re: Report: al-Qaida Had Malaysian Cell Plotting Airline Hijacking

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Except that al-Qaeda's been working to help the Uighurs for a while.


Link please? Whenever Osama bib Laden would issue his manifestos stating Al Qaeda's list of grievances, I don't ever recall him mentioning China and the Uyghurs.

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October, 2009. Abu Yahya al-Libi (you know, the guy in whose name the Benghazi attack may well have been carried out).




"China: Al-Qaeda urges holy war to defend Muslims

Rome, 7 October (AKI) - 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."

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