China: Al-Qaeda urges holy war to defend Muslims

Boy is this ever good news.  Al-Qaeda is calling for a Jihad against China to defend Uighurs in the Xinjiang region.  This should be a bloody affair since China is not known for gentile responses to challenges to its authority, and Al-Qaeda is not known for its peaceful ways.

It's a case of two totalitarian forces meeting in a struggle for dominance.  The more China and Islam are at each other's throats, the better for the West.

FROM ADNKRONOS.COM:

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.

"This massacre is not being carried out by criminal Crusaders or evil Jews who have committed crimes against our nation," al-Libi stated.

"Today, a new massacre is being carried out by Buddhist nationalists and communists against the Muslim population in eastern Turkestan," said al-Libi.
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China discovers al Qaeda in its backyard

Even China has an islamic problem.

FROM POLITICAL MAVINS.COM

China discovers al Qaeda in its backyard
By Walid Phares (bio)

In a video accusing China’s Communist Government of “mistreating Muslims” a Jihadi group threatened to attack the Summer Games in Beijin. A spokesman of the Turkistan Islamic Party accuses China of “forcing Muslims into atheism and destroying Islamic schools. The “Turkistan Islamic Party” is most likely based across the border in Pakistan, where sources affirm it received training from Al Qaeda.

Weeks ago the organization claimed responsibility for a bombings across the country. The latest video shows graphics of a burning Olympics logo and explosions. This week, attackers killed 16 police and wounded more than a dozen in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar using homemade bombs.
But according to AP reports few months ago, Chinese Police broke up a terror plot targeting the Beijing Olympics while a flight crew foiled attempt to crash a Chinese plane. Per Communist Party officials in the North Western province of Xinjiang, materials seized in a January 27 raid in the regional capital, Urumqi, suggested the plotters’ planned “specifically to sabotage the staging of the Beijing Olympics.” Earlier reports said police found guns, homemade bombs, training materials and “extremist religious ideological materials” during the January raid in Urumqi, in which two members of the gang were killed and 15 arrested. The immediate question becomes: Is China targeted by a Terror organization? And since the material found was characterized as “extremist religious ideological”, does that mean it is al Qaeda or one of its affiliate? The answer to these questions could change the face of geopolitics in Asia.

Interestingly the Associated Press runs to frame the Terrorists to a local ethnic conflict in one of China’s Western provinces. AP wrote: “Chinese forces have for years been battling a low-intensity separatist movement among Xinjiang’s Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim people who are culturally and ethnically distinct from China’s Han majority.” The news agency has tried to set the agenda of the debate by scoring three points for the “radicals.” They are separatists, they are representative of a local ethnicity and they are Muslim. In addition the description of the struggle is informative: Chinese forces versus a Uighur movement. In a way a parallel to Kosovo, Chechnya and Kashmir with two projected effects. As framed by AP, the struggle of these “Terrorists” is indeed legitimate even though the means are violent. But is it the case?

Tibetan takes Olympic flame to Everest top

No irony here. "A Tibetan woman took the Olympic torch the last steps to the top of Everest on Thursday, realising “a dream of all Chinese people."

I'll bet they took the "back way" up from the Chinese side rather than from the Tibetan side..

FROM DAWN.COM:

Tibetan takes Olympic flame to Everest top

EVEREST BASE CAMP, May 8: A Tibetan woman took the Olympic torch the last steps to the top of Everest on Thursday, realising “a dream of all Chinese people”.

“Long live Tibet!” and “Long live Beijing!”, the climbers, all wearing red, shouted joyously into a TV camera after unfurling the Chinese national flag, the Olympic flag and a flag bearing the Beijing Olympic logo.

The ambitious project to take the torch to the Himalayan peak was cast as the highlight of the relay ahead of the Games, which start in exactly three months’ time.

“We have realised a promise to the world and a dream of all the Chinese people,” base camp commander Li Zhixin told reporters after being mobbed by jubilant friends and colleagues.

China has spent billions of dollars on staging the Olympics, eager to project the image of a modern and vibrant country. But protests during the international leg of the torch relay have bruised Chinese pride and provoked a surge of nationalist sentiment.—Reuters

China Sneaks Bombers Into Sudan

China continues to be the elephant in the room of global affairs. The Chinese have been making a concerted effort to open trade with many third world nations ever since Jimmy Cater gave away the Panama Canal. Now they are arming radical Islamic groups wherever they can find them.

