A man has been sentenced to 17 years and six monthsin jail for fatally stabbing his wife's lover in a "crime of passion".
Marin Neacsu, 58, from Sunshine West, pleaded guilty to murdering Ionel Coca on February 23 last year after becoming jealous that Mr Coca and his wife of 35 years — the mother of his four daughters — had fallen in love.
Victoria's Supreme Court today heard that soon after arriving in Australia from Romania, Mr Coca moved into a bungalow at the rear of where Neacsu, who was also born in Romania, lived with his wife. He was meant to stay for a year before hopefully receiving permanent residencyin Australia.
Neacsu grew increasingly suspicious of the relationship between Mr Coca and his wife before Christmas in 2010, sohe asked him to leave. Advertisement
About two months later – and one weekbefore the murder – Neacsu's wife Dida also moved out, Justice Betty King said.
"Your wife told you and the family that she was residing with an old woman from her church. She was not saying where the location was or who the old woman was," the judge said.
"Your wife returned each day to the family home and performed duties around the house but she was also during that time slowly moving her possessions out. You wished your wife to return to the family home and you spoketo her about that matter constantly. She indicated she was not prepared to return home. At no stage did she tell you that she had leftyou and the family home to live with the deceased man."
Following an argument with his wife on the evening of February 23, whenNeacsu again asked her to move home and she declined, he armed himself with a blue handled fishing knife and demanded his wife take him to where she was living.
"You pulled her by the hair and her hand was cut by the knife and you threatened to kill her if she didn't drive you to where she was now living," Justice King said.
"It is clear that your wife was in fear of her life ... Your wife tried to avoid driving you to wherethe deceased was living with her and initially drove you tothe street where your daughter Alis resided in Ardeer. You did not accept that that was where she was residing andyou again threatened her with violence if she did not take you to where she was actually living. She subsequently drove to the flats in Ridley Street and you forced her to direct you to the flat in which she was living."
As Mr Coca unlocked the front door, Dida Neacsu warned him that her estranged husband was armed with a knife, before she ran and hid in some nearby bushes.
Neacsu then stabbedMr Coca multiple times in the flat's doorway.
"It is my view that you were deeply suspicious of your wife being involved with the deceased," Justice King said.
"What occurred on this night was a decision relating to confirming your suspicions and confronting the deceased if your suspicions proved correct."
The judge added there was no evidence to suggest the deceased man was the initial aggressor as Neacsu had suggested.
"The evidence is clear that when he answered the door he was unarmed, theonly evidence is that you were at the doorwith a knife, that you had forced your estranged wife to take you there, that as the deceased fled from you down the stairs you chased him and yelled out 'he stole my wife, hestole my wife'," Justice King said.
"There is no doubt that the deceased tried to protect himself from your stabbing actions. He was not successful, as is apparent from the large volume of blood located in the flat, on the front door, around the flatlanding outside and particularly in the area outside flat 6 where you caught up with the deceased man after he had fled. The deceased man was losing large amountsof blood as he fled from you ... You stabbed him 16 times."
The judge described the attack as "viciousand clearly quite frenzied".
Neacsu told a forensic psychiatrist, Dr Lester Walton: "I saw the man, I had aheart attack straight away. I was not in this world."
Dr Walton told the court that Neacsu was likely to have been suffering from a diagnosable depressive disorder and he described what Neacsu did as"a crime of passion".
"That he had been cuckolded was finally, definitively confirmed to him and he was further inflamed by what heperceived to be the aggressivity exhibited by the deceased. Depressiveillnesses certainly can erode a person's capacity for exercising proper social judgment and such a disorder may also disinhibit aggressive urges, more commonly towards oneself than others," Dr Walton's report says.
In sentencing, Justice King said she took into account Neacsu's mental illness, early guilty plea, remorse, limited prior convictions, prospects of rehabilitation and family support, together with just punishment, denunciation, and the need for general and specific deterrence.
"Our community, parliament and the courts have repeatedly said that women are not chattels, they are notsomething that is owned by any man," she told him.
"Your wife was entitled to leave you. You may not have liked that, but she had the right to do so. She did not have to tell you where she was going, or if she was pursing a relationship with another man. You had no right to know this, you had no right to control what she did and, equally, you had no right to kill the man with whom she had formed a relationship becauseof your anger at being, as it was described, 'cuckolded'.
"Our society has moved forward and does not excuse any person on the basis of the crime being a 'crime of passion'."
Justice King ordered Neacsu to serve a minimum of 14 yearsand six months in jail. He has already served 559 days in detention.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/cuckolded-man-jailed-for-killing-wifes-lover-20120904-25bx0.html
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And the judge's gavelfell
Jury found him guilty
Gave him sixteen years in hell.
He said he'd seen his lady being fooled with
By another man
She was down and he was up
He had a gun in his hand
Bullets started flying everywhere
And people started to scream
Big man lying on the ground
With a hole in his body
Where his life had been.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani minister offered US$100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world.
“I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy Prophet, anyone who murders him, Iwill reward him with $100,000,” Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to applause.
“I invite the Talibanbrothers and the al Qaeda brothers to join me in this blessed mission.”
A spokesman for Pakistan’s prime minister said the government disassociated itself from the minister’s statement.
While many Muslim countries saw mostly peaceful protests on Friday, fifteen people werekilled in Pakistan during demonstrations over the video.
People involved in the film, an amateurish 13-minute clip of which was posted on YouTube, have said it was made bya 55-year-old California man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
Nakoula has not returned to his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos since leaving voluntarily to be interviewed by federal authorities. His family has since gone into hiding.
In the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Saturday, thousands of Islamist activists clashed with police who used batons and teargas to clearan unauthorised protest. In Kano, northern Nigeria’s biggest city, Shi’ite Muslims burned American flags, but their protest passedoff peacefully.
The demonstrations were less widespread than on Friday, but showed anger still simmered around the world against the film and other insults against Islam in the West, including cartoons published by a French satirical magazine.
The governments in host countries have the unconditional obligation to protect foreign missions
Showing continued nervousness amongWestern governments, German Foreign Minister ***** Westerwelle called on Muslim countriesto protect foreign embassies.
“The governments in host countries have the unconditional obligation to protect foreign missions. If that doesn’t happen, wewill emphatically criticise that and if it still doesn’t happen it won’t go without consequences,” he told the Welt am Sonntag newspaperon Sunday
Germany’s embassyin Sudan was stormed on September 14 as was the U.S. mission in the capital Khartoum where there were deadly clashes between police andprotesters against the film.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/world/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2012/09/23/pakistani-minister-offers-100000-to-kill-maker-of-anti-islamic-video

