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Article: CHINA SAYS BIN LADEN LINKED TO SEPARATISTS
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- United Press International
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- July 25, 2002
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China says bin Laden linked to separatists
HONG KONG, Jul 25, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) --
Suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden sponsored Uigher separatists
from the northwestern Xinjiang province, according to Chinese state
media.
The official China Central Television station reported hundreds of
activists had campaigned for an independent East Turkestan state in
the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and were trained by members
of al Qaida -- alleged to be bin Laden's network of operatives --
in camps in northern Afghanistan.
Many Uighurs, the Turkic-speaking, Muslim native people of the region,
want to break away from predominantly Han ...