Bus blasts kill 3, injure 14 in southwest China

MSNBC.com ^ | 7-21-08

[Prole]

It could be.

I just know that Beijing is the last place I would want to be right now.

Too dangerous, disturbing and disgusting for my tastes.

[BJungNan]

It is a beautiful area. It looks like trouble is moving into China from the west. This is a despicable act.

[BJungNan]

Too dangerous, disturbing and disgusting for my tastes.

You sound like you have been there. What can you tell us about it?

[TigerLikesRooster]

As many suspected, troubles spring up in the outlying provinces where there is no heavy security. Chinese security could manage to cover Beijing and other Olympic venues, known trouble area like Tibet and Xinjiang. On the other hand, they would have difficulty dealing with troubles in the rest of China.

[TigerLikesRooster]

One of the bombed buses

[happinesswithoutpeace]

http://www.abc.net.au/religion/stories/s914378.htm

http://www.bt.com.bn/en/focus/2008/01/15/kunming_muslims_vibrant_community

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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[Nathan Zachary]

"I don't believe so, but it is close to Tibet."

I can't see Tibetians doing that sort of thing. Could be that other group that adopted Islam (grave error) and now think becoming terrorists will win their independence from China.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Candor7]

The Chinese could have done it so as to claim it WAS the Tibetans.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Update (sort of)

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSPEK29182820080722

[r9etb]

That's a really strange picture, actually. The street is clean around the bus despite the fact that all of the windows are (apparently) blown out; the tires are intact....

It'd be nice to have an explanation for those oddities.

[AppyPappy]

Time to round up the usual suspects

[keats5]

I don’t believe there were any windows. Perhaps I’m wrong, but that bus looks more like an open air trolly.

[bayouranger]

There is a rop movement going on over there. Recently, China destroyed a # of mosques that were being used for terrorist training centers. Kinda redundant??

[happinesswithoutpeace]

I know we all hate wiki but..I think it was these guys who I was thinking about when I asked if it was a ROP area..I read about some other groups and bombings over there as well (also rop)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan_independence_movement

[rdl6989]

Are you suggesting muslims would stoop to such a cowardly act, blowing up buses filled with innocent people? Thats a very interesting hypothesis. /sarcasm

[happinesswithoutpeace]

purveyor of unpopular ideas is me : )

[PA Engineer]

[SunkenCiv]

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