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<font size=3 color="#FF0000"><b>This is from mainstream press
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</b></font><font size=3>Published Thursday, April 19, 2007<br>
Thursday, April 19, 2007 <br>
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</a><b>Red Army Suspect Arrested in Tokyo<br><br>
</b></font><font size=2>By MARI YAMAGUCHI<br>
Associated Press Writer<br><br>
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</font><font size=3>TOKYO<br><br>
Police arrested a suspected former member of the defunct Japanese Red
Army terror (sic) group at Tokyo's airport Thursday after his deportation
from the U.S. following a prison term, officials said.<br><br>
U.S. authorities arrested Yu Kikumura, 54, in April 1988. He was
sentenced in 1991 to 21 years and 10 months in prison for driving with
homemade bombs in his car in New Jersey.<br><br>
He was paroled and deported earlier Thursday.<br><br>
Japanese police arrested Kikumura immediately after he arrived Thursday
at Narita International Airport, on suspicion that he had used
</font><font size=3 color="#FF0000">a fake international driver's license
to drive in the U.S. before his arrest,</font><font size=3> a Tokyo
Metropolitan Police official said on condition of anonymity, citing
protocol.<br><br>
Police suspect Kikumura was a member of the Japanese Red Army, a violent
ultra-leftist group sympathetic to Palestinian causes.<br><br>
The official said police plan to investigate Kikumura's suspected role in
the group's alleged terrorist activities, including a 1972 attack on the
airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. The machine gun and grenade attack killed 24
people.<br><br>
U.S. authorities had identified Kikumura as a former member of the group
during his trial, the official said.<br><br>
The Japanese Red Army was formed in 1971 and claimed responsibility for
several international attacks, including the 1975 takeover of the U.S.
consulate in Malaysia.<br><br>
Group leader Fusako Shigenobu, arrested in 2000 after more than 25 years
on the run, has appealed a 20-year prison sentence for kidnapping and
attempted murder in a 1974 attack on the French Embassy.<br><br>
Another key member is serving a life sentence at a Japanese prison, with
seven others still on the run, according to the National Police
Agency.<br><br>
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