FROM STRATEGYPAGE.COM:

China Sneaks Bombers Into Sudan
April 1, 2008: Satellite photos have revealed that Sudan now has Chinese made A-5 fighter-bombers. The A-5 is a twin engine Chinese design based on the 1950s era Russian MiG-19 fighter. The A-5 entered service in 1970, and about a thousand were built. Exports began in the 1980s, mainly to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and North Korea. The 11 ton aircraft is armed with two 23mm cannon and can carry a ton of bombs, missiles or rockets. With a max payload, the A-5 can hit targets 400 kilometers from its base.

Up until now, Sudan has been using transports for bombing missions (the bombs are rolled out of the rear cargo ramp of a Russian An-26, or the cargo door of an An-24). The only combat aircraft Sudan has was a bunch of decrepit MiG-21s. The Russians are supposed to be supplying modern MiG-29s, but none have been seen in service yet. The A-5s are low tech enough that a MiG-21 pilot could handle it, and kill civilians in Darfur more efficiently than with the current improvised transport bombers.

The Sudanese appear to have six or more A-5s, plus many MiG-21s that have apparently been abandoned (for lack of maintenance), leaving perhaps only half a dozen in working order. At least two A-5s were sold to Sudan several years ago, but have never been seen. The ones now visible via satellite appear to be newly arrived, despite Chinese claims that they are not selling such weapons to Sudan.

China Must Be Punished

China continues to wage relentless electronic attacks against the West and America in particular.
FROM STRATEGYPAGE.COM:

China Must Be Punished

March 7, 2008: The U.S. Department of Defense has come right out and said they believe a series of Internet based network attacks, on their computer networks last year, came from China. These attacks were quite specific, often directed at named individuals in the Department of Defense, and succeeded in stealing large quantities of secret material. The Department of Defense report also cited similar attacks on European defense and commercial organizations. In Britain, MI-5 (the domestic intelligence agency) sent warning to major corporations warning them of similar attacks and advising increased security of their data. The Department of Defense believes that China has the most powerful Cyber War capabilities on the planet. That means the Chinese can shut down just about any site they target, and penetrate most as well. Currently, Department of Defense computers are subjected to 70,000 Internet based attacks a day. Nearly all are repulsed, but only a few have to get through to do damage.

The Department of Defense is again asking for the authority to respond to these attacks. Not just with more robust defenses, but with offensive action. China insists that this is already going on, although they don't provide any details. It's believed that Chinese commercial and government networks, which tend to have weaker defenses than those in the West, are getting hammered by criminal hacking gangs.

The Department of Defense has been asking for permission to act more aggressively against these Cyber War attacks, but there is a reluctance to risk legal and diplomatic blowback from such operations. That is not to say that such permission will not be given, just that if it is granted, it will be a secret directive. Such an operation would eventually be revealed, but by then there might be some good news to offset the inevitable criticism.

The Weak Link

A China update from Strategypage.
FROM STRATAGYPAGE.COM:

The Weak Link
February 20, 2008: Taiwan averted a military catastrophe recently when it discovered that a new military communications system had been compromised by a Chinese spy, who had bought secret codes from an employee of the American supplier. Now the codes could be changed, but if the Chinese theft had not been discovered, China could have disrupted Taiwanese air-defense communications during an attack. At the same time, Taiwan finally overcame years of political bickering, and agreed to buy 12 U.S. P-3C maritime patrol aircraft, to replace 22 smaller, and aging S-2, aircraft.

Meanwhile, back in China, the booming economy has revealed a serious military weakness; the electricity supply. China has not been able to build power plants quickly enough to keep up with an economy that has been growing ten percent a year for several decades. The power production and distribution systems are ramshackle, prone to breakdowns and vulnerable to wartime attack. Knocking out a few plants and distribution facilities could cause widespread power outages and severe shortages. Since the Chinese military is very dependent on civilian infrastructure in wartime, these power disruptions would impair any military activities.

The government's efforts to battle corruption are hobbled by the lack of tools. The justice system does not favor independent investigation and prosecution of corrupt officials (who have a lot of power over the people and organizations that would investigate them.) Until China changes its justice system, attempts to root out corruption at the local level will be very difficult (as in "don't hold your breath waiting for it.")

