Terrorism

After praising all along the Uighur activists fighting Chinese rule in Xinjiang as peace lovers for a just cause, now at least two Western countries, Norway and Germany, discovered that some Uighur militants that China had been trying to crackdown were friends of Al Qaeda bent on attacking not only China but also the West. Police arrested three members of the Turkestan Islamic Party in Norway and Germany who were accused of orchestrating a terrorist bomb plot.