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Sixteen policemen were killed and 16 were wounded in an attack on a police station in the Muslim-populated Xinjiang region. The al Qaeda-linked East Turkestan Islamic Movement operates in Xinjiang, and have threatened to attack at the Olympic Games.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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