< Three Chinese engineers working on a seaport
project were killed and eleven other people were injured in a car bomb attack in Gawadar port today, police and hospital officials said.
The attack occurred early in the morning as the bus was taking at
least 12 Chinese workers to the Gawadar port, said Sattar Lasi,
the chief of police in Gawadar.........(Guardian)>
This is a global war of extremism today 'Alqaeda' opened a new frontier against China. The pretext is the Chinese Muslims of Uhigars. This 'global intifida' spearheaded by hydra headed monster has tentacles that expands into very heart of every community, where ever their is a Muslim minority the terrorists aim to further their cause through bombs and killings, Muslim minority in their interpretation had to rule and not be rule, they are looking for establishment of old glory where they rule India as a minority.
Chinese are the new target of the extremists. The extremists cite the conditions of Uhigar Muslims as reasons of these crazy attacks. The whole world including stubborn France and Spain will soon join to eradicate this growing cancer of extreme hatred being advanced by intolerant version of extremists. The monitories within these countries provide the cannon fodder of this new war. Chinese will realise like Russians did post Chechnya that this global intifida of extremists Islam has to be stopped and USA is doing the bidding for sake of the moderates Islamist who want to live peacefully in this world. USA is helping save moderate Islam from the tentacles of extremists that want to lead the world in to a clash of civilisations where moderate forces and people of Islam will be the biggest loser as strategically the countries are so poorly disadvantaged. In a diabolical attempt of opening new frontiers of war their economic grievances are being hijacked by AlQaeda to begin a new war and open a new frontier.
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Extremists want to make this fight a global fight such a fight if ensues will usher for moderate Islam a century of new subjugation, it will be ala ottoman defeat a new reorganisation and realignment of the entire Islamic crescent, a futile disastrous war that will shake the very foundation of the 1 billon strong Islamic community. Today we are fighting to avoid such a disastrous catastrophe and those who are short sighted think that by dilly dallying and arm twisting they can get their way 100% in Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine Kashgar, all these hotspots include one way or the other major power interests if one include Balkans also, the fight today against terrorism is a preamble of all these simmerings that are going on these undercurrents have their manifestation in incidents like killing of Chinese today, the attack on Russians is part of that global intifida the Spanish bombings are in one way reminder of the lost of pax-Islamica the events are interrelated and the response has to be equally well jointed and structured. The sum total of all the actions of Doctrine led by Bush helps counter these challenges that humanity is bound to face.
Who are the Uhigars and some history from Saudi Aramco site....
<<Kashgar is a city with a long and complicated history, located between mountain and steppe, oasis and desert, East and West, at a natural intersection of ancient pathways leading from the capitals of Rome, Persia, Mongolia and China. Its strategic location at the eastern end of the Tarim River basin makes the city a meeting place of many cultures, today as in the past.
Islam contributed Arab, Persian and, later, Turkic civilizations to the region, and Sir Aurel Stein, the 20th century's greatest explorer of Central Asia, characterized it as a "special meeting ground of Chinese civilization, introduced by trade and political penetration, and of Indian culture, propagated by Buddhism."
The new railroad between Kashgar and Urumqi, completed in 2000, now links the city more closely than ever before to China, but Kashgar also lies on the overland routes to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, by way of the famed Karakorum Highway. Bordered by some of the highest mountains in the world—in the north, east, south and southwest by the great Tianshan, Pamir, and Kunlun ranges—and hemmed in from the west by the great Taklamakan Desert, the second-largest in the world, Kashgar remains one of the crossroads of Central Asia, and has been only intermittently under Chinese influence and control during its 2000-year history. The varied faces, languages, clothing, and dwellings of the Kashgaris who inhabit the town, and the hordes of travelers who pass through, are the most enduring legacy of its diverse and multicultural history.
Today, over 77 percent of Kashgar city's 325,000 citizens are Uighur Muslims. Uighurs, the city's Muslim people, talk of arrests by Chinese securityforces. Plainclothes agents keep watch. The shrill yells of drilling soldiers pierce the dusk. Now, complicating this volatile mix, come the aftershocks of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States. Nowhere do the attacks and their aftermath threaten to be more destabilising for China than in its western region of Xinjiang bordering Afghanistan, where Chinese communism meets Muslim tradition with sometimes violent consequences.
Many Kashgar Muslims are skeptical of U.S. allegations that Osama bin Laden and his radical Islamic followers were responsible for the attacks. Others say they want to see proof of the Saudi-born suspect's involvement before the U.S. retaliates against his protectors, the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan. ``The Americans are talking rubbish when they say they know who did it. They don't know. None of us know,'' said Mr. Amaijan, a Uighur who uses just one name. He runs a stall selling greeting and invitation cards, including one that features New York's World Trade Center before it was destroyed.
The surrounding Kashgar prefecture, with an area of 141,000 square kilometers (54,500 sq mi), has more than three million Uighurs in a total population of 3.3 million. Most of them claim descent from Karabalghasan, the early Uighur kingdom in what is now Mongolia, which was conquered by Kyrgyz tribesmen in AD 840. The Uighur fled south and dispersed in the oasis towns surrounding the Taklamakan Desert, where they had maintained trading relations along the ancient Silk Road. They established Turpan as their new capital and Kashgar as one of their most important trading centers. The regularity of the caravan trade between the oases of Marv, Balkh, Bukhara, Samarkand, Kashgar, Turpan, and Khotan with the distant European and Asian capitals placed Kashgar in a central role as economic broker and cultural mediator, and the Uighurs' far-flung kingdom flourished until the coming of the Mongols in the 12th century.
Islam had arrived in Kashgar by the 10th century, and the city became a center of Islamic learning, producing among others one of the greatest Muslim scholars and lexicographers of the 11th century, Mahmud al-Kashgari, who wrote Diwan Lughat al-Turk (Compendium of the Turkic Dialects), since translated into 26 languages. He was buried just outside the city, in the village of Upar.
It was in Kashgar that the early Muslims encountered strong Chinese, Persian, Turkic, and Indian influences, evidence of which can still be seen in the art and architecture of the region today. The Islamic religion, however, displaced a multi-religious tradition that combined elements of Buddhist, Manichaean, Zoroastrian, and even early Nestorian Christian practices. (There was a Nestorian archbishopric in Kashgar as early as 650.) Especially Hinayana Buddhism flourished from the second century until the coming of Islam: In 644, the traveling Chinese monk Xuanzang recorded not only the widespread practice of Buddhism, but also the vibrancy of Kashgar's bazaar and the multi-ethnic character of its people, some with "blue eyes" and "yellow hair," perhaps of Sogdian or East Iranian origin. That diversity is evident today, where the daily market attracts thousands of patrons—and the famous Sunday bazaar more than ten thousand—including Han Chinese, Uighurs, Russians, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Kazakhs, as well as foreign tourists.>>
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