China kills Muslim terrorist in Olympics plot

AP/Houston Chronicle:

A Chinese official says police captured and killed alleged terrorists plotting attacks targeting this year's Beijing Olympics.

Wang Lequan, the top Communist Party official in the western region of Xinjiang, said materials seized in a Jan. 27 raid in the regional capital, Urumqi, had stated the plot's purpose as "specifically to sabotage the staging of the Beijing Olympics."

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China has been fighting a simmering insurgency amongst Muslim separatists from the Xinjiang region's Uighur population.

You have to wait until that last paragraph to see who was behind the plot. It almost made the Name that terrorist category. "Mass murder for Allah" was attempting to strike again.

CNN reports that a flight from the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi was forced to land because of a terrorist threat. The flight crew foiled the attempted hijacking. There is more on the terrorism attempts in this AP story. Would you believe the terrorist were trained and led by a group in Pakistan?

The BBC has more on the thwarted terrorist.

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