Uighur terrorist leader threatens attacks against Chinese interests across the globe

LONG WAR JOURNAL.org ^ | August 2, 2009 12:22 PM | Bill Roggio

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by Bill Roggio
March 1, 2010 1:23 PM

SNIPPET: “The leader of a Chinese terrorist group who serves on al Qaeda’s top council may have been killed in an airstrike in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The report is not confirmed.

Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, is reported to have been killed by the US in the Feb. 15 airstrike. The US strike targeted a vehicle and a safe house operated by Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Baradar in the town of Tabi Ghundi Kala; four terrorists were reported killed in the attack.

Pakistani intelligence officials and Taliban sources claimed that Haq was killed in the strike, according to a report in Geo News. US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal could not confirm Haq’s death but are investigating the reports.”

SNIPPET: “Haq, who is also known as Maimaitiming Maimaiti...”

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Treasury Targets Leader of Group Tied to Al Qaida
TREAS.GOV - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ^ | April 20, 2009 | n/a
Posted on April 21, 2009 12:26:27 AM PDT by Cindy

April 20, 2009 TG-92

“Treasury Targets Leader of Group Tied to Al Qaida”

SNIPPET: “Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today targeted al Qaida’s support network by designating Abdul Haq, the overall leader and commander of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP), a terrorist organization designated under E.O. 13224 for its support to al Qaida. E.O. 13224 targets terrorists and those providing financial, technological, or material support to terrorists or acts of terrorism by freezing the assets of designated persons and prohibiting transactions with them. This Treasury action follows a decision by the United Nations Security Council’s 1267 Committee to place Haq on its list of persons associated with Usama bin Laden, al Qaida, or the Taliban and subject to sanctions by UN member states.

“Abdul Haq commands a terror group that sought to sow violence and fracture international unity at the 2008 Olympic Games in China,” said Stuart Levey, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “Today, we stand together with the world in condemning this brutal terrorist and isolating him from the international financial system.”

Abdul Haq, aka Maimaitiming Maimaiti, is the overall leader and commander of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP), a.k.a. the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). The UN 1267 Committee added ETIP to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities associated with al Qaida or the Taliban on September 11th, 2002.

As ETIP overall leader, Abdul Haq raised funds, recruited new members and further developed the terrorist organization. In early January 2008, Haq directed ETIP’s military commander to attack various Chinese cities, particularly focusing on the cities holding the Olympic Games. Under Haq, trained terrorists planned to sabotage the Olympic Games by conducting terrorist attacks within China before the Olympics began.

Since late 2007, Abdul Haq sent terrorists to the Middle East to raise funds and buy explosive materials for terrorist attacks against Chinese targets outside China. Abdul Haq became the leader of ETIP following the death of the previous ETIP leader in October 2003. As of 2005, Haq was also a member of al Qaida’s Shura Council.

Identifying Information:

Name: Abdul Haq AKA: Abdul Heq AKA: Abuduhake AKA: Abdulheq Jundullah AKA: Abd Al-Haq AKA: Maimaitiming Maimaiti AKA: Memetiming Memeti AKA: Memetiming Aximu AKA: Memetiming Qekeman AKA: Maimaiti Iman AKA: Maiumaitimin Maimaiti AKA: Abdul Saimaiti AKA: Muhammad Ahmed Khaliq AKA: Muhelisi AKA: Qerman AKA: Saifuding DOB: October 10, 1971 POB: Chele County, Khuttan Area, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China Nationality: Chinese”

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“Chinese terrorist leader Abdul Haq al Turkistani is dead: Pakistani interior minister”
By BILL ROGGIOMay 7, 2010 12:17 PM

PHOTO CAPTION: “A Uighur terrorist, from a videotape released by the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party in 2008.”

SNIPPET: “The top leader of a Chinese terror group with close links to al Qaeda has been killed in Pakistan, according to Pakistan’s Interior Minister. The report has not been confirmed.

Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, has been killed in Pakistan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said during a conference in Beijing, China. Malik also claimed that the terror group’s “back is broken” and that the group is no longer viable inside Pakistan.

“I am happy to inform you that their back is broken, it’s weakened,” Malik said, according to a report in Dawn. “We treat ETIM not only as an enemy of China but also as an enemy of Pakistan .... Now the other so-called gang leader Haq has been killed recently, I can confirm that.”

Malik has not provided any evidence of Haq’s death, nor did he detail the place and date that Haq was killed.

US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal would not confirm Haq’s death but said they were aware of the rumors.

Haq was rumored to have been killed in a US Predator airstrike in North Waziristan on Feb. 15, but the report was never confirmed. The ETIP has not issued a martyrdom statement announcing Haq’s death, nor has it named a replacement leader.

Malik and senior Pakistani officials have an atrocious track record for accuracy in reporting the deaths of top Taliban, al Qaeda, and allied jihadist groups’ leaders.”