As with the anthrax cover-up, AMERIKA'S MSM DOESN'T TELL the WHOLE STORY!!!
"Attack in China a terrorist strike, authorities say; Games spokesman assures security strengthened" by Jill Drew, Washington Post | August 5, 2008
KASHGAR, China - Authorities said they were treating a brazen attack that left 16 police officers dead and 16 others injured yesterday as a terrorist strike, China's state-run media reported. The two men arrested after the attack were members of the ethnic Uighur minority, which has long chafed under Beijing's control of northwestern China.
The incident followed the release of a video last month in which a group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party threatened attacks during the Olympic Games, which open in Beijing on Friday. Although specialists believed the group's claims were inflated, it has asserted responsibility for recent bombings around China.
The group has said it wants to draw attention to its demands to establish an independent state and end Chinese repression of Uighurs, Muslims who speak a Turkic language and have made this area 2,000 miles west of Beijing their home for centuries.
The Chinese government has said a violent Uighur separatist group that calls itself the East Turkestan Islamic Movement is the greatest threat to security at the Olympic Games. Some terrorism specialists suggest that although China routinely blames the group and uses its existence to carry out oppressive policies against all Uighurs, the separatist movement is actually divided up into a number of groups with similar goals.
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Why do I smell a rat?
Also see: U.S.-Sponsored Terror Attack on Olympics
