New attacks in Xinjiang go unclaimed:

“Fresh violence in China’s restive north-west region of Xinjiang has left two police dead and seven injured, officials have said.

There were three fatal attacks on police and government targets just before and during the Olympics - including the worst militant attack in a decade.

Officials gave few details of yesterday’s incident in Jiashi county, 60 miles east of Kashgar. An Uighur exile group said gunfire was heard.

A public security official told the Associated Press news agency that eight Uighurs were involved but only one had been captured.

A hospital in Kashgar said it was treating seven officers, including one with stab wounds, while a Communist party official in Jiashi county said two police had died.”

Comments on fake minorities at the Olympics and the use of women in Xinjiang bombings:

“First off, as some of you may have read, it’s been revealed that many of the 56 ‘minority’ representatives who ran across the pitch during the opening ceremony were actually Han Chinese children wearing costumes. It’s a common trick during your average CCTV televised spectacular, but someone should’ve spent an extra buck or two to acquire some real minority kids for the Olympics. …

And now to the aftermath of the three attacks in Xinjiang over the last two weeks. It’s not exactly as if authorities have been soft on East Turkestan separatists in the past, but in case anyone was wondering, a big crackdown is coming once the Olympics are over and all the journalists have gone home…”

Bombings in Xinjiang draw the world’s attention to China’s ethnic divisions:

“KUQA, China - Donkeys pulled melon-laden carts through the streets and women sold bowls of yogurt Monday in the market of this mostly Muslim city in a remote corner of China, the day after militant bombings left a dozen people dead.

But underneath the apparent return to normal life hides a seething anger among the region’s ethnic Uighurs toward Chinese immigrants, whom many here see as symbols of the government’s oppression, residents and experts say.

With two audacious attacks in a week and the appearance online of videos threatening the Beijing Olympics, Uighur extremists in Xinjiang may be trying to use the games as a way to force themselves out of obscurity into the world’s view.

Few people overseas know much about the Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs). Most of the world’s attention goes to China’s other major restless minority group, the Tibetans. Their cause is championed by a charismatic, media-savvy religious leader, the Dalai Lama, and Hollywood stars like Richard Gere…”

“With this much Western media in Beijing… some media sources who release negative news are dissidents, but they have not been brought under control.”

China does its dirty work under the guise of anti-terrorism. Nicholas Kristof travels to Kashgar, Xinjiang and finds the West partly to blame.

A US DOJ report reveals that Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay were sleep deprived for the benefit of Chinese interrogators, either by US soldiers or by the Chinese themselves.