Japan Will Boost Security for G-8 Summit After Al-Qaeda Threat
Bloomberg April 23 2008By Takashi Hirokawa and Aaron Sheldrick
Japan will take steps to prevent a terrorist attack at the Group of Eight industrialized nations summit in Hokkaido, the government said, after al-Qaeda warned of possible attacks on the nation.
Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's deputy in the group, suggested al-Qaeda may attack Japan to punish it for sending troops to Iraq, Kyodo English News reported late yesterday, citing an audio recording posted on Islamic Web sites.
``As the summit approaches, we shall make sure we take all measures to see that everything is alright,'' Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said today at a regular news conference in Tokyo. (...)
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