Muslim Terrorists Massacre 16 Chinese Cops On Eve Of Olympics
BEIJING — Two men rammed a truck into a clutch of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
The two men drove a dump truck into the group of border patrol police officers as they passed the Yiquan Hotel during a routine 8 a.m. jog in the city of Kashgar, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
After the truck hit an electrical pole, the pair jumped out, ignited homemade explosives and “also hacked the policemen with knives,” Xinhua said.
Fourteen died on the spot and two others en route to a hospital, and at least 16 officers were wounded, Xinhua said.
Police arrested the two attackers, one of whom was injured in the leg, the report said.
Though it happened on the far side of the country — near the Afghan-Pakistan border — the attack came as security forces were on alert for protests or any disruptions during the Games, which open Friday. It was among the deadliest and most brazen attacks in years in Xinjiang province, site of a sporadically violent rebellion by local Muslims against Chinese rule.
Chinese security forces have been on edge for months, citing a number of foiled plots by Muslim separatists and a series of bombings around China in the run-up to the Olympics. Last week, a senior military commander said radical Muslims who are fighting for what they call an independent East Turkistan in Xinjiang posed the single greatest threat to the games.
Kashgar, or Kashi in Chinese, is a tourist city that was once an oasis trading center on the Silk Road caravan routes and lies 80 miles from the border with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. Its mountainous, remote environs have allegedly provided cover for terrorist training camps, one of which Chinese police raided early last year.
Xinhua said that Xinjiang’s police department earlier received intelligence reports about possible terrorist attacks between Aug. 1 and 8 by the East Turkistan Islamic Movement. The movement is the name of a group that China and the U.S. say is a terrorist organization, but Chinese authorities often use the label for a broad number of violent separatist groups.
In Xinjiang, a local Turkic Muslim people, the Uighurs, have chafed under Chinese rule, fully imposed after the communists took power nearly 60 years ago. Occasionally violent attacks in the 1990s brought an intense response from Beijing, which has stationed crack paramilitary units in the area and clamped down on unregistered mosques and religious schools that officials said were inciting militant action.
Uighurs have complained that the suppression has aggravated tensions in Xinjiang, making Uighurs feel even more threatened by an influx of Chinese and driving some to flee to Pakistan and other areas where they then have readier access to extremist ideologies.
One militant group, the Turkistan Islamic Party, pledged in a video that surfaced on the Internet last month to “target the most critical points related to the Olympics.” The group is believed to be based across the border in Pakistan, with some of its core members having received training from Al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban, according to terrorism experts.
(AP)
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I piss on the Muzzies and I can´t stand the other bastards…….help me, I´m dyin´here!
August 4th, 2008 at 5:30 amThats exactly what they need to do, fuck with the Chinese……if the muslims in China think they have been oppressed, can’t wait to see how much pressure they could enforce.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:33 amI’ll just bet China’s internal affairs are in a wad over this.
Now watch the shit hit the fan!
August 4th, 2008 at 8:07 amomg those two muslims are sooo executed. Helping their fellow muslims they are NOT. If they thought chinese muslims were oppressed before, the chinese are a totalitarian bunch, previous oppression is gonna look like a sunday pic-nic now. I guess there is one benifit to a totalitarian state, you can deal with terrorists quickly, no beaureucratic/diplomatic B.S. just make sure there is enough ammo for the firing squad.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:09 pmI’m proud to be chinese, I hate your arrogance and prejudice
August 5th, 2008 at 12:52 amWho are you talking to Jerry? The Muslim retards?
August 5th, 2008 at 10:54 am