Japan was target of al-Qaeda: panelThe Japan Times, June 18WASHINGTON (Kyodo) Al-Qaeda terrorists in 1999 planned to carry out large-scale attacks in Japan, South Korea and Singapore, according to a report released ... "By April or May 2000, however, (Osama) bin Laden had decided to cancel the Southeast Asia part of the planes operation because he believed it would be too difficult to synchronize the hijacking and crashing of flights on opposite sides of the globe," observes the staff report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
