American Notes NEW JERSEY

According to federal prosecutors, the terrorist Japanese Red Army has one less soldier on active duty these days. A federal judge in Newark last week sentenced Yu Kikumura, 36, to 30 years in prison for possession of three pipe bombs and a false passport. A Japanese national, Kikumura was arrested last April on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper, who says he saw the bombs in the back seat of his car. Prosecutors believe he intended to plant them in the New York City area in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya. U.S. District Judge Alfred J. Lechner Jr. said the bombs, packed with black powder and lead shotgun pellets, "were intended for flesh and blood, not bricks and mortar."