Chinese Police Kill 11 Muslim Attackers on Police Station in Xinjiang Province

I'm starting to think the Chinese should just rename Xinjiang province, "Anbar" province as their Muslim problem there continues to grow and grow.

This time around, a large group of the Muslim Uighurs decided to attack a Chinese police station and after the smoke had settled, eleven of the Muslims lay dead.

The story comes from Times of India.

11 killed in attack on police station in volatile Xinjiang: Chinese police


BEIJING: Chinese police say 11 people were killed in an assault on a police station in the volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang.

The Xinjiang regional government said two auxiliary police officers and nine attackers were killed in the incident on Saturday afternoon.

It said the assailants used knives and axes in the attack in Bachu county's Serikbuya township, near the historic city of Kashgar. It said two other police officers were injured in the clash. Calls to government and police offices in the region rang unanswered on Sunday.

Xinjiang has long been home to a simmering insurgency against Chinese rule led by radicals among the region's native Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group. This year has been particularly bloody, with a number of deadly clashes in Xinjiang and one in Beijing.

Chinese Government Drives Uigher Muslims Off the Edge Putting Chinese Flag In Huge Mosque

The Chinese government has decided to put Islam in its place in Xinjiang province by placing a huge Chinese flag in a large mosque there - the Muslims are NOT happy, one bit.

Hahahaha.  Fuck 'em.

The story comes from OnIslam.

(Hat Tip:  Richard Millington)

Hoisting Flag in Mosque Angers Uighur Muslims


XINJIANG – Adding more pressures on Uighur Muslims, Chinese authorities have placed China’s flag at the head of a mosque in western China, a move denounced by activists as an attempt to get unwavering allegiance to Beijing ahead of their faith.

“They are essentially saying the flag is higher than religion,” Ilham Tohti, a prominent Uighur rights advocate, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday, September 18.

“They placed the flag at a very sensitive place in the mosque.”

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The controversy started when Chinese placed the Chinese flag over the mihrab, the traditional prayer niche that points the direction to Makkah, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region’s Aksu.

With millions of Muslims praying while facing Makkah, Tohti said that the Chinese law and authorities demand unwavering allegiance to Beijing.

Moreover, he criticized the move as an effort to “dilute the religious environment” in the area, where minority Uighurs often complain of ethnic and religious repression.

Chinese authorities have been imposing stifling restrictions on Uighur Muslims to practice their religion.

Restrictions included barring Muslim women from wearing Hijab in Public places.

The authorities have also barred students under 18 from fasting during Ramadan. More restrictions were also imposed on people trying to attend prayers at mosques.

Uighur Muslims are a Turkish-speaking minority of eight million in the northwestern Xinjiang region.

Xinjiang, which activists call East Turkestan, has been autonomous since 1955 but continues to be the subject of massive security crackdowns by Chinese authorities.

Rights groups accuse Chinese authorities of religious repression against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang in the name of counter terrorism.

Muslims accuse the government of settling millions of ethnic Han in their territory with the ultimate goal of obliterating its identity and culture.

Analysts say the policy of transferring Han Chinese to Xinjiang to consolidate Beijing's authority has increased the proportion of Han in the region from five percent in the 1940s to more than 40 percent now.

Protecting Businesses

Analysts view the new religious restrictions as an attempt from Beijing to secure its business inroads in Central Asia.

“China is opening up its foreign affairs to the West,” Tohti said.

“They hope not to have any problems as they expand their influence, especially not in Xinjiang. They are worried about this danger.”

China’s efforts to promote calm in a region that is key to its economic endeavors appear to be two-pronged.

The government has also engaged in a protracted crackdown on what Beijing calls violent Uighur separatists.

Last August, at least 12 Uighurs had been killed in a raid in western Xinjiang raising the August death toll to 34.

In April, 21 people were killed in clashes in the heavily ethnic Uighur part of Xinjiang near the old Silk Road city of Kashgar.

Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, was also the scene of deadly violence in July 2009 when the mainly Muslim Uighur minority vented resentment over Chinese restrictions in the region, at least 184 people were killed

In the following days, mobs of angry ethnic Han took to the streets looking for revenge in the worst ethnic violence that China had seen in decades.

Chinese authorities had convicted about 200 people, mostly Uighurs, over the riots and sentenced 26 of them to death.

Beijing views the vast region of Xinjiang as an invaluable asset because of its crucial strategic location near Central Asia and its large oil and gas reserves.

Despite all these efforts, Uighurs see that China could succeed in bringing calm to the area only by protecting Muslim Uighurs’ freedoms.

“If China really believes Uighurs are part of the country, then meet your responsibility to them,” Tohti said.

“Uighurs are impoverished and have no rights. China needs to improve their living standards.”

Muslims In China Go On Rampage, 9 Police Killed Before Security Forces Mow Down 18 Rioters

This is probably one of the worst instances of China's Muslim problem in Xinjiang province to date as mobs of Chinese Uighur Muslims took to rioting and attacking non-Muslims - 9 police and security forces were killed when the mobs descended on police stations before the police and security forces opened up the firepower and started mowing down the rioters.

When the dust and "allahu ackbars" had settled, 27 people in total are dead.

Once again we see proof that no country on earth is left untouched by the violence of the prophet Mohammed.

The story comes from DAWN.

Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill 27: Xinhua


BEIJING:Riots in China's ethnically divided Xinjiang region on Wednesday left 27 people dead, according to state media which said police opened fire on “knife-wielding mobs”.

It was the latest spasm of violence to hit the troubled western region, which is about twice the size of Turkey and is home to around nine million members of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.

Police shot at “mobs” who had attacked police stations, a local government building and a construction site, the Xinhua news agency said, citing local officials.

“Seventeen people had been killed... before police opened fire and shot dead 10 rioters,” it said.

The mobs were also “stabbing at people and setting fire to police cars”, the report said.

Nine police or security guards and eight civilians were killed before police opened fire, the report said, adding that three other people were taken to hospital with injuries.

The clashes occurred early Wednesday in an area about 100 kilometres from the desert city of Turpan and about 250 kilometres from the regional capital Urumqi.

The reason for the violence was not immediately clear, and police in Turpan refused to comment when contacted by AFP.

Many of Xinjiang's Uighur community complain of religious and cultural repression by Chinese authorities, and the region is regularly hit by unrest.

Dilshat Rexit, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, an exile group branded by Beijing as “separatist”, said “continued repression and provocation is the cause of conflict”. His comment came in a statement sent to AFP after news of the violence emerged.

China reported that 21 people died in clashes between police and locals in the region in April, which the government said were caused by “terrorists”.

Chinese authorities have often blamed such violence in the region on “terrorists”, and a court in Xinjiang recently jailed nine people for “religious extremism”.

China said clashes in 2011 that killed 19 were organised by terrorists who trained in Pakistan and were part of a separatist movement seeking an independent state in Xinjiang.

Uighur rights groups have dismissed the claims of terrorism, citing economic inequality and religious repression as causes of unrest.

The region's worst ethnic violence in recent years occurred in July 2009, when riots involving Uighurs and settlers from China's Han ethnic majority killed around 200 people in Urumqi.

Those clashes lead to a major security push in the region, which rights groups have said led to intense monitoring of Uighurs by security forces.

A specialised anti-terrorism unit of the People's Liberation Army carried out drills in April, according to a previous report by the PLA Daily.

The region saw more than half of China's trials for the charge of “endangering state security” last year, but is home to less than two per cent of the country's population, suggesting “ethnic discrimination”, the Dui Hua Foundation advocacy group said.

Beijing has launched a stream of high-profile investment projects in an attempt to boost economic growth in the relatively poor region, which has rich reserves of coal and gas.

