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BAHTIYAR MAHNUT, a detainee at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, learned a few weeks ago that the Pacific island nation of Palau had invited him to settle there. It should have been cause for celebration, especially for a man who desperately wants to be free. But, to the surprise of his lawyers, Bahtiyar has turned down the offer. He wishes to remain a prisoner, they say, so he can look after his older brother, a fellow detainee. The brothers’ saga, as related by their attorneys and military records, could transpire only in the context of Guantánamo Bay and...

China to send 'harmony makers' to Urumqi 7,000 officials being sent to Urumqi after last week's deadly protests "Harmony makers" meant to ease tensions after demonstrators clashed with police Demonstrators were demanding better police protection after attacks Han Chinese accuse Uyghurs of attacking people using hypodermic needles (CNN) -- China is sending 7,000 officials to the western city of Urumqi after last week's deadly protests over a strange series of syringe stabbings, state-run media reported. The officials, known as "harmony makers," are meant to ease tensions after demonstrators, demanding better police protection, clashed with police for two days. The unrest...

Even though the major Islamic riots have obviously died down in China, the Muslim on non-Muslim violence has not. Unfortunately it is just a matter of time until we see Muslims unleash much more powerful biological attacks across the world.

SNIPPET: "The leader of the al Qaeda-linked Chinese terror group has threatened to attack Chinese interests around the world to avenge the death of Uighurs in the eastern province of Xianjiang. Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, threatened to attack Chinese embassies worldwide as well as targets within the country. Haq made his threats on a video that was released on an Islamist Internet site." SNIPPET: "Haq, who is also known as Maimaitiming Maimaiti, became the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party in late 2003 after Hassan Mahsum, the group’s previous leader, was...

China presses Australia film fest to drop Uighurs film Thu Jul 16, 4:55 am ET BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Thursday pressed Australia's largest film festival to drop a documentary about restive ethnic Uighurs as the two countries remained embroiled in a separate row about commercial spying. Chinese consular staff contacted organizers of the Melbourne International Film Festival last week urging them to dump a film about exiled Uighur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer, blamed by Beijing for instigating this month's ethnic riots in Xinjiang. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Thursday Kadeer should not be allowed to spread her...

For years it's been a closely held secret: The People's Republic of China is an empire desperately trying to make the world think it's a state. The riots by Uighurs in China's far northwest are not something new; the place really erupted back about the time of the American Civil War. Clashes between Han Chinese moving into the basin, range and uplands inhabited by the much different ethnic people of the Central Asian heartland began at least 2,000 years ago in the Han Dynasty. Some of the most powerful pieces in Chinese literature, like the Tang Dynasty Ballad of the...

Hu Jintao Protege Li Keqiang's Two Secretaries Arrested, Cause of Hu Jintao's Emergency Return From G8 By chinafreepress.org (translation) Jul 9, 2009 - 12:47:29 PM Hu Jintao Protege Li Keqiang's Two Secretaries Arrested, Cause of Hu Jintao's Emergency Return From G8 Boxun reports that most people assumed Hu Jintao left the G8 meeting in Italy early to return home because of the ongoing violence in Xinjiang. In fact he rushed back because He Guoqiang--head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection--had taken the opportunity of Hu's absence to detain Li Keqiang's two secretaries on corruption charges. In fact Li's assistants...

TICKY FULLERTON, PRESENTER: China is facing criticism on yet another front. The violent riots in the far western province of Xinjiang have brought international attention to how China is dealing with long-simmering ethnic conflicts. Now it seems China is trying to exert control over how these issues are being portrayed beyond its borders. The director of the Melbourne International Film Festival says he received a call last week from a Chinese consular official demanding that he withdraw a documentary about a prominent Uyghur figurehead, Rebiya Kadeer. It's a move that some believe will backfire. Mary Gearin reports. FILM VOICEOVER: This...

Curt, Mike's A and myself have all posted on the fate of the Gitmo Uighurs. You remember them, right? Those "innocents" types who just happened to have the misfortune of parking their butts in an AQ terror training camp, but really had no ties to AQ and were deemed not a threat to the US? When Obama... desperate to find them homes... parked them in Bermuda where they plan to open the first Uighur restaurant, I found myself pondering what anyone had to lose in today's economic environment by enrolling in a terror camp in hopes of being relocated to...

