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Iraqis Identify Prisoner as Chinese Islamist Fighter
NYT ^ | SEPT. 4, 2014 | EDWARD WONG

Posted on 09/05/2014 1:47:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Iraqis Identify Prisoner as Chinese Islamist Fighter

By EDWARD WONG SEPT. 4, 2014

An image taken from YouTube shows what appears to be the first known Chinese jihadist, called Bo Wang, fighting with rebels in Syria. Credit via YouTube

BEIJING — The Iraqi Defense Ministry has posted on its Facebook page photographs that it says show a captured Chinese man who was fighting on behalf of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Sunni jihadist group.

Iraqi officials have not released further details, but the photographs, if confirmed, would be the first visual evidence of a Chinese citizen fighting with ISIS, which has members from around the world, including the United States. Both the leader of ISIS and a Chinese diplomat said this summer that Chinese fighters had joined ISIS.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: china; hanchinesemuslim; hui; iraq; isis; rop; sinkiang

1 posted on 09/05/2014 1:47:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Jeff Head; Tainan; hedgetrimmer; Unam Sanctam; taxesareforever; Avenger; ...

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2 posted on 09/05/2014 1:48:04 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Sum-Ting Wong? Hie Goboom?


3 posted on 09/05/2014 1:58:13 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I think the Obama regime turned loose Gantanemo’s 5 Chinese muslim jihadists on Bermuda...without telling the UK government.


4 posted on 09/05/2014 2:01:47 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

So far from what I’ve seen of U.S. Jihadi Boyz, they join up to avoid an American employer garnishing paychecks for child support or other matters which they are fleeing from.


5 posted on 09/05/2014 2:02:10 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Uh oh, the Chinese have an islam problem too. Bet they won’t sound like Obama when commenting on this.


6 posted on 09/05/2014 2:04:27 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Well, that’s. A script right out of Brad Thor’s new book.


7 posted on 09/05/2014 2:20:35 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (In Times of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Becomes a Revolutionary Act.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Takes a special kind of stupid to be an Islamist in China....


8 posted on 09/05/2014 2:30:05 AM PDT by freebilly (How about this-- we stop trying to elect the unelectable)
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To: RginTN

They’ve had a 1,400-year-old problem.


9 posted on 09/05/2014 2:54:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Hui Muslim (Han Chinese) too, not Turkic Uighur. Certainly the first seen outside Xinjiang.


10 posted on 09/05/2014 2:56:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

That is an interesting point. I had assumed they were Uighurs.


11 posted on 09/05/2014 5:09:17 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: freebilly

There are many Islamists in China and China is having continuing problems with them with “clashes” from time to time.


12 posted on 09/05/2014 5:28:12 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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The Chinese kill them. We pretend they don’t exist, here....


13 posted on 09/05/2014 5:32:28 AM PDT by freebilly (How about this-- we stop trying to elect the unelectable)
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