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"Chinese General Warns of Nuclear Conflict Over Taiwan"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
July 15, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the United States in the event of a conflict over Taiwan, Western newspapers quoted a senior Chinese military officer as saying Thursday.
Stressing that he was giving his personal views, not official policy, Gen. Zhu Chenghu said that "if the Americans are determined to interfere ... we will be determined to respond."
Zhu said China would prepare itself for the destruction of all of its cities east of Xian - a city in central China - while "the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds ... of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese."
His comments, delivered at a briefing arranged by a Hong Kong foundation, were reported by the Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and International Herald Tribune.
Zhu, who also teaches at China's National Defense University, is reputed to be a "hawk," the papers said, calling his warning the most specific by a senior Chinese official in nearly a decade.
They also quoted Zhu as saying he did not anticipate war with the U.S."
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"Aussies caught in jihad web"
Mark Dunn
15jul05
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "At Al Ansar, another extremist chatroom and website, the total number of Australians using the site last November amounted to 0.79 per cent of all users, Mr Weisburd's research shows.
The chatrooms are linked to information about terrorist attacks and include exchanges of anti-Western ideology.
While the number of Australians visiting a range of jihadist sites is relatively small in global terms, it should be enough to worry authorities, Mr Weisburd said. At the Arabic language Al Ansar forum in November 2004, Australians were frequent visitors and commentators at the site.
At the Taliban online forum, published in English, Australian users accounted for 2.2 per cent in August 2003, he said.
After being disrupted for some time, Taliban online had recently returned and others, including the Islamic Awakening and Reviving Islam forums were both generating a significant number of hits.
"If my chance to do a martyrdom operation against them becomes easy, I will do it without any hesitance whatsoever," a convener at a chatroom on Islamic Awakening said recently regarding a discussion on killing Americans."