Word: kikumura
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...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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