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China-Japan-Koreas
China 'uncovers Olympic terror plot'
2008-04-10
China says it has uncovered a criminal ring planning to kidnap athletes and others at the Beijing Olympic Games. Ministry of Public Security Spokesman Wu Heping told a news conference Thursday that the ring based in the restive western Xinjiang region was one of two that had been broken up. The other was previously reported.
How .. convenient ...
Wu said 35 people were arrested in the latest case between March 26 and April 6 for plotting to kidnap athletes, foreign journalists and other visitors during the August Olympics. Wu said "this violent terrorist gang hoped to sabotage the Beijing Olympics by creating an international impact."
What kind of folks are likely to inhabit this restive western Xinjiang region? mooselimb terrorists from one of the 'stans?
Posted by:gorb

#4  Quelle horreur!

Kinda convenient, though, huh?
Posted by: Snaving Stalin4500   2008-04-10 21:10  

#3  I second DarthVader's and Steve's in-line on China.
According to local teewee, SF Comical and al-Rheumatism, China's pit-bull immigrants were viciously attacking the Buddhists in SF yesterday.

SF a multiculturalist Dream Boat, "can't we all just get along"?

/Schadenfreude & Sangfroid rulz
Posted by: RD   2008-04-10 10:11  

#2  Kidnap for political purposes, or for financial?

It could be a true story as I believe there are thousands of people that would want to pull this off, but it seems awfully convenient to use this story to clamp down on a troublesome province.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-04-10 09:27  

#1  The region in question is primarily muslim, and is called by most natives "East Turkestan" though the PRC calls it the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and the natives are mainly of Turkic language and origin thus setting them apart by ethnicity and language as well as religion from Han Chinese (in contrast to Hui Chinese, who are muslims be religion and follow muslim holidays, family laws, etc but are linguistically Chinese)

Most inhabitants are not terrorists of course. How many support violenct action to end Chinese rule is not clear to me. AQ sympathizers have attempted to take over the ethnically based "resistance" movement, as they have in places like Chechnya, Bosnia, etc.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2008-04-10 09:20  

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