According to official figures, 46 per cent of Xinjiang's population are Uighur, while another 39 per cent are Han Chinese, after millions from the majority group moved there in recent decades in search of jobs.

The Han settlement drive, which has been mirrored in Tibet, has fostered tensions with the existing community.

The Uighurs, who mostly follow Sunni Islam, speak a Turkic language and have ethnic links with groups in neighbouring countries including Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Xinjiang's regional government was not available for comment on Wednesday's violence.

China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular briefing that she was aware of reports, without giving further information.

Information about unrest in Xinjiang is tightly controlled by China's ruling Communist Party, and the government blocked Internet access across the region for several months following the clashes in 2009.

Chinese Muslims Try To Hijack Chinese Jetliner

The hijackers were rapidly overpowered by crew and passengers, but seven people were injured in the fracas. The flight returned to Hotan airport and the six people were arrested Photo: ALAMY

Six Chinese Muslims, more often referred to there as Uighurs, apparently tried to hijack a Tianjin Airlines flight yesterday before they were stopped by the crew and passengers.  Knowing how most Chinese feel about the Uighurs, I'm guessing the six left the plane with their share of bumps, bruises and lacerations.

From the article at The Telegraph:

Chinese state media said six people on board Tianjin Airlines flight GS7554 from Hotan to Urumqi had tried to “violently” take over the plane ten minutes after take-off.

Xinjiang has seen sporadic violence over the past few years between local Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese migrants. The authorities have repeatedly blamed violence on Uighur separatists bent on splitting Xinjiang into an independent state.

A spokesman for the provincial government said the six hijackers had been Uighurs. “At the moment, we do not know the purpose of the hijack. It is still under investigation.”

The hijackers were rapidly overpowered by crew and passengers, but seven people were injured in the fracas. The flight returned to Hotan airport and the six people were arrested.

One anonymous woman, tweeting on a company account called She Lan Tang, claimed to relay information from a witness on board.

"They [the hijackers] went straight for the cockpit but failed," she wrote. "It is said the cockpit doors have all been strengthened after 9/11. One security guard was severely injured though." She added: "They brought a football-sized bomb onto the plane. Also, after all the other passengers were checked [by police] they found a seventh accomplice."

Like I've said all along...even China can't escape the threat of Islamic terror...they have an Islamic problem as does Russia.  Hell, the whole world has an Islamic problem ....most of them just don't know it or want to face it.

Chinese plane in Xinjiang hijack attempt


Chinese state media said six people on board Tianjin Airlines flight GS7554 from Hotan to Urumqi had tried to “violently” take over the plane ten minutes after take-off.

Xinjiang has seen sporadic violence over the past few years between local Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese migrants. The authorities have repeatedly blamed violence on Uighur separatists bent on splitting Xinjiang into an independent state.

A spokesman for the provincial government said the six hijackers had been Uighurs. “At the moment, we do not know the purpose of the hijack. It is still under investigation.”

The hijackers were rapidly overpowered by crew and passengers, but seven people were injured in the fracas. The flight returned to Hotan airport and the six people were arrested.

One anonymous woman, tweeting on a company account called She Lan Tang, claimed to relay information from a witness on board.

"They [the hijackers] went straight for the cockpit but failed," she wrote. "It is said the cockpit doors have all been strengthened after 9/11. One security guard was severely injured though." She added: "They brought a football-sized bomb onto the plane. Also, after all the other passengers were checked [by police] they found a seventh accomplice."

The police in Xinjiang did not respond to requests for comment.

The region is home to a mainly Muslim population of ethnic Uighurs, some of whom have complained at being marginalised by immigrant Han Chinese.

The Communist party has repeatedly accused the region of harbouring terrorists bent on splitting Xinjiang into an independent state. Last September, four people were sentenced to death for their roles in incidents that killed 32 people in Kashgar and Hotan.

