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Article: China Group Asserts That It Bombed Buses; Officials Play Down Claims on Video, Which Includes Threats to Olympics
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- The Washington Post
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- July 27, 2008
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A group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party has released a
video asserting responsibility for deadly bus bombings last week in
China's western Yunnan province and other recent incidents, and
threatening attacks during the Olympic Games.
The Chinese government, which has warned that terrorism is the
biggest threat to the Olympics and has mounted a massive security
effort, played down the group's claims, some of which were
inconsistent with details of the incidents.
Police officials in Yunnan and in Shanghai, where a bus explosion
in May killed three people, said there was no evidence the two
attacks were connected to terrorists, state media reported.
In the video, a man identified as ...