China Says Terror Raid Finds Ties Abroad – Alexa Olesen

From AP:
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Police found links to international terrorist groups during a raid on an alleged terror camp in China’s restive western Muslim region last week, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday…

“There is a large amount of evidence that shows, including evidence we got from this raid, that the ETIM is associated with international terrorist forces,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao…

Liu gave no specific details about the alleged evidence or attacks and did not say which overseas terror groups those arrested were linked to. China has said before that ETIM has links to al-Qaida.
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Reuters’ report: “China holds mass funeral for policeman “martyr”” says, “More than 2,000 police and residents in the restive Xinjiang region of northwestern China attended the funeral of a policeman killed in a gun battle at what Beijing called a terrorist camp, media said on Wednesday…”

Read CDT’s earlier post: China ‘Anti-Terror’ Raid Kills 18

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