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Article: Threats linked to Muslim group
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2008
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BEIJING -- An obscure militant group that threatened attacks on
the Olympic Games last week is the same group that Chinese officials
have labeled the leading terrorist organization involved in a
separatist movement in western China, according to an American
organization that tracks terrorist Internet postings.
The obscure group, the Turkestan Islamic Party, released a video
on Wednesday showing a burning Olympic logo and warning Muslims not
to go to the Games and to keep their children from attending. The
warning was presumably intended to save any Muslims from violence
that the group had planned to disrupt the Games.
The Turkestan Islamic Party is the same group as the East
Turkestan ...
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