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	Encyclopedia: Kozo Okamoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kozo Okamoto (å²¡æ¬å¬ä¸ Okamoto KÅzÅ) was a member of the Japanese terrorist group, Japanese Red Army (JRA).
		Okamoto was severely injured but survived to be tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1972.
		Okamoto was released in 1985 with over a thousand other prisoners in an exchange with captured Israeli soldiers.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kozo-Okamoto (1333 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Japanese Red Army member Kozo Okamoto wants to return to Japan
		Kozo Okamoto, one of three Japanese Red Army members who staged a 1972 machine-gun and hand-grenade attack at Tel Aviv's airport, said in a series of recent interviews with Kyodo News that he now wants to return home from Beirut, where he has been granted political asylum, Kyodo news reported.
		Okamoto is believed to have developed schizophrenia while in prison in Israel, and is now on medication to control the disease, but says he has no problems with everyday life with supporters' help.
		Okamoto said Japanese Red Army members including Kunio Bando, 56, and Norio Sasaki, 54, who are on an international wanted list for hijacking a Japanese airplane near Dhaka in 1977, took care of him between 1985 when he was released from prison in Israel and the mid-1990s.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0305/03050601KDO.asp (584 words)

	Info and facts on 'Kozo Okamoto' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kozo Okamoto was captured trying to escape the terminal.
		Kozo Okamoto is still wanted by the Japanese government.
		This request was not made when Kozo Okamoto was a prisoner in Israel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Ko/Kozo_Okamoto.htm (415 words)

	Kozo Okamoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kozo Okamoto (L) and Fusako Shigenobu, leader of the JRA at a press conference
		The plan worked, as Okamoto and his comrads attracted little attention prior to their attack.
		Patrick Arguello had been shot and killed two years earlier, on September 6, 1970 on an Israeli El Al jet he had attempted to highjack together with PFLP member Leila Khaled.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kozo_Okamoto (613 words)

	Japanese Red Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Her release was part of a deal with the Japanese Red Army during the hijacking of a Japanese airliner to Bangladesh.
		In May 1985, Okamoto was freed in an exchange of prisoners between Israeli and Palestinian forces.
		The Lebanese authorities granted Okamoto asylum in 1999 because he fought against Israel.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/j/ja/japanese_red_army.html (1067 words)

	Japanese Red Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The trial of Ekita originally started in 1975 but was suspended when she was released from prison in 1977 in a deal with the Japanese Red Army during the hijacking of a Japanese airliner to Bangladesh.
		Kozo Okamoto contributed in the attack on the Israeli airport in 1972.
		Masao Adachi, Kazuo Tohira, Haro Wako, and Mariko Yamamoto were also imprisoned in Lebanon on charges of forgery yet were sent to Jordan and, as the Jordanian authorities refused to allow them into Jordan, handed over to Japan.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/ja/japanese_red_army.html (941 words)

	Alternative-Online
		Kozo Okamoto was unable to committ suicide as his almost fatal wounds prevented him from committing suicide and avoiding being captured.
		Okamoto is the younger brother of Takedia Okamoto, one of the JRA members who hijacked a Japan Airlines flight to North Korea in 1970.
		Kozo was trailed by an Israeli military court which sentenced him to life imprisonment.
	www.alternative-online.org /red_army.htm (739 words)

	L-I: Dirty Trick in Lebanon
		The one good thing to result from this dirty deal is the political asylum granted to Kozo Okamoto, the Red Army man who worked with the PFLP and carried out the Lydda airport attack in 1972.
		Okamoto, now 53, was the sole survivor of a 1972 attack by Palestinian guerrillas on Israel’s Lod Airport in which 26 people were killed.
		Waving portraits of Okamoto, they shouted: “Hariri arrested them and you handed them over,” referring to their capture on Feb. 15, 1997, when Rafik Hariri was in power.
	www.mail-archive.com /leninist-international@buo319b.econ.utah.edu/msg00210.html (943 words)