Turkistan Islamic Party, a Terrorist Group Out of Pakistan, Claims Attacks In China's Xinjiang Province

In this July 13, 2009 file photo, Uighur men, foreground, watch as a formation of paramilitary police officers patrol Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang region. — Photo by AP

The islamic terror threat in western China has just taken on a face...or at least a name. The Turkistan Islamic Party is claiming responsibility for the wave of islamic terror attacks in the western China province of Xinjiang that has claimed over 3 dozen lives over the past few months.

From the report at DAWN:

A militant group has released a new video claiming responsibility for recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people, a US group that monitors militant organisations said this week.

The video was purportedly made by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which seeks independence for China’s western Xinjiang region, the SITE Intelligence Group said.

The militants are believed to be based in Pakistan, where security experts say core members have received training from al-Qaeda.

Xinjiang is home to largely Muslim ethnic Uighurs who say an influx of China’s majority Han to the region has led to their marginalisation. The region erupted in violence two years ago with ethnic riots in which at least 197 people were killed.

Since then security in the region has been stepped up, but that wasn’t enough to prevent attacks in the cities of Hotan and Kashgar in July that left dozens dead.

The more than 10-minute video released in late August features Turkistan Islamic Party leader, Abdul Shakoor Damla, whose face is blotted out, saying those attacks were revenge against the Chinese government.

It's a bit odd that the Pakistanis and Chinese have been cozying up lately...some of you may have seen the claims that the Pakistani military shared wreckage of the U.S. stealth helicopter used in the bin Laden raid with the Chinese, what with this revelation that a terror group that appears to be actually headquartered and located much in Pakistan has done so much damage inside of China.

Turkistan Islamic Party claims western China attacks


BEIJING: A militant group has released a new video claiming responsibility for recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people, a US group that monitors militant organisations said this week.

The video was purportedly made by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which seeks independence for China’s western Xinjiang region, the SITE Intelligence Group said.

The militants are believed to be based in Pakistan, where security experts say core members have received training from al-Qaeda.

Xinjiang is home to largely Muslim ethnic Uighurs who say an influx of China’s majority Han to the region has led to their marginalisation. The region erupted in violence two years ago with ethnic riots in which at least 197 people were killed.

Since then security in the region has been stepped up, but that wasn’t enough to prevent attacks in the cities of Hotan and Kashgar in July that left dozens dead.

The more than 10-minute video released in late August features Turkistan Islamic Party leader, Abdul Shakoor Damla, whose face is blotted out, saying those attacks were revenge against the Chinese government.

Ben Venzke, of Washington-based IntelCenter, another agency that monitors militant groups, said the group, which threatened to attack the Beijing Olympics in 2008, should be monitored closely and taken seriously.

”Their profile has been heightened since threats made during the Olympics and videos have shown us that they have even received recognition from senior al-Qaeda leaders recognising their presence in China,” Venzke said.

”TIP is a very real jihadist group and their threats should be taken seriously. In addition to being active in China, we also have seen videos of them conducting operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” he said.

The video shows a brief biography and footage of what it says is Memtieli Tiliwaldi, who was shot by police during the attacks, playfully wrestling with other fighters in a TIP training camp.

In the video, their leader Damla speaks in the Turkic language of the Uighurs, who have with a long history of tense relations with the central government.

Uighur activists and security analysts blame the violence on economic marginalisation and restrictions on Uighur culture and the Muslim religion that are breeding frustration and anger among young Uighurs.

China’s leaders say all ethnic groups are treated equally and point to the billions of dollars in investment that has modernised Xinjiang, a strategically vital region with significant oil and gas deposits.

Chinese Uighur Muslim Attacks Security Checkpoint With Explosive-laden Vehicle, 7 Chinese Security Police Killed

Now, I've read this story about 3 times and I still can't figure out how a Chinese muslim rams his 3 wheeler, which is loaded up with explosives, into a police security checkpoint and kills 7 Chinese security officers yet the attacker lived through it and was arrested??? I must be missing something here.

But the fact of the matter is that this is one of the more deadly attacks in China in quite some time and a reminder to the Chinese government that their muslim population in the Xinjiang just aren't liking Chinese life and want their own muslim area.

