China: Terrorists targeted Olympics - Yahoo! News
BEIJING - Police captured and killed alleged terrorists plotting attacks targeting this year's Beijing Olympics, a Chinese official said Sunday.
Wang Lequan, the top Communist Party official in the western region of Xinjiang, said materials seized in a Jan. 27 raid in the regional capital, Urumqi, had stated the plot's purpose as "specifically to sabotage the staging of the Beijing Olympics."
"Their goal was very clear," Wang told reporters in Beijing.
Wang mentioned the raid during a meeting on the sidelines of the parliament's annual session but provided few specifics.
China has been fighting a simmering insurgency amongst Muslim separatists from the Xinjiang region's Uighur population.
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