to that. The Ninja Turtles are on our side.
It could have been Speed Racer though...I can just see it now...
"We're driving to the base, haha, we're going to blow it up, haha, Go Speed Racer?!"

Dr. Shalit Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:41:35am

Just remember perps - they still hang people in Japan - at unannounced dates and times so as to avoid protest scenes.
Pray hard for NO CASUALTIES.

-S-

FreakyBoy Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:43:09am

Sailor Moon seeks revenge over love triangle.

Aiden Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:43:37am

Would have been the last place I'd expect such an attack.

sunburned Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:45:22am

#32 Aiden

Would have been the last place I'd expect such an attack.

Exactly. They're smarter than they look in their fashionable scarves.

GOBAN Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:45:54am

#23 Cognito

They were around enough back in 89' to delay the "death announcement" of Hirohito by 3 days. But now?..Eh..not so much. Now that we have almost zero presence in Japan save for Okinawa and Yokusuka they have nothing to whine about. All of our other bases are almost ghost towns now.

Ward Cleaver Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:45:58am

Looks like we'd better sign the Kyoto protocols.

/skerry, algore

Cartman Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:46:22am

Maybe we need to dust off Mothra?

IrishEi Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:47:35am

investigators suspected a “guerrilla attack.”

Oh. King Kong.

taxfreekiller[deleted] Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:47:40am

father_of_10 Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:47:48am

I know. It was RoPers on a budget using Estes Rockets with extra large bottle rockets duct taped on.

Ward Cleaver Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:47:59am

#37 Cartman

Moth-raaaaaaa!

/little boy singing

mahatma coat Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:48:06am

there's long been a segment of the japanese population thats not too thrillled with the american presence,ditto the phillipines.....moonbats everywhere I guess.Might explain the ameteurish nature of it

Just_A_Grunt Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:49:07am

#32 aiden

Would have been the last place I'd expect such an attack.

My thinking no longer dwells on the "last" place but rather the next place. This may not have a thing to do with the table cloth wearing, blood god worshipping cult, with a pedophile leader but on the other hand I like to keep my options open.

Ben Hur Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:50:24am

It's because we oppress brown people.

/That weirdo chick from the left coast

TXEric Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:52:59am

"All Our Base Are Belong To Them!"...

loppyd Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:01:07am

My cousin is stationed at a Marine air base in Japan. Amateur hour or not, this does not sit well with me....

tfc3rid Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:05:57am

Whoever was involved will simply state that they did it because of US intervention in Iraq. Then the MSM and the Dems will fawn over the fact that this tragedy could have been avoided if we never got involved in an illegal war that never had anythign to do with terrorism...

We all know that our agression has created terrrorism...

GLOBAL WARMING - IT'S UN-STOPPABLE!

Greg Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:12:40am

Camp Zama is location of some of our U.S. Army Japan Command (the 9th) and Control and Signals and Intelligence Services.

They even have a webpage.

Sounds like a probing action...Norks? Iranian? AQ? Red Army Japan? Could be all of them.

capt_doug61 Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:16:30am

It was most likely that little kid from many of those Japanese monster films that hung around being too friendly with assorted giant monsters.
Well Kenny that's the last time we'll protect you from Godzilla or Gamera!

GOBAN Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:28:49am

Nothing to take too serious here. The JRA, et. al. just love launching rockets and setting off loud noise makers in Japan. Its become a kind of tradition. They have gone from being potentially harmful or even deadly to the good old Tennis Ball cannon of your youth. Its the standard asshattery for over there.

Gaijin are too easily noticed to go sneaking around at 11pm, then setting up a "launcher" and running like hell after they set it off.

sandyk Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:29:58am

And so it begins. There is a Conference on Global warming in Alaska here this week. I can't wait for all the bs on the news all week.

karmic_inquisitor Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:45:15am

I am starting to come around to the Democrat's thinking on keeping our troops safe.

It is clear that we must leave Japan.

The question is where to park our Marines and fleets.

Our own harbors aren't safe either. Not safe enough.

I propose we dig a giant lake in Oklahoma. Lake Murtha. We strategically redeploy our Navy, Marines, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard to the Lake Murtha Safe Serviceman Complex. We can keep them safe there.

To make it politically plausible, that section of Oklahoma will be annexed by Pennsylvania, so that it can be in Murtha's district.

America's Armed Forces - stronger when they are safer!

Verity Kindle Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:51:55am

I have reliable information that it was the Basque separatists, in collaboration with Hydra.

Wookieelips Mon, Feb 12, 2007 8:25:59am

#44 TXEric

"all your ass are belong to us!"

Skywise Mon, Feb 12, 2007 8:46:18am

Curious that MSNBC had a major NEWS ALERT blurb in red on top of the page that quickly disappeared and now nobody's talking about this...

Skywise Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:34:23am

Yep... still very quiet out there on the intrawebs about this... But now this via Drudge...
First Attack by Al Qaeda in Japan?

CommonSense Mon, Feb 12, 2007 12:53:15pm

Funny

haakondahl Mon, Feb 12, 2007 1:19:41pm

At first, I'm not worried about this. I live in japan, and every once in a while a couple of these nuts pop a fizzling firecracker across the fence. It's leftist whackjobs, or rightist whackjobs, I forget which.
On the other hand, I would hope that this is investigated thoroughly BY AMERICANS to look for connections to more, uh, "reputable" forms of terror. I don't trust Japanese law enforcement for much beyond politely ticketing parked cars.