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1 posted on 07/05/2009 6:42:56 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

Didn’t know the Chinese allowed one-armed police.

Badda-bing!


2 posted on 07/05/2009 6:46:41 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Jet Jaguar

Islam destroys everywhere it goes. Yet some Americans wanted the Uighurs to be released here.

China will STOP them!


4 posted on 07/05/2009 6:48:45 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Jet Jaguar
"A number of civilians and one armed police officer" died in violence in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region"

Excellent book:

The Mummies Of Ürümchi

"In 1994, a most astonishing discovery was made in Western China.

Incredibly well-preserved mummies dating back 2000 years were unearthed in this remote region, mummies with large, colorful wardrobes, mummies that were distinctively Caucasian.
The mystery of what six-foot-tall, fair-haired people were doing in China at the time took Barber, an expert on ancient textiles at Occidental College in L.A., to the desert city of Urumchi in 1995, where archeologists at the site hoped that her expertise might help them understand what these unlikely people were doing there.
She had excellent material to work with: the mummies were in such remarkable condition that they still had full heads of hair and beards, and their skin was only slightly weathered. Most had been buried with plenty of brightly colored clothes to wear (one man was buried with 10 hats, each a different style), which gave Barber a treasure-trove of textiles with which to work.
Barber structures her tale as a mystery, revealing information piecemeal until she presents her conclusions about the origin of the mummies. In the process, she treats readers to a lively story about the ebb and flow of ancient cultures, a story largely deduced from the development of weaving, dyeing, embroidery and fashion. Barber's hypothesis about how Caucasian mummies wound up in Urumchi, which has something to do with the Silk Road, is so clear and logical that readers will be satisfied that all relevant possibilities have been thoroughly examined.

The only thing lacking is information on how to pronounce Urumchi. 16 pages of color photos; 50 b&w drawings. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

5 posted on 07/05/2009 6:51:20 PM PDT by blam
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To: Jet Jaguar
There's a YouTube video of this march here.
6 posted on 07/05/2009 6:55:22 PM PDT by blam
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To: Jet Jaguar
Is this the same location which was having a revolt last month?
8 posted on 07/05/2009 7:22:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("A new Dark Ages made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science.")
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To: Jet Jaguar

They’re Muslims, not civilains.


16 posted on 07/05/2009 9:34:51 PM PDT by Royal Wulff
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