Article: CHINA SAYS BIN LADEN LINKED TO SEPARATISTS

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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 ...

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