More Terrorist Attacks in China

The ever expanding Jihad. NY Times

BEIJING — The violence in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang rose sharply Sunday morning with the deaths of a security guard and at least 10 suspects after a daring series of bombings that began with a predawn assault on a police station, the state news media reported.

The attacks, coinciding with the first weekend of the Beijing Olympics, occurred less than a week after what the Chinese authorities had described as China’s worst terrorist assault in recent memory, in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar. Last Monday, two Uighur Muslims rammed a truck into a group of paramilitary officers who were doing their morning exercises, then attacked with explosives and knives, the authorities say. Sixteen officers were killed and several more were wounded.

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More recently, an obscure militant group, the Turkestan Islamic Party, released videos claiming responsibility for recent bus bombings in southwestern China and threatened to carry out attacks on the Olympics. Last week, IntelCenter, a private American group that monitors terrorism, concluded that this group was the same as ETIM.

The violence on Sunday erupted in Kuqa, a city of 400,000 people in the southern part of Xinjiang. None of the details could be independently confirmed, though witnesses in Kuqa said they had heard explosions. In all, the authorities said, 12 explosive devices were detonated in attacks on at least four local government buildings, a supermarket and hotels, state media reported.