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China would like to have a talk with al-Qaeda Uighurs
  • China plans to ask Afghanistan's interim government to repatriate Chinese Muslim Uighurs found fighting alongside Taliban forces. An unspecified number of Muslim separatists seeking an independent state in Xinjiang tried to sneak back into China, Xinjiang governor Ablat Abdureshit said. "They are not large in number. Some of them have tried to infiltrate back into China and some of them have been captured," he said during an annual two-week session of the National People's Congress. "Some of them have been left in Afghanistan."

    Abdureshit declined to say how many Uighurs had been captured crossing back into Xinjiang from Afghanistan and said it was too early to say whether the number of Uighurs still in Afghanistan numbered in the dozens or hundreds. In December, a senior U.S. official said Uighurs had been caught in Afghanistan but that the United States would not hand them over to Beijing due to differing interpretations of what constitutes a terrorist.
    The definition I'd go with would be, if they were caught in Afghanistan, and they weren't born there, they're foreign terrorists. In most cases I'd be against repatriation, but in the case of the Chinese, I think they'd be disposed of fairly neatly: A brief, very intense headache, and it's all over.
    Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-03-09
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