From the report at Reuters via Breitbart:

Seven Chinese military police were killed on Thursday when a member of the Uighur minority rammed them with an explosives-laden vehicle in the Xinjiang border region, long the scene of ethnic tension and violence.
Police arrested a Uighur suspect who drove the motorized three-wheel vehicle into a group of police and paramilitary guards at a highway intersection in Yiganqi township near the city of Aksu, according to a report from a local news conference carried on the People's Daily website.

Fourteen other people were injured in Thursday's attack, Xinjiang government spokeswoman Hou Hanmin told a group of foreign journalists visiting the regional capital, Urumqi.
She did not say what the motive for the attack might be.
Beijing often blames what it calls violent separatist groups in Xinjiang for attacks on police or other government targets, saying they work with al Qaeda or Central Asian militants to bring about an independent state called East Turkestan.

One day I was having a conversation with someone about islamic terror in the world and I started listing all of the countries of this planet that had been touched by the terrorist activities of muslims and when I got to "China", this person didn't believe me - well, he was wrong then and obviously this is more evidence. As is usually the case in a Reuters article, the word "muslim" is pretty much washed from this article but don't let that fool you - these Uighurs are muslim fanatics and this will not be there last attack.

It will be interesting if the Chinese follow Putin's lead and do nothing or if they will bring in the cleansing crew and make the Uighurs pay for this. The latter, I certainly hope.

Attack on military police kills 7 in Xinjiang, China


China (Reuters) - Seven Chinese military police were killed on Thursday when a member of the Uighur minority rammed them with an explosives-laden vehicle in the Xinjiang border region, long the scene of ethnic tension and violence.

Police arrested a Uighur suspect who drove the motorized three-wheel vehicle into a group of police and paramilitary guards at a highway intersection in Yiganqi township near the city of Aksu, according to a report from a local news conference carried on the People's Daily website.

It was the first such attack in China since 2008.

In separate incidents during the Olympic Games in Beijing, Uighur attackers killed police at a border checkpoint near Pakistan and rammed a truck into a group of paramilitary police in the southern Xinjiang city of Kashgar.

Fourteen other people were injured in Thursday's attack, Xinjiang government spokeswoman Hou Hanmin told a group of foreign journalists visiting the regional capital, Urumqi.

She did not say what the motive for the attack might be.

Beijing often blames what it calls violent separatist groups in Xinjiang for attacks on police or other government targets, saying they work with al Qaeda or Central Asian militants to bring about an independent state called East Turkestan.

"Xinjiang's development will not be affected by a small group of bad people. The overall situation in Xinjiang is good," Hou told the news conference for foreign reporters on a pre-arranged trip to the region.

"I repeat what our governor said this morning: hostile elements are always there, in the past, present and in the future. They don't target any particular ethnic group since casualties are also minorities. They are the common enemy of the Xinjiang people."

Many Uighurs -- a Muslim, Turkic-speaking people native to the region -- chafe under rule from Beijing and restrictions on their language, culture and religion.

They now make up less than half of Xinjiang's population after decades of immigration by the majority Han from other parts of China.

TENSIONS EASED

In July last year, Urumqi was convulsed by deadly ethnic unrest after a protest by Uighurs gave way to street killings and riots that killed at least 197 people, most of them Han Chinese. Han Chinese launched revenge attacks two days later.

Both Uighur and Han residents said tensions have now eased in Urumqi, with Han crediting an increased security presence. Residents pack bars and public squares on warm summer nights while military trucks still patrol Uighur neighborhoods.

Uighur exiles accuse China of whipping up the threat posed by armed separatists to justify harsh crackdowns in Xinjiang.

In June, the government said it had broken up a "terrorist" cell planning attacks in the cities of Kashgar, Hotan and Aksu.

China has promised to plough 110 billion yuan ($16.20 billion) in investment into major projects in oil-and-coal rich Xinjiang, located on China's Central Asian and Pakistan borders.

