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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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 Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:04 am Post subject: US Attorney-General admits to having friends in Al Qaeda... |
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...and apparently they tip him off about which terrorist targets to avoid while on holiday!
Well, no, not exactly. Just trying to give you an idea about the gravity of what we're talking about here...
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TOKYO � Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said he warned Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama on Tuesday over his remark the previous day that a friend of a friend was a member of al-Qaida who was involved in the October 2002 Bali bombing.
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On Monday, Hatoyama said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo that he had been advised against visiting the Indonesian island resort before the bombing because it was being targeted for an attack.
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Ya-ta Boy
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Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:26 am Post subject: |
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OTOH, I'm a little startled by this news. When I went to bed last night the US and Japan were separate countries. I wake up to find your post saying Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama has become Attorney-General of the US. There's nothing about Japan seizing control of the US on the internet.
This is pretty big news for the Bilderbergers to keep secret. Why isn't the mass media talking about it? Could the conspiracy nuts have been right all along? |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: |
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Yet another manifestation of the sensationalized U.S.-centric discourse's pervasiveness in the way people interpret and talk about world affairs and the news...
However this may be, American or Japanese attorneys-general, it makes no difference.
Al-qaeda likely operates in the diplomatic world seeking, no surprise, wider legitimacy and recognition. Back-channels and other informal contacts, for example. That its operatives might attempt to score points with various powers hardly shocks me.
Further, people ought to be talking to them, too. Intelligence information, for one. Improbable as it might sound, trying to reason with them, for another. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: Re: US Attorney-General admits to having friends in Al Qaeda |
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...and apparently they tip him off about which terrorist targets to avoid while on holiday!
Well, no, not exactly. Just trying to give you an idea about the gravity of what we're talking about here...
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| TOKYO � Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said he warned Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama on Tuesday over his remark the previous day that a friend of a friend was a member of al-Qaida who was involved in the October 2002 Bali bombing. |
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| On Monday, Hatoyama said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo that he had been advised against visiting the Indonesian island resort before the bombing because it was being targeted for an attack. |
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/420785/all |
Foreknowledge of attacks, eh?
Wow, that's gotta be a FIRST! 
Thank GOD he's the ONLY grinning politician, military person, priviliged insider etc. where any such manner of diabolical ethics could ever so treasonously occur.
Those faceless cowards. |
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Gopher
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Apparently the Japanese-American Empire's Attorney-General indeed has a face, Igotthisguitar...
Go here (will not let me post this as an image).
Igotthisguitar's "Diabolical Faceless Coward" |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: |
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Yet another manifestation of the sensationalized U.S.-centric discourse's pervasiveness in the way people interpret and talk about world affairs and the news...
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For heaven's sake. It has nothing to do with being US-centric. I was just trying to make a hypothetical comparison to give people some idea about how big a deal this should be in Japan. Because most of us don't really identify with the Japanese government, it might have been too easy for some people to dismiss this Justice minister as an obscure figure.
But here. I'll spell it out for anyone who might be bearing the cross of an overly literalist mindset these days...
The Japanese Justice Minister is the equivalent of the US Attorney-General. And since the US Democrats and the press would be howling for the AG's head if he bragged about chumming around with Al Qaeda cronies, I'm kind of wondering what the reaction in Japan is like.
And no, Gopher. I'm not really suggesting that American politicians want to behead each other. Nor that you actually walk around with a cross on your shoulders. |
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