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http://www.stv.tv/articles/reuters/world/Grenade_attack_kills_16_in_China_ahead_of_Games_128650

“Grenade attack kills 16 in China ahead of Game”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BEIJING (Reuters) - A police station in China’s restive Xinjiang region was attacked on Monday morning, four days before the Beijing Olympics begin, killing 16 officers and wounding 12, state media reported.

“Rioters drove two vehicles to break into the border patrol armed police division” near Kashgar and threw two grenades, Xinhua reported.

The brief report did not describe the attackers. But the Xinjiang region in the far northwest has been at the heart of China’s security fears leading up the Olympics, which begin in four days.

Xinjiang is home to a large Uighur Muslim population, many of them discontent under strict Chinese rule. Some Uighur groups are campaigning for an independent homeland for their Turkic-speaking people.

Kashgar in Xinjiang’s south is dominated by Uighurs, many of them pious Muslims.”

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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-08/02/content_6898852.htm

“Xinjiang official vows to crack down on terrorists”
By Wu Jiao (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-08-02 07:37

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Authorities in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region are confident they will foil any terrorist plots against the Beijing Olympics, a top regional official said on Friday.

“We have done a lot to deal with terrorists, especially the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) in the past years,” Kurexi Maihesuti, vice-chairman of the regional government, said.

“We are resolved to thwart any terrorist activities and nip them in the bud,” he told a press conference at the Beijing International Media Center.

Terrorist groups, the ETIM in particular, have threatened to attack Olympic venues.

Ma Zhenchuan, director of the security command of the Beijing Games, warned earlier that the ETIM poses a real threat because investigations show it has been plotting terror attacks on Olympic venues.”

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english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/08/2008843587330723.html

“Deadly attack hits China’s Xinjiang”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Xinhua news agency said “rioters” tossed grenades into a border patrol station in the Kashi region on China’s frontier with Central Asia on Monday.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The report said the assailants drove a lorry inside the paramilitary police station before throwing two grenades.

The area is home to the Muslim Uighur people who have been waging a separatist rebellion against Chinese rule and who Beijing have accused of plotting to sabotage the Olympic games with “terrorist” attacks.”