The violence Friday in Pakistan began with a television station employee dying from gunshot wounds during a protest in the northwestern city of Peshawar, and far bigger protests in the southern port Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, left between 12 and 14 people dead, Pakistani news media reported. Geo,the leading television station, was reporting 19 deaths by late Fridayaround the country.
The unrest came as governments and Western institutions in many parts of the Muslim world bracedfor protests after Friday Prayer — an occasion often associated with demonstrations as worshipers leave mosques. In Tunisia ,the authorities invoked emergency powers to outlaw all demonstrations, fearing an outpouring of anti-Western protestinspired both by the American-made film and by cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a French satirical weekly.
American diplomatic posts in India , Indonesia and elsewhere closed for the day. In Bangladesh, several thousand activists from Islamic organizations took over roads in the center of the capital, Dhaka after prayers. They chanted “deathto the United States and death to the French” and set on fire a symbolic coffinfor President Obama that was draped with the American flag, as well as an effigy of Mr. Obama. They also burned theAmerican and Frenchflags. The protesters threatened to seize the American Embassy on Saturday, but a police order banned any further demonstrations. Separate protests took place outside ofDhaka as well.
European countries took steps to forestall protests among their own Muslim minorities and against their missions abroad. France had already announced the closure on Friday of embassies and otherinstitutions in 20 countries while, in Paris, some Muslim leaders urged their followers to heed a government ban on weekend demonstrations protesting against denigration of the prophet.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls said officials throughout the country had orders to prevent all protests and crack down if the ban was challenged. “There will be strictly no exceptions. Demonstrations will be banned and broken up,” Mr. Valls said.
The German Interior Ministry said it was postponing a poster campaign aimed at countering radical Islam to avoid fueling protests among the country’s four million Muslims,The Associated Press reported.
Businesses in Pakistan closed and streets emptied across the country asthe government declared a national holiday, the “Day of Love for the Prophet Muhammad,” to encourage peaceful protests against the controversial film that has ignited protest across the Muslim world for more than a week.
“An attack on the holy prophet is an attack on the core belief of 1.5 billion Muslims. Therefore, this is something that is unacceptable,” said Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in an address to a religious conference Friday morning in Islamabad.
Mr. Ashraf called on the United Nations and international community to formulate a law outlawing hate speech across the world. “Blasphemy of the kind witnessed in this case is nothing shortof hate speech, equal to the worst kind of anti-Semitism or other kind of bigotry,” he said.
But the scenes of chaos in some parts of the country as theday progressed suggested that the government had failed to control public anger on the issue.
In Peshawar, where the television employee was killed,protesters attacked and burned two movie theaters, breaking through the windows with sticks and setting fire to posters that featured images of female movie stars.
Television footage showed the police firing in the air to disperse the crowd, and a hospital official said that at least 15 people, including three police officers, were injured.
In Islamabad, where thousands of protesters flooded toward the heavily guarded diplomatic enclave, Express News reported that the police ran out of rubber bullets because of heavy firing.
A television reporter said that when protesters in nearby Rawalpindi ran out of material to burn, they broke into several tire shops along a major road to steal fresh supplies.
The government cut off cellphone coverage in major cities, while the authorities in Islamabad sealed all exits to the city afterFriday Prayer, state radio reported. Some Pakistanis were relying on e-mail and social media sites, like Twitter, to communicate.
Expressions of wearyanger over the violence were common. “We are not a nation. We are a mob,” said Nadeem F. Paracha, a cultural commentator with Dawn newspaper, onTwitter.
Large shipping containers blocked roads through the center of several cities. Western diplomatic missions were closed for the day.
The State Department spent$70,000 on Urdu-language advertisements that were broadcast on several television channels, dissociating the American government from the inflammatory film.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced it had summoned the American chargé d’affaires, Richard Hoagland, asking him to have the anti-Islam film removed from YouTube, which has been entirely blocked in Pakistan for the past several days.