China has demanded that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan retract his accusation that Beijing practised genocide against ethnic Uighurs. Mr Erdogan made the comments after riots in the Muslim Uighur heartland of Xinjiang in which 184 people died. Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, is under heavy police and military control. UK-based analysts say al-Qaeda-linked militants in Algeria have called for reprisals against Chinese workers in the wake of the violence. China's rejection of Mr Erdogan's remarks came in an editorial headlined "Don't twist facts" in the English-language newspaper China Daily. It said the fact that 137 of the 184 victims of...

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Al-Qaeda vows to hit China over Uighur unrest by Polly Hui 1 hr 48 mins ago HONG KONG (AFP) – Al-Qaeda is threatening for the first time to attack Chinese interests overseas in retaliation for the deaths of Muslims in the restive region of Xinjiang, according to a risk analysis group. The call for reprisals against China comes from the Algerian-based offshoot Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), according to a summary of its report sent to AFP by the international consultancy Stirling Assynt. "Although AQIM appear to be the first arm of Al-Qaeda to officially state they will target...

In spite of the MSM’s best efforts to sell us an ‘it’s ethnic unrest’ Bill of Goods, the truth is this: Uighurs are Muslim, and the actions of the Chinese Uighurs – with their demand of autonomy within China, among other religious-based demands – follow a recent historical pattern concerning Islam around the world.

US lawmakers came to the defense of Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of exiles from China's Uighur minority, after Beijing accused the US-based activist of fomenting the country's deadliest ethnic violence in decades. Two lawmakers, one from each US political party, appeared alongside Kadeer at the US Capitol and announced they were introducing a resolution in Congress to condemn China for its "violent repression" of "peaceful Uighur protests." Congressman Bill Delahunt, a member of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party, said Beijing's allegations against Kadeer have been "offensive and repugnant." "We are calling on the Chinese government to desist in slandering this...

News Asia-Pacific Uighur group 'regrets' photo error An official of the World Uighur Congress has admitted that their exiled leader used an incorrect photograph to illustrate riots in China's western Xinjiang region, during an interview with Al Jazeera. Alim Seytoff of the Uighur American Associaition said he and other Uighur leaders regretted the error. Rebiya Kadeer, a former Uighur businesswoman who was jailed in China for several years and now lives in exile in the US, used the photograph during an interview earlier this week. She said the photograph showed Chinese forces lined up on the streets of Urumqi, the...

The Uighurs’ cry has echoed round the world The deaths in northwest China are, sadly, the inevitable result of the repression of Turkic peoples over six decades Rubiya Kadeer The massacre of Uighur demonstrators in the cities of Urumqi and Kashgar has been reported in every language, from English to Chinese to Portuguese to Arabic. While the intense repression against Uighurs is normally ignored by both the Chinese Government and the international media, the deaths of hundreds of protesters and the injuries of hundreds more has exposed the brutality of Chinese government actions toward Uighurs in a way that cannot...

Uyghur youths now under official Chinese protection describe the deadly clash in Guangdong that sparked the July 5 protests and riots. Screen shot This screenshot from Sina News, posted on YouTube, shows the entrance of Shaoguan hospital, guarded by security officers following ethnic clashes at the Xuri toy factory June 25. HONG KONG—Three youths belonging to the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group and now under Chinese government protection after ethnic clashes in the southern province of Guangdong said fighting began when Han Chinese laborers stormed the dormitories of Uyghur colleagues, beating them with clubs, bars, and machetes. The deadly fighting...

URUMQI, China — Mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of the capital of China's Xinjiang region Tuesday. The government imposed a curfew as it tried to stem communal violence after a riot that killed at least 156 people. Members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic group attacked people near the Urumqi's railway station, and women in headscarves protested the arrests of husbands and sons in another part of the city. Meanwhile, for much of the afternoon, a mob of 1,000 mostly young Han Chinese holding clubs and...

`Uighur Bloodbath Sparked by Fired Han Chinese Worker` JULY 07, 2009 08:22 The bloody clashes in China’s far western Xinjiang province were sparked by a rumor that intensified the long-standing tension between Han Chinese and Muslim Uyghurs, the British daily The Times said yesterday. The Times said Early Light toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong province, hired 800 Uyghurs in May and last month. A fired Han Chinese man held a grudge against Uyghurs on the belief that he was laid off due to newly hired Uyghurs. The man uploaded June 16 an online post that said, "Six Uyghur workers raped...

More than 100 people have been killed and 800 injured in a riot which broke out in the ethnically sensitive far-Western Chinese province of Xinjiang. The death-toll, which stands at 129, marks a major escalation in the casualty figures from the disturbance which broke out on Sunday night after police tried to disperse a demonstration by members of the Uighur Muslim minority in the provincial capital, Urumqi. Initial reports said that just three people had been killed in running battles with police that left burned-out cars and buses and several smashed shop-fronts. Xinhua, the state-operated news service, did not provide...