China's Internet users are getting restless. There are increasing attacks on government websites by Chinese hackers annoyed at Chinese Internet censors. Moreover, about a quarter of all Chinese Internet users maintain blogs, and the government Internet police are having a hard time policing all these outspoken Internet users. The government still enjoys the loyalty of many hackers, and Australia became the latest Western country to openly complain of Internet based espionage from China. But the Chinese governments increasingly energetic attempts to control the flow of information on the Internet are encountering more and more resistance. It's liable to get even uglier this Summer, as China hosts the Summer Olympics, and plays hosts to thousands of foreign journalists. Chinese security police are compiling a list of international "troublemakers" (including journalists) who will either be barred from entering the country, or kept under close watch if they are let in.

In the United States, a Chinese spy ring was broken up, after nearly two decades of stealing classified data on the American Space Shuttle program. This appears to account for the many similarities between the U.S. and Chinese reusable space vehicle programs. But this works both ways. The new United States "spy sub", the USS Ohio (which carries commandos and over 150 cruise missiles) is visiting South Korea, and apparently planning a clandestine tour down the Chinese coast, to see how well prepared the Chinese are to deal with the kind of snooping this new type of American sub is capable of.

Foreign Spies Go Local

China continues to be one of the biggest threats to America and the West. AS it continues to grow internationally, it is willing to use any and all methods to dominate global affairs.
FROM STRATEGYPAGE.COM:
Foreign Spies Go Local
January 8, 2008: Military intelligence experts are pondering just what Chinese hackers want with the Pennsylvania State government. On January 4th, a hacker was discovered to have gotten onto the state government web site system. All state sites were shut down until the damage could be assessed and taken care of. Turned out the hacker, who was traced back to China, was trying to plant a virus. This was believed to be just another attempt to plant a hidden program that wound infect people using state government web sites. But four different state department sites were attacked. So it was either a massive attack, a coincidence, or something else.

Attacks on federal networks, traced back to China, and definitely out to steal data, have been suffered with increasing frequency over the last two years. For a major Cyber War
attack on the United States, state government would have to be hit, along with federal networks. But this would be the first case of state sites being hacked for this, if it was part of a Chinese Cyber War effort.

Chinese Thought Police Gone Wild

More on the Chicom attack on the West. I don't know how I did it, but LOCKANDLOAD is banned in China. Heh. A real badge of honor.
FROM STRATEGYPAGE.COM:
Chinese Thought Police Gone Wild
December 30, 2007: China's Cyber Warriors are not only going after Western industrial and military secrets, they are also shutting down Chinese dissidents who are operating from the West. Hundreds of Chinese language web sites and blogs are based in the West, where they can be reached by the 10-20 percent of Chinese users willing and able to use available tools that allow you to bypass the "Great Firewall of China." The government knows this is going on, because they see news, and ideas, from these offshore sights quickly showing up in China. The Chinese government does not like this, because the "illegal" news is often embarrassing to the government.

The Chinese are using two techniques to cripple these dissident efforts. First, there are hacker attacks to cripple operation of the sites, or monitor activity (and collect data on the activities and identities of dissidents using the site.) More recently, massive DDOS (distributed denial or service) attacks (this involves transmitting huge quantities of bogus messages) have been used to shut down targeted web sites.

No one else benefits from these attacks but the Chinese government, and such actions complement other anti-dissident operations (coercing Chinese citizens in U.S. colleges to join "student groups" that oppose dissident groups, sometimes using illegal methods.) There has also been direct attacks, like attacking dissident newspapers in the U.S., via pre-dawn break-ins. All this is reminiscent of the Soviet KGB, which, in pre-Internet days, terrorized, and sometimes murdered, anti-communist Russian exiles.