Money has been earmarked for the relatively poorer southern part of Xinjiang, heavily populated by Uighurs, to try to soothe income disparities that have contributed to ethnic violence.

"It's true that for historic and natural development reasons, Xinjiang has seen unbalanced development, especially the three prefectures of Southern Xinjiang," governor Nur Bekri told reporters earlier in the day.

"We will make southern Xinjiang a focal point."

Al Qaeda Directs Islamist Uighurs To Stage Holy War On China

An al Qaeda leader has proclaimed that China is now on the top of the terrorist organization's hit list and has directed the islamists in China, the Uighurs, to stage a holy war on all of China.

From the report at CNN:

A high-ranking al Qaeda leader has called on China's minority Uyghurs to prepare for a holy war against the Chinese government.

"There is no way for salvation and to lift this oppression and tyranny unless you ... seriously prepare for jihad in the name of God and carry your weapons against the ruthless brutal invader thugs," Abu Yahia Al-Libi said Wednesday in a video on an Islamist Web site. He delivered his message in Arabic.

One thing to note - this al Qaeda leader, Al-Libi, basically posts all of these decrees on the internet - it should be observed that he didn't actually travel to China to make this proclamation. haha. I wonder...do you suppose the Chinese military will be given restrictive rules of engagement when tackling such an islamic terror revolt?

Al Qaeda tells China's Uyghurs to prepare for holy war

(CNN) -- A high-ranking al Qaeda leader has called on China's minority Uyghurs to prepare for a holy war against the Chinese government.

"There is no way for salvation and to lift this oppression and tyranny unless you ... seriously prepare for jihad in the name of God and carry your weapons against the ruthless brutal invader thugs," Abu Yahia Al-Libi said Wednesday in a video on an Islamist Web site. He delivered his message in Arabic.
The Uyghurs are Muslims in western China's Xinjiang province. Some Islamists refer to the region as East Turkistan.
Al-Libi's proclamation was in reaction to the violence that has recently shaken Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital. There, long-simmering resentment between minority Uyghurs and majority Han Chinese erupted into riots and left more than 200 people dead in July.
The following month, a series of stabbings -- with syringes used as weapons -- added to the unrest.
"What we saw and heard in the recent events in Turkistan was not accidental and didn't happen overnight. This is an intifada (an uprising) and a usual response to the decades of oppression, the organized cleansing and the systematic repression until the people had enough," Al-Libi said.
"This was not the first uprising that the oppressed Muslim people carried out, because they keep grieving and struggling to preserve their identity against the aggressors."
Chinese officials could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.

Al-Libi regularly produces video messages and has, in the past, called on Pakistanis and Somalis to resist their "apostate" governments. He is considered one of al Qaeda's top strategists and one of its most vocal leaders in its propaganda campaign
In his latest message, Al-Libi called on Muslims worldwide to support the Uyghurs. And he vowed that China will suffer the same fate that the former Soviet Union did when it invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s -- only to be thwarted by Islamist fighters.
"To you, the state of atheism and obstinacy: You are coming to an end and you will face the same fate of the Russian bear of disintegration and division," he said. "You will encounter the same defeat when your nation will fight in its own backyard the humble minority of Muslims who are stronger in faith."
In July, a leader of an al Qaeda-linked group also denounced Chinese treatment of Uyghurs and threatened revenge.
The leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party, in a video on Islamic Web sites, blamed the Chinese for "genocide."

The speaker urged Uyghurs to "kill the Chinese communists where you find them, take them and besiege them and ambush them wherever you can."
The U.S. State Department said the group has taken credit for violence

Breaking: Airplane Hijacked In China's Uighur-based Xinjiang Province

Okay, there's nearly ZERO information at this press release at Breitbart but in a nutshell, an airplane has been hijacked in China's western Xinjiang Province which, of course, is home to the Chinese nations Uighurs...who are the terroristic islamists. This is the same province that saw all the recent violence and deaths due to the Uighurs rising up against Chinese workers that had come to the province. So, would it be a safe bet that this Chinese plane is now in the hands of muslim terrorists? Yep. Bank on it.

