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新疆恐怖攻擊 飯店外籍旅客遭留置數小時
法新社╱陳昶佑 2008-08-04 22:05
（法新社新疆烏魯木齊四日電）中國新疆疑似傳出恐怖攻擊，相當接近事發現場的外籍旅客回憶說，當時他們聽到兩聲巨響，接著警察湧入他們下榻的旅館，將他們留置了數個小時。
根據國營媒體報導，中國新疆絲路城鎮喀什當地傳出兩名疑似恐怖份子利用卡車與炸藥發動攻擊，造成十六名警員死亡；事發當時一群德國旅客就在喀什市一家飯店內睡覺。
喀什是回教徒居多的新疆地區主要城市，正與家人在當地度假的毛瑞爾說：「兩聲非常大聲的巨響，把我們吵醒。」
毛瑞爾在新疆省會烏魯木齊的機場告訴記者：「我們當時還在睡覺，但爆炸夠大聲，把我們吵醒。」毛瑞爾在新疆短暫停留，準備返回上海的住家。
毛瑞爾一家人當時投宿在喀什市塔西南邦臣酒店，距離據傳發生攻擊的現場僅隔一條街。
毛瑞爾說，他的家人待在一間看不到犯罪現場的房間內，其後四個小時都無法離開。
毛瑞爾說：「單在我們住宿的樓層，就有大概二十名警察，他們進來我們的房間，檢查我們的攝影機，看看是否拍到任何有關事件的照片。」
他說：「在我們房間內，大概有八人盤問我們，詢問我們看見什麼，是否有拍到任何照片。」
當時飯店內傳出謠言，指外頭發生某種事故，造成八人死亡和二十人受傷。
後來他們終於獲准離開，當時已接近中午，他們搭乘原先預定的班機前來烏魯木齊，而飯店外的街道上站滿警察，但整個區域看來已經清理過。
毛瑞爾的妻子莫妮卡說：「他們清理了整條街，街道上全濕了，有很多水，可辨別出來已經過清理，清除了血跡。」
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Sixteen police killed in China border attack
by Karl Malakunas
1 hour, 40 minutes ago
BEIJING (AFP) - China's Olympic run-up stuttered again Monday as 16 policemen were killed in a grenade attack in the nation's far northwest, while pollution returned to fill athletes' lungs in Beijing.
The attack in the Muslim-populated Xinjiang region raised the security temperature ahead of the Games, which begin on Friday, as authorities had repeatedly warned that militants there were planning to sabotage the Olympics.
It also follows deadly bomb blasts in the southwestern city of Kunming last month and in Shanghai in May, killing a total of five people, for which a Muslim militant group with ties to Xinjiang claimed responsibility.
The Chinese organisers of the Games said they were checking for any link between Monday's attack and the Olympics, but immediately sought to reassure the world about security arrangements for the event.
"We believe that we are prepared to deal with any kind of security threat and we are confident and capable of hosting a peaceful and safe Games," said Beijing Olympic organising committee spokesman Sun Weide.
Nevertheless, police in Hong Kong, the southern Chinese city hosting the Olympic equestrian events, said they would reassess security there to see if the attack had any implication for the competition.
According to the official version of the attack published in state-run media, two assailants in Xinjiang's famed Silk Road city of Kashgar killed 16 policemen and injured another 16.
The pair drove a truck at the police officers who were jogging near their barracks in the northwestern outskirts of the city, the Xinhua news agency said.
After the truck hit a roadside pole, the two got out and threw home-made explosives at the barracks, then moved in to hack at police officers with knives, Xinhua reported, adding that both attackers were arrested.
Kashgar is 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) from Beijing, close to the Tajikistan border.
Xinhua did not identify who the terrorists may be affiliated with, but China has previously said that Muslim groups seeking independence for Xinjiang and the creation of "East Turkestan" were a major security threat.
Xinjiang, a vast area that borders Central Asia, has about 8.3 million ethnic Muslim Uighurs , and many are unhappy with what they say has been decades of repressive Communist Chinese rule.
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which reportedly operates inside Xinjiang and in neighbouring Afghanistan, is listed by China, the United States and the United Nations as a terrorist organisation.
However exiled Uighur dissidents and some human rights groups say China's claims that the ETIM is a major threat were exaggerated.
Last month, a group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) claimed credit for the deadly bus blasts in Shanghai and Kunming. Some experts believe TIP is part of ETIM.
After raising the alarm about Olympic terrorist attacks, China denied the TIP carried out those attacks, but said nothing more as to who may be responsible.
Another problem facing China in the Olympics run-up has been Beijing's notorious pollution, which International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said last year could lead to some endurance events being postponed.
After relatively clear skies over the weekend led Chinese officials to trumpet the success of drastic anti-pollution measures, a familiar heavy smog permeated the city on Monday.
One million of the city's 3.3 million cars were taken off the roads from July 20, and more than 100 heavily polluting factories and building sites were closed down in efforts to clear the air ahead of the Games.
Chinese authorities have said they could take further measures if air quality remained poor, and officials were quoted in the state press on Monday as saying those emergency plans may kick in soon.
Nevertheless, when asked about the return of the clearly visible pollution, Olympic organising committee spokesman Sun insisted the quality of the air was good on Monday and that there would be no problem for athletes.
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