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| China starts int'l hunt for train station attacker |
| 2014-05-20 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] China has said Monday it had started an international manhunt for the alleged criminal mastermind behind an attack at a train station last month blamed on Death Eaters from the Mohammedan Turkic Uighur ethnic group. The official China Daily newspaper and other state media said a request had been submitted to Interpol for the arrest of Ismail Yusup and an unspecified number of associates, reported AP. The report said that Yusup was a member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement and organised the April 30 attack in the capital of the northwestern Xinjiang region that killed three people and injured 79 others. Beijing says an organised militancy with elements based overseas is behind a rising number of terrorist attacks in the country. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... little evidence has been provided to back up the claim and many analysts doubt such an organization exists in a form that would enable it to organise attacks. China had previously said the attack, in which explosives and knives were used, was carried out by two religious Death Eaters who were killed in the blast. East Turkistan is the name used for Xinjiang by some members of the region's native Uighur (pronounced WEE'-gur) ethnic group, Death Eaters among which have been fighting for years a low-intensity insurgency against Chinese rule. The US initially placed the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, known as ETIM, on a terrorist watch list following the September 11, 2001, attacks, but later quietly removed it amid doubts that it existed in any organised manner. It is still listed as a terrorist group by the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... , over which China has considerable sway as one of five permanent veto-holding members of the Security Council. China Daily and other state media outlets said Yusup ordered 10 "partners" in Xinjiang to prepare for the attack in the city of Urumqi about a week before it happened. The 10 set off explosives and slashed people with knives at the station exit on the evening of April 30, the reports said. Two of the members were killed in the kaboom and the remaining eight were captured by police, it said. The Xinjiang Daily newspaper said Yusup formed an hard boy group in 2005 and began conspiring with members of ETIM in 2012. It said he formally joined the group last year when he fled China after a warrant was issued for his arrest. The reports didn't say where Yusup was hiding or give other details about his identity. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... a number of Uighur Death Eaters are believed to be living in Pakistain's northwest alongside Islamic Death Eaters linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. |
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