'Eastern Turkistan' terrorists identified

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-10-21 19:19

III. Memetituersun Yiming, also known as Abuduaini, was born in1974. He is a Chinese national with ID number 65302119740830003X. With technical secondary school education, he is one of the key members of the ETIM.

Charges against him include:

1. Participating and supervising the terrorist organization

Memetituersun Yiming fled China and joined the ETIM in 1999. He received terrorist training in an East Asian country and became the bodyguard and driver for ETIM former head Hasan Mahsum. He then became responsible for the organization's logistics and fund-raising.

2. Recruiting members and collecting funds for the ETIM

For a long time, he took orders from his supervisor Emeri Yakufand by advocating extremist and secessionist ideas to encourage people in west Asia to join his organizations, and collect and raise funds for terrorist activities.

He also plotted and organized terrorist attacks targeting the Beijing Olympics. In the first half of 2008, he went to a west Asian country and organized more than 10 ETIM members to launch terrorist attacks, and tested bombs, and prepared to enter China illegally to carry out his activities. He also attempted to use explosives in terrorist attacks on targets both inside and outside China.

IV. Memetituersun Abuduhalike, also known as Metusun Abuduhalike, Ansarui or Naijimuding, was born in 1976. He is a Chinese national with ID card number 6532221976060144576 and a middle school education. He is one of the key members of the ETIM.

Charges against him include:

1. Participating in and supervising a terrorist organization

He illegally went abroad in May 1996, and joined the ETIM in 1997 when he began to receive terrorist training. After Hasan Mahsum was shot dead in November 2003, he became a key member of the ETIM, and was responsible for the organization's website maintenance and computer management.

2. Making videos of terrorist threats

In June and July, he made video footage of terrorist attacks against the Beijing Olympics for Memetiming Memeti and Emeti Yakuf, and broadcast them on a major video-sharing website. The video encouraged terrorists to launch attacks on targets in China, to achieve the goal of creating an atmosphere of terror and spreading the influence of terrorism.

3. Inciting terrorist activities

For a long time, Memetituersun Abuduhalike advocated extremist and violent terrorist ideology among extremists in China, taught them how to make poison and explosives and other methods for terrorist attacks, and encouraged them to launch terrorist attacks in the country. With his propaganda and incitement, extremists in Xinjiang formed terrorist groups and committed violent attacks against government organizations, police and the public before and during the Beijing Olympics.

4. Providing funds for terrorist activities.

Since April 2007, Memetituersun Abuduhalike took orders from Emeti Yahuf and sent large sums of money through financial organizations to support the activities of terrorist groups in China, the Middle East and west Asia, to help them purchase raw materials for making explosives and poisons, to buy vehicles and rent houses, in preparation for terrorist attacks.

V. Xiamisidingaihemaiti Abudumijiti, also known as Saiyide, was born in 1972, a Chinese national, with college education. His ID number is 653101197211020819. He was identified by the United Nations as a core member of the ETIM.

Charges against him include:

1. Xiamisidingaihemaiti Abudumijiti illegally exited China in 1999 and joined the ETIM in a south Asian country in May 2006. In October 1999, he received specialized training in the terrorist training camp, including using weapons and making bombs, and became a core member of ETIM.

2. In December 2007, Xiamisidingaihemaiti Abudumijiti was dispatched by ETIM head Memetiming Memeti to a Middle East country, where he preached separatism and extremism among local Chinese, induced people who believed in extremism to join the terrorist organization, and built up a terrorist group to launch attacks abroad.

3. From December 2007 to June 2008, Xiamisidingaihemaiti Abudumijiti raised money for terrorist attacks in the Middle East country. He purchased large amounts of chemicals for making bombs, and focused on a supermarket where many Chinese business people assembled as the attack target. He planned to blow up the supermarket before the opening of Beijing Olympics.

VI. Aikemilai Wumaierjiang, was born in 1977, a Chinese national with junior high school education. His ID card number is 654126197706010012. He was identified by the United Nations as an ETIM member and a core member of the terrorist branch built up by Xiamisidingaihemaiti Abudumijiti.

Charges against him include:

1. Aikemilai Wumaierjiang illegally exited China in 2006. In December 2007, Xiamisidingaihemaiti Abudumijiti encouraged him to joining ETIM.

2. He assisted Xiamisidingaihemaiti Abudumijiti in the conspiracy to bomb a supermarket where Chinese business people assembled before the opening of Beijing Olympics.

VII. Yakuf Memeti, also known as Abudujilili Aimaiti, Abudula or Punjab, was born in 1976, a Chinese national with vocational secondary school education. His ID number is 652927760128101, and passport code is P.2631544. He is a key member of the terrorist group East Turkistan Islamic Movement.

Charges against him include:

1. Participating in terrorist groups

Memeti fled China in 1999 and joined the ETIM in a south Asian country where he received physical training, and instruction on using weapons and making explosive devices for six months in 2007.

2. Implementing terrorist activities

In July 2008, Yakuf Memeti received orders from ETIM military commander Aimaiti Yakuf in a south Asian country, and planned to sneak into China for a suicide attack targeting the Beijing Olympics. He also accepted a secret task assigned by ETIM head Memetiming Memeti and gathered information on Chinese companies and neighborhoods in a south Asian country. With local informants' help, he located a large oil refinery as target, but his attempts failed due to strict security.

VIII. Tuersun Toheti

Tuersun Toheti, also known as Mubaixier or Nurula, was born in 1975. A Chinese national, his ID number is 653125750620041. He finished senior high school and is a key member of the ETIM.

Charges against him include:

1. Participating in a terrorist organization

In August 1999, Tuersun Toheti joined the ETIM in a south Asian country and received training in terrorism skills. In 2002, he was designated to central and west Asian regions.

2. Implementing terrorist activities

In June 2008, Tuersun Toheti saw an ETIM terror threat video when he was in a west Asian country and contacted the organization's military commander Aimaiti Yakuf and key members like Memetituersun Abuduhalike in the hope of getting details of the terror plan. He also requested Aimaiti Yakuf send him chemical formulas of explosives as soon as possible.

In July of 2008, Tuersun Toheti organized a terrorist team with the organizations and prepared for terror attacks. They were actively involved in raising money, buying raw materials to make explosives and testing explosions, conspiring to attack Chinese targets during the Beijing Olympics.

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