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China’s Uighur rebels switch to suicide bombs
Times Online ^ | August 11, 2008 | Richard Lloyd Parry
Posted on August 10, 2008 10:43:33 PM PDT by cmdjing
Suicide pipe bombers made a dozen attacks on police stations, government offices and businesses yesterday as Muslim separatists in the far northwest of China stepped up their Olympics bombing campaign.
At least 11 people died in the raids, which took place before dawn in Kuqa, an oasis city on the northern edge of the Taklimakan desert in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang. Ten of the dead were reported to be attackers, three of whom appear to have blown themselves up to avoid capture.
It was an unprecedented event in China, which has no history of suicide bombing, and a grave escalation of the deteriorating security situation in one of its most tense and isolated areas.
Last night checkpoints sealed off the road to the police headquarters where attackers detonated a wagon filled with explosives at 2.30am, killing a civilian guard and injuring two police. According to the Xinhua news agency, the police fired back, killing one of the attackers and capturing two after a fourth killed himself with his bomb.
Half an hour earlier, an explosion blew out windows in a row of businesses. The owner of one café, where people were drinking at the time of the explosion, said: “Suddenly there was a big bang. The customers and I just ran away. When I looked back, my shop was totally destroyed.”
At 8.30am, police cornered five of the alleged attackers under a market stall. Two were shot dead as they threw their bombs while the other three blew themselves up. There were also attacks on a local government building and the premises of a trade organisation. A curfew was imposed and businesses in Kuqa county were ordered to close as police hunted for attackers, who, said Xinhua, had used bombs made from pipes, gas canisters and containers ofliquidgas.
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“India doesn’t let North Korea plane overfly to Iran”
India Express ^ | 08/07/08 | Pranab Dhal Samanta
Posted on August 10, 2008 11:24:02 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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China: Xinjiang Terrorists are Predominantly Women in 20’s (Ta Kung Pao of Hong Kong)
Yonhap News via Chosun Ilbo ^ | 08/11/08
Posted on August 11, 2008 12:48:36 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster