China vows to work with international community to eliminate al-Qaeda threatOctober 10th, 2009 BEIJING - In the wake of an al Qaeda militant urging the Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang to launch jihad against the oppressive Chinese regime, Bejing has vowed to work with the international community to deal with terrorism. "We will continue to cooperate with the international community to jointly face the terrorism threat...Xinjiang has fully implemented the policies of equality of all ethnic minorities and religious freedom," China Daily quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma, as saying.
Al-Qaeda terrorist vows to behead enemies with a giant-size bladeOctober 9th, 2009 LONDON - A new terror video has surfaced showing an al-Qaeda terrorist waving a giant razor-sharp blade and vowing to achieve a victory for Islam over British and US troops in Afghanistan. The Sun quoted a military source, as saying: "If anyone needed reminding, this is the face of the enemy."
In the video posted on a terrorist website, 'Abu Askar the German,' brandishes the knife that could behead or dismember any hostage his terror group grabs.
Al Qaeda calls for holy war against ChinaOctober 7th, 2009 CAIRO - A senior Al Qaeda leader in a video distributed Wednesday urged Muslims to launch a holy war against Chinese "invaders" in response to the "massacre" of Uighurs in western China. "The atheist criminals have long used the most despicable, cruel and brutal means against Muslims in Turkistan," said Abu Yayha al-Libi, who is sometimes identified as the commander in Afghanistan of the international terrorist network Al Qaeda.
Obama vows to target Al Qaeda in Pakistan and beyondOctober 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has vowed to continue targeting the Al Qaeda that is threatening the US from Pakistan and beyond, even as the terror network is said to have "lost operational capacity" after a series of recent missile strikes. "We know that Al Qaeda and its extremist allies threaten us from different corners of the globe-from Pakistan but also from East Africa and Southeast Asia; from Europe and the Gulf," Obama said in a visit Tuesday to the National Counterterrorism Centre just outside Washington in McLean, Virginia.
China charges 21 people with murder following its worst ethnic violence in decadesSeptember 25th, 2009 China indicts 21 people in July ethnic violenceBEIJING — China issued its first indictments Friday in connection with July's bloody rioting between minority Muslim Uighurs and majority Han Chinese, the country's worst outbreak of ethnic violence in decades. Twenty-one people — mostly Uighurs — face charges including murder and arson, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Second batch of suspects in China needle attacks get 8 to 15 years in prisionSeptember 17th, 2009 4 convicted in 2nd trial in China needle attacksBEIJING — A court in western China's Xinjiang region sentenced four men accused of jabbing a pedestrian with a hypodermic needle to prison terms of eight to 15 years on Thursday, as authorities move swiftly to assuage panic over a string of such attacks. The men were the second group of attackers to be sentenced over the bizarre syringe attacks, which that have further raised public anxiety in Xinjiang, already on edge over July rioting that marked China's worst ethnic violence in decades.
China says riot wasn't there fault, blame it on 'separatists'July 21st, 2009 BEIJING — China on Tuesday defended its policies on ethnic minorities, saying the violence in Xinjiang that killed nearly 200 people this month was triggered by separatists and not its treatment of Uighurs. During a televised news conference, the vice minister of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission blamed an underground separatist movement of Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs and said China will never tolerate secession in its far western region.
Shot Uighurs called for holy war, says ChinaJuly 15th, 2009 BEIJING - Three Uighurs shot by Chinese police in the far western city of Urumqi had tried to take over a prayer meeting and called for a jihad, or holy war, state media said Wednesday. About 150 people were inside an unnamed mosque on Urumqi's Jiefang Road Monday afternoon when one of the three men tried to grab the microphone from the imam, the official China Daily reported.
Al-Qaeda threatens to target Chinese workers in Africa following Uighur deathsJuly 14th, 2009 LONDON - In a bid to avenge the deaths of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, Al-Qaeda's North African wing has threatened to target Chinese workers in Africa. The threat from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) comes in the wake of race riots in far West China which claimed the lives of at least 136 Han Chinese and 46 Uighurs, The Telegraph reports.
Urumqi riots toll rises to 184July 11th, 2009 URUMQI - The death toll in the riots in China's Urumqi city has risen to 184, authorities said Saturday. The dead comprise 137 people from the Han community, including 26 women.
Death toll in riot-rocked western China raised to 184 as reports say most Han ChineseJuly 11th, 2009 Death toll from China's ethnic riots hits 184URUMQI, China — China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said Saturday, giving the first ethnic breakdown of the dead nearly a week after communal violence broke out in this far western city. The official Xinhua News Agency said 137 victims were of the dominant Han ethnic group, 46 were Turkic Uighurs, and one was Hui Muslim, citing the regional government's information office.
Chinese Communist leaders vow to maintain stability after ethnic unrest in western territoryJuly 9th, 2009 Politburo vows to keep stability after China riotsURUMQI, China — China's top communist leaders have declared that ethnic riots that killed over 150 people this week in the west of the country were orchestrated by overseas forces and vowed to maintain stability in the aftermath, state media said Thursday. The nine-member Politburo met Wednesday, led by President Hu Jintao, and called on Communist Party members and officials at all levels to mobilize to restore order, and promised punishment to rioters and leniency to participants who were misled by agitators.
Uighurs stage new protest as China hosts reportersJuly 7th, 2009 BEIJING - Several hundred Uighurs staged a protest Tuesday as Chinese officials took a group of foreign journalists on a tour of Urumqi, the riot-hit capital of the far western region of Xinjiang. The protesters sat down after they were blocked by riot police, reporters in Urumqi said.
156 dead, over 1,400 arrested in riot-hit Chinese cityJuly 7th, 2009 URUMQI - The death toll in the ethnic clashes between minority Uighurs and members of Han community in China's Xinjiang province has risen to 156 even as over 1,400 people were arrested for the violence, authorities said early Tuesday. The dead include 129 men and 27 women, Li Yi, head of the publicity department of Xinjiang regional committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said Tuesday morning.
China worse than Gitmo, say detainees freed in BermudaJune 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The four Chinese Guantanamo detainees, released in Bermuda, have claimed that life in China, where they face persecution, is worse than life at Gitmo. Fox News quoted the detainees known as Uighurs, who range from 31 to 38 years old, as saying that they are innocent, glad to be free and hold no grudges against the United States for their captivity.
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