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| China detains U.S., N.Zealand men for "terrorism" |
| 2003-05-27 |
| China has detained two ethnic-Chinese foreign nationals, an American and a New Zealander, for "violent terrorist activities", the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The men were identified as New Zealander Sun Gang and U.S. citizen Benjamin Lan, known in Chinese as Lan Yupeng. "They received support from the heads of some hostile organisations and came to China to carry out violent terrorist activities," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said. She did not name the organisations or give details of the accusations against the two men. "Details? We don't need no stinking details!" The New Zealand embassy confirmed that Sun had been detained, but declined to coment further. The U.S. embassy said embassy officials had visited Lan. Zhang said Beijing security forces caught the men with evidence that proved "they were engaging in, or plotting to engage in, violent terrorist activities". She did not say when they had been caught. "Because these two men are suspected of breaking relevant Chinese laws, they are already in detention under law and the case is being heard by relevant Chinese judicial departments," she said. "The verdict is already in, the trial will be scheduled as soon as we get a open date on the court calender." A handful of Chinese nationals are among the several hundred prisoners taken from Afghanistan to the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Asked how many Chinese were at Guantanamo Bay, Zhang told reporters to ask the U.S. military. Humm, interesting. Wonder where we picked them up. She added: "If there are indeed Chinese citizens among the people tried or detained by them, we hope they will return them to China to be dealt with." A trade, perhaps? The U.S. and N. Zealand "terrorists" for the chinese gitmo detainees? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 It's all coming to bite them in the ass. They have been providing Pakland with financial support and assistance in their proxy-proxy (double proxy because Pakland already runs a proxy war) war against India, they allowed Pakland and NKor to transfer Nuclear technology using their land routes and now its blowing up in their face. |
| Posted by: rg117 2003-05-27 10:13:47 |
| #1 Steve, in a news report last week, I seem to recall reading that a convoy of Chinese nationals crossed the border into Afghanistan before our entry into the country. Don't recall where I saw it. China has a simmering Islamofascist problem in its north and west. As always with the Chinese empire, the border areas aren't really Chinese, nor under a lot of control by the central government. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-05-27 09:11:36 |