Rioters in China's far west Xinjiang region burned vehicles and blocked traffic in the regional capital Urumqi, and police rushed to the scene to impose order, the state news agency reported on Sunday. Restive Xinjiang is divided between the largely Muslim Uighur people and Han Chinese...

Compare their story to that of John McCain as a prisoner of war who WAS tortured!"It Don't Gitmo Better Than This!"Four of the Uighur terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay have been released in Bermuda. All expenses paid by the U.S. taxpayer. Life in paradise as Guantanamo Four take a dip, eat ice cream, and plan first Uighur restaurant in British territory of Bermuda The Daily Mail 15th June 2009 ...[The four men] have traded drab prison jumpsuits for comfortable cotton pants and knit shirts, and razor wire-encircled jail compounds for beach cottages, where they are staying at U.S. taxpayers' expense....

Four Muslim Chinese Uighurs who spent more than seven years in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp plan to open a restaurant serving their native cuisine in breezy Bermuda, where the United States deposited them this week, The Post has learned. The men said they were ecstatic to be restarting their lives and expressed deep gratitude to Bermuda for taking them in after the United States determined they were not "enemy combatants" -- even as the relocation set off diplomatic fury among allies. Café Kashkar in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn is a local Uighur spot and could show the budding restaurateurs a...

ST. GEORGE'S, BERMUDA - It was time for a Uighur walkabout. After days of relaxing, the four released Guantanamo Bay detainees stepped into the Bermuda sunshine Sunday and started getting to know the locals. The Muslims from China spent their fourth day of freedom walking around historic St. George's with their two minders and a translator. There was no chance of going unnoticed. "We wish you all the best," shouted one passerby, giving them the thumbs up. The new arrivals walked around the main square and checked out the sailing boats floating on turquoise waters. "I imagined turbans, they look...

  President Obama has named Hajiakbar Abdul Ghupur as GM's new CEO.  Although Ghupur had never seen a car, his rich experience as a yak herder and Al Qaeda middle manager made him the obvious choice. After several high-profile policy changes, President Obama announced an unconventional solution to relocate Guantanamo Bay's 17 Uighur detainees. "Effectively immediately, these individuals will be transferred to General Motors," Obama declared in a written statement. "There the Uighurs will be able to put their lives back together while they help this proud company regain its footing." The Uighurs (pronounced “wee-gers”) are Chinese Muslims caught...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is nearing agreement with the remote South Pacific island nation of Palau to resettle a group of Chinese Muslims now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, The Associated Press has learned. As they attempt to fulfill President Barack Obama's order to close the Guantanamo facility by early next year, administration officials are looking to Palau to accept some or all of the 17 Uighur detainees due to fierce congressional opposition to releasing them on U.S. soil, officials said.

Last night, Mark Levin compared the speech of President Barack Obama to remarks made by former Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday. (Full audio of Cheney speech here.): There are flaws within these passages from what President Obama said yesterday: Indeed, the legal challenges that have sparked so much debate in recent weeks in Washington would be taking place whether or not I decided to close Guantanamo. For example, the court order to release seventeen Uighur detainees took place last fall – when George Bush was President. The Supreme Court that invalidated the system of prosecution at Guantanamo in 2006 was...

...America, meet the Uighurs. Seventeen of the 241 terrorist detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay are Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs. They have been allied with and trained by al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups. The goal of the Uighurs is to establish a separate sharia state. As part of its ongoing effort to close Guantanamo Bay, the Obama administration has had to figure out what to do with the Uighurs. Officials believe that if they’re sent back to China they will be persecuted, and no third country will take them. So the Obama administration has decided to set the Uighurs loose...

President Obama has heeded his generals and decided not to release more photos of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, and good for him. Now he needs to put our national security ahead of politics once again and reverse his dangerous decision to release trained terrorists currently held at Guantanamo Bay into American suburbs. America, meet the Uighurs. Seventeen of the 241 terrorist detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay are Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs. These Uighurs have been allied with and trained by al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist groups. The goal of the Uighurs is to establish a separate sharia state....

Coming Soon To A 'Hood Near You: Gitmo (Ex?)Terrorists By James Gordon Meek How would you like your family’s next-door neighbor to be a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who was trained in a military camp in pre-9/11 Afghanistan? Would it matter if they were declared no longer to be an “enemy combatant” by the Pentagon? That’s the fundamental question that ought to be going through the minds of Northern Virginia residents this week, amid news reports - including my own New York Daily News exclusive today - that a group from Gitmo may soon be making house in the D.C....

