(3)Police probe botches attack on Defense Agency

(3)Police probe botches attack on Defense Agency

TOKYO, Japan - People crowd the street near a graveyard in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, where police found two projectiles late on Feb. 17. Police said later that radical opponents of Japan's deployment of troops to Iraq made an abortive attempt to attack the Defense Agency.

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