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Beijing Olympics Threatened by Chinese Islamic Terrorists
This group, TIP, has struck within China as recently as July 21. This seams like a credible threat.
A Muslim separatist group in China has made a new video threat against the Beijing Olympics, warning Muslims to keep their children away from the games, a US group that monitors extremists said Thursday.The nearly six-minute video shows flames consuming a Beijing Olympics logo and an explosion over a venue for the competition, and features a masked, turbaned speaker clutching what appears to be an assault rifle.
The IntelCenter released a copy of the recording, attributed to the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), an ethnic Uighur and Muslim organization seeking to create an independent state out of China's heavily Muslim Xinjiang province.
The SITE Intelligence Group, meanwhile, translated some of the message, which was delivered in the language of the Uighurs, and said that the speaker identified himself as a TIP member and issued a threat against the Games.
The speaker urges Muslims to keep their children from the competition, and warns "Do not stay on the same bus, on the same train, on the same plane, in the same buildings, or any place the Chinese are," SITE said.
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August 7, 2008 at 02:01 pm by BigT, 191 views, 4 comments




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at 15:39 on August 7th, 2008
BigT, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 20:43 on August 7th, 2008
Here's an article from a very credible source that brings into question the credibility of this "revelation", and suggests that the outpouring flood of attacks on China both here on NP and in the rest of the US media is nothing more than an orchestrated operation to bring down China's moment in the sun, much of it being made up.
at 20:57 on August 7th, 2008
I hope you are right moonwolf ! I would much rather think this was made up than a real threat.
at 20:44 on August 7th, 2008
BigT, I like this story. It's good stuff.