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| China: Deported tourists watched terror videos | |
| 2015-07-20 | |
Police from Inner Mongolia region said the tourists "first watched a documentary in a hotel room. After some of them left, the rest proceeded to watch video clips advocating terrorism." They added that police seized "similar" videos from a cellphone "belonging to Hoosain Ismail Jacobs, a South African national." The report said that nine of the foreigners - five South Africans, three British and one Indian - were suspected of "organizing, leading or joining terrorist groups." All of the nine "admitted to their illegal acts and repented" before police imposed the "lenient sentence" of deportation, it added. A total of 20 visitors from South Africa, Britain and India were held at an Inner Mongolian airport on Friday last week, causing diplomatic concern. The group included doctors, executives and a former anti-apartheid activist, who were on a lengthy sight-seeing tour of China. They were arrested thirty days into their trip, before they were able to board a plane to the city of Xian. A statement released on Friday by a spokesman for two of the tourists, Mr Hoosain Jacobs and his wife Tahira, said the detentions may have been made after an "unfortunate misunderstanding" concerning Genghis Khan. It said, "They watched a documentary on Genghis Khan to further their understanding of the region they were in at the time, and this may have mistakenly been deemed as 'propaganda' material'. "It can only be assumed that junior officials who made the initial arrest in Inner Mongolia made a mistake, due to perhaps their unfamiliarity" with English, it added. | |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 But was the terrorist being "advocated" Genghis Khan? Actually, it was one of the original terrorist group, the cult of the assassins who sent agents to kill Möngke Khan that resulted in the expedition that laid waste to their domain, Persia, and Baghdad. Not a 'kinder gentler' campaign, but the terrorism ended, mainly because the Mongols could out do anyone else on 'terror'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-07-20 15:45 |
| #2 The given names "Hoosain" & "Tahira" probably drew extra suspicion. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-07-20 14:45 |
| #1 "It can only be assumed that junior officials who made the initial arrest in Inner Mongolia made a mistake, due to perhaps their unfamiliarity" with English Debatable whether they were unfamiliar with history. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-07-20 10:31 |