Chinese Police Blame Muslim Terrorist for Machete Deaths, Tourists Blame Chinese Police....

[McCamy Taylor]

Here is the story from the NYTs. In a nutshell, a guy in a truck is supposed to have sped into 70 jogging policeman, run over some of them, jumped out, his buddy who was carrying machetes, tossed him a couple of weapons and together the two of them killed 16 policemen altogether before they were arrested. Oh, and they set off a bomb. The motive. They were Muslim terrorists.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/world/asia/29kashgar.html

Just days before the Olympic Games began in August, a truck plowed into a large group of paramilitary officers jogging in western China, sending bodies flying, Chinese officials said at the time.

They described the event as a terrorist attack carried out by two ethnic Uighur separatists aimed at disrupting the Olympics. After running over the officers, the men also attacked them with machetes and homemade explosives, officials said. At least 16 officers were killed, they said, in what appeared to be the deadliest assault in China since the 1990s.

But fresh accounts told to The New York Times by three foreign tourists who happened to be in the area challenge central parts of the official Chinese version of the events of Aug. 4 in Kashgar, a former Silk Road post in the western desert. One tourist took 27 photographs.

Among other discrepancies, the witnesses said that they heard no loud explosions and that the men wielding the machetes appeared to be paramilitary officers who were attacking other uniformed men.

There is a video slide show you must see on this page. Police can be clearly seen carrying machetes, walking over the corpses of their fellow officers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/world/asia/29kashgar.html?pagewanted=2

When Chinese police realized that foreign tourists may have photographed the "terrorist" act, they locked down the hotel trying to find the film.

This story is sooo weird. Are the guys in police uniforms in disguise? Was this an internal police war in which one group of police murdered another group of police and tried to blame it on terrorists? Maybe the police showed up and picked up the machetes left behind by the real killers? I do not actually see a police officer kill another policeman in the photos. Did the government stage a mock terrorist act to justify a crack down on the region? Did they stage a mock terrorist act by Muslim extremists to help the John McCain campaign since China prefers a Republican administration which will not question them on human rights abuses? Did the three tourists make up a story to sell the photos to the NYTs?

[jwirr]

1. Machetes - that does not sound like a Arab weapon. Just saying.

[On the Road]

2. I Would Guess the Terrorists Were in Uniform

If it were staged, the police would be trying to publicize, not cover up.