Tiananmen Square Incident Planned Since September

Chinese state media are releasing more details about what they call a "terrorist attack" Monday in Tiananmen Square, while dozens of arrests were reported in a subsequent crackdown on a mainly Muslim ethnic group. Chinese Central Television says eight suspected Islamist separatists from the troubled northwest region of Xinjiang had been planning the attack since September and had accumulated more than $6,500 to help carry it out. The broadcaster says three of the suspects drove a ...

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