Article: Threats linked to Muslim group

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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