Militant Islam in China

A radical Islamic group has released a video claiming responsibility for this summer's deadly attacks in China's Muslim region of Xinjiang .

According to the US-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors radical Islam on the Internet, a group called the Turkistan Islamic Party is claiming to be behind a series of deadly attacks in Hotan and Kashgar, Xinjiang, earlier this summer. The bombings and stabbings killed several dozen people and led to massively increased security patrols in Xinjiang, home to most of China's Uighurs, a Muslim minority group culturally and linguistically close to Turks.

China has long argued that it has a radical Islam problem in Xinjiang, and that separatist forces present a danger to the region's stability. Chinese officials had blamed the attacks on separatists trained in Pakistan. The video shows a leader from the Turkistan group saying the attacks were plotted as revenge against the Chinese government.