The House Republican leadership was out in force yesterday at a press conference announcing the introduction of the Keep Terrorists Out of America Act, legislation aimed at stopping the release by the Obama administration of terrorists from Guantanamo Bay onto U.S. soil. Attorney General Eric Holder announced on his trip to Germany in late April that the Obama administration had cleared 30 Gitmo terrorists for release.  As reported on HUMAN EVENTS, subsequent leaks from the administration of the plan to release Uighur terrorists captured in an al Qaeda training camp into a northern Virginia city caused an uproar across the...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.

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...

China executed two people in restive far-west Xinjiang on Thursday after a court convicted them over attacks on police last August, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The brief report did not give details of the executed. But it said they were found guilty over a ‘terrorist attack on a frontier city’s border police that left 17 dead’ and which came amid tightened security ahead of the Beijing Summer Olympics. Almost half of Xinjiang’s population are Uighur, a largely Muslim group with a culture and language close to other Turkic parts of central Asia. Many Uighurs resent religious and cultural...

30,000 Han Chinese migrants pour into East Turkistan per day 2009-02-23 “while China forcibly transferring Uyghur women to inland China for slavery labor with the excuse of providing them job opportunity, while China implementing strict birth control policy on Uyghurs with the excuse of population control, thousands of Han Chinese migrants pour into East Turkistan per day and Chinese government are actively adjusting transport capacity to better serve these Chinese migrants.” Said Uyghur Uyghur Women who recently escaped from East Turkistan. ETIC learned that Chinese government strongly helping these migrants and providing them employment opportunity as well to attract more...

While Presidents have the power to pardon, an Executive Order does not rise above existing federal statute or erase the records that show at least twenty (and perhaps all) of the original twenty-two Uighurs are inadmissible into the United States. As I recently pointed out, Section 103 of the Real ID Act of 2005 states that "any alien" who "has engaged in a terrorist activity" or "is a member of a terrorist organization" may not be admitted into the United States. In addition, last August the Long War Journal reported the results of its review of the twenty-two Uighurs originally...

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196481.php "Al Qaeda's China Affiliate Releases First Magazine" (Bonus: e-mail an al Qaeda terrorist) (Added February 21, 2009) SNIPPET: "The Islamic Party of Turkistan has released its first internet publication through al Qaeda's al Fajr media center. The group is al Qaeda's affiliate which is active in western China, especially Xinxiang, but is also known to hit targets in the Han populated East. The group was active in Afghanistan prior to the US invasion. 12 of the group's members were held in Guantanamo at one time or another."

SNIPPET: "Speaking of al-Medad, among all the sites that benefited from the disappearance of the so-called top tier sites last fall, al-Medad is the biggest surprise. For a year or more al-Medad had been largely dormant, but then, after The Incident™, the forum once again became very active. Curious, that is."

Doubt Arises in Account of an Attack in China By EDWARD WONG KASHGAR, China — Just days before the Olympic Games began in August, a truck plowed into a large group of paramilitary officers jogging in western China, sending bodies flying, Chinese officials said at the time. They described the event as a terrorist attack carried out by two ethnic Uighur separatists aimed at disrupting the Olympics. After running over the officers, the men also attacked them with machetes and homemade explosives, officials said. At least 16 officers were killed, they said, in what appeared to be the deadliest assault...

Uighurs threatened with family liability by security forces – children too are being arrested Göttingen, 27. August 2008 A new wave of arrests is rolling against the Moslem Uighurs in the north-west of China according to information received by the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV). Family liability is the order of the day and even children are being arrested. "About 150 children have been held for days in the Ba Jia Hu prison in the capital of the Autonomous region of Xinjiang because they took part in instruction on Islam”, reported the GfbV Asia expert, Ulrich Delius, on Wednesday in...

Suspected terrorist attack kills two in China's Xinjiang province Two policemen have been killed and several wounded in the latest attack in China's Xinjiang province, reports say. By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai Last Updated: 8:26PM BST 28 Aug 2008 The fourth attack in less than two months came in a village in Jiashi County, where reports said "fierce gunfire" had been exchanged. However, details of the attack remain unclear, and no Chinese state media has reported it. An official at the Public Security Bureau said eight Uighurs, local ethnic Muslims, were involved and that one man had been captured.

