DAR AL HARB / ISLAM - CHINA: TO THINK, THE CHINESE ARE GOING TO BE TERRORIZED

Official: China Terror Group Has Links to Al Qaeda, Taliban

BEIJING — Lawmakers from China's restive western Muslim region said Friday that 18 suspects killed in a raid on an alleged terror camp in January had links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Shi Dagang, a lawmaker from the Xinjiang region, also confirmed that 18 people from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM, died in the raid and 17 others were arrested.

"They had close connections to Al Qaeda," Shi said at a news conference during China's annual legislative session.

"There terrorists were trained by the Taliban in Afghanistan and sent to China by them," Shi said, adding that more than 1,500 semi-assembled grenades were seized in the raid east of China's border with Kyrgyzstan.

"They were trained overseas and sent to China by overseas terror organizations to engage in disruptive activities," Shi said, without giving specific details about the alleged links or what their goal had been.

China has said before that ETIM has links to Al Qaeda, and labels the group a terrorist organization, as does the United States.

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