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Taiwan had secret plan to land elite troops on Senkakus to destroy lighthouse
BY TAKIO MURAKAMI CORRESPONDENT
2012/12/06
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Helicopter units are deployed at the Taoyuan county army base. In this July 2010 photo, Kao Hua-chu, Taiwan's national defense minister, inspects the helicopter unit. (Provided by the Military News Agency)
Yang Li (Takio Murakami)
TAIPEI -- Under cover of darkness, the plan was for an elite unit of Taiwanese troops to land on one of the Senkaku Islands and blow up the lighthouse there that had been erected by Japanese rightists.
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