China rejects group's attack claim.7/26/2008 6:43:36 PM Chinese authorities have rejected a claim by the Turkistan Islamic Party An Islamic party is a party that works for promoting Islam while an Islamic political party is a political party that promotes Islam as a political movement by offering nominees for election in a democracy - of which there are several in the Islamic world. (TIP) that it was responsible for a series of bombings ahead of the Beijing Olympics.The group released a video threatening the Games and claiming responsibility for deadly bus blasts in Shanghai and Kunming, capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, on July 21. However, police authorities in Shanghai and in Yunnan, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces on Saturday dismissed the claims. "The Shanghai blast was caused by inflammables such as oil," Cheng Jiulong, the Shanghai municipal deputy head, said. "The blast was indeed deliberate but had nothing to do with terrorist attacks."A Yunnan provincial department of public security spokesman, said: "We have noticed media reports about the claims, but so far, no evidence has been found to indicate the explosions were connected with terrorists and their attacks, or with the Beijing Olympics." Video threat IntelCenter, a US-based terrorism monitoring firm, said TIP had released a video entitled "Our Blessed Jihad jihad: see Islam. jihad In Islam, the central doctrine that calls on believers to combat the enemies of their religion. According to the Qur'an and the Hadith, jihad is a duty that may be fulfilled in four ways: by the heart, the tongue, the hand, in Yunnan", featuring a statement by commander Seyfullah, the group's purported leader, threatening next month's Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. . "Despite the Turkistan Islamic Party's repeated warnings to China and the international community about stopping the 29th Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese have haughtily haugh·ty adj. haugh·ti·er, haugh·ti·est Scornfully and condescendingly proud. See Synonyms at proud. [From Middle English haut, from Old French haut, halt ignored our warnings," IntelCenter quoted Seyfullah as saying. The Islamic group Noun 1. Islamic Group - a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia warned there would be more attacks on the Beijing Games. "Our aim is to target the most critical points related to the Olympics. We will try to attack Chinese central cities severely using the tactics that have never been employed," Seyfullah said, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the IntelCenter transcript. Shanghai police said on Thursday they had broken up an international terrorist group that had planned to attack an Olympic football preliminary match in the city, but gave no details about the group or the alleged attack. Chinese officials have said their main Games security worries focus on separatist sep·a·ra·tist n. 1. One who secedes or advocates separation, especially from an established church; a sectarian or separationist. 2. fighters seeking an independent Uighur homeland in the country's far west Xinjiang region and campaigners for an independent Tibet. Turkistan is another name for the region the Chinese call Xinjiang. Its population comprises largely of Muslim Uighurs, who have a Turkic language and culture. A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] Aljazeera.net 2003 - 2008
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