Mega thanks for pulling up the info in your post no. 531 regarding AQ-linked group in China, MamaDearest.
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/117054.aspx
"Group Linked to Al-Qaeda"
By Audra Ang
Associated Press Writer
March 9, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CBNNews.com - BEIJING (AP) - Lawmakers from China's restive western Muslim region said Friday that 18 suspects killed in a raid on an alleged terror camp in January had links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Shi Dagang, a lawmaker from the Xinjiang region, also confirmed that 18 people from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM, died in the raid and 17 others were arrested.
"They had close connections to al-Qaeda," Shi said at a news conference during China's annual legislative session."
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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000711.html
January 10, 2007
China: Muslim Terror Raid Finds International Ties
nytimes.com - 2007/01/10/:
The police found links to international terrorist groups in a raid on a suspected terrorist camp in the far western Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region last week, the Foreign Ministry said. The police said the secret camp, near the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, was run by the Chinese Uighur Muslim separatist group known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. They said 18 suspects were killed and 17 others arrested. "There is a large amount of evidence that shows, including evidence we got from this raid, that the E.T.I.M. is associated with international terrorist forces," said the ministry's spokesman, Liu Jianchao. He also said that it "planned, organized and carried out a series of violent terrorist activities in China." He gave no details. China has said before that the group has links to Al Qaeda.
Posted on 10 January 2007 @ 13:27 GMT
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/005776.html
11 November 2006
"Springtime for Turkestan"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "There appears to be something new afoot in al-Qaida, and it all points towards Turkestan on the one hand, and leadership elements of al-Qaida on the other.
Here are the data points."
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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000616.html
November 20, 2006
"Speaking of links to Turkestan..."
SNIPPET: "A reader responded to our report regarding a certain elevation in the visibility of Turkestani and/or Uighur elements of the global jihad by pointing to this FBIS report from August of 2005. Granted that the Chinese connection in this instance was in Hong Kong, not Xinjiang (i.e. Eastern Turkestan - the two are some thousands of kilometers apart), nevertheless the story is interesting enough to put into circulation...
Spanish police find London link between Madrid bomber and Libyans in China Tuesday, August 2, 2005 T09:49:37Z:"
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/001856.html
21 April 2004
"US/Chinese cooperation in the war on terror"
BEIJING (AP)
and a few more details...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1798480/posts
Report: Missing Iranian official can prove Tehran's ties to terror
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/835359.html ^
Posted on 03/09/2007 10:30:44 PM PST by Muentzer2005
The Iranian former deputy defense minister who disappeared in Turkey last month left his country with documents that prove that there is a link between the Iranian military establishment and terror groups including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Friday.
A former colleague of Ali Reza Asghari, 63, told the newspaper, which is published in London, that the document also cites groups such as the Mahdi Shi'ite militia operating in Iraq ...
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...