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Overlooking the holy war: Can’t anyone at the Ceeb spell J-I-H-A-D? To the purple Kool Aid-imbibing PoMo multishmulti types, the narrative is always about indigenous peoples rising up and throwing off the shackles of oppression, and hardly ever about Dar al Islamists trying to prevail over the kafir (my bolds):

Two men who carried out a deadly attack in northwestern China, killing 16 police officers just days before Beijing hosts the Summer Olympics, were carrying documents calling for a holy war, Chinese authorities said Tuesday.

Reuters reported an official in Xinjiang province as saying that 18 "foreign agitators" have been arrested following Monday's attack in Kashgar that also injured 16 other officers.

Police confirm the two men who killed the officers were Uyghurs, members of a significant Muslim minority in the northwestern province, CBC Radio's China correspondent Anthony Germain reported.

The minority group has waged a sporadically violent rebellion against Chinese rule.

Police also clarified that rather than attacking a police station, the two suspects targeted a group of about 70 police officers who were out jogging, Germain said.

Police said the two men used homemade explosives, rather than grenades as initially reported. One attacker's arms were blown off shortly after he lit a fuse.

After subduing the attackers, police found the religious documents, as well as a firearm and 10 more bombs, authorities said…

Religious “documents” found along with firearms and bombs, huh? What are the odds?

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