Japanese Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama is under heavy fire in his own country for a recent comment he made about knowing a friend who knows an al-Qaeda terrorist involved in the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia that killed 202 people, mostly tourists. Hatoyama was speaking at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura has already warned Hatoyama before the cabinet meeting.
Seems like Hatoyama tangled himself up by making comments like: “I was given advice not to go close to the center of Bali island because it would be bombed.”
It is not yet known who Hatoyama’s “friend” is. The only suspected al-Qaeda terrorist who is known to have visited Japan on a regular basis is Lionel Dumont, a French Muslim. His office in Niigata was raided three years ago.
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