Showing posts with label War on Terror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War on Terror. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Airline Issues “Apology” to American Muslims

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AIRTRAN AIRWAYS OFFERS APOLOGY TO CUSTOMERS ON FLIGHT 175 YESTERDAY We sincerely regret that the passengers on flight 175 did not have a po...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Abu Aardvark, on the Internets and Al Qaeda

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The world needs more of this kind of thinking . I'm not just talking about AQ. This could spawn a whole new academic discipline, if it h...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

Clarification or Step-back? The 2007 US Report on North Korea as State Sponsor of Terrorism

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I took this up last September . Now the 2007 State Sponsors of Terror Overview is out. Take a look. I’ve highlighted the before-and-after i...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

But Are They War Crimes? － The Gitmo Trials

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Anticipating international criticism over plans to seek the death penalty for accused September 11, 2001, terrorists, the State Department i...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

National Defense Twofer:Minister Wants Procurement Done His Way, and Seiji Maehara Denies Ichiro Ozawa

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One of the quirks of Japanese defense procurement is that trading companies have traditionally acted as go-betweens for foreign vendors in t...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Why Would Waiting An Extra Month or More Would Make It Any Easier to Pass the Refueling Bill?

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There is talk within the LDP about not forcing a House of Representatives supermajority override vote on the new bill to extend the OEF-MIO ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

The LDP Accommodates New Komeitō on Refueling Extension. Will It Try to Go for Two for Two with the DPJ?

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The LDP reportedly has acceded to New Komeitō and will seek a one-year extension for the JMSDF refueling activities under the Maritime Inter...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

My Big Mistake on OEF-MIO Operations from the Persian Gulf and Incomplete Thoughts Thereon

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I made a big mistake. In fact, I made a doubled-size, italics, bold-letter mistake here . Foreign Minister Komura under Diet questioning rea...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Ask The Jurisprudence Guy: Why Joining ISAF Is Constitutional

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Okay, nobody asked, so I guess that makes this a promo. I don't know where Foreign Minister Komura gets his legal advice, but I find the...
Monday, October 08, 2007

Has TIME (Where Else?) Correspondent Fallen for Deadpan Foreign Minister's Joke?

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Japan May Stop Afghan Mission Aid (TOKYO) — Japan would scale back its support of the U.S. in Afghanistan by ending naval assistance to vess...
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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Refueling Issue Update

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1. Newspaper reports say that the ruling coalition will introduce the bill only after the Budget Committee has completed its session on Octo...
Friday, October 05, 2007

From Asahi, Peace Depot Update on JMSDF OEF-MIO? OIF? Refueling Activities

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Today's Asahi brings us the news that Peace Depot, in the second installment of their investigations, which I previously chronicled h...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Will the DPJ Push Mr. Ozawa's Legal Argument and Normal Country Inclinations to Their Ultimate Conclusion?

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There is no difference of opinion between the LDP and the DPJ over the basic legal prerequisites for Japanese involvement in military operat...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

I Need a Life, But in the Meantime, Interesting Facts and Figures on the Refueling Issue

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Shisaku points to some interesting numbers on the refueling issue. (So that's where the October 1 Yomiuri got those non-attributed nu...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

A Twofer Post: The Two Policy Research Council Chairmen Go Head to Head; Chief Cabinet Secretary Grilled on Diesel Fuel for USS Kitty Hawk

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On Sunday Project - surely the TV program most often cited (if often not credited) by the national print media - it's Sadakazu Tanigaki...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

It's a Yomiuri Poll So Asahi Readers Get up to a 10 Percentage-Point Discount

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In a show of how quickly the tide can turn (and turn again), the latest Yomiuri poll gives the Fukuda Cabinet 57.5% support against 27.3% o...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

070925What the State Department Thinks of North Korea as a Sponsor of Terrorism

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Ever wondered what the bureaucrat-vetted version of U.S. policy concerning North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism looked like? I though...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

Asahi and Yomiuri Continue to Prowl the Battle Lines on the Counter-Terrorism Act

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Yomiuri is in favor of continuing the refueling operations. Asahi to the best of my knowledge has not yet come out with an editorial that ...

Peace Depot Uses USNS Logs and Other Evidence to Assert JMSDF Fuel Oil Was Used In the Iraq War

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The Peace Resource Cooperative, or Peace Depot for short, mainly using the U.S. Freedom of Information Act to access ship logs and other U.S...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

Some Thoughts on The Fukuda Administration and Somewhat Beyond

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Some pungent words were used in the creation of this post. They have been maintained in the interests of preserving the original intent of t...