Suicide pipe bombers made a dozen attacks on police stations, government offices and businesses yesterday as Muslim separatists in the far northwest of China stepped up their Olympics bombing campaign. At least 11 people died in the raids, which took place before dawn in Kuqa, an oasis city on the northern edge of the Taklimakan desert in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang. Ten of the dead were reported to be attackers, three of whom appear to have blown themselves up to avoid capture. It was an unprecedented event in China, which has no history of suicide bombing, and a...

Has China got a terrorist problem? The Uighur attack in the northwest was shocking but not a precursor to a bigger outrage Rosemary Righter The Olympics will open on Friday inside a triple ring of steel. Anti-terrorism precautions have been an unavoidable feature of the Games since the PLO massacre of Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972, but China has taken things to extremes. It has mobilised 110,000 police and other security forces in Beijing itself, plus 1.4 million security “volunteers” with Red Guard-style armbands and no fewer than 300,000 spy cameras. The security bill for Beijing alone exceeds £3...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A police station in China's restive Xinjiang region was attacked on Monday morning, four days before the Beijing Olympics begin, killing 16 officers and wounding 12, state media reported. "Rioters drove two vehicles to break into the border patrol armed police division" near Kashgar and threw two grenades, Xinhua reported. The brief report did not describe the attackers. But the Xinjiang region in the far northwest has been at the heart of China's security fears leading up the Olympics, which begin in four days. Xinjiang is home to a large Uighur Muslim population, many of them discontent...

Uighur group claims China bus attacks, threatens Olympics Sat Jul 26, 3:14 AM ET A Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring threats by extremists on the Internet said. In a video statement, Commander Seyfullah of the Turkestan Islamic Party claimed credit for several attacks, including the May 5 Shanghai bus bombing which killed three; another Shanghai attack; an attack on police in Wenzhou on July 17 using an explosive-laden tractor; a bombing of a Guangzhou plastic factory on...

BEIJING: Chinese authorities have replaced top police and security officials in the Muslim-dominated Xinjiang province, which is the hotbed of separatism and political violence. They have also closed down 41 "illegal" places of worship.These places of worship were used as training ground for conducting a "holy war", Chen Zhuangwei Chen, the police chief of Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang province, said. Xinjiang, which borders central Asia and Pakistan, has been the scene of a pro-independence movement by a section of the eight million Uighurs living there for a long time. The authorities also announced they have detained 82 "suspected terrorists"...

THE TORCH IN THE WILD WEST Faking the Olympic Spirit in China's Muslim Region By Andreas Lorenz The Olympic torch is in China's far West and security is tight. Still, there are some who came out to celebrate the event -- 200 invited guests and a handful of well-trained Uighar schoolchildren. Journalists were watched closely. A gigantic statue of Mao waves to the people who have gathered in his shadow on Wednesday morning to celebrate the Olympic flame. But despite the size of the stone figure, there aren't many milling about on Kashgar's main square: Perhaps 200 invited guests --...

ISTANBUL: The police detained at least six Uighur Muslims on Thursday at an anti-China protest during the Olympic torch ceremony near one of Turkey's most famous tourist destinations. The demonstrators were detained after they broke away from a larger group of protesters and shouted slogans just feet away from Tugba Karademir, a Turkish figure skater and Olympic athlete who had just started to run with the torch through the city. About 200 Uighur Muslims had converged ahead of the ceremony near Istanbul's Blue Mosque and the domed Haghia Sofia church. The Olympic flame is on a global tour before the...

April 3, 2008 Tibet unrest spreads to Muslim separatists in China who demand home rule Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang say that women are banned from wearing headscarves Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang Province have been accused by the Chinese government of posing a terrorist threat to the Olympics Jane Macartney in Beijing Muslim separatists demanding independence for China’s westernmost region have massed in a southern Silk Road oasis to protest against Beijing rule, stirred up by recent riots in Tibet. Officials in Khotan said that about 100 people had been detained after several hundred members of the Uighur Muslim minority staged...

The Uyghur People will Independence es like Tibet! Hotan, Uyghuristan, China strongly protests the outbreak of repression CNA World Uyghur Congress spokesman Dilixiati today that the East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and Hotan City recently broke out nearly 1,000 protests, the Chinese government launched a large-scale crackdown, seizing nearly 500 people, and comprehensive information blackout. Dilixiadi of the CNA, protests occurred in 23 and 24, participating in the protest activities of the nearly 1,000 people in 80 per cent are women. Chinese authorities arrested within two days 500 people, the fear of the incident spread to other Uyghur-populated areas, the local news...