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Bus blasts kill 3, injure 14 in southwest China
MSNBC.com ^
| 7-21-08
Posted on 07/20/2008 11:04:01 PM PDT by rdl6989
BEIJING - Three separate bus explosions killed at least three people and injured 14 in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming on Monday, media said, amid a security clampdown ahead of next month's Beijing Olympics.
The causes were not immediately clear, but the blasts came within a matter of hours of each other in the capital of Yunnan province and less than three weeks before the Beijing Games, which China has warned could be a target of terrorist attacks.
An explosion on one bus happened at the Panjiawan stop at 7.10 a.m. and the second blast was nearby, the official Xinhua news agency said. Pictures showed a gaping hold in the side of one of the buses and glass scattered in the street.
Another explosion occurred near Minshan, also nearby, the semi-official China News Service said in a report on its Web site (www.chinanews.com.cn).
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008olympics; boycottchina; boycottolympics; bus; china; kunming; minshan; mohammedanism; olympics; panjiawan; terror; terrorism; terrorists; yunnan; yunnanprovince
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To: LukeL
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.
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posted on
07/20/2008 11:48:27 PM PDT
by
Prole
(Pray for the families of Chris and Channon.)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
It is a beautiful area. It looks like trouble is moving into China from the west. This is a despicable act.
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posted on
07/21/2008 12:11:49 AM PDT
by
BJungNan
To: Prole
Too dangerous, disturbing and disgusting for my tastes. You sound like you have been there. What can you tell us about it?
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posted on
07/21/2008 12:13:18 AM PDT
by
BJungNan
To: rdl6989
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.
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posted on
07/21/2008 12:27:12 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: rdl6989
One of the bombed buses
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posted on
07/21/2008 12:30:47 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
To: TigerLikesRooster
To: Vince Ferrer
"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.
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/21/2008 6:45:42 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: Nathan Zachary
The Chinese could have done it so as to claim it WAS the Tibetans.
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posted on
07/21/2008 7:02:37 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Expose Obama))
To: rdl6989
To: TigerLikesRooster
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.
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posted on
07/22/2008 8:13:47 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: r9etb
Time to round up the usual suspects
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posted on
07/22/2008 8:19:00 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: r9etb
I don’t believe there were any windows. Perhaps I’m wrong, but that bus looks more like an open air trolly.
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posted on
07/22/2008 10:49:32 AM PDT
by
keats5
(tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
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??
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posted on
07/22/2008 12:41:06 PM PDT
by
bayouranger
(The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
To: bayouranger
To: happinesswithoutpeace
Are you suggesting muslims would stoop to such a cowardly act, blowing up buses filled with innocent people? Thats a very interesting hypothesis. /sarcasm
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posted on
07/22/2008 1:50:29 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
( I'm a carbon based human being, a Carbonated-American)
To: rdl6989
purveyor of unpopular ideas is me : )
To: r9etb
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posted on
07/22/2008 5:38:51 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
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posted on
07/22/2008 10:51:24 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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