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| Chinese aircrew thwarts hijacking attempt |
| 2008-03-09 |
| On Sunday a Chinese official told Xinhua that a China Southern Airlines plane was forced to land because "some people were attempting to create an air disaster." The flight had taken off from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The militants' attempt to hijack the plane was foiled by the flight crew, the official said. Wang Lequan, chief of the Xinjiang regional committee of the Communist Party of China, said the government was prepared to strike against the "three evil forces" in the region: terrorists, separatists and extremists. "We are prepared to strike them when the evil forces are planning their activities," he told Xinhua. |
| Posted by:Gloria |
| #10 How do you say "Flight 93" in Chinese? |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-03-09 23:02 |
| #9 Uighurs became Islamified around the 13th C. They pogromed their Christians during WWII, when the Chinese Govt was busy with the Japanese. The Communists colonized Han culture all over the Western provinces, forcing a lot of locals out of the good jobs. The Han can give the Arabs good competition for most racist ethnic group. So you have a breeding ground for seething in Uighur country. |
| Posted by: mom 2008-03-09 21:31 |
| #8 Sub-D *** NG IT, DEEP SPACE NINE > Odo's the CHangeling's people ARE THE DOMINION! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-09 18:56 |
| #7 DRUDGEREPORT > BRETBART - EU: CLIMATE CHANGE [and associated] ARE A NEW FACTOR IN INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS. New + Substantive/Determinative!? Water, arable land, General + Male Overpopulation, so-called New/Mini-Ice Ages, and lets not forget the Sun, WR104, assorted Space rocks, and Beijing nominally screwing up its own internationl reforms vv CHIN-SPECIFIC COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM. HMMMMMM, "MAD MAX-INE"??? IN FAR FUTURE, SHE HELPS SURVIVORS OF A EMIGRANT OCEAN AIRCRAFT CRASH, + SEES A DEAD MAN WALKING OUT OF THE SEA, ala GUNS-N-ROSES + PRAVDA, etc. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-09 18:51 |
| #6 I'm sure that the Chinese Civil Liberties Union will quickly demand that they be treated in accordance with international law. Oh, wait... |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-03-09 18:00 |
| #5 The Chinese are using quick and perminate methods to cleanse China of any problems that might effect the Olympics or reflex any discord. |
| Posted by: RD 2008-03-09 16:08 |
| #4 They apprently didn't buy hudnas from everybody, 3dc. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-03-09 14:55 |
| #3 What happened to the Olympic Hudna the Chinese were supposed to have purchased? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-03-09 13:37 |
| #2 According to the 2000 census, Ürümqi has 2,081,834 inhabitants with a population density of 174.53 inhabitants/km². Of these, 75.3% are Han Chinese, 12.8% are Uyghurs, 8.0% are Hui and 2.3% are Kazakhs. They don't mention religion. |
| Posted by: Icrigger 2008-03-09 12:47 |
| #1 Many Chinese Islamist crazies were trained at the Islamic University at Lahore. They began appearing in western China in the early 1990s and are thought to have provided the leadership for the student revolts of that decade. For years Saudi Arabia has cooperated with China in the exchange of intelligence; the importance of the oil market cannot be denied. |
| Posted by: balthazar 2008-03-09 12:16 |