Olympics kidnap plot uncovered

[TerryTate]

CHINA says it has uncovered a criminal ring planning to kidnap athletes and others at the Beijing Olympic Games.
The Chinese Ministry's of Public Security spokesman Wu Heping told a news conference today that the ring was based in the restive western Xinjiang region.
The ring was one of two broken up by Chinese authorities.
Wu said 35 people were arrested between March 26 and April 6 for plotting to kidnap athletes, foreign journalists and other visitors to the August Olympics.
“We face a real terrorist threat,” Wu said.
He said police had confiscated almost 10 kilos of explosives and eight sticks of dynamite and “jihadist" literature in the latest raids in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang.
Wu also also said those arrested had been manufacturing explosives and were plotting to attack hotels, government offices and military targets in Shanghai, Beijing and other cities.
He said the gang had been acting on orders from a radical Islamic Xinjiang independence group, East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
Western embassies asked Beijing for more information after authorities said they had broken up an attempt to hijack a plane in western China last month but so far no evidence has been provided, diplomats have said.




http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1024920.ece


I dunno, but for some reason I have trouble believing that this is real. Seems like the ol Kansas City shuffle being used to misdirect the public attention away from the whole Tibet/Olympic Torch thing.

:wondering:

[JoeTT]

I dunno, but for some reason I have trouble believing that this is real. Seems like the ol Kansas City shuffle being used to misdirect the public attention away from the whole Tibet/Olympic Torch thing.

:wondering:

Sounds like a great way of taking attention away from the protests. Making them look like "heros".

[baz]

But surely if this wasent for real and China did release this item, woulden't that have the opposite effect like making people NOT want to go to China for fear of murder/ death/ mayhem.

And please dont take to much notice of what you read in the SUN paper, over here a lot tend to "Measure the person" when they buy the SUN paper...."OH dont take any notice of them they read the SUN". Even i had to stop reading the SUN.....now thats really saying something.

[NotAPHD]

Well, 'heroic' China lasted long, didn't it?

Tried that tack, decided they didn't like the taste of chivalry and have now gone back to their old ways...today saying that any Olympic athlete with even so much as a smidgen of a Tibetan flag will be booted out of the games. They can't even display a little Tibetan flag sticker on their athletes village dorm windows.

Me, I'm going to love seeing a huge long line of athletes queuing OUTSIDE the stadium clapped in irons while one solitary Russian shotputter plays to an audience of 100,000 inside, winning the only event to take place.

Oh the hilarity.

[TerryTate]

But surely if this wasent for real and China did release this item, woulden't that have the opposite effect like making people NOT want to go to China for fear of murder/ death/ mayhem.

And please dont take to much notice of what you read in the SUN paper, over here a lot tend to "Measure the person" when they buy the SUN paper...."OH dont take any notice of them they read the SUN". Even i had to stop reading the SUN.....now thats really saying something.

Well, that was kinda my thought Baz. If I wanted to release a BS story (false) to cover my rear end I would release it in the most unreputable paper I could find. Then you get the best of both worlds. You can deny that its true and have people believe it at the same time. Its complete deniability for China. All they have to do is say, we aren't lying, look at your source, its the source that is lying, all the while it goes out to the masses.

There may be Al Qaeda in China, but this story just doesn't ring true with me.

:no2:

I could always be wrong though.

:rolleye03

[baz]

Newpapers are really a weird thing in as much as they want you to buy/read and perhaps learn from them, but could care less if whats in them is totally true or not, much has been made of Heather Mills and Paul of late, i happened to be around when Mills was on the TV breakfast show a couple of days ago, so i watched her, she was in America. I could care less about them, he should know better, he aint a fool if he can make this kind of money, some would say she's evil.....but who opened the door to evil.

Anyway, i thought for all that she came over okay, didnt say anything bad about Paul, spoke about the water bit, and it made sense why she did it, in my book. The Daily Mail today, Saturday, has painted a different picture, not so much as outright lies, because the writers are being very clever with their words, but with no doubt doing a good job on Mills again and again putting the "evil cow" back in readers minds.

Weird these papers.

[TerryTate]

Newpapers are really a weird thing in as much as they want you to buy/read and perhaps learn from them, but could care less if whats in them is totally true or not, much has been made of Heather Mills and Paul of late, i happened to be around when Mills was on the TV breakfast show a couple of days ago, so i watched her, she was in America. I could care less about them, he should know better, he aint a fool if he can make this kind of money, some would say she's evil.....but who opened the door to evil.

Anyway, i thought for all that she came over okay, didnt say anything bad about Paul, spoke about the water bit, and it made sense why she did it, in my book. The Daily Mail today, Saturday, has painted a different picture, not so much as outright lies, because the writers are being very clever with their words, but with no doubt doing a good job on Mills again and again putting the "evil cow" back in readers minds.

Weird these papers.

Well, Baz, as the saying goes...

Don't believe everything you read and only half of what you see.

Most papers motives become fairly clear after you read them enough. Same mantra gets repeated again and again.

[NotAPHD]

I don't always believe half of what I read and see because it could be old footage or footage of another event being used to promote some agenda here and there. But I do think this may be a half-cooked attempt by the Chinese to look decent, and, it is perfectly plausible that using the Sun - a bumrag of a newspaper but sadly one of the few that genuinely supports the troops and appreciates their efforts where others ignore them - as a vehicle.

At least the Chinese will have an unbroken four hour reel of footage to show in China of Buenos Aires, where little trouble has taken place as of the time of writing. They must be orgasmic (oops, maybe not in China!) to have something to show the people at long last. That opening ceremony dance by the Olympic ladies must have been looking suspiciously samey played everyday on China state TV as an example of the Torch's 'progress' around the globe.

I wonder if they'll celebrate by eating a few more pet dogs.

[baz]

I don't always believe half of what I read and see because it could be old footage or footage of another event being used to promote some agenda here and there. But I do think this may be a half-cooked attempt by the Chinese to look decent, and, it is perfectly plausible that using the Sun - a bumrag of a newspaper but sadly one of the few that genuinely supports the troops and appreciates their efforts where others ignore them - as a vehicle.

At least the Chinese will have an unbroken four hour reel of footage to show in China of Buenos Aires, where little trouble has taken place as of the time of writing. They must be orgasmic (oops, maybe not in China!) to have something to show the people at long last. That opening ceremony dance by the Olympic ladies must have been looking suspiciously samey played everyday on China state TV as an example of the Torch's 'progress' around the globe.

[B]I wonder if they'll celebrate by eating a few more pet dogs.

If you do a slow cook over the barbi, rub some herbs in, sprinkle on salt and pepper........you wouldent know its a pet.

[NotAPHD]

If you do a slow cook over the barbi, rub some herbs in, sprinkle on salt and pepper........you wouldent know its a pet.

You do when you start chewing through the dog collar of your 'crispy duck'.

[baz]

You do when you start chewing through the dog collar of your 'crispy duck'.


Oh, this is great...well done....:yes: :yes:

[TerryTate]

You do when you start chewing through the dog collar of your 'crispy duck'.

:lmao:

Tastes like chicken...