Posted on 08/19/2010 2:47:18 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "Renewed violence struck China's restive Xinjiang province when seven people were killed and fourteen wounded in a suspected bomb attack today, local officials said.
The explosion took place on a three wheeled vehicle in Aksu city and the local officials blamed the blast on "criminal gangs", an abbreviation used by authorities for Muslim separatists."
SNIPPET: "Xinjiang has been beset by ethnic conflict and separatist violence for the past few years and last summer witnessed bloody clashes between the Uighurs, the largely Muslim ethnic group and the majority Han Chinese settlers which left 197 people dead."
SNIPPET: "The provincial Governor Nur Bekri in a speech just before the blast had blamed Islamic terrorists for recent unrest in the region and said authorities were faced with a complicated separatist struggle...."
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/7159552.html
“Blast kills 7, wounds 14 in China’s Xinjiang area”
By ISOLDA MORILLO Associated Press Writer
Aug. 19, 2010, 4:10AM
URUMQI, China —
SNIPPET: “The explosion occurred after a member of the region’s native Uighur ethnic group drove a three-wheeled vehicle laden with explosives into a crowd of people in a suburb in Aksu city in southwestern Xinjiang, said Hou Hanmin, a spokeswoman for the Xinjiang government.”
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One word , ISLAM !
China must be losing its touch. I am surprised that such an event occurred there, and even more surprised that news got out of it.
I’m not surprised at all.
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Hey, China. Will you take care of that bunch for us? You are closer to them than we are. That is, unless they all come over here.
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