DPJ lawmaker given warning over views on 9/11 terror attacks+

TOKYO, March 18 Kyodo -
A ruling Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker who was criticized by The
Washington Post for what it described as a ''bizarre'' conspiracy theory on the
Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks received a stern warning from a senior DPJ
lawmaker on Thursday.
DPJ Administration Committee Chairman Tenzo Okumura told Yukihisa Fujita, who
serves as director general of the International Department of the DPJ, to watch
what he says given the importance of his post, according to a participant at
the meeting.
In its editorial dated March 8, The Washington Post presented Fujita's views on
the terror attacks, including his argument that some hijackers remain alive and
that ''shadowy forces'' with advance knowledge of the plot profited from stock
trading.
The U.S. daily described his views as a ''bizarre, half-baked and
intellectually bogus'' conspiracy theory and said they ''seem to reflect a
strain of anti-American thought that runs through the DPJ and the government of
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.''
The warning was not based on the DPJ's ethics rules and differs from official
discipline, according to party officials.
==Kyodo