Pakistan— Violent crowds furious over an anti-Islamic film made in the United States convulsed several cities across Pakistan on Friday ina day of state-sanctioned protests, and the nation’s leading television station reported thatas many as 19 people were killed.

Coptic Scholars Doubt and Hail a Reference to Jesus’ Wife.
When Karen L. King , a historian of early Christianity, announced this week that she had identified a fragment of ancient Coptic text in which Jesus utters the words “my wife,” she said she was making the finding public — despite many unresolved questions — so that her academic colleagues could weigh in.
And weigh in, they have. A few said thatthe papyrus must be a forgery. Others have questioned Dr. King’s interpretationof its meaning. Somehave faulted her for publishing a paper on an item of unknown provenance. And many have criticized her decision to give the scrap of papyrus the attention-getting title “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” as if it had equal weight to other, lengthier texts that are knownas Gospels.
But even some of those casting doubt are also applauding her work. Many scholars said in interviews that they were excited by the discovery, because if it is genuine, it suggests at least onecommunity of early adherents to Christianity believed that Jesus was married.
“It’s obviously an important find,” said Carl R. Holladay , professor of New Testament studies atthe Candler School ofTheology at Emory University.
However, he added, “The circumstances in which it’s come tolight really require all scholars to be really cautious abouthow we proceed.”
Dr. King has reiterated that the fragment is not proof that Jesus was married because it was most likely written three and a half centuries after his death, making it historically unreliable. She has emphasized that thefragment is merely aglimpse of a discussion among early Christians about whether their savior was married or celibate.
Despite her cautions,the finding has prompted “Jesus Was Married” headlines around the world — and jokes about Mrs. Jesus’ “honey-do” list.
The papyrus fragment, which measures only about1 ½ by 3 inches, is written in Coptic that Dr. King says is consistent with writing seen in fourth-century Egypt. It is roughly rectangular, torn on all four sides, so thateach line of text is incomplete. The ink on the front side contains eight lines, dark enough to be legible. Line 4 purportedly says, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife...’ ”
Other phrases in the text suggest that it is an account of a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples, Dr. King maintains. Accordingto her translation, Line 3 includes the words “Mary is worthy of it.” Line 5, immediately after the line about Jesus’ wife, says, “...she willbe able to be my disciple.” Line 7 says,“As for me, I dwell with her in order to...”
Dr. King, who holds achair at Harvard Divinity School, has written extensively about the Gospels of Mary, Judas and Philip, relatively recent discoveries that are not a part ofthe established biblical canon. Even before this week, Dr.King was a favorite target of religious leaders who consider the Bible the literal word of God.
Two years ago, Dr. King said she received an e-mail from a collector who asked her to translate a piece of papyrus that contained a reference to Jesus’ wife. She said that the owner does not know the provenance of the fragment, and has asked to remain anonymous.
In Rome, Dr. King presented a paper on the papyrus on Tuesday at a meeting of the International Association of Coptic Studies . The Associated Press quoted several of her colleagues there as saying that the handwriting, grammar and shape of the fragment made them suspect it was forged. (Several of those scholars did not respond to e-mails or to phone messages.).
Reached at her hotelin Rome, Dr. King said that as soon as she returns to the United States, she plans to have the inkon the fragment tested to determine whether it is truly ancient.
“The testing won’t be definitive, but it will be one more piece” of evidence, she said. She alreadyhad it examined by two papyrologists and a Coptic linguist,who deemed it mostlikely authentic.
Several scholars said in interviews that Dr.King should not haveagreed to study the fragment without verifying that it was not obtained illegally.
Jennifer Sheridan Moss , president of the American Societyof Papyrologists and an associate professor of classics at Wayne State University in Detroit,said that the society would probably not publish a paper on a piece of papyrus without knowing its provenance. “But if something this interesting came up, I suspect we would pursue more information on its provenance,” she said.
Aside from questionsabout the fragment’s authenticity and provenance, some scholars have questioned Dr. King’s interpretation, since the fragment lacks context. Echoing others, Darrell L. Bock , senior research professor ofNew Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, said in an interview that “my wife” could be a metaphorical reference to “the church,” which in theBible the apostle Paul calls “the bride”of Christ.
But Dr. Holladay disagreed, saying: “The papyrus seems to reflect some kind of conversation between Jesus and his disciples in whichhe’s talking about real people. The language is not being used metaphorically.”

