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Knife-wielding mob kills 28, injures dozens at China train station
cnn ^ | March 1, 2014 -- Updated 2115 GMT (0515 HKT)

Posted on 03/01/2014 1:56:28 PM PST by BenLurkin

At least 28 people were killed and 113 wounded when a group of people armed with knives stormed a railway station in the southwest Chinese city of Kunming, authorities said, according to state news agency Xinhua.

It was an organized, premeditated terrorist attack, authorities told the news agency. Five suspects were reported dead, according to authorities.

No motive has been provided. Chinese President Xi Jinping "urged the law enforcement to investigate and solve the case and punish the terrorists in accordance with the law," according to Xinhua.

Yang Haifei, a resident of Yunnan, told Xinhua he was buying a ticket when a group of people, most of them in black, rushed into the station and started attacking others.

... Xinhua said the Kunming railway station is one of the largest in southwest China.

"Why are the terrorists so cruel?" said Chen Guizhen, holding her husband's bloodied ID card.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; islam; jihad; muslims; rop; trop
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1 posted on 03/01/2014 1:56:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

The easy access to knives must be controlled.


2 posted on 03/01/2014 1:57:12 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BenLurkin

Muslims?


3 posted on 03/01/2014 2:01:05 PM PST by jmacusa ("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
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To: jmacusa

Most likely.


4 posted on 03/01/2014 2:06:37 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: jmacusa

No idea, but the general area is one of the parts of China with significant Muslim minorities.

Dang, that’s a lot of people to kill with knives!


5 posted on 03/01/2014 2:08:40 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: BenLurkin

Was it a semi-automatic knife?


6 posted on 03/01/2014 2:09:49 PM PST by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

This is an odd one. Yunnan province has borders with Burma, Laos and Vietnam. Yunnan is noted for a very high level of ethnic diversity. It has the second highest number of ethnic groups among the provinces and autonomous regions in China.

Approximately 1 million Muslims live in Yunnan, out of a population of 45.7 million (2009).


7 posted on 03/01/2014 2:10:59 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: BenLurkin

bttt


8 posted on 03/01/2014 2:11:55 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Sherman Logan
Yeah I'll say. Not to stereotype here but wasn't there anyone in that crowd with some martial arts background?
9 posted on 03/01/2014 2:12:16 PM PST by jmacusa ("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
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To: BenLurkin
I always have this on me, let's rumble!

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10 posted on 03/01/2014 2:12:55 PM PST by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Approximately 1 million Muslims live in Yunnan, out of a population of 45.7 million (2009).

It only takes a few.

11 posted on 03/01/2014 2:13:06 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Approximately 1 million Muslims live in Yunnan, out of a population of 45.7 million (2009).

And if just 1% is in the mood to go jihadi, that's 10,000 killers.

12 posted on 03/01/2014 2:16:43 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: jmacusa

Unless you are actually Bruce Lee, I’m skeptical unarmed martial arts will be much help against several attackers with knives. I assume any resistance would cause others of the attackers to rush to suppress it.

These things work a lot better in the movies than in reality.

Although it may be too bad there were no Gurkhas around.


13 posted on 03/01/2014 2:17:48 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Ever see a real Kung Fu martial arts master? I did once, many years ago. It was a simulated demonstration but one man put down four ‘’attackers’’ armed with rubber knives. Impressive hardly describes it.


14 posted on 03/01/2014 2:27:11 PM PST by jmacusa ("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
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To: PGR88

For sure, each with a 15 knife mag, if only they were limited to 10 knife mags, things would have been safer.


15 posted on 03/01/2014 2:28:52 PM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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Less than $4.9k to go!!

16 posted on 03/01/2014 2:31:30 PM PST by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: BenLurkin
"Why are the terrorists so cruel?" said Chen Guizhen, holding her husband's bloodied ID card.

Many have wondered the same about the Chinese.

17 posted on 03/01/2014 2:42:03 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: TigersEye

Everybody else always gets to have fun.

It would be so fun to knock out some of these little pukes.


18 posted on 03/01/2014 3:34:09 PM PST by bicyclerepair (The toughest part of the zombie apocolypse is pretending not to be excited. <Bang>)
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To: jmacusa

Muslims?
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Almost certainly. The Chinese exempt them from their “one-child” policy. That major-league mistake could well be a fatal mistake for the ethnic Chinese.


19 posted on 03/01/2014 3:37:02 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides
From the article: Frequent outbreaks of violence have beset Xinjiang, a resource-rich area where the arrival of waves of Han Chinese people over the decades has fueled tensions with the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim ethnic group.

Yes, Muslims. What sets us apart from them, is that the arrival of waves of Mexicans over the decades has not resulted in local Americans attempting to slaughter the newcomers. Muslims are a breed apart from regular humans.

20 posted on 03/01/2014 4:44:25 PM PST by roadcat
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