Middle East News Online
By Middle East News Online Reporter
Posted Tuesday September 11, 2001 - 01:38:29 PM EDT
Amman (MENO) - In an unconfirmed report, sources from the Amman offices of Al Jazeerah satellite news channel indicated that a call came in from a caller who was "speaking Arabic with an accent" claimed that the Japanese Red Army is claiming responsibility for today's attacks against U.S. targets in New York and Washington D.C.
Middle East News Online has been unable to verify these claims.
The communist group said that the attacks came in retaliation for US atomic bombs that killed thousands of Japanese in the World War II in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Japanese Red Army is an international militant group formed around 1970 after breaking away from Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. The JRA was led by Fusako Shigenobu until her arrest in Japan in November 2000. The JRA's historical goal has been to overthrow the Japanese Government and monarchy and to help foment world revolution.
Earlier today, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine initially took responsibility, but later an official from the organization denied any involvement.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat condemned the attacks.
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Hannibal
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posted Wed 12 Sep 2001 11:49 AM
Somehow I doubt this. It takes a lot of resources to train terrorist to be pilots of 767 and have sufficient conviction to mount suicide attacks. Muslim fundamentalist is my guess.