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A neo-Nazi gang in Israel sounds, at first,like a nasty mistake. But experts say that eight young immigrants from the former Soviet Union may have stumbled over a mundane obstacle: integration.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nazis-in-israel-israeli-police-arrest-a-homegrown-skinhead-gang-a-504803.html

The police arrested aman suspected of phoning in a bomb threat to Louisiana State University on Monday, prompting a campuswide evacuation. The man, William BouvayJr., 42, of Baton Rouge, La., was taken into custody shortly before midnight on Tuesday, the campuspolice department said in a statement. On Friday morning, Mr. Bouvay had called the 911 dispatcher and said that multiple bombs around the campus would detonate within two hours, the authorities said. Law enforcement agencies determinedthat the call had been made from a deactivated cellphone that could make only emergency calls; they were able to pinpoint the area from which the call was made through GPS technology. Mr. Bouvay, who was in the area, agreed to go in for questioning, but ultimately confessed and told the police where the phone could be found, the police said. They declined to discuss possible motives for the calls, but said Mr.Bouvay had been arrested in 2004 for making harassing phone calls to a former girlfriend who worked at the university.

The lawsuit, filed Sept. 13, accuses the State of Georgia of using "frivolous and pretextual" grounds to deny the Adopt-a-Highway application submitted by the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (IKKK).
"Encountering signage and members of the KKK along a roadway would create a definite distraction to motorists."
The GDOT also advised the section of roadway listed in the application was ineligible due to the posted limit exceeding 55 mph.
"Further, promoting an organization with a history of inciting civil disturbance and social unrest would present a grave concern to the Department," officials added."Finally, issuing this permit would have the potential to negatively impact the quality of life, commerce and economic development of Union County and all of Georgia."
According to the ACLU, the decision to deny the application based in part on the group's history,"violates the free speech and due process rights guaranteed by the Georgia Constitution."
“Many people may find the views expressed by groups like the IKKK abhorrent. But there is nothing American about taking away the right to express those views or undertake a project, such as notification of sponsorship of a highway cleanup, which is otherwise open to all,” said Chara Fisher Jackson, legal director of the ACLU Foundation of Georgia, in a releasedstatement. “Freedomof speech is at the very core of Americanvalues.”
Debbie Seagraves, executive director of the ACLU Foundation of Georgia, said the government cannot"pick or choose who is protected by the Constitution."
“There will always bespeech and groups conveying hateful messages that are distasteful to some. That is why the First Amendment protects free speech for all,” she added.
The ACLU is asking the GDOT be compelled to issue anAdopt-a-Highway permit to the KKK.
http://lilburn.patch.com/articles/aclu-files-suit-on-behalf-of-georgia-kkk-group-9ae6a3c5

