Suspected militants arrested in western China earlier this year were planning attacks on the Beijing Olympics, Chinese authorities announced today (read more here).
"Officials now say their aim was to attack the August Olympics."
In addition, "officials also revealed that a plane crew prevented an apparent attempt to crash a jet on an internal flight".
"The boss of the Communist Party in Xianjing, Wang Lequan" said "those terrorists, saboteurs and secessionists are to be battered resolutely, no matter what ethnic group they are from".
Thus we are led to believe both incidents were probably related to Uighur secessionists who have campaigned for the mainly Muslim province to become an independent republic.
Terrorists, Chinese-style.
But more to the point, the course of action was very Chinese in style too:
"Two people were reported to have been killed and 15 arrested in a raid on 27 January in Urumqi, Xinjiang province".
I'm going to Beijing in the Summer.
Let's keep those old traditions alive, shall we? At least until the end of the Summer.
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