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To: lorne who wrote (2200)	10/9/2006 12:18:20 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Excellent post. Though it must be said that I believe there are Chinese muslims.....and they also do suicide bombings....... One Killed in Bombing of McDonald's in China (from 2001) ict.org.il One person was killed, and as many as thirty injured Saturday, when a bomb ripped through a crowded McDonald's restaurant in western China. Officials quoted by the local press called the blast "intentional sabotage." The blast in the city of Xi'an left two people in critical condition, hospital officials said, while a number of others had burst eardrums and eye injuries. The lone fatality was reportedly the bomber, although it was unclear whether the explosion occurred prematurely or was intended as a suicide attack. According to police, the bomber was from the city of Chongqing, capital of Szechuan Province, about 500 kilometers to the south. Bombings in China are usually motivated by revenge China has seen a wave of bombings in recent months, though the vast majority have been blamed on disgruntled workers or jilted lovers. On Friday, a series of blasts occurred in two cities in the southern province of Guangdong. Reuters quoted the Beijing Morning Post as saying that several bombs exploded in Zhangjiang city, in "Xiashan, Chikan, Kaifaqu and other areas of the city." Zhangjiang is about 350 kilometers west of Hong Kong. What the targets were was not mentioned. On the same morning, three separate bombings occurred in residential districts in Jiangmen, some 220 kilometers northeast of Zhangjiang, the Beijing Youth Daily said. Two of the blasts occurred about 100 meters apart, blowing out windows in eighth-floor and third-floor residential apartments along the city's Shuinan Road, the paper said. Police said the explosions in Jiangmen were the work of an individual bent on avenging himself on relatives and rival businessmen. At least two people were killed in these explosions, including the bomber, and six injured. It was unclear whether the explosions in Zhangjiang were related to the ones in Jiangmen. In March, a series of near-simultaneous bombings of residential bombings in Shijiazhuang left 108 people dead and hundreds injured. One man was convicted and executed for setting off the crude fertilizer bombs, but it was never proven conclusively that he had acted alone. In July a man seeking revenge set off a cache of illegally-stored explosives in northern Shaanxi province, killing some 70 people. Officials blame the rise in revenge bombings on the fact that crude explosives are easily acquired on the black market. After the recent blasts, police throughout China were ordered to crack down on the illegal manufacture of explosives. McDonald's bombing could have political motive There were no claims of responsibility for Saturday's bombing of the McDonald's restaurant, and officials declined to say whether it was politically motivated. Xi'an is an ancient Chinese captial, and is the site of China's famed terracotta warriors, which each year brings in thousands of tourists. However, the city also has a large ethnic Uighur population. The Uighur, a Turkic people who claim descent from Genghis Khan, speak a Turkic language and follow the Muslim religion. Once citizens of an independent "Republic of Eastern Turkistan," the Uighurs sit uneasily under Chinese rule. Uighur separatists are fighting for a separate state in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. Chinese authorities have blamed the Uighur for a series of bombings in western China and in Beijing. In 1997, at least nine people were killed in three separate blasts aboard buses in Xinjiang, while an explosion on a bus in Wuhan in 1998 killed at least 16 and injured more than 30. Officials said at the time that a series of bomb attacks had been planned by Uighur separatists to coincide with a festival, possibly to avenge the February 1997 crackdown on Muslim separatists in Xinjiang. In early 1999, bombs ripped through two buses in Xinjiang, killing 18 people and wounding 37. In October of this year, an explosion aboard a city bus in Linyi, in eastern China, killed three people and injured 57. A local police official said at the time that it was unclear whether the bombing was a deliberate act of sabotage or an accident triggered by illegal explosives or chemicals. Recently, information has come to light regarding cooperation between the Uighur separatists of Xinjiang and fundamentalist Islamic groups in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Hundreds of Uighurs were said to have been sponsored by “Gama’at el Islami” in Pakistan and to have undergone training by the Mujahedin in Afghanistan. The fact that Saturday's bomb blast targeted McDonald's, an icon of American influence, in a city with a substantial Uighur population could point to more than simple revenge as a motive for the attack. Sources: Reuters, Agence France Presse