A LEADING Real IRA terrorist was shot in the head as he lay injured on a Dublin street yesterday afternoon.
The victim, 32-year-old Alan Ryan, was a senior dissident republican in the capital and he had built up a long list ofenemies.
He had been under Garda Special Branch surveillance since he was first arrested by armed officers at a Real IRA training camp and arms bunker at Herbertstown, Stamullen, Co Meath,in October 1999 while only a teenager.
He was gunned down yesterday while walking with afriend on the quiet Grange Lodge Avenue, Clongriffin, on the northside of the capital, shortly after 3.30pm.
Two gunmen approached Ryan and his friend, Sligo man Alan Neilis, whois a member of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, a dissident political grouping.
Both men were hit and fell to the ground as one of theattackers opened fire.
The gunman then walked up to Ryan as he lay on the roadand shot him in the head.
Mr Neilis was injuredin the legs. Both men were rushed to Beaumont hospital, where Ryan was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
Mr Neilis later underwent treatment for leg wounds and his condition was described as serious.
The attackers, meanwhile, made their escape in a silver Volvo car, which was found burnt out shortly afterwards at the Hole in the Wall Road.
Both areas were immediately sealed off by gardai for a forensic examination.
Ryan became a senior figure in the Real IRA over the past decade and took charge of a group that was largely based aroundhis home area of Donaghmede, wherehe lived at Grange Abbey Drive, although he also hadan address in Co Carlow.
He became involved in faction fighting within the terrorist group and was involved in a serious dispute with the Real IRA's current leader in Dublin, a Cork man living in Tallaght.
But gardai believe his killers were likelyto have been hired by one of the many crime gangs that had come into conflict with Ryan over the past few years.
Ryan ran a big extortion and intimidation racket, focusing on pubs, clubs and other premises around Dublin while he also sought to take a slice of the profits built up by crime gangs from drug-trafficking and robberies.
His group also raisedfunds through providing door security and bouncers for pubs and clubs, resulting in a number of shootings as they clashed with rival criminals.
Gardai are satisfied that over 90pc of the"fund-raising" carried out by the Donaghmede group ended up in their own pockets, with the rest handed overto the Real IRA.
The terrorist faction is also believed by gardai to have been responsible for the murder of Sean Winters, who was gunned down in Portmarnock, Co Dublin.
Ryan played a major role in demonstrations around Dublin city centre last year in protest against the visit of Queen Elizabeth of England.
But gardai regarded him mainly as a criminal who used his affiliation to the dissident republican group as a cover for his activities.
Clash
One senior anti-terrorist officer said last night: "Ryanhad a list of enemiesthat would fill up a page of a newspaper.
"At some stage over the past few years, he managed to clashwith most of the big crime gangs around the city while at the same time falling out with many of hisformer colleagues in the Real IRA", he added.
The group has four"commanders" based in Belfast , Derry, the Louth Armagh border and Dublin.
Last night, gardai appealed to anybodywho spotted people acting suspiciously or driving around in a silver Volvo car, in the Grange Lodge or Hole in the Wall roadareas to contact them at Coolock station at 01 6664200, or on the confidential line, at 1800 666111.
- Tom Brady Security Editor
Irish Independent
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/real-ira-leader-terrorist-shot-dead-in-street-by-likely-hired-hitman-say-gardai-3217977.html

Come November, theeconomy — and who would be betterto fix it — will probably be at the forefront of voters’ minds. But like pretty much every election of the last 60 years, voters’ choice will be colored by their views about taxes. Ifyou believe the rich pay too little, chances are you will vote for Barack Obama. If you think tax rates on wealthy Americans are still too high, you will vote for Mitt Romneyinstead. Speaking to his donors at a fund-raiser, Mr. Romney argued he has no chance of gaining the vote of the nearly half of Americans who pay no federal income tax. But he probably has a good chance ofcapturing the vote oftheir fellow citizens who think paying notax is unfair.
Maybe the way to start building a consensus about how much people should be taxed is tomake the connectionbetween the taxes people pay and the benefits they finance.

France stepped up security at some of its embassies today after a satirical Parisian weekly published crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Riot police also took up positions outside the offices of magazine Charlie Hebdo which printed the cartoons in reference to the U.S.-made anti-Islam film which has sparked violence around the world.

Egypt ’s general prosecutor issued arrest warrants on Tuesday for seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor andreferred them to trial on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that has set off riots across the Muslim world. The case is largely symbolic, since the seven men and one woman are believed to be outside Egypt and unlikely to travel to the country to face the charges. The prosecutor’s decisionappears to be aimed at absorbing some of the public anger over the film.

