In a previous post, I mentioned WARNINGS and the need to warn
Olympics, China, and Islamo-Fascists
If I am correct, there has already been a warning that was not reported or ignored, OR one more warning is coming.
I tend to think this is the third warning due to the nature of the video and the finality of the statement. Differs from the rest.
I believe this issue - how China deals with al qaida (the term is used as an umbrella for all extremist Islamo-fascist groups) will be interesting to watch.
At the moment, all eyes are turned on China as the oppressive actions of the communist government of China, make any subjugation throughout history pale in comparison. China is being regarded as a human rights violator bar none. To switch focus and divert attention, it may suit the purposes of the Chinese government to allow an event to occur.
By doing so, all attention is off the most repressive regime on earth, and on al qaida. Al qaida will not deny it because they would have done it, with the blind eye of the Chinese government. It would divert all attention from the most repressive regime on earth and the most polluted cities on earth, onto al qaida - the most reviled group on earth. It would thrust China into the US net of friends combating terrorism, and would allow an excuse for the Chinese to clamp down even harder on dissidents and anyone - from Tibetans to the Muslims, and along the way, kill off al qaida.
For the Chinese - well within their usual and normal operating procedures. While the humiliation at being unable to stop al qaida would show weakness, the loss of honor would be restored quickly as the Chinese send their million man army to annihilate opposition throughout China, with the token al qaida head presented along the way as proof they are searching for Islamo-fascists.
It is possible the Chinese will stop the attack, but, like US efforts, there is no guarantee.
In any event - the most recent video warning -
Chinese Islamists threaten Olympics: US group
Aug 7 01:17 PM US/Eastern
A Muslim separatist group in China has made a new video threat against the Beijing Olympics, warning Muslims to keep their children away from the games, a US group that monitors extremists said Thursday.
The nearly six-minute video shows flames consuming a Beijing Olympics logo and an explosion over a venue for the competition, and features a masked, turbaned speaker clutching what appears to be an assault rifle.
The IntelCenter released a copy of the recording, attributed to the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), an ethnic Uighur and Muslim organization seeking to create an independent state out of China's heavily Muslim Xinjiang province.
The SITE Intelligence Group, meanwhile, translated some of the message, which was delivered in the language of the Uighurs, and said that the speaker identified himself as a TIP member and issued a threat against the Games.
The speaker urges Muslims to keep their children from the competition, and warns "Do not stay on the same bus, on the same train, on the same plane, in the same buildings, or any place the Chinese are," SITE said.
In July, the Washington-based IntelCenter said TIP had taken credit in another video statement for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics.
In that recording, Commander Seyfullah of TIP claimed credit for several attacks, including the May 5 Shanghai bus bombing which killed three; another Shanghai attack; an attack on police in Wenzhou on July 17 using an explosives-laden tractor; a bombing of a Guangzhou plastic factory on July 17; and bombings of three buses in Yunnan province on July 21.
Three people were killed as a result of the explosion on the crowded bus in Shanghai on May 5, police and witnesses said.
The incident during the morning traffic rush hour in northwest Shanghai also injured 12 people.
At the time, authorities attributed the blast to flammable materials carried by a passenger.
But Seyfullah said the blast was the work of his group, and warned of more explosions to come.
According to global intelligence analysts Stratfor, the Turkestan Islamic Party is another name used by the Islamic Party of East Turkestan (ETIM), an ethnic Uighur and Muslim separatist group seeking to create an independent state out of China's westernmost, heavily Muslim Xinjiang province.
The United States, China and other countries have designated ETIM a terrorist group.
Beijing is wary of ethnic Uighur Muslims living in Xinjiang, who maintain an ethnic identity distinct from the Chinese and have struggled to re-establish the independent state of East Turkestan since their homeland became part of China in 1955.
[Human] Rights bodies say the Chinese government is cracking down on them, under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
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