Plane hijacked in China's restive Xinjiang region

BEIJING (AP) - China's state news agency says a plane has been hijacked in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which was rocked by ethnic riots last month.
Xinhua News Agency did not give any details about the hijacking in a brief report Sunday.
A man on duty at the government office in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital, said he had not heard about the hijacking.
The region saw the worst ethnic violence in China in decades last month when deadly rioting in Xinjiang's capital of Urumqi killed 197 people and injured more than 1,700, according to official count.

The government said the violence was the work of terrorists, separatists and foreign forces as part of a plot to carve up China.

China Now Finds Itself In the Crosshairs of Radical Islamic Terrorism Worldwide

At least one islamic terror group has now called for attacks on China to make the Communist nation pay for what the islamists view as a massacre of their muslim brothers, the Uighurs. A Turkish terror group made the formal announcement today regarding the targeting of China, from the article at Reuters - here's some excerpts:

The leader of a group calling itself the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) urged Muslims to attack Chinese interests to punish Beijing for what he described as massacres against Uighur Muslims.
"They (Chinese) must be targeted both at home and abroad. Their embassies, consulates, centers and gathering places should be targeted," Abdul-Haq al-Turkistani said in a video posted on an Islamist website on Saturday.
"Their men should be killed and captured to seek the release of our brothers who are jailed in Eastern Turkistan ... Our duty, we in Eastern Turkistan, is to continue to resist without desperation," said Abdul-Haq, described by an al Qaeda-linked website as the leader of TIP.

It will be interesting if any other terror groups follow suit on this - in the past, there haven't been a whole lot of terrorists who wanted to wake the sleeping beast, China. The Chinese typically don't dance with terrorists and their retribution is typically swift and severe (as it should be?).

The problem China will have in all of this is an infiltration of its western provinces by the islamists - if the Uighurs are joined in the fight by some of the tactically adept terror elements of the west, it could create some real bloodshed for the Chinese.

Militant urges targeting China over Uighurs

DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of a group calling itself the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) urged Muslims to attack Chinese interests to punish Beijing for what he described as massacres against Uighur Muslims.
"They (Chinese) must be targeted both at home and abroad. Their embassies, consulates, centers and gathering places should be targeted," Abdul-Haq al-Turkistani said in a video posted on an Islamist website on Saturday.
"Their men should be killed and captured to seek the release of our brothers who are jailed in Eastern Turkistan ... Our duty, we in Eastern Turkistan, is to continue to resist without desperation," said Abdul-Haq, described by an al Qaeda-linked website as the leader of TIP.
Abdul-Haq, whose group has launched violent attacks in the past, accused China of committing "barbaric massacres" against Muslims in Xianjiang, which TIP calls East Turkistan.
Uighurs are a Muslim people native to Xinjiang, in China's far west, and have cultural ties to Central Asia and Turkey.
Uighurs attacked Han Chinese in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, on July 5 after police tried to break up a protest against fatal attacks on Uighur workers at a factory in south China. Han Chinese in Urumqi launched revenge attacks later in the week.
The violence saw 197 people killed and more than 1,600 wounded, mostly Han Chinese. About 1,000 people, mostly Uighurs, have been detained in an ensuing government crackdown.
Exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer said on Wednesday that nearly 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China's northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night.
Abdul-Haq's face was digitally blurred in the Arabic-language version of the video which also contained a collage of footage of the violence in the region.
The militant was speaking with an assault rifle to his right and what appeared to be a pistol pouch strapped to his shoulder.
Beijing does not want to lose its grip on Xinjiang. The vast territory borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has abundant oil reserves and is China's largest natural gas-producing region.
The militant group has claimed violent attacks in the past including bombing two public buses in Shanghai in May 2008.