‘The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’ A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identifieda papyrus fragment in the Coptic language that she says contains the first known statement saying that Jesus was married. The fragment also refers to a female disciple.
Translated legible text
not [to] me. My mother gave to me li[fe]
The disciples said to Jesus
deny. Mary is worthy
of it
Jesus said to them,
“My wife
she will be able to
be my disciple
Let wicked people
swell up
As for me, I dwell with her in order to
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identifieda scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen inany piece of Scripture: “Jesus saidto them, ‘My wife ...’”
The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card,with eight lines on one side, in black inklegible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having awife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, “she will be able to be my disciple.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-says-piece-of-papyrus-refers-to-jesus-wife.html?ref=todayspaper&gwh=00B6D2923F2F0C30566D1F261C878E67

Japan: Chinese Ships Enter Territorial Waters.
http://www.voanews.com/content/chinese-ships-approach-disputed-islands/1510023.html
China's defense chief Liang Guanglie on Tuesdayexpressed the hope that the Diaoyu Islands issue with Japan will be peacefully resolved but he warned of"further actions."

Japan: Chinese Ships Enter Territorial Waters.
http://www.voanews.com/content/chinese-ships-approach-disputed-islands/1510023.html
China's defense chief Liang Guanglie on Tuesdayexpressed the hope that the Diaoyu Islands issue with Japan will be peacefully resolved but he warned of"further actions."

THE FIERCE stand-off between China and Japan has taken its toll on the two countries’ trading, after numerous big Japanese firms temporarily closed operations in China yesterday.
Yesterday saw a continuation of the widespread violent protests that eruptedlast week, with attacks on well-known Japanesefirms including Toyota and Honda, which drove many, including Panasonic, Canon and Mazda, to announce factory shutdowns.
Japan has exported £53.8bn worth of goods to China so far this year, placing its neighbour as its biggest export market, while China sent £66.7bn the other way.
But China threatenedJapan with the possibility of “economic war” in anofficial Communist Party paper, saying that their trade relationship was of more value to the smaller country, and China would “take upthe battle” if Japan “continued its provocations”.
The furore erupted last week when Japan bought the Senkaku island chain,known as the Diaoyu islands in China, fromits private Japanese owners.
Protests could pick up today, which marks the 81st anniversary of the Mukden Incident, when Japan faked anattack on a Japanese railway company as apretext to invade mainland China.
US secretary of defence Leon Panettayesterday ruled out any intervention in the conflict, and urged both countries to calm down and resolve the issue diplomatically.
But neither country seems willing to step down, and a flotilla of some 1000 Chinesefishing boats are advancing on the islands, according to the state-run China News Service.

CHINA and other Asian countries couldend up at war over territorial disputes if governments keep up their "provocativebehaviour", US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said.
Speaking to reporters before arriving in Tokyo on a trip to Asia, Mr Panetta appealed for restraint amid mounting tensions over territorial rightsin the East China Sea and the South China Sea.
"I am concerned that when these countriesengage in provocations of one kind or another over these various islands,that it raises the possibility that a misjudgment on one side or the other could result in violence, and could result in conflict," Mr Panetta said, when asked about a clash between Japan and China.
"And that conflict would then have the potential of expanding."
The Pentagon chief's trip coincides with anescalating row between Asia's two largest economies over an archipelago in the East China Sea administered by Tokyo under the name Senkaku and claimed by China under the name Diaoyu.
Tensions have steadily mounted since pro-Beijing activists were arrested and deported after landing on one of theislands in August. Japanese nationaliststhen followed, raising their flag on the same island days later.
On Tuesday, Japan announced it had nationalised three of the islands in the chain, triggering protests in China. Tokyo already owns another and leases the fifth.
The uninhabited islands are in important sea lanes and the seabed nearby is thought to harbour valuable mineral resources.
Sometimes violent demonstrations havebeen held in China near diplomatic missions in the days since Tokyo's announcement, although there have been no reports of deaths or serious injuries.
Hong Kong broadcaster Cable TV showed footage of clashes on Sunday in Shenzhen between riot police and demonstrators, with some holding a banner calling for a"bloodbath" in Tokyo.
Mr Panetta is due to hold talks on Mondaywith his Japanese counterpart, where the dispute is expected to top the agenda, before heading to China, then New Zealand.
Territorial disputes inthe South China Sea also have Washington worried,as China has refused to withdraw claims to virtually all of the strategic waterway and has been accused of bullying smaller states in the area.
The Philippines and Vietnam have allegedBeijing has used intimidation to push its claims in the South China Sea, through which abouthalf of the world's cargo passes.