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Video threatening Olympics is posted online
A U.S. group that monitors extremist Web sites says that a Chinese Islamic group has posted a new video that shows a burning Olympics logo and an explosion over a venue for the Beijing Games.
The video, reported today by the IntelCenter, follows the posting of a similar video dated July 23. Both are attributed to the Turkistan Islamic Party, which experts say is an offshoot of a secessionist group from China’s Central Asian frontier with ties to al-Qaida.
IntelCenter said the latest video was dated Aug. 1 and features “graphics showing a burning Olympics logo and an explosion imposed over one of the venues.”
Comments on the video were in the language of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in western China with a long history of tense relations with the central government. No translation was immediately available.
— Associated Press
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By Matthew O'Ryan
August 7, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
You can see the video on the front page at Sky News. Everyone should have a laugh at their low-budget explosion effect and then pity their souls once they are hunted down by the mighty PRC.
By Matthew O'Ryan
August 7, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this
Here is a better link to the whole video (via Drudge). The bad special effects are even worse than I first thought with the “explosion” sounding more like a toy gun.