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The cars had the blue-colored English letter 'Y' painted on them by unidentified perpetrators, the paper said. The marking may be explained by the fact that 'Y' is usually added to the license plates of vehicles owned by those who are covered by the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which provides a legal framework to the vast US military presence in Japan.'Y' and 'two-leaf clover' symbol painted on vehicles. Police say they are unsure of meaning https://t.co/a142i65mMN - Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) November 21, 2017Footage from Japanese broadcaster NHK also showed an apartment block hosting US military personnel in Okinawa vandalized in a similar manner. The building had a 'Y' and an image of a two-leaf clover painted on it, the police said, adding that they were unaware of the meaning of the latter symbol. The police told Stars and Stripes that they were investigating the incident, but declined to comment if US personnel had been targeted.

However, in the last few years, the basis for the network's supposedly unbiased reputation has melted away.Notice the number of times in the above report it's cited that it was pro-Syrian government forces that were responsible for the tragedies covered. One needs to be wary when viewing anything from this network. See also:
Beginning in 2008 and culminating in 2011-2012, Al Jazeera began seeing mass resignations, with many of its journalists citing loss of editorial control and subservience to Qatari political interests as their main reason for leaving.
But many Western readers continue to remain unaware of the dramatic shift that took place at the network less than five years ago, still trusting the network to deliver unbiased reporting, despite documented and often drastic instances of bias and factual inaccuracy. As Narwani noted, "Western AJ viewers may not have noticed this shift in bias, but it was glaringly obvious to those watching events unfold from inside the region."
Nowhere has this bias been more evident than in Al Jazeera's coverage of the six-year-long conflict in Syria, a conflict in which the Qatari government has a definite stake. Not surprisingly, Al Jazeera has worked to normalize extremist elements in the Syrian opposition, particularly regarding those groups that have been confirmed to have received funding from Qatar - groups that include the terror group Daesh. Al Jazeera's reputation has allowed these instances of bias to largely go undetected by Western viewers, a trend exacerbated by the viral success of Al Jazeera's newest addition: the online news and video service AJ+.
This is all so new. There's been, I believe, a kind of a moral revolution, a new moral culture emerging on campus but it really is only in the last two years. If any of your viewers graduated from college in 2013, they probably haven't seen it. ... [I]t's organized around victims of oppression, it's a vertical metaphor of privileged and oppressor people, and victims. This idea that everything is power.
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