Attack in Japan

[champt10]

When i turned on the tv this morning, for some reason it was on FNC. Now normally I know not to believe them, but this story it seemed even faux news channel couldnt get wrong. They reported that their was an explosion heard at a US base in Japan, and the early report was that it was an attack in Japan. Since they had that Fox News Alert, I have heard nothing since on ANY network, even Fox. Has anybody heard anything about this?

[Rosemary2205]

1. I totally hate when that happens.

How the channel mysteriously ends up on Fox and I am totally incapable of changing the channel and just am stuck sitting there watching that shit.

:evilgrin:

[LostinVA]

2. hehhehehehehe

[champt10]

3. But Seriously...

I want to know about this "attack." This is something serious and I want to hear something else about it. If this isnt true, Fox should at least come back and say so, but i havent seen anything yet.

[Sal Minella]

10. It's Dick Cheney sneaking in & raiding your refrigerator in the middle of the night, and leaving

musculo-magnetic forces in the air that paralyze the channel-changing muscles.

I don't have a TV, but I know this would happen to me if I had one, because I keep good cheese and a tasty brand of salami in the fridge all the time. And sometimes cold pizza. I bet he's a sucker for cold pizza with extra sausage.

[Recursion]

4. Here's a story

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/12/asia/AS-GEN-Japan-US-Explosion.php

"Police suspect and attempted attack."

No injuries reported.

[medeak]

5. sounds completely benign doesn't it

no wonder it hasn't been picked up

[BushOut06]

6. Actually that's not quite uncommon in Japan

When my dad was stationed at a US Naval base in Yokosuka (just south of Tokyo), there was an "attack" on the base. It was basically just a couple of homemade rockets fired over the perimeter fence, no damage or injuries. There's a group over there, forget what the name of it is - Red Brigade perhaps - that does this sort of thing from time to time.

[champt10]

7. Really

Well, I would shit my pants everytime there was that "little attack" even if it happened every week.

[lectrobyte]

9. Chalmers Johnson's books talk about this kind of thing. It gets little

attention in the press, but imagine what it'd be life if a foreign country had bases in America, and basically lived by their own laws?

[charlie]

8. Yep

I lived there for over a decade (was at Yokosuka for a while, too) and homemade rocket/bombs were lobbed at the bases at least once every couple of years. Here's an old story from 1986:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5D8143FF935A25757C0A960948260