To: lorne who wrote (2200)	10/9/2006 3:03:04 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Kashmir - Dental surgeon beheaded in broad daylight Daily Excelsior ^ \| Oct 9 2006 \| Ahmed Ali Fayyaz dailyexcelsior.com SRINAGAR, Oct 8: Taking advantage of the losing grip of Police, BSF as well as Army in Sopore, militants have kidnapped and mercilessly slaughtered a young dental surgeon within 24 hours of beheading a Territorial Army recruit in the apple-rich north Kashmir township. More confident this time, militants have slit the throat of the young dental surgeon and father of three kids with seven shaving blades in broad daylight after subjecting him to untold brutality for about two hours. Civilian sources revealed to the EXCELSIOR that the local Police Station responded to a report and recovered the dead body of 35-year-old Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah S/o Masoom Shah R/o Zachaldara (presently Braripora, Handwara) from corn fields in Nopora Kalan locality of the appletown of Sopore in the morning today. They said that unidentified militants, armed with AK-47 guns and pistols, had tied the surgeon in captivity to a tree and mercilessly tortured him for about two hours from 2.00 p.m to 4.00 p.m on Saturday. According to these sources, some people working at the nearby fields had approached the militants with an appeal of mercy after hearing the shrieks and screaming of the dental surgeon but the militants shouted them to retreat. They finally slaughtered the doctor with sharp shaving blades. While senior Police officials in Sopore did not respond to phone calls, their juniors confirmed that seven blood soaked shaving blades were recovered from the site of occurrence. They said that Police learned about the gruesome killing last evening but went to recover the dead body today. According to them, the surgeon had been almost decapitated and his head was attached to the torso with just an inch of skin. They said that a note, purportedly scribbled by a militant outfit, was also found on the dead body. After a decade-long semblance of normality, militants are currently in the process of regaining control over the all-important Sopore town, which had been a stronghold of Hizbul Mujahideen and other guerrilla groups in 1990-94 period. It was during this period that--- with the massive support of alienated people, particularly those from pro-Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami---the Hizb militants like late Majeed Dar and a Sudanese Jihadi Ibn-i-Masood had enjoyed total control on Sopore. After security forces eliminated a large number of militants here in 1993-94, few incidents of violence were witnessed in Sopore. However, after striking on their combat and civilian targets with hit-and-run grenade attacks for several months this year, militants in Sopore have now begun to act in broad daylight. They have killed the young dental surgeon within 24 hours of beheading a Territorial Army recruit whose head was taken all the way to the center of the town and dropped there. In follow up to a broad daylight drive of moral policing, in which several people were stripped and paraded on streets for their alleged offences of promiscuity and gambling, militants have enacted today's brutality just furlongs away from the guarded residence of the naked mystic, Ahad Sahib, who survived a grenade attack earlier this year. Two devotees had died and 15 others sustained injuries in that attack on June 22. An investigation by Excelsior revealed that after completing his BDS, Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah had been appointed as a junior dental surgeon by State Health Department. Within a couple of years of his appointment, he went to Saudi Arabia and worked there as a dental surgeon for about seven years. It was during this period that he shifted his residence from Zachaldara and raised a Rs one-crore house in Braripora outskirts of Handwara town near Fruit Mandi. With his wife, Kulsoom, and three young children (an eight-year-old son and two young daughters), Dr Shah had been living at this house after returning from Saudi Arabia about a year ago. His services in Health Department had been terminated but he had been reinstated and posted at Public Health Centre Langet. Informed sources said that on Saturday he had left for duty as usual in his own car but before reaching Langet requested an acquaintance over telephone to record his leave for a day. When his father Masoom Shah was lodging a missing report at Handwara Police Station today, Sopore Police communicated to Handwara Police that Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah's slaughtered body had been spotted and recovered from a locality in the town. Later today, Dr Shah's body was buried at his ancestral village in Zachaldara. His brutal killing, that happened in the holy month of Ramazan, spread shockwaves in a vast locality but for obvious fear of militant reprisals nobody dared to register protest in public. Inquiries revealed that Dr Shah was a close friend of the separatist People’s Conference leader, Sajjad Lone, whose veteran politician father, late Abdul Gani Lone, had long back got the Government job of a forest guard to Shah's father Masoom Shah. The Shahs had multiple political connections but they had never associated themselves with militants, counter-insurgents or security forces. One and all in Handwara area insisted that it was not a political killing. While Dr Shah's father continues to be the Vice President of Rajwar Block in the mainstream National Conference, his Handwara-based wife, Kulsoom, happens to be a not-so-distant relative of the former Forest Minister and MLA Handwara, Sofi Mohiuddin. Residents said it was Sofi who had got him from Saudi Arabia and also got him reinstated on the terminated Government job. Meanwhile, official sources in north Kashmir said that some young children found an explosive device and began fiddling with it near Chitti Bandi hamlet in Bandipore today. It exploded, causing injuries to three young students, namely Ashfaq Ahmed Mir S/o Mohammad Yusuf Mir, Altaf Ahmed Mir S/o Zakarullah and Aijaz Ahmed Mir S/o Abdul Ahad Mir. They were evacuated to a local hospital. Critically injured, Aijaz Ahmed Mir was referred to a Srinagar hospital. He was responding to treatment till late this evening.