	Japan Policy & Politics: Okamoto being sheltered at undisclosed location in Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Japanese Red Army member Kozo Okamoto, who was released from a Lebanon jail in March, is being sheltered by supporters at an undisclosed location in the country, a source close to Okamoto said Sunday.
		Lebanon granted Okamoto political asylum after he was released March 21 from Roumyieh prison on the outskirts of Beirut, where he had served time for passport and visa forgery with four other Japanese Red Army members.
		Okamoto's supporters in Lebanon are reportedly sheltering him at a secret location over fears that Israel wants him dead.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2000_May_1/ai_61968903 (365 words)

	Guardian \| Red Army members expelled by Lebanon
		A fifth member of the group, Kozo Okamoto, who is accused of participating in the 1972 killing of 24 people at the main airport in Tel Aviv, was granted asylum in Lebanon.
		An official statement said he was being allowed to stay for health reasons, but it appeared more likely he was being allowed to stay because he has hero's status among some in the Arab world for his role in the airport massacre.
		Kozo Okamoto, 51, had been freed by Israel in a 1985 prisoner swap with Palestinian rebels.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3975588-103681,00.html (261 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BEIRUT (Kyodo) Kozo Okamoto, one of three Japanese Red Army members who carried out a 1972 machinegun and grenade massacre at Tel Aviv's airport, has told Kyodo News that he now wants to return home from Lebanon, where he has asylum.
		Okamoto was sentenced to life imprisonment in Israel for taking part with two other Japanese Red Army members in the May 1972 attack at Lod Airport that left 26 people dead and 76 others wounded.
		Okamoto is believed to have developed schizophrenia while in prison in Israel and is now on medication.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030508b6.htm (586 words)

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		Okamoto Kozo was a much younger member of the Red Army who began demonstrating alongside the student movements at
		Additionally, Okamoto believed that “[s]ince the revolution is not being fought in the name of any specific values, there are no constraints on how it may be fought.
		Okamoto was fully in line with them since “the people he killed were not enemies against whom he felt a direct animosity.
	www.xanga.com /TheGrandInquisitor/294816422/item.html (2628 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lod Airport Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Yasuda and Okudaira died at the scene, Yasuda from Israeli fire and Okudaira by his own hand - he had moved from the airport building onto the landing area, after firing at passengers disembarking from an El Al aircraft he committed suicide using a grenade.
		On May 30, 1972, a three-man hit squad from the Japanese Red Army arrived at the Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, via Air France Flight 132.
		The third terrorist, Kozo Okamoto, was captured while attempting to flee from the terminal.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lod-Airport-Massacre (503 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BEIRUT (Kyodo) Japanese Red Army member Kozo Okamoto, who received political asylum from Lebanon on Friday, left a Lebanese prison Monday night, one of his lawyers said Tuesday.
		Okamoto may be able to live in Lebanon as a regular citizen because the certificate does not stipulate restrictions on political activities.
		Okamoto was sentenced to life imprisonment in Israel for taking part in a May 1972 attack at Tel Aviv's Lod airport that left 26 people dead and 76 others injured.
	www.japantimes.com /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20000322a6.htm (336 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Guerrillas for cash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Meanwhile, a fifth JRA leader, Kozo Okamoto, was released on Tuesday after spending three years in a Lebanese prison, becoming the first person to ever be granted political asylum in Lebanon's history.
		In 1972, Okamoto was arrested with other Palestinian fighters after leading a serious attack against Israel at Lod Airport.
		Okamoto told reporters that he was deprived of food and forced to bark and walk like a dog whenever he wanted something to eat.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/474/re3.htm (821 words)

