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Al Qaeda enemy list officially includes Red China

Submitted by on October 7, 2009 – 7:56 pm2 Comments

xin_10207042311233902430019 According to an AKI wire story (via Hotair.com) circulated Wednesday, Al Qaeda is no longer satisfied focusing its jihadist chaos at the predominantly Judeo-Christian West. The newest target: the People’s Republic of China. From the AKI report:

A leading Al-Qaeda militant on Wednesday called on Muslims worldwide to defend Uighurs in China’s restive northwestern region of Xinjiang. He told Uighurs to prepare for a holy war or Jihad and urged a “vast media campaign” to raise awareness of their fate at the hands of “oppressive” China.

In the video posted to jihadist websites, Abu Yahya al-Libi appeared to launch a frontal assault against China.

[Al-Libi] accused China of using “satanic ways” to oppress Muslims in the province and replace them with other ethnicities while “looting their wealth and undermining their culture and religion.”

In truth, this could be a godsend for the White House during a period when their apparent lack of foreign policy and defense experience seems to be translating sadly into a staggering increased in American casualties abroad. Aside from the deaths in the combat zone of Afghanistan, the deaths of two special forces soldiers in the Philippines last week when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded near their Humvee, could be a sign that the terrorist community was beginning a campaign to test President Obama’s ability to act as wartime commander. With its deliberate provocation of communist China, al Qaeda invites a larger battle with an enemy that has a brutal track record of dealing with asymmetrical opponents like the battered global terrorist network, and may effectively lighten the load on the US and its allies in the war on terror.

There are, however, larger issues to consider. The Muslim separatist movement in western China has historically received support from sympathetic groups in Afghanistan, elements of which now call the Swat region of Pakistan home. This is the area of heaviest American military activity in Pakistan and the air raids by US-led coalition and CIA units have destabilized the existing Pakistani regime’s hold on power. Should al Qaeda begin staging and supporting domestic acts of terror inside China, and the Chinese begin to view Pakistan or Afghanistan as a legitimate venue for conducting military operations, the necessary cooperation between Pakistan and China would be, to say the least, alarming to the Indian national security apparatus.

What all of this should mean for US military planners and officials in the Obama administration is that the clock is ticking to stabilize Afghanistan.

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  • xin an says:

    we cannot wait for this day, it is a hollywar to defends our motherland against the enemy of our country, we all the son of the dragon ready to lay our life and blood to our motherland, to protect and defends her lands from her enemy and the traitors inside our motherland, we already defeated the strongest country on earth and will be happy to wiped out our enemy. if our muslim brothers and sisters willing to be the traitors for this country, we willnot hesitated to wage their anymosity to the most extends level and destroy them, and we will proof to you that our motherland have been exist even before your religion, let us see who is the last man standing, the blood of the chinese people will not spill for nothing, we will revenge and we are manier than you are.

  • John Allen says:

    There will be a carnage horror to the muslim in China if the Uyghur did those stupid things, the military and the already boiling dissatisfied Hans to the last riots in Xinjiang will take this chances to swept the muslim populations and wiped them out. last riots in Xinjiang already touched boiling point when the national symbols like waging the China’s flags and urging the peoples to defends their motherlands from the muslim perpetrators, (uyghurs is inhabitated Xinjiang before as immigrants from turkey area), China is different with the other nations when it come to the national honor, when the muslim shows the sign of separatism or unloyal to the country there will be a heavy crackdown and the air of patriotism of the Hans people will be a dangerous things to the Uyghurs and believe me, not a single country in the world even United States will be able to stop it when it really happened. To the chinese people there will be no option in term of defending the national sovereign and the honorof their motherland. the chinese goverment can stop the deadly revenge of the Hans to the muslim Uyghurs during the last riots, but it is a BIG question if they can do the same when the outrage of the Hans chinese is pointed to the Uyghurs muslim who try to wage a separatism war. the casualties of the Uyghur will be very masives, the Uyghurs should thinks not twice but TEN TIMES before heeded the advice of those stupid jihadist from Al-Qaeda.

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