According to the official version of the attack published in state-run media, two assailants in Xinjiang's famed Silk Road city of Kashgar killed 16 policemen and injured another 16. Xinhua did not identify who the terrorists may be affiliated with, but China has previously said that Muslim groups seeking independence for Xinjiang and the creation of "East Turkestan" were a major security threat. ______ Sixteen police killed in China border attack BEIJING (AFP) — China's Olympic run-up stuttered again Monday as 16 policemen were killed in a grenade attack in the nation's far northwest, while pollution returned to fill athletes' lungs in Beijing. The attack in the Muslim-populated Xinjiang region raised the security temperature ahead of the Games, which begin on Friday, as authorities had repeatedly warned that militants there were planning to sabotage the Olympics. It also follows deadly bomb blasts in the southwestern city of Kunming last month and in Shanghai in May, killing a total of five people, for which a Muslim militant group with ties to Xinjiang claimed responsibility. The Chinese organisers of the Games said they were checking for any link between Monday's attack and the Olympics, but immediately sought to reassure the world about security arrangements for the event. "We believe that we are prepared to deal with any kind of security threat and we are confident and capable of hosting a peaceful and safe Games," said Beijing Olympic organising committee spokesman Sun Weide. Nevertheless, police in Hong Kong, the southern Chinese city hosting the Olympic equestrian events, said they would reassess security there to see if the attack had any implication for the competition. According to the official version of the attack published in state-run media, two assailants in Xinjiang's famed Silk Road city of Kashgar killed 16 policemen and injured another 16. The pair drove a truck at the police officers who were jogging near their barracks in the northwestern outskirts of the city, the Xinhua news agency said. After the truck hit a roadside pole, the two got out and threw home-made explosives at the barracks, then moved in to hack at police officers with knives, Xinhua reported, adding that both attackers were arrested. Kashgar is 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) from Beijing, close to the Tajikistan border. Xinhua did not identify who the terrorists may be affiliated with, but China has previously said that Muslim groups seeking independence for Xinjiang and the creation of "East Turkestan" were a major security threat. Xinjiang, a vast area that borders Central Asia, has about 8.3 million ethnic Muslim Uighurs , and many are unhappy with what they say has been decades of repressive Communist Chinese rule. The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which reportedly operates inside Xinjiang and in neighbouring Afghanistan, is listed by China, the United States and the United Nations as a terrorist organisation. However exiled Uighur dissidents and some human rights groups say China's claims that the ETIM is a major threat were exaggerated. Last month, a group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) claimed credit for the deadly bus blasts in Shanghai and Kunming. Some experts believe TIP is part of ETIM. After raising the alarm about Olympic terrorist attacks, China denied the TIP carried out those attacks, but said nothing more as to who may be responsible. Another problem facing China in the Olympics run-up has been Beijing's notorious pollution, which International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said last year could lead to some endurance events being postponed. full article
I am pretty sure those freedom fighters are justified in killing those Chinese policemen. Pretty sure many on this board have no problem with that.
You know china will not have any problems finding out who this guys are and hanging them in front of everyone.
i don't think they do public executions much anymore. but i bet these two guys are in for a while. they will try to get as much as information from them as possible. didn't some chinese visit the us prison in cuba? they probably learned a thing or two.
I will bet my whole $25 in my pocket that you will jump on the Chinese based on your famous "invitation to the 21st Century" post. I don't think you will disagree.
Actually human over population is the biggest problem facing mankind in my opion. If the world only has one billion people. Things would be so much easier, environment would be better, food shortage would be much easier to solve.
Yep, I think so, because of the way they twist their religion into basically killing everyone who is not like them. The rest of the world tries to reason with that, and there is no reasoning with a group that believes that everyone non Islam should be killed. This is basically the 2nd time the USA has been at war with radical Islam. Can anyone else name the first? DD
awesome thinking. It's rationalization like that that leads people to running planes into skyscrappers filled with innocent people. Congrats on being a piece of trash.
Think of it as a natural hedge to the overpopulation problem everyone seems so concerned about. If we leave islamic extremism, AIDS, and poverty unchecked, we'll having a fighting chance on overpopulation.
Barbary Coast pirates, aka the War with Tripoli (part of the Marine Corps battle hymn). Meds keep me from remembering which of our first well-known admirals cleaned it up. http://www.indepthinfo.com/articles/tripoly-war.shtml Not the stirring Stephen Decatur victory I remember from childhood. BTW, IMO there will be quite a few Muslims hanging by their thumbs until they give up who the culprits were as well as those who were running them. The Chinese have laws, but their army/police have more "discretion" in questioning suspects.
You are correct sir, and actually the US paid them off for years, until Thomas Jefferson took office and stopped paying the ransom and sent in the US navy....they ran and gave up the fight as soon as they saw the US was ready to protect her interests. The problem now is that we are too politically correct, if you are going to fight people who fight dirty you have to be willing to do the same or worse. DD
We also wound up "surrendering" in the Tripoli War despite being in a position of strength. However, I am keenly interested in the opinions resulting from how the Chinese deal with their terrorism problem. It's difficult to assess for whom the U.S. should root. I'm inclined to side with the Chinese.
