Posted on 03/01/2014 10:12:42 AM PST by dynachrome
Edited on 03/01/2014 10:13:27 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
BEIJING (AP) -- A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China on Saturday, leaving at least 27 people dead and another 109 injured, the official Xinhua News Agency said, making it one of the deadliest attacks in China in recent years.
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Where is Piers Morgan demanding knife control
Outlaw train stations
Clearly they lead to violence
This happened in Yunnan Province, so I doubt Muslims were involved. The Yunnanese don’t particularly like the Chinese either, though.
SW China is where their Muslims are.
It was a semi-automatic knife!
With 30 round magazine clip auto scope armored grip assault sites, to boot. The horror.
FNC reported earlier they were wearing uniforms. What kind, I don’t know.
They are of TROP..
Since no information is given on the attackers, it’s generally safe to assume that they belong to the religion of peace.
Ugly photographs and nasty situation. I am sure most of our comments will be about the American gun control debate, but I hope we don’t overlook the sadness so many families must feel today over the loss of their loved ones.
This is terrorism and I doubt any of the victims created the anger that led to this.
Yep.
Maybe machetes rather than knives?
With pistol grips!
And the dreaded "30 Stab" clips!
“Muzzie attack?”
Could be. Muslims constitute a large paret of the population in western China.
According to my wife, who can read Chinese, they were ‘Long Knives’. I’m thinking machetes too...
The Chinese police shot and killed 3, but there were probably more who managed to escape.
Multi blade with pistol grip handles no doubt,maybe even equipped with silencers.
2011 Kashgar attacks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2011 Kashgar attacks
Date July 30–31, 2011
Target Civilians
Attack type Vehicular, IED and knife attack
Weapon(s) Explosives, truck, guns, knives
Deaths 23 (Day one: nine, including one attacker; Day two: 14, including eight attackers)
Injured (non-fatal) 42 (Day one: 27; Day two: 15, including three police)[1]
Perpetrators East Turkestan Islamic Movement
The 2011 Kashgar attacks were a series of knife and bomb attacks in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China on July 30 and 31, 2011. On July 30, two Uyghur men hijacked a truck, killed its driver, and drove into a crowd of pedestrians. They got out of the truck and stabbed six people to death and injured 27 others. One of the attackers was killed by the crowd; the other was brought into custody. On July 31, a chain of two explosions started a fire at a downtown restaurant. A group of armed Uyghur men killed two people inside of the restaurant and four people outside, injuring 15 other people. Police shot five suspects dead, detained four, and killed two others who initially escaped arrest.
The government says the attackers confessed to Jihadist motives and membership in the terrorist group East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), while an overseas pro-Uyghur independence group says the attackers were frustrated by a lack of options for nonviolent antigovernment protest. Businesses temporarily closed down and riot police patrolled the city until August 4. ETIM acknowledged responsibility for the attack on September 8, as well as for the attack in Hotan earlier that same July. Six men were given prison or death sentences for their involvement in both attacks later in September.
I used to go out there on business travel. All this gun control crap is just that. They have tight gun laws. BUT I noticed in the press they find another weapon of choice when they have the “need”, this being knives, cleavers, hatchets, hammers etc.
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