	CNN - Lebanon puts Red Army suspects on trial - June 9, 1997
		Now, Kozo Okamoto and four other aging members of the Japanese Red Army face relatively minor charges of illegally entering and living in Lebanon as well as forging passports and other documents.
		Their trial reflects an effort by Lebanon to show its attempt to be a more lawful society since the 1975-90 civil war, when extremist groups were tolerated and flourished.
		The only terrorist to survive that bloody attack was Kozo Okamoto, who was caught and originally sentenced by the Israelis to life in prison.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9706/09/lebanon.red.army (438 words)

	FRD--THE SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF TERRORISM
		Background: Kozo Okamoto was born in southwestern Japan in 1948.
		Kozo Okamoto was attracted to the JRA more for its action-oriented program than for ideological reasons.
		To be sure, Okamoto's courtroom speech, including his justification for slaughtering innocent people and his stated hope that he and his two dead comrades would become, in death, "three stars of Orion," was rather bizarre.
	www.neuromaster.com /LOCsocpsyterrorism/spt_09.htm (16848 words)

	Terrorism and Antisemitism in Japan
		Okamoto was tried by Israel and sentenced to life in prison but was released in May 1985 in a prisoner exchange with the PFLP-General Command and fled to Libya.
		In February 1997, Okamoto was arrested again, this time in Lebanon, but was deported and eventually disappeared.
		As Patricia Steinhoff, who interviewed Okamoto in August 1972, has written, “The only notable feature of Okamoto’s particular combination [of personal motivations and political ideas] is that it was so comprehensive and so neutral that it permitted the matching up of terrorists and victims almost at random.”
	www.acdis.uiuc.edu /Research/S&Ps/2003-Su/S&P_Su-2003/terrorism_antisemitism.html (1412 words)

	IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 0fax0303.txt
		The council of ministers decided to adopt a report by the prosecutor general, in which he rejected the extradition of the five Japanese citizens for lack of the appropriate legal conditions, Information Minister Anwar Khalil told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
		The five terrorists are Masao Adachi, Kozo Okamoto, Kazuo Tohira, Haruo Wako and Mariko Yamamoto.
		Okamoto participated in the 1972 attack on Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv which claimed 24 lives.
	www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/2000/03/0fax0303.html (821 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Red Army guerrillas arrested
		A Lebanese official said 51-year-old Kozo Okamoto had been given asylum because of the way he had been treated in Israeli prisons.
		Okamoto had spent 13 years in jail in Israel before being released five years ago in a prisoner exchange with the Palestinians.
		In what was seen as an attempt to avoid being sent home, Adachi recently married a Lebanese woman after converting to Greek Orthodox Christianity, and Okamoto and two others converted to Islam.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/681569.stm (551 words)

	Lod Airport massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Because airport security was focused on the possibility of a Palestinian attack, the use of Japanese terrorists took guards by surprise, and the commitment to a suicide mission simplified planning.
		In the letter claiming official responsibility for the attack carried out by the Japanese Red Army, the PFLP referred to it as Operation Deir Yassin.
		Patrick Arguello had been shot and killed two years earlier, on September 6, 1970 on an Israeli El Al jet he had attempted to hijack together with PFLP member Leila Khaled.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lod_Airport_Massacre (454 words)

	WHAT'S NEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 28th anniversary of the Ledda operation which was done by the JRA and PFLP in 30 may 1972, and in which died as martyrs the leader Tsuyoshi Okudaira and comrade Yasuyuki Yasuda and in which the Hero KOZO OKAMOTO.
		Sadly because the Lebanese authorities extradited in 17 March 2000 four JRA members (Kozo Okamoto group), by kidnapping them in a conspiracy with the Japanese and Jordanian governments, ignoring by all of this the international law and the human rights and even the Lebanese law itself.
		Comrade Okamoto and his two martyr comrades gave us back the confidence for our rightful struggle against the unique enemy for humanity who is USA and ZIONISM which occupied our land and massacred children daily.
	www3.tky.3web.ne.jp /~sper/6TH/lydda1.html (516 words)

	www.eucharistic-convention.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He visited jailed members of the Japanese Red Army, after they had launched a terrorist attack on Tel Aviv airport in 1972 in which 26 people were killed.
		Most notably he was able to lead Kozo Okamoto, one of the terrorists responsible for the killings, to repentance.
		Okamoto asked that Fr Glynn request the families of the victims to forgive him.
	www.ezeepeasy.bizland.com /K_2004/k_glynn/glynn.htm (317 words)

	NAPSNet Daily Report, Friday, May 9, 2003
		But critics still argue that the government definition of "reporting" is vague and open for arbitrary interpretation, and that the legislation could discourage potential news sources and whistle-blowers from offering information.
		But Okamoto said, "I have finished my prison term in Israel, so it is not fair for the Japanese government to again put me on trial." Asked whether he regretted slaying innocent people, Okamoto said: "I had no option but to shoot for the sake of armed struggle.
		Okamoto's four other members were forcibly taken to Japan, but the Lebanese government granted Okamoto political asylum, saying he had participated in resistance operations against Israel and had been tortured in Israeli jails.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/napsnet/dr/0305/MAY09.html (3760 words)

	Ma'alot massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some students managed to escape by jumping out of a window, but 90 or so students and some teachers were held as hostages.
		The hostage-takers presented their demands the next morning: release 23 Arab and three other political prisoners, including Kozo Okamoto - a Japanese national involved in the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre, from Israeli prisons, or they would kill the students.
		The Knesset, the Israeli parliament, met in an emergency session, and by 3:00 p.m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maalot_massacre (420 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After a series of talks, there was an agreement that those who participated in the resistance (against Israel) would remain in Lebanon and obtain political asylum, and those who didn't would be deported to a third country that was prepared to receive them.
		The conditions for political asylum applied to one of them, whose physical and mental health was deteriorating, Kozo Okamoto.
		Okamoto is now a political refugee living in Lebanon like any other citizen and people come from Japan every week or month to check his situation.
	english.daralhayat.com /Spec/07-2005/Article-20050713-0ffc7ede-c0a8-10ed-00f8-0297c7dd366c/story.html (5869 words)

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		It added that, "Comrade Kozo Okamoto, who fought in that operation 28 years ago, has now been freed and has been received as the first person granted political asylum in Lebanon.
		The communique declared that the Red Army had not been able to present the meaning of the struggle it waged at the side of the Palestinian and Arab people since the battle of Lydda to the Japanese people who lived in peaceful and entirely different conditions.
		The communique pointed out that the Red Army had not been able to transcend the differences in conditions between the two countries, Japan and Lebanon, noting at the same time the support that the Lebanese had expressed for Kozo Okamoto which was an expression of the strong solidarity between the two peoples.
	members.tripod.com /~freepalestine/redarmycomnqe.txt (585 words)

	Lebanon Deports Japanese Red Army Members
		A fifth member of the group - Kozo Okamoto who served a three-year prison term for entering Lebanon illegally - was granted asylum for health reasons and allowed to stay, said the statement from the General Security Department, a branch of the Interior Ministry.
		Okamoto, 51, is the best known of the five, having participated in the 1972 attack on Israel's Ben Gurion airport that left 24 people dead.
		He was freed by Israel in a 1985 prisoner swap with Palestinian guerrillas.
	www.mail-archive.com /fukuzawa@ucsd.edu/msg12293.html (234 words)

	j. - Mideast Report
		It claimed responsibility for violent attacks and hijackings in the 1970s, including a 1972 shooting attack at Ben-Gurion Airport that claimed 26 lives and left more than 70 people wounded.
		One of the Lebanese detainees was reportedly Kozo Okamoto, the sole survivor among the three gunmen who carried out the airport attack.
		Okamoto was arrested by Israeli forces and sentenced to life in prison, and was freed in 1985 as part of a prisoner and soldier swap between Israel and the Palestinians.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/5562/edition_id/103/format/html/displaystory.html (697 words)

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