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February 11, 2010 Special Dispatch No. 2801

In New Video, Uighur Jihadists Claim Attacks in China

February 11, 2010
, Pakistan, China | Special Dispatch No. 2801

The Islamic Party of Turkestan (IPT), an Uighur jihadist organization, released a video on February 10, 2010 in which it claimed to have carried out a number of attacks in China in 2009, in retribution for the events of July 2009 in Urumqi.

The IPT is currently based in Waziristan; the extent of its presence in Xinjiang and China proper is a matter of dispute. The video was produced by the IPT's media wing Islam Awazi, and was distributed by the Al-Fajr Media Center.

Following is the transcript of the video, which was released in the Uighur language, with translations into Arabic and Chinese: ...

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