Monthly Archives July 2008

The Xinjiang Eclipse Approaches

There’ll be a total eclipse over eastern Xinjiang from 11:00 to 11:10, Universal Time, which is 7:00 PM to 7:10 PM Beijing time – switch PM to AM if you’re in the US Eastern Time [...]

Turkestan Islamic Party Video Update

Many thanks to commenter Kaiser for alerting us of the video’s presence on Youtube. The fellow here is indeed speaking Uyghur. We’re taking a close look at his words and we’ll post an update once [...]

Turkestan Islamic Party Leader Claims Responsibility for Numerous Bus Bombings and Attacks

An interesting turn of events just in from various news agencies: a certain Commander Seyfullah of the “Turkestan Islamic Party” has claimed credit in a video statement for the bus bombing/flash-fire that occured in Shanghai [...]

The Mystery of the Time Traveling Executions: Uyghur Terrorists Get Not-So-Summary Sentences?

Update: The mystery appears to be solved. My suspicions that the contradictions could be resolved by the possibility that RFA was simply wrong in its reporting turned out to be correct. The RFA article has [...]

Knife Wielding Mini-Terrorist Cell Busted in Urumqi

Hasan, why are you running at me with that 50 cm long Uyghur musical instrument? Originally, the details disclosed by various news agencies described police retaliation against some non-ideological hooliganism that occurred in Xinjiang – [...]

“Xinjiang People, I’m Sorry, Thank You”

I promised, a few posts down, another document that refers to “Xinjiang people”, not just Uyghur or Han or whatever. Recently, the following post, once found at this address, was passed on to me by [...]