Kyodo News asked Al-Qaeda about Japan, and they got an answer:
Ayman al-Zawahri, second in command of al-Qaida, vowed Tuesday to punish Western countries that participated in the Iraq war, hinting that Japan could be a target and advising it to end its alliance with “Americans who had occupied, looted, humiliated and bombed them with nukes.”
The comment by Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant, a response to a question submitted by Kyodo News, was heard on a 2-hour, 36-minute audiotape of al-Zawahri that surfaced early Tuesday on militant Web sites.
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Asked by Kyodo, using a different name, if al-Qaida intends to “punish the Western countries that have contributed troops to Iraq,” al-Zawahri said: “My answer is: Yes! We believe that any country that participated in the aggression on Muslims must be deterred.”
Asked by Kyodo if Japan remains a target because it sent troops to Iraq, al-Zawahri said: “Japan provided the so-called assistance under the flag of the crusader coalition as part of the propaganda for the crusader forces invading the homelands of Islam. It did not provide this assistance through charitable organizations and thus it is participating in the crusader campaign against the lands of Islam.
“Why did the Japanese start the aggression on us within the alliance of the Americans? . . . Our Islamic faith incites us to resist the despots and tyrants, even if they were the most powerful force on Earth . . . so will Japan learn a lesson from this?” he said.
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