Posted on 09/05/2014 1:47:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Iraqis Identify Prisoner as Chinese Islamist Fighter
By EDWARD WONG SEPT. 4, 2014
An image taken from YouTube shows what appears to be the first known Chinese jihadist, called Bo Wang, fighting with rebels in Syria. Credit via YouTube
BEIJING — The Iraqi Defense Ministry has posted on its Facebook page photographs that it says show a captured Chinese man who was fighting on behalf of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Sunni jihadist group.
Iraqi officials have not released further details, but the photographs, if confirmed, would be the first visual evidence of a Chinese citizen fighting with ISIS, which has members from around the world, including the United States. Both the leader of ISIS and a Chinese diplomat said this summer that Chinese fighters had joined ISIS.
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Sum-Ting Wong? Hie Goboom?
I think the Obama regime turned loose Gantanemo’s 5 Chinese muslim jihadists on Bermuda...without telling the UK government.
So far from what I’ve seen of U.S. Jihadi Boyz, they join up to avoid an American employer garnishing paychecks for child support or other matters which they are fleeing from.
Uh oh, the Chinese have an islam problem too. Bet they won’t sound like Obama when commenting on this.
Well, that’s. A script right out of Brad Thor’s new book.
Takes a special kind of stupid to be an Islamist in China....
They’ve had a 1,400-year-old problem.
Hui Muslim (Han Chinese) too, not Turkic Uighur. Certainly the first seen outside Xinjiang.
That is an interesting point. I had assumed they were Uighurs.
There are many Islamists in China and China is having continuing problems with them with “clashes” from time to time.
The Chinese kill them. We pretend they don’t exist, here....
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