China's Asymmetrical Strategy

An in depth analysis of the Chinese threat to America.
FROM FRONTPAGEMAG.COM:
China's Asymmetrical Strategy
By Eric Sayers
The Weekly Standard | 12/28/2007
THE IMPRESSIVE CONVENTIONAL military strength post-industrial states have procured in the past half-century has helped to determine the shape and nature of modern warfare. In a geostrategic environment where conflict continues to persist between advanced militaries and their substandard adversaries--either rogue states or terror cells--the latter have been forced to develop asymmetric ways of challenging the superior with the inferior.
The extent of America's sweeping success during the Persian Gulf War had the unintended consequence of convincing would-be adversaries that they must reconstitute new strategies in order to compete with and challenge U.S. power. In essence, American military predominance had become so extensive that it has altered the face of the battlefield by forcing others to adapt--to prevent America from playing the game but its rules.
This is evident in both Iraq and Afghanistan where the U.S. continues its struggle to contain disconnected networks of al-Qaeda militants and Shia militias armed with AK-47s and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). As much as the United States had hoped it could defeat extremist elements using sophisticated weapons and other advanced technologies, the supposed superiority of network-centric warfare proved insufficient against Islamist tactics. Similarly, Venezuela and its despotic leader Hugo Chavez, who frequently warns of a pending invasion by the United States, has placed asymmetric warfare at the center of his countries national defense doctrine. Former Venezuelan General Alberto Mueller has argued in favor of the doctrine, "because conventional war is ceasing to exist."
Although it is terrorism--and in the case of Venezuela, "guerilla war"--that is so often discussed in the realm of asymmetric warfare, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has also embraced the precepts of this strategy to counter American superiority. As Robert Kaplan has explained, terrorists and their crude tactics fall on the low end of asymmetric strategy. For America, the even greater challenge will be those states like China that are able to confront the United States at the high-tech end of the unconventional sphere.
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The Lady And The Nuclear Dragon

Hill and Bill, the greatest traitors in American history.
FROM INVESTORSBUSINESSDAILY:
The Lady And The Nuclear Dragon
By INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 4:20 PM PT
National Security: Beijing is aggressively targeting the United States with nukes and deploying spies to steal our security secrets. What would Commander in Chief Hillary Clinton do?

IBD Series: To China With Love: The Clinton Legacy

If a new policy paper she's published in Foreign Affairs is any clue, she would simply follow the lead of her husband, who enabled the communist Chinese at every turn.
Like Bill, Hillary would pursue a hippie "denuclearization" policy that ends testing of nuclear weapons in our stockpile, while slashing the budget for developing defense systems to protect the U.S. from incoming enemy ICBMs.
She slams the Bush administration for, among other things, "focusing obsessively on expensive and unproven missile defense technology."
But there's good reason for that obsession. The Pentagon recently warned that China's long-range missile force has grown substantially in the past few years, and now includes a mobile, land-based ICBM that could reach anywhere in America.
"China has at least 10 varieties of ballistic missiles deployed or in development and is qualitatively improving some of its older systems with improved range, mobility and accuracy," the sobering report said, adding that they're "capable of targeting the continental United States."
It's no accident that China suddenly gained the capacity to launch pre-emptive nuclear strikes against us. It happened on President Clinton's watch, when he systematically dismantled security at Los Alamos and other defense labs as part of his naive "engagement policy" with Beijing.
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BANNED IN CHINA

I found this at "hillbillywhitetrash" who found it at "shootingmessengers"
and thought I'd check this out at "greatwallofchina.org".

Try your URL. Being banned in China made my day.


I'm proud to say that LOCKANDLOAD is banned in China. :):):)

A view into China's internal problems

FROM STRATEGYPAGE.COM:
The Enemy Inside
September 22, 2007: China's primary threat is not the United States, or any other foreign power, but internal disorder. There are more angry people in China every day, and the government knows that this could blossom into widespread uprisings. It's happened so many times before in Chinese history, and Chinese leaders are always looking over their shoulders at the past.

There are fewer tools available to deal with this, than there were a decade ago. The government has lost the most, but not all, control over the media because of cell phones and the Internet. Economic prosperity has been uneven, with the minority of Chinese living near the coast earning more than three times what the poor farmers in the interior make. The gap is growing. Because the government no longer tightly controls mass media, the 700 million Chinese of the less wealthy interior, are constantly reminded of their situation. Three million troops and security personnel may not be enough to deal with widespread unrest among this population.
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China's Damaged Goods

The real crock here is that all this could be avoided by just a little due diligence on the part of the companies using Chinese manufacturers. It's a pretty simple concept, called quality assurance, followed by most government defense and responsible companies. As a part of the contract, first the manufacturer must submit representative samples for testing and approval, then during manufacture, the purchasing company has its representative pull random samples of product for testing. Evidently, the US companies did nothing to assure the safety of the products being manufactured in China (or other third world countries). When this chicken comes home to roost, it's gonna shit in the US manufacturers nest.

