Large groups of police armed with semi-automatic weapons and batons were deployed close to the scene of yesterday’s violence, where authorities said police shot and killed two Uygur lawbreakers and wounded another.

Meanwhile, an Algeria-based al-Qaeda affiliate was calling for reprisals against Chinese workers in northern Africa, according to an intelligence report by a London-based risk analysis firm.
It is the first time Osama bin Laden’s network has directly threatened China or its interests, it noted.

Foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said China would take all precautions to protect its overseas interests, while not commenting directly on the alleged al-Qaeda threat.

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Uighur Muslims said they had been directed to pray at home, as armed forces saturated the streets of the northwest Xinjiang region’s capital five days after clashes that authorities said left 156 people dead.

“The government said there would be no Friday prayers,” said a Uighur man named Tursun outside the Hantagri mosque, one of the oldest in the capital, as about 100 policemen carrying machine guns and batons stood guard nearby.

“There’s nothing we can do… the government is afraid that people will use religion to support the three forces.”

The “three forces”‘ is a Chinese government term referring to extremism, separatism and terrorism, forces it says are trying to split the remote Xinjiang region from the rest of the country.

Xinjiang’s eight million Uighurs have long complained about religious, political and economic repression under Chinese rule, and this deep-set anger spilled out on Sunday in protests that quickly turned violent.

The Chinese government said 156 people were killed and more than 1,000 others were injured, as Uighur Muslims attacked people from China’s dominant Han ethnic group.

But Uighur exiles have said security forces over-reacted to peaceful protests. They said up to 800 people may have died in the unrest.

Many security forces remained in place today, and the traditional Muslim day of prayer passed with many Uighurs and other Muslims such as from the Hui ethnic group unable to attend mosques. “Go home to pray,” said handwritten notices on the front gates of five shuttered mosques visited yesterday.

When asked if all mosques in Urumqi were closed today, a spokesman for the Xinjiang regional government said that “all religious activities should go on normally,” without elaborating.

These same atheistic Chinese communists also inprision and kill off Chinese Christians.

What the Chinese Gov is doing is just putting more fuel on the fire of the Uighurs mujahedeen and thier desire for a seperate Gov from thier communistic overlords.

I dont know about you all but Im gonna keep tabs on these Uighurs folks and see what happens… More than likely the Chinese Gov will get what they desirve…

For more info on the Uighurs: See here:

http://www.hrw.org/en/node/11799/section/1

Also chech out this Eval for:

Evaluating the Uighur Threat
By Thomas JoscelynOctober 9, 2008 1:09 AM

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/10/evaluating_the_uighu.php