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Terrorist Group Threatens Olympics
Power Line — This is the narrative that accompanies the following video on LiveLeak : In this video, a previously little known group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party claims it carried out several fatal bombings in the country in recent months. The group's self-described military commander, Seyfullah, said it was responsible for incidents in Shanghai in early May and in the southern city of Kunming on July 21 that killed a total of five people. He also said the group had bombed a plastics factory in the province of Guangdong. Most ominously, he threatened to carry out further attacks during the Beijing Olympics, which are ...

New Video from Extremist Group Shows Explosion over Olympic Venue
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room — New Video from Extremist Group Shows Explosion over Olympic Venue An extremist group that calls itself the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) has posted a video online that shows a burning Olympic flag and an explosion over a Beijing venue for the games. The video was reported Thursday by IntelCenter, an organization that monitors extremist websites. IntelCenter says the video was dated August 1, and follows a similar TIP posting from July 23. Experts say that TIP is an offshoot of a secessionist group from China's Central Asian frontier with ties to al Qaeda. - Katie Stapleton-Paff