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Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 8 October
["Al-Qaeda Leader Targets China, Terrorist Group Calls for Jihad in Xinjiang"]
A leading al-Qaeda figure has urged Uighurs in Xinjiang to launch a holy war against "oppressive" China -the most serious threat yet against Beijing from the terrorist movement.
Abu Yahya al-Libi appeared in a video posted on an Islamist website yesterday to warn that China would collapse, just like the former Soviet Union did two decades ago.
"The state of atheism is heading to its fall. It will face what befell the Russian bear," he said, accusing China of massacring Uighurs and seeking to dissolve their identity.
"There is no way to remove injustice and oppression without a true return to their [the Uighur's] religion and ... serious preparation for jihad in the path of God the Almighty and to carry weapons in the face of those [Chinese] invaders.
"It is a duty for Muslims today to...