Relaxing in Bermuda, wish you were here.
PS. We sure miss Club Gitmo *****
Posted on 07/06/2009 3:07:11 PM PDT by Chet 99
12:16 AM PDT, July 6, 2009
Reporting from Beijing -- China's worst ethnic violence in years broke out Sunday in the northwestern city of Urumqi, leaving 140 people dead and more than 800 injured, the state news agency Xinhua reported.
The unrest pitted Uighurs, a long-aggrieved Muslim minority, against the Han Chinese, who increasingly dominate the far-flung Xinjiang region. With the death toll climbing over the course of the day, the violence appeared to be far deadlier than that last year in the Tibetan region.
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So deeply conflicting....on the one hand, the overdogs are dastardly PRC storm troopers, but then on the other hand the underdogs are society-hating Mohammadans that would kick up their heels to bring the world back to the darkness of the 7th century...
WHOM TO ROOT FOR...?!??!?!?! :( ????
Training exercise for the coming insertion of forces in the Middle East theater of war. When the Americans leave Afghanistan and Iraq, there is going to be a resurgence of Islamic militancy, and the Chinese like to assure themselves the flow of oil to their industrial base will not be curtailed.
They are fast building a blue-water naval strike force, and when it is ready, they shall have the capability for carrying their form of “diplomacy” about anywhere they want to go.
Eggs Ackley! Abdo-lutely a tough call!
just hope they piss in each others’ back pockets.
There are Muslims in China? Who knew. I wonder how accepting the Chinese will be towards Sharia law. This should be fun to watch.
No matter where in the world muzzies are, it’s the same story; riot, kill..riot kill..
these riots seem pretty intense —I’m guessing that AT LEAST TWO Muhammed charactures were sketched, ya know?
I’m rooting for the Chinese and for the Muslims. May the games continue.
Relaxing in Bermuda, wish you were here.
PS. We sure miss Club Gitmo *****
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