http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=279811PARIS — Members of the al-Qaida international terrorist network has warned Japan that they will attack Tokyo as soon as Japanese troops are deployed in Iraq, Radio France reported Friday.
In a statement sent to an Arabic magazine, the al-Qaida members said they will infiltrate deep into Tokyo and attack the Japanese capital as soon as Japan's Self-Defense Forces troops set their feet in Iraq, according to the report.
The members admitted al-Qaida's involvement in Thursday's deadly attacks on British targets in Istanbul and said Japan will be easily destroyed and the Japanese will come to face the reality, the radio report said.
The attacks in Turkey's largest city killed at least 27 people and injured some 450 others in almost simultaneous explosions.
The statement also warned that "a major new operation" will be carried out between next week (following the end of Ramadan) and mid-February at the time of the Feast of Sacrifice, Id al-Adha.
<snip>
Ballsy move for a group that Bush said had been pretty much neuturalized.