Shizuka Kamei: An old dawn Sep 30, 2009
AS A policeman in the 1970s, Shizuka Kamei battled the Japanese Red Army, a communist terror group. As Japan s newly appointed minister for financial and postal services, he now seems to want to take on the capitalists. (The Economist)
Timeline: The golden age of air crimes Aug 28, 2009
1972: In the arrivals lounge of the Lod airport near Tel Aviv, three men from the Japanese Red Army, recruited by the Palestinian PFLP, open fire with machine guns and grenades, killing 26 people and injuring 80. 1973: As passengers board a Pan Am 747 at the airport in Rome, terrorists spray the plane with gunfire and toss grenades into the cabin, killing 30. (Salon)
'The Baader Meinhof Complex': Student Unrest, By Kurt Loder Aug 22, 2009
Like similar political ideologues of the period in the Weather Underground in this country, and the Japanese Red Army and the Italian Red Brigades the Baader Meinhof Group forged early links with Arab terrorist organizations, and helped fashion a Western template for urban-guerilla action. Arising out of the worldwide antiwar protest movement of the late 1960s, the group had justifiable grievances: They were the children of the Nazi generation, appalled by what their parents had done during the... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Relist North Korea As a Terrorist Sponsor Jun 16, 2009
It ignored the fact that Pyongyang kidnapped at least 10 Japanese citizens and harbored Japanese Red Army terrorists since the 1970s. Until 2008, the Bush administration routinely cited the kidnappings and the presence of Japanese Red Army terrorists as justification for including North Korea on the list. (Human Events Online)
Monitoring Water Through A Snake's Eyes May 19, 2009
" The fiber sensors developed by Prof. Katzir are made of insoluble, non-toxic, and biocompatible materials. "You can eat them and nothing will happen to you," he notes. Prof. Katzir's determination to fight terrorism through science has a personal side as well. His father, world-renowned scientist Prof. Aharon Katzir, was assassinated by the Japanese Red Army in a terror attack in 1972. "I am trying to walk in his footsteps by doing applied research that can be a practical tool in an important... (Science Daily)
