- Note - The following two stories are unconfirmed but
are in wide circulation. They are presented for informational purposes.
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- China Moves Forces into Afghanistan
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- October 6: Before even the launching of the major US
military offensive in Afghanistan, long Chinese convoys were carrying armed
Chinese Muslim servicemen through northwest China into Afghanistan, according
to DEBKAfile's intelligence experts.
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- They were sent in to fight alongside the ruling Taliban
and Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda. Their number is estimated roughly between
5000 and 15,000. Our sources report another three convoys are behind the
first 3000, who crossed the frontier Friday, October 5.
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- They are entering Afghanistan along the ancient Krakoram
Road to the Afghan-Pakistani border, through the Kulik Pass of Little Pamir,
which is situated in one of the highest and most remote regions of the
world. Beijing is deploying this force in two places:
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- A. Whakyir, the Kirgyz tribal encampment near the Little
Pamir-Tadjik
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- frontier, opposite the swelling concentration of US and
Russian Special Forces and air strength The Chinese have brought with them
Kirgyz fundamentalist militants from the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia,
as interpreters.
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- From Whakyir, the Chinese generals believe, with Bin
Laden's and the Taliban's tacticians, they will be able to block off the
movement of the US-led force from its rallying point in Dzhartygumbez,
Tadjikistan, no more than 35 miles from Little Pamir, into the mountains
of Hindu Kush.
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- B. Jalalabad in north Afghanistan, at the foot of the
Hindu Kush range.
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- DEBKAfile's Chinese sources reveal that, immediately
after the terrorist strikes in the United States on September 11, the Chinese
intelligence service, MSS, handed in to the defense ministry in Beijing
their estimation that the United States would go to war to overthrow the
Taliban regime, for the sake of which it would sign a pact with Russia.
The Chinese leadership viewed this eventuality as the most significant
shift in the global balance since the 1962 Chinese-Russian feud, with dangerous
implications for China's world standing and its interests in Central and
Southwest Asia. They decided it must be counteracted.
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- The only satisfactory outcome of the Bin Laden crisis
in Chinese eyes is the redeployment of Japanese-based US troops to the
Persian Gulf, when the Kitty Hawk carrier moved the 3rd Marines Division
out of Okinawa last week.
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- Chinese intelligence did not miss the absence of fighters
and reconnaissance craft on her decks. The planes stayed behind, but the
very fact that the Kitty Hawk is no longer within operational range of
the Straits of Taiwan leaves the disputed island with diminished protection.
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- Beijing also took note of additional US military movements,
including the Army's 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Drum, New York
and that of another formerly Pacific-based unit, the 25th Infantry Division,
out of Hawaii to the Persian Gulf.
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- According to DEBKAfile 's Far East experts, the removal
of substantial US military strength from the Pacific Rim opened the way
for Chinese intervention in Afghanistan and its effort to slow down the
US-Russian advance.
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- China's PLA Moslem Troops Move Into Afghanistan
.... Is China Involved?
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- http://www.vrus.net/CPLA-Afghan1.htm
10-7-1
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- Several hours before the anticipated air assault on Afghanistan
started, reports started surfacing on the internet concerning the involvement
of Chinese troops in the support of Osama bin Laden. This is a very disturbing
turn in events, as it could implicate China in the support of the worldwide
terrorist activities of Bin Laden's organisation - Al Q'ueda. Bin Laden,
a businessman, has been paid for various favors by varied paymasters in
the Middle East region.
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- Much has been made in intelligence circles of Bin Laden's
support of Uighur seperatists in Xinjiang province in Western China. Intelligence
estimates that between several tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands
of active supporters were at Bin Laden's disposal in Xinjiang last year;
However, a vector that most intelligence agencies seen to have completely
missed in their reports regarding Al Q'ueda is that of long-lasting arms
supply agreements from the days of Soviet occupation. In the latter days
of the Soviet occupation, with victory in their sights ... (and US-sourced
arms shipments drying up) several Afghan factions allied themselves with
suppliers of arms from China (perhaps even representing the Chinese government
?)
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- Despite official Chinese denounciations of terrorism,
there does seem to be some evidence in Western China of an acceptance of
Bin Laden's Jihadi ideals.
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- Are the Chinese really not involved in the foolishness
of Bin Laden, his accomplices and paymasters or are they mere victims of
this evil parasite on the side of humanity?
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