Word: kikumura
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Other evidence that interlocked terrorist groups are growing bold enough to strike in the U.S. came last April. Yu Kikumura, identified by federal prosecutors as a member of the Japanese Red Army, was arrested on the New Jersey Turnpike with pipe bombs designed to injure humans rather than damage buildings. He carried maps pinpointing targets in New York City. Prosecutors claimed his intended attack would have occurred on the second anniversary of the 1986 U.S. bombing of Libya. For unsuspecting Americans, the battle against international terrorism may be coming close to home...
According to federal prosecutors, the terrorist Japanese Red Army has one less soldier on active duty these days. A federal judge in Newark last week sentenced Yu Kikumura, 36, to 30 years in prison for possession of three pipe bombs and a false passport. A Japanese national, Kikumura was arrested last April on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper, who says he saw the bombs in the back seat of his car. Prosecutors believe he intended to plant them in the New York City area in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya. U.S. District Judge Alfred...
...officer's alertness led to the arrest of Yu Kikumura, 35, a native of & Japan traveling on a stolen Japanese passport. Each of the 18-in. by 4-in. bombs was packed with black powder and lead shotgun pellets; they were designed to attack humans rather than property. "If fired at a gathering of people," said U.S. Attorney Samuel Alito in Newark, "the devices could cause a real massacre...
...suspects that the New Jersey bomb carrier, Kikumura, may also be a member of the Japanese Red Army. He was arrested in May 1986 while carrying explosives in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, but the case against him was dismissed for technical reasons. Antiterrorist experts in both Italy and the U.S. theorize that Kikumura may have been heading to Washington, where world finance ministers were meeting last week. Others thought he may have been awaiting the June economic summit conference in Toronto...
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