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Police remove Osprey opponents

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo shows an area in front of the Oyama gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2012, blocked by cars parked by local residents to protest the planned deployment of the controversial MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the base. Police removed residents and also the barricade formed by the vehicles.

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Police remove Osprey opponents

GINOWAN, Japan - Local residents stage a protest against the planned deployment of the controversial MV-22 Osprey aircraft in front of the Oyama gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2012. Police forcibly removed the residents who had blocked the gate into the base and removed the barricade the residents formed by parking 12 vehicles in front of the gate.

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Police remove Osprey opponents

GINOWAN, Japan - Local police and residents jostle in front of the Oyama gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2012. The police forcibly removed Okinawa residents who had blocked the gate into the base to protest the planned deployment of the controversial MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the base and removed the barricade the residents formed by parking 12 vehicles in front of the gate.

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Police remove Osprey opponents

GINOWAN, Japan - A local resident is removed by police in front of the Oyama gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2012. The police forcibly removed Okinawa residents who had blocked the gate into the base to protest the planned deployment of the controversial MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the base and removed the barricade the residents formed by parking 12 vehicles in front of the gate.

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Police remove Osprey opponents

GINOWAN, Japan - A local resident is removed by police in front of the Oyama gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2012. The police forcibly removed Okinawa residents who had blocked the gate into the base to protest the planned deployment of the controversial MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the base and removed the barricade the residents formed by parking 12 vehicles in front of the gate.

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Osprey opponents block gates of Futenma air station

GINOWAN, Japan - Protesters park cars in front of the Oyama gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture on Sept. 29, 2012. Okinawa residents blocked all three gates to the airbase, halting all vehicle traffic to and from the base, in an effort to prevent the planned deployment of the controversial MV-22 Osprey aircraft at the base.