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China Points to Pakistan in Xinjiang Attack
Wall Street Journal ^ | August 2, 2011 | Jason Dean

Posted on 08/01/2011 12:41:36 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

China pointed a finger at Pakistan, one of its closest foreign partners, as it blamed one of two deadly attacks over the weekend in the northwestern Xinjiang region on Muslim extremists trained across the Pakistani border.‬

Police also "executed on the spot" two more suspected attackers in the city of Kashgar, according to a local government statement, while paramilitary police with shotguns and automatic weapons patrolled the streets to prevent further unrest.

Local authorities said 20 people were killed in all in the attacks by knife-wielding members of the Uighur ethnic minority on Saturday and Sunday in the second week of violence to rock Xinjiang.‬

...an "initial probe" had shown that leaders of Sunday's attack on a restaurant, in which 11 people died, had received explosives and firearms training in Pakistan-based camps of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, also known as ETIM.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; china; eastturkestan; india; islam; jihad; pakistan; uighurs; uyghurs; waronterror; xinjiang
China has long accused Uighur groups waging a sporadic, sometimes violent, campaign for independence of being part of ETIM, which it says has links to al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations and has sent people to train and fight in Pakistan and Afghanistan.


1 posted on 08/01/2011 12:41:43 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: Cindy; SunkenCiv
China's accusation joins a similar chorus from two of Pakistan's other neighbors, India and Afghanistan, which accuse it of failing to act against militant camps on its soil.
2 posted on 08/01/2011 12:42:48 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (I said it, I meant it and I represent it.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Dear China,

Take out all muzzies in your area of the world and I promise to purchase nothing but your products forevah!

(Of course, I’m close to doing that anyway, but what the heck?)


3 posted on 08/01/2011 12:45:46 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: La Enchiladita

Isn’t Pakistan developing some fighters in partnership with the PRC?
Not a good move on Pakistan’s part.


4 posted on 08/01/2011 12:57:29 PM PDT by Little Ray (Best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: La Enchiladita

guess that tree isn’t as lush now...

Pakistan, China friendship a lush tree: Ambassador Khan
05/31/2011 6:15:09 PM PDT · by milestogo · 2 replies
APP ^
Pakistan, China friendship a lush tree: Ambassador Khan PDF Print E-mail BEIJING, MAY 31 (APP): Premier Wen Jiabao has wisely described the friendship between Pakistan and China as a “lush tree with deep roots and thick foliage, full of vigour and vitality,” said Pakistan’s Ambassador to China, Masood Khan.


5 posted on 08/01/2011 12:57:33 PM PDT by Elendur (It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: La Enchiladita

Didn’t Pakistan used to be one of Red China’s favorite countries in the world? Didn’t they pour aid into it like a bucket?


6 posted on 08/01/2011 12:59:30 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu.)
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To: La Enchiladita
Is this going to affect China's fighter plane sales to Pakistan, I wonder? Probably not.

I'm waiting for world reaction when China opens a can of whup-ass on the Uighurs.

7 posted on 08/01/2011 12:59:57 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Pakistan vs. China...!!!

I swear to G_d this is my all-time FANTASY WAR..!!

Counterfeiter bayonets clitorectomizer..!

Let them fall on the battlefield simultaneously..!!

TOO GOOD TO LAST...?!?!! ^_^


8 posted on 08/01/2011 1:20:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

I felt a tiny bit gleeful myself when I saw this....

:):)


9 posted on 08/01/2011 1:25:48 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (I said it, I meant it and I represent it.)
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To: Elendur

the tree got peed on by the dogs


10 posted on 08/01/2011 3:14:40 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks La Enchiladita.

Hey, China needs a pretext for its participation in the dismemberment of Pakistan. Not that Pakistan's "government" (snicker) actually governs much of anything.
11 posted on 08/01/2011 4:55:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Da Coyote
Take out all muzzies in your area of the world and I promise to purchase nothing but your products forevah!
If China were to do that, it would have to kill thousands of Hui (Muslim Chinese, who have historically sided with the Chinese) who have been settled along with Han Chinese in Chinese-occupied East Turkestan.
ETIM should be eradicated, but this is not just a Muslim-Communist fight. (And if it were, couldn't they both lose?) The People's Republic of China is dominated by the (91%) Han {whether all Han are actually Han is another debate). The Sinicization campaign has led to the settlement of 7 million Han chinese in "Xinjiang". Tibet, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi (homland of the Zhuang ), Yunnan (home to a dozen non-chinese peopes), Ningxia( Hui), etc all face the the same fate. The Uyghurs simply fight back.
12 posted on 08/01/2011 6:36:05 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: La Enchiladita; ravager; sukhoi-30mki; MBT ARJUN; spetznaz
Well, what's that saying about feeding a pit of vipers?

The chicoms will get badly bitten by their pet pakistan.

13 posted on 08/05/2011 3:41:17 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: odds; no-to-illegals; blam; muawiyah; SunkenCiv

ping to an interesting article.


14 posted on 08/05/2011 4:05:43 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Cronos

A snake is a snake is a snake. Reminds me of a story I read many years ago of someone (a herpetologist I believe) who was trying to ‘train’ a Puff Adder (a very venomous snake of the viper variety found in Africa), and had got to a stage where he could place it on his lap without it biting him. Well, one day the wind blew the curtains in, and it bit him in the finger. Due to its hemotoxic/cytotoxic venom, the finger had to quickly go (fortunately it was just a juvenile and not an adult, since the venom hit from a 6 foot long snake, particularly a Puff Adder, would have been really bad).


15 posted on 08/05/2011 4:13:10 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: Cronos

Thanks for the ping. I too found this article extremely interesting.


16 posted on 08/05/2011 5:41:18 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: La Enchiladita

I would forgive China of its grossly cheap products of dubious quality if they were to fumigate mass areas of Moslems.


17 posted on 08/05/2011 5:46:51 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Daniel J. Ramsey 1956-2012)
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To: Cronos

Thanks for the ping


18 posted on 08/07/2011 2:36:50 AM PDT by odds
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To: sukhoi-30mki

ping to the article


19 posted on 08/07/2011 2:40:19 AM PDT by odds
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To: La Enchiladita

I swear very soon Pakistan will find a way to create some mass attack upon a large nation, and I predict it will be China, not America directly.

Something of a size and magnitude that in essence will close all the Walmart stores as there will be a near zero import from China.

Perhaps a stolen Pak nuke will take out the Three Gorges dam.


20 posted on 08/07/2011 2:44:02 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Daniel J. Ramsey 1956-2012)
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