Three Uighur men, Yusef Abbas, Saidullah Khalik, and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper, were transferred from Guantanamo to Slovakia; they are the last of the Uighur detainees. Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, 24, of Garden Grove, Calif., pled guilty on Dec. 27 to attempting to provide weapons training to al Qaeda forces while he was in Syria.
Police in the restive Xinjiang region fatally shot eight people during an alleged terrorist attack near the southern city of Kashgar. Police recently shot and killed 16 members of an extended Uighur family, including six women, in Saybagh near Kashgar; two policemen also were killed in the clash.
The Turkestan Islamic Party released a message claiming that the Oct. 28 car crash in Tiananmen Square was a “jihadi operation.” In the message, TIP leader Abdullah Mansour warned of further Uighur attacks on Chinese targets, including the Great Hall of the People.
Authorities shot and killed nine people who attacked a police station in Serikbuya township in the western province of Xinjiang; two police officers were also killed. The attackers were young Uighurs armed with knives and axes; onlookers asked in vain for leniency for the attackers. One of the slain policemen also was a Uighur.
Authorities announced the arrest of five Uighurs, described as Islamic jihadists, suspected of involvement in yesterday’s car crash in Tiananmen Square that killed five people and wounded 38 more. Rebiya Kadeer, president of the Munich-based World Uighur Congress, called for an independent investigation into the incident.
Authorities suspect that three persons who crashed an SUV into Tiananmen Square in Beijing yesterday, killing five people and injuring 38 more, were suicide attackers from the restive western region of Xinjiang. Police are looking for eight persons, seven of whom are believed to be Uighurs, and named two likely suspects from Pishan and Shanshan […]
The five permanent Security Council members reached on agreement on Syria’s chemical weapons that would be enforceable by Chapter VII measures, including military force; the compromise agreement provides that the decision to use military force would be subject to Security Council debate. Secretary of State Kerry held talks with his Iranian counterpart. Officials said two […]
A court in the northwestern region of Xinjiang sentenced four Uighur men for a terrorist attack on June 26 that left 24 police and civilians dead as well as 13 militants. Alleged ringleader Ahmatniyaz Sidiq was sentenced to death, along with Urayim Eli and Abdulla Esrapil. The fourth man, Akram Usman, was sentenced to 25 […]
A court in Xinjiang sentenced five Uighur men for a “terror attack” in the city of Kashgar in April that killed 15 people. The defendants, who received sentences ranging from nine years to life in prison, were accused of printing extremist literature as well as attacking and killing police officers and community workers.
Paramilitary troops commenced round-the-clock patrols in the restive western province of Xinjiang, where clashes between security forces and Islamist Uighurs have claimed the lives of at least 56 people in the past few months. Authorities have blamed recent violence on a 17-member militant Islamist cell formed in January by a man identified as Aihemaitiniyazi Sidike. […]
Armed rioters attacked police stations in China’s restive western Xinjiang province today. Clashes between rioters and police left at least 27 dead, and an atmosphere of martial law is being reported in Shanshan county.
In recently released propaganda, the al Qaeda-linked group claimed two suicide attacks in Afghanistan and identified several fighters who have been killed in the country since 2007.
In the video, the children, some of whom appear to be no older than six, are shown firing handguns, AK-47 assault rifles, and a PKM machine-gun.
Five Uighurs released from Guantanamo and resettled in Palau in 2009 want to move to a different country but authorities are having difficulty finding a country to receive them. A sixth Uighur ex-detainee, Adel Noori, left Palau last month and made it to Turkey.
An appeals court added a year to the prison sentence of Mikael Davud, a Norwegian Uighur who was convicted of links to al Qaeda and plotting a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper. The court reduced the sentence of accomplice Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak.
The Obama administration has released a list of 55 Guantanamo detainees who have been approved for transfer, but remain in custody. The Long War Journal finds that 34 of the 55 detainees listed were previously deemed “high risk(s)” by Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
Emeti Yakuf a.k.a. Abdul Shakoor Turkistani, who directs al Qaeda operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas, may have been killed in the Aug. 24 drone strike in the Shawal Valley that hit a training camp.
The Uighur from Guantanamo cooking pizza in Albania
Two Uighurs held at Guantanamo for over 10 years were released and resettled in El Salvador. Three Uighurs remain in detention. The US has refused China’s request to repatriate freed Uighur detainees to China, because they would face persecution there.
China names six Uighurs on terror list
In the first convictions under Norwegian antiterror law, Mikael Davud, a Chinese Uighur, and Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd, were found guilty of plotting with al Qaeda to attack a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. An accomplice, David Jakobsen, an Uzbek, is charged with helping to make a […]
An analysis asserts there are significant limits to the alliance which allow US policy makers more room to maneuver.
The Shura-e-Murakeba embraces all of the major Taliban groups in North and South Waziristan, including the Haqqani Network, the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, and groups led by Mullah Nazir and Hafiz Gul Bahadar.
Reports of Deadly Shootout in Xinjiang Region of China
Security forces arrested 10 Islamic Jihad Union operatives who were plotting to carry out attacks during the upcoming presidential election. Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Tajiks, and Uighurs are among those detained.
Authorities have released Davud Jakobsen, one of three men recently charged with terrorism-related offenses linked to al Qaeda and involving plots in Norway and Denmark. Jakobsen, a Uighur, began working as an informant in November 2009 but still faces trial.
The bombings targeted buildings housing the offices of the prime minister, the justice ministry, a newspaper, and a news agency, killing at least 7 people and wounding many more. In a related attack, a gunman shot at least 20 attendees at a political youth camp.
Security police sought charges against three men arrested last year for plotting terror attacks against targets in Scandinavia; they are thought to have links to al Qaeda. Mikael Davud, a Uighur, and Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd, both confessed to plotting attacks; the third suspect, David Jakobsen, an Uzbek, was released last year.
Abdul Shakoor Turkistani, the leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party, is also in control of the terror camps. He was given the job just weeks before Osama bin Laden was killed.
The Turkistan Islamic Party announced the death of Shaykh Qurban Ata in a February 2010 airstrike in Badghis province in Afghanistan. Ata was a Chinese Uighur who was 71 years old when he was killed.