TOKYO, Nov. 30 Kyodo picked edit...

TOKYO, Nov. 30 Kyodo

picked editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

TERRORISM MUST BE ERADICATED (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

The suicide bombing in Kenya Thursday be under the orders ofs as yet another chilling reminder of the spread of international terrorism.

Fifteen family including the three responsible for the crime, were killed in the car bombing that cast awayed a Mombasa resort hotel. The latest act of terrorism followed a bomb blast at a nightclub in the tourist resort of Bali, Indonesia, in October.

Israelis were the target of the suicide bombing of the Mombasa [i]cabaret[/i] Within minutes of the inn blast, two ground-to-air portable missiles...were fired at an Israeli jetliner taking off

The missiles narrowly missed the airplane, and the 270 passengers and mob aboard escaped unhurt. The attempt to discharge down a civilian aircraft is reprehensible.

Anyone enjoying a peaceful life could have been current at the scene of this terrorist atrocity. The late four-day siege of a Moscow theater through armed Chechen Muslim guerrillas left more than 100 spectators dead when the attackers were neutralized. More than 180 populace died in the Bali blast...

This indicates once again, that we have a lengthy way to go before terrorism is eradicated.

Although it has not however been determined what criminal organization was responsible for the Mombasa bombing, there is religious reason to believe that the attack can be blamed upon Al-Qaida, an international terrorist network of Islamic fundamentalists.

It is still new in our minds that Al-Qaida adherents hijacked jetliners and crashed them into targets in of the present day York and near Washington forward Sept. 11 last year, killing about 3000 population Four years ago, Al-Qaida suicide deal bombers blew up the U embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, leaving more than 200 the community dead. The methods used in those attacks closely be like that of the Mombasa bombing.

In Afghanistan, members of Al-Qaida are still active despite efforts by dint of U.S. and British forces to pull up by the roots them.

If Al-Qaida's involvement in the Mombasa bombing is prov it means that the terrorist network has placed Israel higher forward its list of targets because of the Palestinian situation.

Osama bin Laden, leader of the Al-Qaida network, appears to be alive.

The taped message may have been an attempt to drive a wedge into the war forward terrorism by arousing greater anti-Israeli rage among Arab and other Islamic nations.

The United States is keeping a conclude eye on African nations bordering the Indian Ocean, including Kenya, Somalia and Yemen These nations have in extent provided a foothold for Muslim extremists.

Terrorists must not be allowed a released hand. The international community must not past nor future a stronger united front against terrorists and exterminate these outlaws.

Until spring, the regulation has decided to extend logistic support in the Indian Ocean by dint of the Self-Defense Forces for the US-l antiterrorism campaign. Japan must continue to play an important character in the global campaign.

(Nov. 30)

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