The Portrait of a Violent and Explosive "Olympic Host" -- China links
bombings in west to Olympics /IHT

International Herald Tribune

China links bombings in west to Olympics

By Jim Yardley
Sunday, August 10, 2008

BEIJING: The violence in the Western Chinese region of Xinjiang spiked
sharply Sunday morning with the deaths of at least seven suspects after
a daring series of bomb attacks that began with a predawn assault on a
police station, the state news media reported.

The attacks, coinciding with the first weekend of the Beijing Olympics,
happened less than a week after what the Chinese authorities had
previously described as China's worst terrorist attack in recent memory,
in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar. Sixteen paramilitary officers were
killed last Monday during their morning exercises, the authorities said,
after two Uighur Muslims rammed into them with a truck and assaulted
them with explosives and knives.