MSNBC
updated 1:53 p.m. ET March 13, 2008
BEIJING - An attempt to crash a domestic flight last week was an act of organized terrorism, China`s state media said Thursday, adding to signs of new volatility in the country`s restless western regions ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
The Global Times newspaper said a 19-year-old woman from western China`s Turkic Muslim Uighur minority had been seized after trying to set a fire in a bathroom aboard the China Southern Boeing 757 on March 7.
Authorities said the plotters were allied with a radical Islamic Xinjiang independence group, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, and homemade bombs and guns were found alongside jihadist literature. East Turkestan is another name for Xinjiang. |
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