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Sunday, March 09, 2008
Chinese police foiled terror plot targeting Beijing Olympics, official says
09 March 2008
Chinese police foiled terror plot targeting Beijing Olympics, official says
BEIJING, CHINA: A senior Communist Party official says Chinese police
captured and killed alleged Islamic terrorists who were plotting attacks
targeting the Beijing Olympics.
Wang Lequan, the top official in the western region of Xinjiang, says today a Jan. 27 raid in the regional capital Urumqi had seized materials that showed the plotters' purpose was specifically to sabotage the staging of the Games.
The Global Times newspaper published by the Communist Party earlier reported the group had planned bombings and other violent terrorist incidents on Feb. 5, the last business day before the start of the Lunar New Year holiday, but the paper had made no mention of the Olympics.
The paper said police confiscated guns, homemade bombs, training materials and extremist religious ideological materials during the raid, in which two members of the gang were killed and 15 arrested.
Wang says the group had acted on orders from a Uighur separatist group based in Pakistan and Afghanistan called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement - a group that has been labelled a terrorist organization by the United Nations...
-- Source/continues: http://canadianpress.google.com/article/
ALeqM5hOptsZJ6zQ7tRmBgKSWe4_CHa5jQ
Edited on: Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:15.14
Categories: Counter-Terrorism, Intelligence