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 Kochiyama supported [[Yu Kikumura]], an alleged member of the [[Japanese Red Army]], who was arrested in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam in 1986 when he was found carrying a bomb in his luggage and subsequently convicted of planning to bomb a US Navy recruitment office in the Veteran's Administration building. Kochiyama felt Kikumura's 30-year sentence was motivated by his political activism.<ref name="Fujino2005-2">Fujino, ''Heartbeat of Struggle'', p. 282.</ref> As part of her support for those she saw as political prisoners, Kochiyama visited in prison [[Marilyn Buck]], a feminist poet, who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison escape of [[Assata Shakur]], the 1981 [[Brink's robbery (1981)|Brink's robbery]] and the [[1983 U.S. Senate bombing]].<ref>Fujino, ''Heartbeat of Struggle'', p. 311.</ref>
+==Controversial Statements==
-==Admiration for Osama bin Laden==
-In response to the United States' actions following the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001, Kochiyama stated that "the goal of the war [on terrorism] is more than just getting oil and fuel. The United States is intent on taking over the world" and "it's important we all understand that the main terrorist and the main enemy of the world's people is the U.S. government. Racism has been a weakness of this country from its beginning. Throughout history, all people of color, and all people who don't see eye-to-eye with the U.S. government have been subject to American terror."<ref name="Fujino2005-3">Fujino, ''Heartbeat of Struggle'', p. 310.</ref>
+In response to the United States' actions following the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001, Kochiyama stated that "the goal of the war [on terrorism] is more than just getting oil and fuel. The United States is intent on taking over the world"<ref name="Fujino2005-3">Fujino, ''Heartbeat of Struggle'', p. 310.</ref> and in a later interview in 2003 expressed admiration and support for Osama bin Laden. <ref name=Indymedia>http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/89393_comment.php</ref><ref name=Ross/><ref name=Indymedia/><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20031011061448/http://awol.objector.org/yuri.html</ref>
-In 2003, while being interviewed by Tamara Kil Ja Kim Nopper in ''The Objector'', Kochiyama  said  "... I consider Osama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire. To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, [[Che Guevara]], [[Patrice Lumumba]], [[Fidel Castro]], all leaders that I admire ... [who] had severe dislike for the US government and those who held power in the US. I think all of them felt the US government and its spokesmen were all arrogant, racist, hypocritical, self-righteous, and power hungry..... You asked, 'Should freedom fighters support him?' Freedom fighters all over the world, and not just in the Muslim world, don’t just support him; they revere him; they join him in battle. He is no ordinary leader or an ordinary Muslim."<ref name=Indymedia>http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/89393_comment.php</ref><ref name=Ross/>
-In the same interview with ''The Objector'', she thanked Islam for Osama bin Laden and his actions against the United States, stating, "..when I think what the US military is doing, brazenly bombing country after country, to take oil resources, bringing about coups, assassinating leaders of other countries, and pitting neighbor nations against each other, and demonizing anyone who disagrees with US policy, and detaining and deporting countless immigrants from all over the world, I thank Islam for bin Laden. America’s greed, aggressiveness, and self-righteous arrogance must be stopped. War and weaponry must be abolished."<ref name=Indymedia/><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20031011061448/http://awol.objector.org/yuri.html</ref>
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