After a short hiatus, a new piece for Jamestown, looking at recent unrest in Xinjiang through the lens of its Pakistan connections. Interesting subject, I am going to be doing an increasing amount of work on. Have been focusing on some longer pieces hence the silence, should have some things landing soon. Uyghur Unrest in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘TIP’
Uyghur Unrest in Xinjiang Shakes Sino-Pakistani Relations
Posted: August 19, 2011 in Terrorism MonitorTags: Afghanistan, China, China and the world, China-Pakistan, Chinese foreign policy, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, ETIM, Pakistan, terrorism, TIP, Uighur, xinjiang
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Jihad in China
Posted: July 21, 2011 in Free Rad!calsTags: Central Asia, China, China and the world, China domestic, counter-radicalization, counter-terrorism, ETIM, terrorism, TIP, xinjiang
A long lost post for ICSR looking at terrorism in China, something that I had actually drafted initially prior to the recent events out in Hotan. There it now seems as though the government is saying that a “flag of jihad” was being flown, though I have not seen reference to the East Turkestan groups [...]
Turkistan Islamic Party Video Attempts to Explain Uyghur Militancy to Chinese
Posted: June 24, 2011 in Terrorism MonitorTags: Afghanistan, China, East Turkestan, jihadi media, Pakistan, radicalization, terrorism, TIP, Uighur, xinjiang
A new piece for Jamestown analysing the recent video release in Chinese by the TIP. Not entirely sure what to make of this. It has since also been pointed out to me that it looks like the video was actually made back in April, which further raises questions about why it was released now. Any [...]
Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China
Posted: March 10, 2011 in Terrorism and Political ViolenceTags: China, China terrorism, ETIM, radicalization, terrorism, TIP
Another book review in the same edition of Terrorism and Political Violence, this time I see that I am one of two reviewers of the book “Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China” which looks at the subject of Islamist radicalisation in China. It was interesting and on an undercovered subject which I have tried [...]
Manchester, New York and Oslo: Three Centrally Directed Al Qaeda plots
Posted: August 27, 2010 in CTC SentinelTags: al muhajiroun, Al Qaeda, counter-terrorism, Norway, Pakistan, radicalization, terrorism, TIP, UK, US
Back on the topic of terrorism in the West, my latest for the CTC Sentinel of West Point, exploring the network of plots from apparently send out by Al Qaeda in late 2008 – the Pathway group in Northern England from April 2009, the Najibullah Zazi cell in New York (who I have already covered [...]
