Comments on: Turkestan Islamic Party Video Update

By: The New Dominion » Another Video from Turkestan Islamic Party: A Universal Call to the Muslims of the World

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:14:39 +0000

[...] of the world, this one has slipped under the radar and has not received as much attention as the last video. As such, we have no convenient intelligence agency with summary translations, and so, unless an [...]

By: SpunkiSpoodle

SpunkiSpoodle — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:15:30 +0000

Does anyone have this video cached?

It is now gone from YouTube.

By: Porfiriy

Porfiriy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:32:35 +0000

What’s taking so long? Well, there’s absolutely no context to the video, so there are hardly any analysis to be made, except for Runninglate’s thoughtful suggestion to take a listen to the accent, which we’ll try to do when we can contact someone who has the ear for that. Other than that, what is there to do? Some shady never-before-heard-of intelligence company has a monopoly on the secret of the video’s origins. The most relevant parts have been translated. Big news agencies are blowing it up as a credible threat without any basis, and some blogs in the backwoods are suggesting it’s a PRC conspiracy, which has no basis – there’s no basis for any sort of conclusion, really, because the video appeared in a vacuum. The only thing we can be certain of is that the video was meant to agitate, which is what we concluded in the last post and is exactly what the video is doing. Until more information is released about the video itself (as opposed to the content) there’s nothing solid to be said. So the ball’s in “IntelCenter’s” field, but I think they enjoy the spotlight they’re getting by being the sole authority on a video whose details they are deliberately keeping on the DL.

We’ll look into Seyfullah’s accent.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:29:47 +0000

An-al-y-sis! An-al-y-sis! What’s taking so long?

By: Spelunker

Spelunker — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:33:12 +0000

The English translation that I saw at Global Voices Online has Seyfullah saying he will be “focusing on eight cities that are going to hold Olympic games”

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/26/china-unheard-of-turkestan-islamic-party-claims-recent-bombings

However I have pointed out that there are only 7 cities hosting the Olympics and Kunming is not one of them. This error and other reasons lead to my conclusion that the amateur video (and the alleged T.I.P.) has nothing to do with the bus explosions in Kunming.

By: Runninglate

Runninglate — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:04:06 +0000

In your analysis of the speech, can you by the speaker’s accent which part of Xinjiang he may be from?

By: So China has Islamic Terrorists Now? « One-Eyed Panda’s Journal

So China has Islamic Terrorists Now? « One-Eyed Panda’s Journal — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:02:11 +0000

[...] The New Dominion is reporting that the video is in Uyghur not Arabic (see the comment below). Their site is also saying the video has been reported by Xinhua and AFP. Possibly related posts: [...]