Posted on 08/08/2005 1:03:36 PM PDT by datura
Suicide Bombing - Fuzhou
One suicide bombing exploded on a bus in Fuzhou City, Fujian Provice, at around 2:30pm, August 8. According to official news, the explosion was caused by a 42-year old farmer who had cancer. But it is hard for police to reach such a conclusion so quickly. The news said there was one killed and dozens injured, it did not mention whether the bomber was killed.
What Witness Said
Anonymous witness said there were at least five killed, some said more than 20. Witness saw one body was removed and rescuers tried to find survivors and picked up body parts.
Police confiscated the cameras who have taken pictures.
There are Muslim Chinese? Ugh
In China, the ability of the people to get firearms is extremely difficult, but the availability of explosives and their components is quite simple.
This is the first suicide bombing I've read about there, however, and yes, if the farmer was from the western part of China he may have been Muslim.
The cancer was brought to the surface, so to speak.
If this kind of thing gets started in China, things are going to get very rough. It is not possible for the Chinese authorities to control their population nor to police everyone at all times. Very dangerous.
I wonder if this was Muslim terrorists.
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It will be interesting to see if the 'farmer' was a Muslim or if they ever release that info. If he were truly a farmer, he could have had access to explosive making products.
"It is not possible for the Chinese authorities to control their population nor to police everyone at all times."
The system in China for adressing problems with the government used to work fairly well - they actually would solve the grievances of the public. Today, with the level of corruption running rampant, less than 1% of the petitions for redress of grievance are heard. Often times the government or large business that is the problem will have the "little guy" killed or silenced.
If this "behavior" takes hold over there, the ChiComs are in for a world of $h___.
impossible ... china is a worker's paradise
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http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/english/2005/08/200508090003.shtml
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Not only female imams, but goverment approved imams ONLY. Islam is tightly controlled, to say the least.
But if bin Laden has been running around in the western provinces spreading his "word"???
Got popcorn?
Possibly. It may have been a protestor, even an anarchist. We'll see, if that fact ever emerges.
China had 1130 bombings last year.
That's a huge number.
Remember how they got their panties in a knot over the two people of theirs we killed at their embassy in Serbia? What's two people to China?
The media never mentions these bombings of course.
China has done some ethnic cleansing and moved the fundy Moslems to the far corner of the empire, so that isn't as much of a threat to stability as it could be. As the money starts increasing and sloshing around, you can bet the criminal elements are feeding deeply.
No - they want life in the Communist Hell to seem like "paradise". Just like they want its' ascendancy to seem like an inevitable fact.
Day to day life is NOT good there in comparison to ours, I don't give a damn what they say.
That's a lot of bombings. Wonder why this one made the headlines.
There is no bigger mafia in China than the CCP, especially when you consider all of the PLA is the enforcement arm.
No wonder the people don't count their "guards" and rise up.
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