Chinese Government Will Execute Rioters Behind Urumqi Deaths

The Uighur islamists of western China and more specifically, the city of Urumqi are about to find out that the Chinese government isn't go to dance around their terror problem - today, the Chinese government announced their plans to execute the ones behind the deaths in the recent riots in the city.
From past experience, the Chinese typically don't mess around with unrest in their country and since 99% of the terror and riots in the country over the past two years have mainly been spurred by the Uighur islamists, we are probably going to see a swift retribution in the western Chinese province. Here's the story from Breitbart:

China vows executions for rioters behind killings

URUMQI, China (AP) - The Communist Party boss of Urumqi says the government will seek the death penalty for anyone found to be behind the deaths of 156 people killed in riots in the capital of Xinjiang.
Li Zhi told a news conference Wednesday that Urumqi was stable after several days of ethnic violence. He said security forces had control of the streets.
He said many people accused of murder had already been detained and that most of them were students.

The violence has already caused President Hu Jintao to cut short a visit to take part in the Group of Eight summit in Italy to return to take charge of the situation.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
URUMQI, China (AP)—China flooded the capital of western Xinjiang province with security forces Wednesday, and President Hu Jintao cut short a visit to the G8 summit as Beijing tries to stem a tide of ethnic clashes in the wake of a riot that left 156 dead.
Helicopters dropped leaflets appealing for calm among Urumqi's 2.3 million residents, although the official Xinhua News Agency said there were "sporadic standoffs" between protesters and security forces, and some minor clashes. It did not give details.
Hu arrived home Wednesday "due to the situation" in Xinjiang, Xinhua said. It did not say what action he would take.
In some areas of the city, residents formed alleyway barricades with furniture and debris to stop a repeat of the fighting between minority Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gers) and Han Chinese—the country's majority ethnic group.
"The government told us today not to get involved in any kind of violence. They've been broadcasting this on the radio, and they even drove through neighborhoods with speakers telling people not to carry weapons," said one Han Chinese man who would give only his surname, Wang.
Hundreds of paramilitary police guarded the main roads to Uighur neighborhoods and the central square in Urumqi (pronounced uh-ROOM-chee), where the first riots began. Most were armed with shields and clubs, while a few had assault rifles fixed with bayonets.
It was not known if any new arrests were made. The government has already said more than 1,000 had been detained.
The notes dropped by helicopter carried an appeal for calm from Xinjiang's Communist Party secretary. "Secretary Wang urges everybody to return home, return to their work units and return to their communities," read the title in bold Chinese characters.
Crowds reacted warily. "We don't believe this. They need to tell the Han to retreat. We're going to stay here to protect our homes," said a Uighur businessman, who would give only part of his name, Mamet.
Shortly afterward, policemen—some Han, some Uighur and armed with handguns and automatic rifles—came through the neighborhood to enforce calm.
"We are just protecting our homes. We are not planning a counterattack," said one of a group of 10 Uighur men guarding the entrance to a side street. After talking with the police, the men turned and walked inside nearby shops and buildings.
Uighurs say the riots that started Sunday—put down by volleys of tear gas and a massive show of force—were triggered by the June 25 deaths of Uighur factory workers during a brawl in the southern Chinese city of Shaoguan. State-run media have said two workers died, but many Uighurs believe more were killed and said the incident was an example of how little the government cared about them.
Many of the Turkic-speaking group believe the Han Chinese, who have flooded into the rugged, rapidly developing western region in recent years, are trying to crowd them out. The Han Chinese say the Uighurs are backward and ungrateful for all the economic development and modernization.
They also say the Uighurs' religion—a moderate form of Sunni Islam—keeps them from blending into Chinese society, which is officially communist and largely secular.
The authorities have been trying to control the unrest by blocking the Internet, including social networking sites such as Facebook, and limiting access to texting services on cell phones. At the same time, police have generally been allowing foreign media to cover the tensions.