Al Qaeda threat: Beijing warns the Chinese in Algeria

BEIJING- China has urged its nationals in Algeria to be cautious after the North African branch of Al Qaeda had threatened, according to experts, to attack the Chinese nationals in North Africa

• China has urged its nationals in Algeria to be cautious after the North African branch of Al Qaeda had threatened, according to experts, to attack the Chinese nationals in North Africa to avenge Muslims killed in unrest Xinjiang.
  
      “The Chinese Embassy in Algeria drew particular Chinese companies and their employees to pay more attention to their safety and strengthen security measures,” the embassy said in a statement on its website, urging them to report immediately “any emergency.”
  
      The embassy made the warning “given the situation that followed the criminal event on July 5,” when a riot in Urumqi, the capital of this region of northwestern China, which was followed several days of inter ethnic trouble between Uighurs, Xinjiang's largest minority, Muslim and Turkic-speaking, and Hans, the ethnic majority in China.
  
      According to a report of an office of risk analysis, “Stirling Assynt,” based in London, Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, the Aqmi, established in Algeria, threatened to attack Chinese interests in North Africa to avenge the Muslims of Xinjiang.
  
      According to the report, at least 50,000 Chinese are living in Algeria.
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.