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FROM NEWSMAX.COM:
China's Damaged Goods
Charles R. Smith
Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007
The China problem just got a bit bigger.
Chinese products entering the U.S. have come under fire and massive recalls due to poison. The products ranging from toys to toothpaste have been discovered to be toxic and dangerous.
Mattel, the largest U.S. maker of toys, has recalled over 18 million Chinese-made toys that contain magnets that can be swallowed by children or could be colored with lead paint.
The recalls includes 7.3 million play sets, Polly Pocket dolls, Batman action figures, and 253,000 Sarge brand cars, because the surface paint could contain lead.
Also recalled were 683,000 Barbie and Tanner play sets and 1 million Doggie Day Care play sets.
In addition to the new U.S. recall, which totals over 9 million toys, other Mattel toys sent around the world have also been recalled. An additional 183,000 Sarge brand cars from the Pixar movie "Cars" were recalled with 49,000 of the affected vehicles located in the UK and Ireland.
Other Mattel toys recalled contain small, powerful magnets that can come loose and are a potential swallowing hazard to young children. According to Mattel, if more than one magnet is swallowed, the magnets can attract each other and cause intestinal perforation or blockage, which can be fatal.
There had been 400 reports of magnets coming loose since Mattel recalled 2.4 million magnetic play sets in November 2006. According to the reports, at least three children required surgery after swallowing more than one magnet. The new recall comes within days of Mattel's Fisher-Price division worldwide recall of 1.5 million Chinese-made preschool toys featuring characters such as Dora the Explorer, Big Bird and Elmo. According to Mattel, 967,000 of those toys were sold in the United States between May and August.
Mattel officials maintained that a European retailer discovered the lead in some of the lead-covered Fisher-Price products in early July. On July 6, the company halted operations at the factory in China that produced the toys and launched an investigation.
Days after the Fisher-Price recall, Chinese officials temporarily banned the toys' manufacturer, Lee Der Industrial Co., from exporting products. According to Chinese official reports, Lee Der co-owner, Cheung Shu-hung, committed suicide at a warehouse apparently by hanging himself after the ban.
The cause of Cheung's suicide was reportedly due to the disgrace of the recall. However, no official statement has been made available and Cheung's company is under investigation.
In June, toy maker RC2 Corp. voluntarily recalled 1.5 million wooden railroad toys and set parts from its Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line. The company said that the surface paint on certain toys and parts made in China also contained lead.
The toy recall is compounded by another dangerous Chinese import — poison toothpaste. Indianapolis-based Gilchrist & Soames released a statement that it was recalling toothpaste made in China after discovering the product contained a chemical used to make automobile antifreeze. The toothpaste was distributed to hotels in more than a dozen countries. Independent tests showed some samples of the Chinese toothpaste contained diethylene glycol, a toxic chemical that could cause kidney and liver failure. The recall involves 0.65-ounce tubes of toothpaste made in China by Ming Fai Enterprises International Co. Ltd.
The toothpaste was distributed under the Gilchrist & Soames name to hotels in Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Turks & Caicos, the United Arab Emirates, Britain and the United States. Gilchrist & Soames officials would not release the names of hotels affected by the recall and could not say how many of the small tubes of toothpaste were involved.
The toothpaste recall comes after Chinese toothpaste products were pulled off the shelves around the U.S. and all over the globe. The FDA has put out a notice to consumers covering the exact brands that are tainted. In addition to the U.S., several Latin American nations, including Panama have banned or forced the removal of toothpaste containing dangerous chemicals.
The FDA has posted a list of toothpastes found to contain diethylene glycol at
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01646.html
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CHINESE ESPIONAGE

This is just one more assault on America. the Chinese Communists for decades have been waging economic war and espionage against the west. Lately they have been making cyber assaults on our defense industry and military. The Chinese are also noted for their teaming up with American software companies to block their citizens from a free exchange of ideas. So we are being assaulted and invaded by the Chinese from the west, the Hispanics from the south, the Islamists from the east and Canada is a hotbed for all the above.

Stolen Simulations
CHINESE ESPIONAGE
FROM STRATEGYPAGE.COM
August 11, 2007: A Chinese born man, Xiaodong Sheldon Meng pled guilty this week to stealing source code for American military flight simulators and selling it to China. The FBI and CIA have detected hundreds of such attempts to steal American military technology in the last eight years. That information led to over 400 formal investigations, and hundreds of arrests and prosecutions. Even with that, it appears that far more military technology is illegally making its way to China.
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